This is exactly my thought. The hard way would be to do it for real.
The video is a commercial video. If they wanted to do it for real, there would be a possibility that they could film for 17 hours, and still not get it. This is fine for jugglers trying to get a cool trick, because if they don't get it, nobody loses a load of money on a failed commercial product.
At the start you see the modeling of the throws on a screen. There are lines on the floor for ease of tracking motion and inserting fake coins. The camera movement is uses programmed computer motion control, a technology that was developed for special effects shots. Everything points to this being a video editing trick, not a human skill trick.
A shot of all the coins hitting the glasses would be easy to set up. I'm imagining all the coins in a rack with a slide off to one side. All the coins slide down the slide in turn, released in order at the same speed as the camera move. The coins slide off at the right angle to look like they are landing in the glass as though thrown from the right distance.
That might not be how it is done, but it's the "most real" way that doesn't involve actual throws.
by lukeburrage, in response to this post 2015-10-23 11:05:16