Times have changed

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 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.

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.

Fixed it

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.

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.

Note to self: "2 Fast 2 Barbie"(working title) should now be filmed vertically in order to appeal to Gen Z on Tik Tok.

We used to and we still do too.

Vertical Video Syndrome

It's a problem

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.

Shouldn't you be filming for the device?

Like tiltok should be vertical and yt should be horizontal?

Vertical Video PSA

We should have listened.... Now we have Tik Tok and YouTube Shorts.... 😢

Vertical was foretold long ago

...and I hate it

So people on lemmy are pretty fuckin old eh? Interesting..

The medium is the message and all that.

I am a social media content creator sometimes for work...

But human eyes are on the vertical plane...

I feel so conflicted sometimes.

Reminded me of this gem