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[QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 25186, member: 16"]
Fair enough!

With that said let me explain a bit better.  I typed that up on an iPad, and was sick of pecking the keyboard thing.

Basically, look at a video camera as a still camera, because that's basically what it is.  It takes 30 pictures a second.  This gets kind of technical so bear with me.  To the poster who mentioned a "physics" experiment, all you really need is a videographer ho understands his or her camera.  I guess to an extent that's me.  So things going really fast (a skiier skiing down a slope, etc...) tend to get a bit blurred because the shutter speed for shooting normal action is typically set at '60.'  What this means is that while the camera is shooting 30 pictures per second, the shutter is closing two times per frame, or 60 times a second.

If you want that same skiier to not look blurred, you adjust shutter speed up so the shutter is closing, say 120 times per second, or four times per frame.  Adjusting shutter speed can make blurry things look clear.

Since it's obvious shutter speed was less than this when the ball was being kicked, you get blur.  Doesn't mean the camera didn't pick up the ball, or the ball was travelling too quickly.  It just means the ball looks blurry, which in turn doesn't change the fact that the ball was in front of the goalpost.  There's no shadow, or weird things happening.  It simply means the ball was blurry.

Hope this all makes sense.  That is, unless it flies in the face of good old fashioned fan bias.  In which case, have at it!
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