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The direction of the observer's travel isn't consistent with the setting of the moon. The moon orbits approximately in the equatorial plane. It is shown setting at something around 26 degrees inclination, indicating that the observer is facing more-or-less West at a very low LEO orbit. The clouds are rolling left to right, indicating that the observer is travelling more-or-less north or south, which would correspond to a polar orbit. Therefore, the moon setting speed is at its angular velocity, and should not be affected by the observer's velocity. The only way the moon would set as fast as it does in the video, is for the video to be a time-lapse.
The moon takes 28 days to orbit the earth, which means it takes 0.07 days to move 1 degree to any observer near the earth. Unless this is shot through an insanely (likely impossibly) powerful lens, the moon is traversing at least 0.5 degrees of the observer's field of view. That should take at least 60 minutes. A LEO orbit is 90 minutes, with 45 minutes of that time in the shadow of the planet. Even if this is a sun-synchronous polar orbit, the sun should appear in the FOV of the observer, or at least change the shadows on the clouds. Furthermore, because this must be a time-lapse shot, the clouds should change shape as the video rolls.
I think this is a mash-up of ISS footage of the clouds over the Earth with time-lapse footage of a moon set, also from the ISS. Not sure why anyone would make such a thing, but I can't see any other way to reconcile the motion of the clouds with the motion of the moon.
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