I still mock them
Same. I will die on this hill. Vertical video sucks!
My grandmas funeral was filmed in vertical video you piece of shit
This is a good joke and it’s wooshed by eight people already.
Wait, what was the joke? I didn’t downvote but definitely got wooshed.
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But like… my screen is veritical.
what would happen if you turned it sideways
Something not good, I’m sure
😂😂 right, right…
Sure grandma… Watch your step
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.
This is the only thing i really hate. I don’t give a shit about vertical anymore. We lost that battle.
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
Just like my penis
It’s encoded in widescreen but is microscopic?
Fixed it
This pains me so. Great job.
The hero we needed
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.
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.
Admittedly you would look like a dork if you filmed at a 45 degree angle.
Oh wow I didn’t know there was a word for this, i love making dutch angle photos
I usually hold my phone horizontally to shoot video, but it definitely is easier to hold it vertically. After all, it was designed to be held vertically.
A lot of the time it’s not that people can’t or are scared to, they just don’t feel the need to because most the video they watch is in vertical format. It’s not being filmed for cinema release, it’s for phones and tablets.
Note to self: “2 Fast 2 Barbie”(working title) should now be filmed vertically in order to appeal to Gen Z on Tik Tok.
Just make sure the main plot happens in the first 3 seconds or else they will get bored
At the very least make sure Subway Surfers is playing in one of the corners
i genuinely hate this, it hurts my eyes and is unwatchable
this is a thing?
Yes.
oh god why
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Akschually filming it vertically is not good because we can’t insert subway surfers gameplay under the movie. It should be filmed like a small rectangle
WHAT is up with that shit anyway? It’s so annoying
It stimulates my brain meat.
At first I thought it was just a method to avoid copyright detection. It may have started as that but the 22yr old I live with says it gives people something else to do while watching the movie so they don’t get bored.
4:3 superiority is back baby
We used to and we still do too.
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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.
I was mocking 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.
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
Yes, but we also hate tiktok and instagram.
Hell I refuse to acknowledge either, mind you I also dont enjoy the content of either.
How is this controversial. If its made to be viewed on a phone then I don’t see the reason to film hoizontally. Epecially the type of content that most people seem to make on like tiktok etc. seems better in vertical view.
it looks like it’s controversial because any app that has vertical content must be terrible 🤷♂️
I mean I don’t perticularly like the content of any of those apps (lemmy is the only real social media i use). But that doesn’t change the fact that they are using the correct format for the job.
don’t get me wrong, I agree. Furthermore, despite the problems with apps like TikTok, I do think there’s an incredible amount of amazing content created on that platform. It can be such a showcase of the creativity of the average person, it just sucks that it’s pretty objectively terrible in multiple ways.
Lemmy definitely showing its older age skew here lol. Almost anything related to any social media will be better vertical. (Even lemmy itself ironically)
Hell the vertical video trend on TikTok this year was a phenomenal trend and I even recall seeing A24 doing a vertical trailer cut just for TikTok.
We should have listened… Now we have Tik Tok and YouTube Shorts… 😢
You can still flame people who film vertically on those platforms
Like most problems it’s prevalence is due to a lack of bullying
I came here to post this. 😅
We tried to tell you.
Shouldn’t you be filming for the device?
Like tiltok should be vertical and yt should be horizontal?
I’d say you should be filming for the content.
Someone on a pogo stick in the backyard? Vertically.
Your pet running around in the backyard? Probably horizontally.
Your friend planking in the backyard?Definitely horizontally.Not at all, get new friends.But I’ve spent the last ten years perfecting my planking game.
I need witnesses to my perfection.
I can nail you to my deck if that is what you are into.
You can thrash all over me, skate-daddy.
As an artist this is how I’ve always thought about it. Shooting a group of five people vertical is suboptimal. There’s too much wasted frame.
But if all you’re going to use the video for is social media then you’ll have to crop the video and get weird ratio with worse quality. so if it’s for Instagram stories why not just take the video or photo vertical so you know it’ll work.
I don’t really use social media so it doesn’t come up for me often. Nevertheless, just because a platform forces me to use an orientation doesn’t mean that orientation is a good fit for the subject I’m shooting.
Film everything in square 1:1 format
Until Vine and later tiktok, basically the whole Internet was in the horizontal format and vertical videos would play with huge black boxes on the left and right and in turn you can’t really make out the details of the videos as well because they were so small on those screens. Today’s internet is very different and has things actually designed for vertical videos so complaining about it makes no sense anymore.
Today’s internet is very different and has things actually designed for vertical videos so complaining about it makes no sense anymore.
It absolutely makes sense. You can design whatever you want for vertical videos but it makes no difference if the actual content isn’t designed for it.
How many times have you seen videos with multiple people falling out of frame while simultaneously half the frame consists of ground and sky? Then the camera operator viciously whips back and forth to try to capture everything, creating a jarring fuckin video? How many times do you see TikTokkers trying to contort their bodies so you can actually see what’s going on in the image behind them? What difference does the size of resolution of the image make when half of it is consumed by nothing important?
That probably means they should’ve zoomed out, regaldless of orientation
To create even bigger empty spaces of ground and sky?
Once you’ve got everything you can just crop to where the action is happening later, as well as chose a different aspect ratio if need be
Crop it? Sooo then you’re just back to horizontal but at a significantly degraded resolution…
Not really. Most phones can film in 4k and most services compress it to absolute shit anyway nowadays. You’re not losing much but cropping first
It’s often hard to adapt already existing horizontal videos into vertical videos, but the current high prevalence of vertical video platforms create incentive to create better editing tricks. I personally am often surprised how they accommodate for these situations now a days
I mean yes I agree but it’s a shoddy workaround for a manufactured problem.
Except it does. It is such a waste of space to film like that. If anything film a square
We all know the best way to film is in the shape of a circle
It slightly annoys me when looking for YT vids on a subject and the results are full of 10 second vertically filmed shorts 🤦♂️. Some are fine in some cases I guess, but the majority are just noise IMO
Vertical was foretold long ago
Which movie is it?
Looks like 2001
Dude can afford to go to space but can’t afford a tablet with an OLED.
…and I hate it
So people on lemmy are pretty fuckin old eh? Interesting…
hey, some of us are merely kinda fuckin old
I wouldn’t even consider myself that and I still mock people taking vertical pictures
Yeah I know what you mean, it only seems like yesterday that that upstart Daguerre began with his gosh darn foolish portrait orientation photographs, of course we didn’t call them that then, we called 'em daguerreotypes…
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I still do
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The medium is the message and all that.
