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It saddens me that we've normalized the recording of vertical videos. There'll be so many more historical events caught on video... but it's now so much more li
by CorpOverreach 2y ago
It saddens me that we've normalized the recording of vertical videos. There'll be so many more historical events caught on video... but it's now so much more likely that it'll be a vertical video. :(
- tamimio 2y agoTo be fair, the vertical recording here fits the context. Also, the fact that the recorder held the camera steady and kept the content within the frame is great by itself. A lot of times, you end up with shaky, useless footage.
- usefulcat 2y ago> To be fair, the vertical recording here fits the context. Briefly, near the beginning. But not for the rest of the video. If you're watching a video on a phone, it's trivial to rotate the phone 90 degrees. On a TV or computer, not so much, so you end up with a ridiculous amount of wasted screen real estate and objectively inferior image resolution.
- xvector 2y agoThe primary modality through which most people experience media today is their phones, so vertical video is just fine.
- archerx 2y agoVertical video is never fine.
- ddalex 2y agoIsn't this a technological choice though? Cameras are sufficiently advanced nowadays so it's possible to take horizontal video while keeping the phone vertical, so it's just a software feature away (at the expense of horizontal resolution), or hw feature away (at the expense of a device internal gimbal)
- rhplus 2y agoYou’d need square sensors, not an internal moving gimbal, so manufacturers would be left with a choice: should the square fit the circle or the circle fit the square? The first would lower quality and the second would increase costs and add wasted pixels (vignette).
- ddalex 2y agoAren't all sensors square already (well 4:3, or 3:2) , and fitting the circle ?
- rhplus 2y agoNo, 4:3 is not a square. I found a discussion on the topic here[*]. The consensus seems to be that “wasted” sensor area outside the circle would not be marketable. https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/109452/is-there-any-camera-with-a-square-sensor https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/109452/is-there-an...
- TeMPOraL 2y agoIt's not a technological choice, at least not at the level of camera design. It's trivial to record videos the right way; people just can't be arsed. Suppose you implement horizontal recording while the phone is vertical; this would mean the video preview is now scaled and takes only a fraction of the screen (the same way watching horizontal video on YouTube while in "portrait mode"), which people would find annoying. Alternatively, you could not scale the video; now the video preview displays only a vertical slice of the frame. It looks OK, but people would soon discover the actual video a screen's worth of image on each side of the preview, leading to anxiety and worry - people would have pay extra attention to not capture things that weren't intended to be on the video; they'd soon look for a way to turn this off. The unfortunate reality is, it's a social problem partially caused by a technological one. Vertical videos are driven by the phone form-factor and because portraits and selfies actually need to be vertical, and people being people, shooting photos of themselves and other is what they care about the most.
- esskay 2y agoFor amateur footage it's absolutely fine, especially in this instance where it's actually a benefit. Nobodys advocating for vertical movies or tv shows. There's far better things to focus false internet collective outrage at.
- mort96 2y ago[flagged]
- baq 2y agoVertical video is perfectly fine if the device on which it is played back on has a vertical screen. Never is very out of place here.
- immibis 2y agoAnd that's the vast majority of devices that are used to watch videos. "Vertical video is never fine" stems from the good old days of PCs with monitors. In these phone days, according to the same logic, horizontal video is never fine.
- ryankrage77 2y agoBut the phone can easily be rotated to landscape, so landscape has wider compatability.
- falcolas 2y agoIf, and only if, the application supports it. Frustratingly, not all do, so you're stuck with the biggest black bars framing a microscopic landscape video. Contrast with a monitor, where it will at least be viewable vertically, even if it too only fills a portion of the monitor horizontally.
- shadowgovt 2y agoFor something you want to capture immediately, the amount of time it takes for the phone's accelerometer to decide you have rotated it is already too long.
- voidUpdate 2y agoVertical video and picture is fine when the thing you're capturing is vertical, eg a person or something shooting into the air
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoRotating a phone 90 degrees is trivial and takes a fraction of a second. Rotating a computer monitor 90 degrees is a pain at the best of times. Rotating a laptop 90 degrees makes it unusable. Rotating a television 90 degrees probably requires a toolkit and an assistant. Which of these adaptations seems more reasonable?
- KronisLV 2y agoFor people who don’t use computers and TVs much, no adaptation probably makes the most sense. There’s a surprising amount of people out there who are mostly just on their phones nowadays, plus I’m pretty much sure large platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts and such also pander to that format.
- lynx23 2y ago[flagged]
- greenish_shores 2y ago"Mainstream" (as opposed, to, say, amateur SSTV) video broadcasting, aka TV, is definitely very obsolete and too elitist in implementation to even get me "onboard". Not a second of interesting content per day for me there. But you know that you couldn't have written this comment without a computer? Regardless of its form-factor...
- lynx23 2y agoI was humorously trying to refer to the fact that touch-screen devices seem to overtake the classical computer. But apparently, people here have no humor left.
- MattRix 2y agoI wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of views also come from people viewing vertical screens, so it kind of makes sense? I personally have started to prefer the vertical format for certain kinds of videos, especially when viewing them on my phone… so I’ve also started taking more vertical videos with my phone.
- avz 2y agoPhones can easily be oriented either way, unlike most laptop and workstation screens. Majority of views certainly come from people whose eyes are horizontally next to each other and therefore whose field of view has a greater extent in the horizontal rather than vertical direction. Admittedly I don't understand where the vertical recording fad comes from. Personally I take pictures and photos that are almost exclusively horizontal except in rare cases like taking a picture of a very tall building.
- basil-rash 2y agoOr… a geyser? Kinda the one thing absolutely known for going up and down.
- jaza 2y agoI assume that the vertical recording fad primarily comes from: 1. the people doing the recording being too lazy to rotate their phones, and/or the people doing the recording catering to the lowest common denominator of expecting viewers to be too lazy to rotate their phones; 2. so many "influencer" and related videos these days consisting solely of the narrator's face being right in front of the camera, which makes for vertical being the optimal orientation, due to the human face being taller than it is wide (hence the term "portrait orientation"!). I also hate it, and I also still shoot almost all my photos and videos in horizontal / landscape orientation. I guess that makes me old.
- floating-io 2y agoIMO, it's also because vertical orientation is effectively the default on a phone. Nobody expects to have to turn their video camera sideways to capture in the "correct" orientation... but you must on a phone.
- metadat 2y ago[flagged]
- JaggedJax 2y agoTo be fair, a geyser is one of the better situations to film in vertical.
- m463 2y agoaren't our eyes spherical?
- DaoVeles 2y agoYes this is true, but we tend to favor horizontal information over height. Thus our eyes are horizontal. A decent rational would be because that would favor our survival since most things are pinned to this plane via gravity.
- jaza 2y agoYes, but there are two of them, and they're to the left and right of each other, not above and below each other.
- notachatbot1234 2y agoThe subject is in a vertical orientation, so it is perfect and desirable that the original video has all its resolution dedicated to capturing the phenomenon in the best quality possible. A horizontal video would mean that there are less pixels on the subject matter.
- thanatos519 2y agoEven worse this video appears to have been padded to 16:9 so I can't fullscreen it properly on my phone on YouTube web or app.
- wruza 2y agoCan't you pinch in? Double tap? Something like that should work, afair.
- VeejayRampay 2y agoit's really sad that videos are recorded in the exact format that fits the medium used to read them :(
- cbm-vic-20 2y agoPSA: Vertical Video Syndrome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo
- amw-zero 2y agoWhat a weird thing to care about
- gosub100 2y agoIt's a redditism
- whycome 2y agoI mean, the action was happen vertically.