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.
Their children’s eyes will grow closer and closer together from one generation to another until no one has depth perception past the front of their face. /s
And often it’s not even a tiktok thing, it’s just laziness and/or forgetting to rotate.
Hell, even Tiktok allows horizontal videos, even instructs you to turn the screen if it’s vertical!
Vertical videos are the work of Satan
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.
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.
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.
I blame iOS’s poor file management.
It’d have to be magical to be utilized by the average iOS user.
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.
Should be illegal really, jail time.
Right to jail.
Believe it or not… jail.
Somehow I actually read, “arrested” instead of “insulted” first time!
I started filming in 1:1 ratio. Sorta best of both worlds
I actually could get on board with that
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.
Heyday is what you mean, I think.
Vine was started in early 2013 and in mid to late 2012, this video was popular: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo
That’s about six months of true vertical video hate before the war was lost.
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https://m.piped.video/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo
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It seems like the landscapeboys lost
If they start building vertical cinemas, that’s when we lose.
But people still don’t find diagonal eyes attractive, we will never mutate to having vertically-aligned eyes. Horizontal video supremacy is established by nature. Surgery goes a long way this days but, where would they put your nose?
I am still waiting on 21/9 TV to buy…
I believe LG has a couple and I saw Philips quite a few years ago.
Who the fck does such a stupid thing?
Tiktok
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.
I’m STILL insulted. Portrait videos suck to look at.
Yeah… Well… So do you! ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
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.
If the content isn’t one person yaking full frame its going to be pointless to use portrait. It’s just practically unsuitable
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