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[–] [email protected] 204 points 10 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

This is the only thing i really hate. I don't give a shit about vertical anymore. We lost that battle.

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[–] [email protected] 189 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Same. I will die on this hill. Vertical video sucks!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sure grandma... Watch your step

[–] [email protected] 141 points 10 months ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Diagonal is the compromise solution.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Call it a dutch angle, and suddenly you're a cinematographer

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I film upside down and call it the Australian angle.

Then I film this joke and call it the dead horse angle.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yup. It's a shame the camera lense can't like rotate or something, phones are much easier to hold vertically.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (7 children)

They're just as easy to hold either way though.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

This pains me so. Great job.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

great idea, but 1:1 is what it should have always been

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Nah, we should use some freedom aspect ratio, like 1.47266478:1.984772673

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Admittedly you would look like a dork if you filmed at a 45 degree angle.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just make sure the main plot happens in the first 3 seconds or else they will get bored

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

At the very least make sure Subway Surfers is playing in one of the corners

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

WHAT is up with that shit anyway? It's so annoying

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

We used to and we still do too.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Vertical Video PSA

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

You can still flame people who film vertically on those platforms

Like most problems it’s prevalence is due to a lack of bullying

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Vertical was foretold long ago

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Shouldn't you be filming for the device?

Like tiltok should be vertical and yt should be horizontal?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

...and I hate it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

hey, some of us are merely kinda fuckin old

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn't even consider myself that and I still mock people taking vertical pictures

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