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.
10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.
Submitted 8 months ago by PP_BOY_@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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sodalite@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Is this why people find Anya Taylor-Joy attractive?
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And often it’s not even a tiktok thing, it’s just laziness and/or forgetting to rotate.
mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s because we didn’t shame them hard enough. Now look where we are.
marshadow@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m STILL insulted. Portrait videos suck to look at.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah… Well… So do you! ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
HollandJim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well that, and the fact that its a Chinese PsyOp to sow discord and manipulate people into ridiculous, insane behaviors.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just wait until I release the landscape video platform of… YokYik!
Dicska@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Everything is doing it already. Good luck watching a “horizontal” video uploaded to Instagram from your desktop browser.
Gabu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why’d you use a Facebook piece of crap like instagram to begin with?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Tramdan@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Sometimes tall things fit better in a vertical frame.
Sometimes wide things fit better in a horizontal frame.But most of the time this isnt even thought about when taking the shot.
thirteene@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The horizontal display is meant to reflect our natural vision which is also a horizontal aspect ratio. There are niche scenarios like skyscrapers but the vast majority of the time it’s correct to stay horizontal and frame the shot properly.
Soggytoast@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Should be illegal really, jail time.
toastus@feddit.de 8 months ago
Right to jail.
Believe it or not… jail.
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Somehow I actually read, “arrested” instead of “insulted” first time!
plantedworld@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck it. Let’s just record in squares and they can be cropped either way. The circular lense doesn’t just record in portrait or landscape, right?.. Wait… Or does it?.. It’s actually a circular lense but the sensor itself might be rectangular… Hmm…
FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Shooting I’m square crop has been a thing for a while now, it means clients can re-crop the same footage for different outputs. And usually means framing is a nightmare and never really works out well for any of the output formats.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why would you do that? People don’t even watch shows in portrait even when they use their phones. They watch short form content designed to fill idle moments. It is nearly exclusively bullshit filler or one person content. Real content will continue to be viewed in landscape forever.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just forget about rectangles altogether, circular video is where it’s at!
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 8 months ago
<Hasselblad has entered the chat>
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If the content isn’t one person yaking full frame its going to be pointless to use portrait. It’s just practically unsuitable
Gabu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck tiktok/shorts
Bocky@lemmy.world 8 months ago
One day TV makers are going to switch to 9 by 16 screens, vertical portrait mode TVs on the wall. Im from the future. Check back in 10 years, you will see.
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
the problem with that, and a big reason why it probably won’t be adapted, is that portrait mode shows you fuck all, it’s good for showing one person (you know like a portrait) but if you want to show multiple people you have so much deadspace top and bottom. Landscape is just aesthetically better
Scrollone@feddit.it 8 months ago
Also, our freaking eyes are horizontal. There’s no way around that
rockerface@lemm.ee 8 months ago
just stack people on top of each other
randomuser38529@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The Sero from Samsung back in 2020 is how it all started to go sideways.
Or in this case, upways?
meekah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d like to think the opposite of sideways is downways
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
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.
Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t mind either way to watch something. But what really shits me is the vertical video that has added padding on the sides to view in landscape. Or the other way around. I can’t see anything when watching on my phone either way then.
Dicska@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like it was impossible for websites to display properly. Especially when you want to watch the horizontal video that was uploaded to a vertical based site on a horizontal monitor (I’m looking at you, Instagram). Then you’re left with ~9% of your monitor area and you can’t even read the fucking text on the video.
I understand that you need to adapt when most people watch videos on phones now, but forcing people to install an app just to get all your user data is a pretty scummy move. Also, I may want to use my PC instead for a multitude of reasons.
Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Thanks to tiktok…
TypicalHog@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Non-landscape videos give me mental discomfort.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It seems like the landscapeboys lost
NoRodent@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If they start building vertical cinemas, that’s when we lose.
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Please don’t give them any more ideas…
cuchilloc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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?
LostXOR@fedia.io 8 months ago
Nose to the left, mouth to the right, of course.
jaschen@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I started filming in 1:1 ratio. Sorta best of both worlds
WereCat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Every time I see someone film vertically I send them this YT video /watch?v=xL23Xvv1Pis (was not sure if I’m allowed to post links here). I just think it’s a brilliant and underappreciated parody.
TBF I kind of got used to portrait videos but I still block YT shorts and alike as most videos in that format are garbage anyways.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Every time I see someone film vertically I send them this YT video /watch?v=xL23Xvv1Pis (was not sure if I’m allowed to post links here).
Resol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I still think landscape video and portrait video are two completely different beasts, and one should not be converted into the other.
SVcross@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I still do. Depends on what you are filming, 9 out 10, landscape should be the go to.
TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
Iamdanno@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Heyday is what you mean, I think.
nul@programming.dev 8 months ago
Vine was started in early 2013 and in mid to late 2012, this video was popular: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo
That’s about six months of true vertical video hate before the war was lost.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who the fck does such a stupid thing?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Tiktok
Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
OK, I’m not dumb enough for Tiktok, so I don’t care.
ordellrb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am still waiting on 21/9 TV to buy…
TedJ70@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I believe LG has a couple and I saw Philips quite a few years ago.
insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 8 months ago
Sometimes you'll see a landscape video letterboxed into a portrait video, just to make sure it's terrible no matter which way you view it (but extra bad watching on a landscape monitor). So I don't see this as a badge of anything.
On a sidenote, I've noticed video cropping is pretty nice on a phone (widescreen+landscape) depending on the content (I got an OLED phone free because the screen is cracked). Like Wall-e is pretty good like that. Also the music video for Long-Legged Larry (some things are cut off but not enough that it detracts from understanding)
Steve@startrek.website 8 months ago
Vertical videos are the work of Satan
experbia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
people with vertical eyes must be making these vertical videos
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Say No to old Mila Kunis.