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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Vertical videos are the work of Satan

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  • [–] 105 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    i still judge people who film in portrait tbh. I can't stand vertical videos, it's the main reason i never made a tiktok.

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago

    It's because we didn't shame them hard enough. Now look where we are.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago

    I still don’t like vertical videos. My natural field of view is landscape and portrait feels crowded and stressful. Also vertical videos have to be watched 2-3 times to see everything, because the person filming has to pan the camera so much, and they usually move too quickly. It’s like everyone forgot that a phone can be rotated.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm STILL insulted. Portrait videos suck to look at.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That's not recent...

    Black bars get added to both formats often, sometimes back and forth until the video is a tiny rectangle and 90% useless black space

    And people still talk shit about when someone used the wrong one to record.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm relegated to just talking shit on people who clearly have a copy of the original video, but upload it to the internet by playing it on their screen and shakily pointing their phone's camera at it rather than just uploading the fucking file.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I wouldn't mind quite so much if it was because the people filming that way believed it looked better. But the real reason is usually because they are too dumb to think of turning their phone on its side.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sometimes tall things fit better in a vertical frame.
    Sometimes wide things fit better in a horizontal frame.

    But most of the time this isnt even thought about when taking the shot.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The horizontal display is meant to reflect our natural vision which is also a horizontal aspect ratio. There are niche scenarios like skyscrapers but the vast majority of the time it's correct to stay horizontal and frame the shot properly.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Only if the action is wider than it is tall.

    I've been videoing my daughter learning to swim. It's actually easier to capture it in portrait. Landscape would just have a lot more empty pool, for no gain.

    Both have their place, though a lot of people are also idiots when filming.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Should be illegal really, jail time.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    My unpopular opinion is that whatever you record should consider the format it'll be viewed in as well as the orientation of the subject in the video. Is it going to be viewed on a phone, one handed, while someone is eating or pooping? Then vertical might make sense. If the subject fits better in a vertical video, then that makes sense as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Fuck it. Let's just record in squares and they can be cropped either way. The circular lense doesn't just record in portrait or landscape, right?... Wait... Or does it?.... It's actually a circular lense but the sensor itself might be rectangular.... Hmm....

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Shooting I'm square crop has been a thing for a while now, it means clients can re-crop the same footage for different outputs. And usually means framing is a nightmare and never really works out well for any of the output formats.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    Fuck tiktok/shorts

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    On one hand, most of them are just selfies anyway, so portrait mode makes sense to frame the only subject and thing worth looking at. It also is easier to watch on a phone held with just one hand.

    On the other, if you're taking shots of the landscape put that fucking shit in landscape mode. Please.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't mind either way to watch something. But what really shits me is the vertical video that has added padding on the sides to view in landscape. Or the other way around. I can't see anything when watching on my phone either way then.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Like it was impossible for websites to display properly. Especially when you want to watch the horizontal video that was uploaded to a vertical based site on a horizontal monitor (I'm looking at you, Instagram). Then you're left with ~9% of your monitor area and you can't even read the fucking text on the video.

    I understand that you need to adapt when most people watch videos on phones now, but forcing people to install an app just to get all your user data is a pretty scummy move. Also, I may want to use my PC instead for a multitude of reasons.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    One day TV makers are going to switch to 9 by 16 screens, vertical portrait mode TVs on the wall. Im from the future. Check back in 10 years, you will see.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    the problem with that, and a big reason why it probably won't be adapted, is that portrait mode shows you fuck all, it's good for showing one person (you know like a portrait) but if you want to show multiple people you have so much deadspace top and bottom. Landscape is just aesthetically better

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Thanks to tiktok...

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Non-landscape videos give me mental discomfort.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I started filming in 1:1 ratio. Sorta best of both worlds

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Every time I see someone film vertically I send them this YT video /watch?v=xL23Xvv1Pis (was not sure if I'm allowed to post links here). I just think it's a brilliant and underappreciated parody.

    TBF I kind of got used to portrait videos but I still block YT shorts and alike as most videos in that format are garbage anyways.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I still think landscape video and portrait video are two completely different beasts, and one should not be converted into the other.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I still do. Depends on what you are filming, 9 out 10, landscape should be the go to.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am still waiting on 21/9 TV to buy...

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Who the fck does such a stupid thing?

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Insulted? Vines videos were mostly portrait. 2013-2014 were most-likely its hay day. Vines is dead now, but cell phone videos in portrait were posted to Vines a lot.

    Now if you mean music videos or cinema, yeah, portrait would be odd.

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