Even better, when they film vertically, and then encode it to widescreen. Ensuring that no matter how you view it on a phone it’s microscopic.
I love it when it’s a phone recording of a landscape 16:9 video playing with the phone in vertical orientation and huge black bars above and below. Then I can view this on my 21:9 monitor with extreme black bars on the sides and a teeny-tiny picture in the middle.
Omg I really really hate this with a passion
I still mock them
My pro move is too change halfway in the same clip so at some point the orientation is just wrong no matter what you do. I also do diagonal shots.
I’m not allowed to film anymore.
Diagonal is the compromise solution.
Call it a dutch angle, and suddenly you’re a cinematographer
Most of Battlefield Earth is shot diagonally and no one has complained about that fine film
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I still do. Phones can be turned to view it either way. Screens can’t. I’m not gonna ask my bud to get up and rotate his living room TV 90 degrees so we can look at my vacation photos. Plus, until we learn to levitate with our minds, the plane humans interact is and will presumably remain much, much wider than it is tall, so landscape captures more of it.
It was honestly easier in the non-digital days. You could take portrait oriented photos when it was appropriate, and nobody cared that they had to rotate the print to look at it the right way up.
Yup. It’s a shame the camera lense can’t like rotate or something, phones are much easier to hold vertically.
They’re just as easy to hold either way though.
I suspect that the sensor has the same dimensions, roughly, as the phone itself. Putting in a square one would probably cost more. Not saying that either way is right, just that that’s probably the reason.
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I think it depends on your intended audience. If what you’re filming is meant to be viewed on a phone, then vertical makes sense. If the video is meant to be viewed on a TV, movie screen, or computer monitor, then rotate your phone.
it’s not stupid if that’s the format it gets viewed most in
Rotate your phone you dirty savage! Or don’t idc really.
I think you just proved the meme lol
all I’m saying is if you’re recording something for tiktok or Instagram, it’s going to look best if it’s recorded vertically
I was mixing too, but things changed when a phone became the device to play back videos. At this point the orientation didn’t matter as much.
It got to the point that some services, like YouTube shorts pretty much mandate vertical orientation.
Cursing those services to never be seen on desktop devices because they look so wasteful of screen real state.
You don’t always need to use every bit of screen real estate. The goal is watching videos, not min-maxing monitor usage.
It’s not so bad when your secondary monitor is vertical lmao
Sure, but then you’re viewing it on your secondary monitor.
This is why 4:3 should become the default aspect ratio for taking videos on phone.
No, I will not be taking questions at this moment.
great idea, but 1:1 is what it should have always been
Nah, we should use some freedom aspect ratio, like 1.47266478:1.984772673
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I shoot in 4:3 because it’s closer to the actual sensor’s resolution. No I have never looked this up, and no I will not change my ways if told otherwise.
3:2 please
Ah yes, nothing like seeing a 16:9 picture pan-and-scanned on a portrait display.
It’s not a generational thing; it’s a filming standard.
It’s a problem
Fixed it
This pains me so. Great job.
We used to and we still do too.
I still question why so many people find it so difficult to just turn the phone 90 degrees to the side when you film with it. Is it because you think you look like a dork when you film a selfie with two hands? Because that’s not why you look like a dork.
I never stopped, it´s still stupid to film vertically in most cases.
…and I hate it
Oh god, please no.
I never had a problem with this. It’s not like whole movies or long youtube videos are recorded vertically. The kind of content that is recorded vertically is mainly watched on phones, and it’s not like it’s unwatchable on any other screen. Never once have I seen anyone say anything about it that is anything more than mild inconvenience about something they really shouldn’t care that much about. It’s just stereotypical “complaining because you can” bullshit that is so common.