5 ms·

Amazing work, terrible orientation on the recording.

by verelo 4y ago

hgazx 4y ago
It’s 2022.
yieldcrv 4y ago
This is a Youtube UI issue to be honest, most other video players don't letter box a vertical video and just play it at the right aspect ratio I know that people extrapolate this experience to other things they think they dislike about vertical videos, but satisfaction improves with the player itself working well The ubiquitous mobile device audience is fine too, as the video fits their screens just like the device it was recorded on. With the exception of youtube.
- squarefoot 4y ago
  I disagree. Rotating 90 degrees a phone is a lot easier than doing the same with a 27" computer screen. They assume everyone is using a phone completely disregarding people with computers; for that matter vertical videos are in my personal delete/ignore/never produce/never share list.
  - Firmwarrior 4y ago
    you can just view it with part of your 27" monitor
    - squarefoot 4y ago
      That would defeat the purpose of having a bigger screen. The other way 100% of their phone screen estate and our monitors would be used, at the price of a 90 degrees hand rotation on their part.
      - excalibur 4y ago
        You are of course free to swim against the current any boycott things as you see fit. This does not change the fact that YouTube needs to fix its player behavior to better accommodate the majority. Solving that issue will not prevent you from yelling at clouds.
        Firmwarrior 4y ago
        Yeah, man, I wish we'd stop putting **ing black bars on things My favorite is when I'm on my phone, and I run across a vertical video with horizontal black bars padding it out to 16x9 plus user-hostile configuration to make it impossible to resize in any way. I end up having to watch a postage stamp-sized version of the video
        kortilla 4y ago
        Majority? Vertical videos suck from a videography perspective. Even if we were all using phones most videos are better off widescreen because they capture surrounding context and not just a shitload of the sky and the ground.
        squarefoot 4y ago
        Vertical videos work against the way our eyes are placed and were introduced only because they work on vertical screens. Sorta because if you ever watched some interesting videos shot with a cellphone then broadcast from the TV, the ones showing important stuff going on -that is, not food recipes or kittens- you immediately realize there's something missing, and that something is the context in which things are happening: the surrounding area. You may complain about the black bars added on the sides and you're technically right, I however complain about the lack of context because the lower part of the picture shows the ground and the upper part the sky or some buildings well above the action. Our eyes are arranged horizontally because we live in a 3D but mostly horizontal space: if you shoot a vertical video of a car accident you almost certainly get a great picture of the 3rd floor of a nearby building but chances are that you miss completely a vehicle or pedestrian on the left or right that could have triggered the accident. There's a valid reason why screens are more large than high, and forcing people to shoot and watch vertical videos goes against any common sense in the name of selling more and more cellphones, services and advertising.
  - solarkraft 4y ago
    It is considerably more convenient to record a vertical video on a phone, which is probably the more tangible benefit at that moment.
- verelo 4y ago
  Maybe, i was watching it on my phone, not sure what i can do as a user other than ask people to record / upload their videos in another format.
  - yieldcrv 4y ago
    Pressure youtube into fixing their player by acknowledging they are the problem
- Linosaurus 4y ago
  There had been correctly functioning vertical videos on YouTube for a 3-4 years. That I can watch in full screen on my phone. So it's possible, but don't know how easy it is for the uploader.
  - yieldcrv 4y ago
    And also youtube shorts are correctly sized
echelon 4y ago
Quibi tried to fix this.

Amazing work, terrible orientation on the recording.

by verelo 4y ago

Amazing work, terrible orientation on the recording.

hgazx 4y ago

It’s 2022.

yieldcrv 4y ago

This is a Youtube UI issue to be honest, most other video players don't letter box a vertical video and just play it at the right aspect ratio I know that people extrapolate this experience to other things they think they dislike about vertical videos, but satisfaction improves with the player itself working well The ubiquitous mobile device audience is fine too, as the video fits their screens just like the device it was recorded on. With the exception of youtube.

squarefoot 4y ago
I disagree. Rotating 90 degrees a phone is a lot easier than doing the same with a 27" computer screen. They assume everyone is using a phone completely disregarding people with computers; for that matter vertical videos are in my personal delete/ignore/never produce/never share list.
- Firmwarrior 4y ago
  you can just view it with part of your 27" monitor
  - squarefoot 4y ago
    That would defeat the purpose of having a bigger screen. The other way 100% of their phone screen estate and our monitors would be used, at the price of a 90 degrees hand rotation on their part.
    - excalibur 4y ago
      You are of course free to swim against the current any boycott things as you see fit. This does not change the fact that YouTube needs to fix its player behavior to better accommodate the majority. Solving that issue will not prevent you from yelling at clouds.
      - Firmwarrior 4y ago
        Yeah, man, I wish we'd stop putting **ing black bars on things My favorite is when I'm on my phone, and I run across a vertical video with horizontal black bars padding it out to 16x9 plus user-hostile configuration to make it impossible to resize in any way. I end up having to watch a postage stamp-sized version of the video
      - kortilla 4y ago
        Majority? Vertical videos suck from a videography perspective. Even if we were all using phones most videos are better off widescreen because they capture surrounding context and not just a shitload of the sky and the ground.
      - squarefoot 4y ago
        Vertical videos work against the way our eyes are placed and were introduced only because they work on vertical screens. Sorta because if you ever watched some interesting videos shot with a cellphone then broadcast from the TV, the ones showing important stuff going on -that is, not food recipes or kittens- you immediately realize there's something missing, and that something is the context in which things are happening: the surrounding area. You may complain about the black bars added on the sides and you're technically right, I however complain about the lack of context because the lower part of the picture shows the ground and the upper part the sky or some buildings well above the action. Our eyes are arranged horizontally because we live in a 3D but mostly horizontal space: if you shoot a vertical video of a car accident you almost certainly get a great picture of the 3rd floor of a nearby building but chances are that you miss completely a vehicle or pedestrian on the left or right that could have triggered the accident. There's a valid reason why screens are more large than high, and forcing people to shoot and watch vertical videos goes against any common sense in the name of selling more and more cellphones, services and advertising.
- solarkraft 4y ago
  It is considerably more convenient to record a vertical video on a phone, which is probably the more tangible benefit at that moment.
verelo 4y ago
Maybe, i was watching it on my phone, not sure what i can do as a user other than ask people to record / upload their videos in another format.
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  Pressure youtube into fixing their player by acknowledging they are the problem
Linosaurus 4y ago
There had been correctly functioning vertical videos on YouTube for a 3-4 years. That I can watch in full screen on my phone. So it's possible, but don't know how easy it is for the uploader.
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  And also youtube shorts are correctly sized

echelon 4y ago

Quibi tried to fix this.