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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.
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.
Cursing those services to never be seen on desktop devices because they look so wasteful of screen real state.
It’s not so bad when your secondary monitor is vertical lmao
Sure, but then you’re viewing it on your secondary monitor.
I actually prefer them to landscape because like a growing amount of people I only watch YouTube on the right side of my screen and use the left for work, drawing, or if course internet browsing and chat windows.
You don’t always need to use every bit of screen real estate. The goal is watching videos, not min-maxing monitor usage.
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.
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.
Just like my penis
It’s encoded in widescreen but is 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
This is the only thing i really hate. I don’t give a shit about vertical anymore. We lost that battle.
Reminded me of this gem
I never stopped, it´s still stupid to film vertically in most cases.
I am a social media content creator sometimes for work…
But human eyes are on the vertical plane…
I feel so conflicted sometimes.
Vertical was foretold long ago
Dude can afford to go to space but can’t afford a tablet with an OLED.
Which movie is it?
Looks like 2001
Film is way too grainy, had to be filmed sometime earlier. Maybe '65-70? We may never know.
Woosh. He meant 2001: a space odyssey
DoubleWooosh I know, the movie was produced in 1967
Oh my god. It took me a while to figure out what this meant. I guess I was wooshed while attempting to point out a non existent woosh.
Hey it’s all good, many folks haven’t seen 2001 yet and it’s sad. Keep sharing it!
that’s a whoosherang right there.
It was filmed in 2001 as evident by the title but only released in the late 1960s, thats why it looks that way.
That makes sense
…and I hate it
Fixed it
The hero we needed
This pains me so. Great job.
We used to and we still do too.
I still do
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It’s a problem
Not really for very short video because 99% of the time you’ll be watching it on your phone which is vertical by default. For long video horizontal is better.
No, 99% of the time I’ll be looking at it on the computer and my monitor is in the natural Landscape orientation
I still record my home videos horizontal.
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
π:e
Is that imperial or metric pi?
Galactic Standard
We are now to use 1x√2 as the optimal aspect ratio, as to allow screens to be put side by side, and then turned into larger screens.
I could definitely get on board with extending ISO 216 to include a standardized set of screen sizes with this aspect ratio.
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.
Galaxy Fold camera has this as the default dimensions. (The screen is also 4:3)
1:1
Vertical or horizontal?
/s
3:2 please
Note to self: “2 Fast 2 Barbie”(working title) should now be filmed vertically in order to appeal to Gen Z on Tik Tok.
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
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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
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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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.
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Legitimately I do think being kind of, orientation agnostic, seems like a decent idea. I’ve seen it done well before in things like webtoons, where the sort of “line of action”, as it were, can benefit from bouncing from one side of the screen to the other, and where a variety of composition techniques can make a shot look more interesting and be properly readable in either viewing orientation. I think a conflict kind of naturally comes about when you’re just wanting to shoot everything to be completely in line with the floor so it’s easily parsed by the viewer, which is understandable, but kind of limits how interesting and efficient you can make your shots.
Also, somebody needs to make some popsockets that actually work, so holding your phone horizontally for more than five minutes doesn’t suck garbage doo doo.
I unironically wish that modern videos could change FPS, aspect ratio, and resolution on the fly. There’s way too many cases where having a 16:9 section of a video followed by a cinematic section is useful, and black bars are an awful way of transitioning between the two. Same can be said for vertical and horizontal ratios in the same video.
we might get there with AI and maybe some auto-editing recutting software at some point (or just with fancuts, if IP law ever gets better), where the aspect ratio can be redone for a specific cut of the film, but I don’t think it’s ever gonna get to the point where you’d be better off watching something on a 16:9 monitor if it was meant for 4:3, unless you’re really dead set on redoing all the shot composition so everything isn’t confined endlessly to the center of the screen.
realistically our best bet would’ve been to just film everything in the same aspect ratio, which I thought would be the case after we all collectively decided to fuck ourselves, and very slowly migrate from 4:3 and your other postage stamp aspect ratios, to 16:9, over the course of like 50 years and over the course of different mediums. but apparently we can’t have that, and we just have to get increasingly longer and longer aspect ratios because phone manufacturers suck. it’s been like a century and change since we started filming stuff and everyone still just treats it like pictures on a camera, where it’s all up to uncompromising artistic integrity.
hate that shit.
The thing is each aspect ratio has its merits for productivity, so 16:9 can’t be an end-all be-all.
Also, what I’m talking about is different from what you’re talking about. If source footage was shot in 2 aspect ratios, and both are used in a YouTube video or movie, it should be possible to label video segments with their correct aspect ratio. Right now, a single video can only have 1 aspect ratio, so if a video was formatted for 21:9 with some source footage being 16:9, if you were to watch that video on a 16:9 monitor, you’d see black bars on the top, bottom, left, and right of your screen despite the video segment being 16:9. If you watch WandaVision on a 16:9 or 4:3 monitor, you’ll understand what I mean.
So would you want to stop watching a video on one monitor, and then pick up where you left off on a different monitor with a different aspect ratio? That seems like a lot of hoopla to me, a lot of rigamarole. I do agree though, that should be a function.
Not necessarily. I am saying that instead of a video being 16:9 while containing a 16:10 clip, the video should be 16:9 for most of it and 16:10 for the segment with the clip. There would be fewer black bars during playback because the computer would interpret different frames of video as being in different aspect ratios.
Diagonal is the compromise solution.
Most of Battlefield Earth is shot diagonally and no one has complained about that fine film
Call it a dutch angle, and suddenly you’re a cinematographer
I film upside down and call it the Australian angle.
Then I film this joke and call it the dead horse angle.
San Francisco angle
If you do a dutch oven with a dutch angle are you Dutch ^2 ?
No. If you take a tilted photo of a fart under the bed covers that’s only double Dutch.
