No you can't, you are still wrong.
Okay, I guess the files on my computer don't exist because you said so. I'm not going to waste any more time on this idiocy. Your core points are loudly saying "NUH UH" and explaining that you don't know how to use Python. Unless you have anything useful to add, I'll be disregarding further restatement of these non-arguments.
You started first with claiming you could from LightRoom. You can't.
Perhaps you can't. I can, and have, repeatedly.
Then you claimed that you can via Camera Raw. You can't.
Camera Raw, which is part of Lightroom... and again, maybe *you* can't. After all, you allegedly don't even know how to run a script when you're given step-by-step instructions. I really can't help you with your "DURRR DON'T KNOW HOW COMPUTER" problems, but they do not add anything to the demonstrable idiocy of the "CR2 files are proof of unedited footage" claim.
- There is no off the shelf software who can output a CR2 file. A true statement.
If you ignore the pieces of software I've successfully used for this, sure. But if your idea of the truth is so far removed from the blatantly observable, then it's not really of any use to the empirically-minded.
I've shown that there isn't, at least not an edited one which is what this is all about.
You've shown absolutely nothing. You made some loud assertions without even a shred of an attempt at substantiation. I started off by saying that this argument was an insult to our intelligence, and so far I can see I was correct.
- If someone wants to fake a CR2 file, they need to create their own software. Essentially true.
It's not even remotely close to true. You don't need to create your own software, you simply need to use Google to find someone else's software. This is no different from finding a good piece of software for *any* job. Is that, too, outside of your comfort zone?
The Professor you cited created his own software, in this case a script, to do so. He did reference a way to do it manually which I have not been able to duplicate.
Again, I do not know what you want me to do about your inability to use computers. I'm sorry you're baffled by this, but the process is simple. If it makes you feel any better, I don't have a driver's licence and I find the prospect of driving a car rather scary. However, I will not claim that driving cars is a "massive undertaking", or that it would be difficult for someone to transport persons or goods in a motorised vehicle. Personal incompetence does not come into this, unless you want to claim that Soundly, specifically, is bad with computers, and that he has no access to anyone who could help.
- It is going to be a massive undertaking to fake this picture. I wouldn't say "massive" by any means. But I would say not easy and certainly not with off the shelf software.
Again, only if you ignore most major players on the shelves. Why you'd do so is unclear.