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.
3 years ago by amniotic druid to c/showerthoughts
TastyWheat 2 points 3 years ago
Say No to old Mila Kunis.
Whirling_Cloudburst 18 points 3 years 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
inb4_FoundTheVegan 7 points 3 years ago
No, that's because she IS attractive and you are being weird, shitty and judgmental. Like you're allowed to have whatever beauty preferences you want, but idk why you are going out of your way to call her unattractive.
michaelmrose 1 point 3 years ago
Anya Taylor-Joy
Her eyes are too far apart and her head is oddly proportioned to her chin. She isn't UGLY or anything but she isn't that attractive.
deweydecibel 3 points 3 years ago
And often it's not even a tiktok thing, it's just laziness and/or forgetting to rotate.
lord_ryvan 1 point 2 years ago
Hell, even Tiktok allows horizontal videos, even instructs you to turn the screen if it's vertical!
mods_are_assholes 59 points 3 years ago
It's because we didn't shame them hard enough. Now look where we are.
marshadow 53 points 3 years 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.
SendMePhotos -7 points 3 years ago
Yeah... Well... So do you! ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
HollandJim 47 points 3 years ago
Best reason ever to be rid of TikTok.
A_Random_Idiot 9 points 3 years ago
Well that, and the fact that its a Chinese PsyOp to sow discord and manipulate people into ridiculous, insane behaviors.
Dicska 2 points 3 years ago
I don't use it actively (I'm not even logged in) but a good bunch of my friends keep sending me links. It would sound pretty mean if I just refused to open so many links to so many people on so many platforms (I consider TikTok even worse). I was talking about the phenomenon in general and brought up Instagram as an example.
SendMePhotos 1 point 3 years ago
Just wait until I release the landscape video platform of... YokYik!
givesomefucks 46 points 3 years 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 23 points 3 years 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.
NightAuthor 2 points 3 years ago
It’d have to be magical to be utilized by the average iOS user.
thirteene 9 points 3 years 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.
cynar 12 points 3 years ago
Only if the action is wider than it is tall.
I've been videoing my daughter learning to swim. It's actually easier to capture it in portrait. Landscape would just have a lot more empty pool, for no gain.
Both have their place, though a lot of people are also idiots when filming.
Soggytoast 37 points 3 years ago
Should be illegal really, jail time.
milicent_bystandr 1 point 3 years ago
Somehow I actually read, "arrested" instead of "insulted" first time!
plantedworld 30 points 3 years 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 4 points 3 years 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 4 points 3 years 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 2 points 3 years 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.
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michaelmrose 1 point 3 years ago
If the content isn't one person yaking full frame its going to be pointless to use portrait. It's just practically unsuitable
Kolanaki 19 points 3 years 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 19 points 3 years 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 3 points 3 years 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.
shneancy 25 points 3 years 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
rockerface 11 points 3 years ago
just stack people on top of each other
randomuser38529 2 points 3 years ago
The Sero from Samsung back in 2020 is how it all started to go sideways.
Or in this case, upways?
randomuser38529 3 points 3 years ago
Was trying to be semi-funny based on how the screen changes orientation.
You are probably right though.
Apollo2323 16 points 3 years ago
Thanks to tiktok...
TypicalHog 15 points 3 years ago
Non-landscape videos give me mental discomfort.
possiblylinux127 2 points 3 years ago
I actually could get on board with that
possiblylinux127 2 points 3 years ago
Honestly I never understood why it lost popularity. Sure a small 4:3 doesn't make sense but it would be fine scaled up.
WereCat 11 points 3 years 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 4 points 3 years 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've seen links to videos in a lot of community posts, so we should be fine.
Also, funny video, thanks for sharing!
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TheOneWithTheHair 4 points 3 years 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.
Now if you mean music videos or cinema, yeah, portrait would be odd.
nul 3 points 3 years ago
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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NoRodent 1 point 3 years ago
I mean, that idea isn't mine, nor new: https://youtu.be/dechvhb0Meo?t=87
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cuchilloc 12 points 3 years 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?
cuchilloc 2 points 3 years ago
I thought some more after writing the comment and maaaybe, pick an eye and just align the one they remove above it, like right in the forehead but to one side. It could fit. Worst case they just remove some frontal cortex so it doesn’t stick out too much, won’t be needing it anyway if all one’s gonna do is watch vertical videos!
insomniac_lemon 1 point 3 years 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)
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- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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