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Here is the best video of the landslide I could find: https://youtu.be/SUD0hQjueI0 https://youtu.be/SUD0hQjueI0

• KaiserPro 3y ago
  The stark thing is just how liquid the flow is. Then how fast it is. Utterly terrifying.
• jeffbee 3y ago
  Who invented this method of framing a vertical or square video, and why did they think it was useful?
  • dylan604 3y ago
    Because millennials (and later) think the vertical aspect ratio is so cool and refuse to flip the phone to record video. The vast majority of video is landscape oriented, so the default players all have that aspect. People seem to very against black mattes to fit differing aspect ratio content than the frame, so some creative type came up with this. Why is this difficult to understand?
    • stetrain 3y ago
      > The vast majority of video is landscape oriented, so the default players all have that aspect. I'm not so sure, by hours created and viewed in recent years that may no longer be true with TikTok / Reels / Stories / Shorts.
      • dylan604 3y ago
        Okay, for the pedantics, broadcast news is a landscape format. So if someone provides content that was recorded in portrait, something must be done to it. The black bars from matting the content is still despised, primarily by the same crowd that is shooting portrait video.
        • jeffbee 3y ago
          But there's nothing good about the blurred-and-displaced copy of the video beside the video. It's just distracting!
          • xattt 3y ago
            Generative video AI may be a solution in a decade or two.
            • dylan604 3y ago
              dear gawd no. especially for news. that's the last thing we need in the fight with fake news.
              • mistrial9 3y ago
                media critical thinking -- all news is a representation in language and pictures, therefore inevitably contains contrary, noisy or misleading content (same with the perception of the users). Since news is a social phenomenon, there is a chain of gather, produce, disseminate, consume involving many people over time. From an Economist Magazine view, somehow bills have to be paid, whether through government and taxation, private expenditure, for-profit basis or others.. Generative AI decisions will arrive from command-and-control basis in most cases. Generative AI in News is very likely, for something that is simple like saving money on background screens for newscasts, less wholesome like replacing newscasters and journalists with machine inputs, or at a meta-level like propaganda in content and editing. In the leading economies of the world, this will happen. Solutions are partly market, partly political.. not very personal -- one person boycotting will not change outcomes -- IMHO.
          • dylan604 3y ago
            There's nothing good about portrait oriented video, so it's fitting. /s i feel like i'm conversing with a fence post. what are your brilliant ideas to solve the problem? all i'm reading here are complaints. don't be that person. the final orientation of the video cannot be changed. it is a spec with hard defined parameters by a standardization body. the easiest thing is to just fit it into the frame with the empty space filled with mattes. lots of people do not like that, so other things have been used to fill the space. just like shooting video in portrait, trends have been established and this is the current trend. you don't like it? stop shooting video in portrait and sending it to the news where it's going to be played back in a landscape format. you are the square peg in a round hole.
    • WheatMillington 3y ago
      A huge proportion of video is viewed on phones, in which case vertical orientation is far more comfortable and convenient. It used to be the case the landscape was the "correct" format, but that has rapidly changed with the change in how video is watched.
      • dylan604 3y ago
        *Social media video
  • cidbitt 3y ago
    This could be a remnant of the switchover from SD to HD resolution in home TVs. The nicer TVs that could use the new resolutions also suffered from burn in, so you wanted something in the margins for the content still in SD.