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[ElectricBlanketFire]

This isn't stopping.

It's 2015, and it's still happening.

Do people not care? 25 years from now when their goofy looking kids are getting married to some girl who has way too many old western theme park photos with her family, the memories will be captured in portrait mode.

Are there any phones that automatically correct this?

 

[sprsk]

Wouldn't be an issue if video players just supported portrait mode natively.

 

[yogloo]

There's nothing wrong with portrait mode as long as it is intended for portrait viewing.

 

[YoungFa]

Embrace the future:

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

There's nothing wrong with portrait mode as long as it is intended for portrait viewing.

How many videos on Facebook are intended for portrait viewing?

Negative 20.

 

[Lastgengamer]

Well maybe one day we will evolve to the point where we have vertical eyes! lol

But yes, drives me crazy that people still do this so casually.

 

[slit]

Wouldn't be an issue if video players just supported portrait mode natively.

Then you'd just have a bunch of side way videos.

 

[Blargonaut]

But how else would we be able to frame and hang our precious memories?

 

[RedRooster]

Embrace the future:

I have both my monitors at work like that. And I'm smart. So it's really the best way.

 

[Coreda]

Solution: square camera sensors. Everyone suffers equally.

 

[Takamura-San]

This isn't stopping.

It's 2015, and it's still happening.

Do people not care? 25 years from now when their goofy looking kids are getting married to some girl who has way too many old western theme park photos with her family, the memories will be captured in portrait mode.

Are there any phones that automatically correct this?

I, for one, don't. Portrait mode recording seems like an issue, to me, that come from the same people that complain about 4:3 Pan Scan.

 

[CharmingCharlie]

Don't worry Op Google is here to save the day. When you switch to video mode on the Google camera in Android a handy animation repeats over and over to remind the user to flip their phone onto it's side so it records footage in landscape mode.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/04/16/with-its-new-camera-google-declares-war-on-vertical-videos/

Thus it will do down in history that google prevented the portraitageddon. Thousands of years from now when humanity is back to the stone age and huddling around camp fires there will be songs sung about Google and how they saved us from horrible portrait videos.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Isn't there a smartphone that tells you to turn your phone landscape mode until you turn it around? Should be mandatory. Bug those portrait assholes until they learn. Block the whole screen if you have to. Otherwise they should make floating sensors that automatically adjust to landscape mode.

edit: heh.

 

[Air Zombie Meat]

And I still won't give a damn.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

I, for one, don't. Portrait mode recording seems like an issue, to me, that come from the same people that complain about 4:3 Pan Scan.

The Lord hath spoken!

Spoiler

I hate it..

 

[mrkgoo]

I don't care.

Some things are better shot in portrait mode anyway. It's like saying all photographs should be a particular aspect ratio or landscape only.

 

[Rentahamster]

OP assumes that the most convenient way for everyday humans to record video in the future will still be via a handheld device.

I doubt this will be the case.

 

[captive]

I, for one, don't. Portrait mode recording seems like an issue, to me, that come from the same people that complain about 4:3 Pan Scan.

You clearly don't know what pan and scan is then, if you don't have a problem with it.

Portrait videos are annoying. Portrait photographs are not, that does not mean that portrait videos are acceptable.

 

[theusedversion]

Portrait video works great if your viewing on a phone. There are a few sites out there that will show the video natively so that it fills up the whole phone screen instead of forcing it into a landscape frame.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

I was thinking of making a version of YouTube specifically made for portrait videos.

 

[theusedversion]

Portrait videos are annoying. Portrait photographs are not, that does not mean that portrait videos are acceptable.

Just curious, why is one ok but the other isn't?

 

[Jimnymebob]

Embrace the future:

Knowing the stupidity of people, if that actually became the norm for monitors and televisions, people will start recording their stuff in landscape.

 

[Blargonaut]

Solution: square camera sensors. Everyone suffers equally.

Excuse me, but last I checked, circles are round and thus inherently omnidirectional. Why would you spend more money and resources to give perfectly circular lenses redundant edges? Do you speak to accountants with that mouth?

It's clearly a marketing issue

 

[John Kowalski]

no self respecting videographer would do it

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I don't care.

Some things are better shot in portrait mode anyway.

Could you post an example?

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Excuse me, but last I checked, circles are round and thus inherently omnidirectional. Why would you spend more money and resources to give perfectly circular lenses redundant edges? Do you speak to accountants with that mouth?

It's clearly a marketing issue

I'm so confused right now. How does this relate to the post you're replying to?

 

[Mr. Doop]

Say no to vertical videos.

 

[J10]

I don't care.

Some things are better shot in portrait mode anyway. It's like saying all photographs should be a particular aspect ratio or landscape only.

Y'all really will defend anything.

 

[mrkgoo]

Could you post an example?

Mostly personal stuff, like portrait shots of kids, and closeups from over the shoulder. Not everything has to be landscape only.

I will maintain that many things are better in landscape aswell, such as anything to do with actual scenes, etc. But there's no hard and fast rule.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Embrace the future:

I know tons of people who code like this

why

how

I don't want to have to look up to see my code, that's why god invented scroll wheels and search functions in IDEs...

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Mostly personal stuff, like portrait shots of kids, and closeups from over the shoulder. Not everything has to be landscape only.

I'm talking about filming, not photographing.

 

[Osiris]

I care so little about this issue that I now purposefully shoot everything in portrait mode, just to annoy people who do care.

If there is one thing guaranteed to make a youtube videos comments totally anti-SJW / SJW free its shooting it in portrait.

 

[Anustart]

There's a special place in hell for portrait video people. And my girlfriend is one of them.

 

[Takamura-San]

You clearly don't know what pan and scan is then, if you don't have a problem with it.

Portrait videos are annoying. Portrait photographs are not, that does not mean that portrait videos are acceptable.

I know what Pan and Scan is and I don't watch the version of any movie that uses it. I don't care, because I have an option.

For portrait videos, I don't care because that's how the person decided to record the video. Why should I be "annoyed" by how they decided to record it?

I know tons of people who code like this

why

how

I don't want to have to look up to see my code, that's why god invented scroll wheels and search functions in IDEs...

I know Lawyers that have a monitor setup like this to read legal documents.

 

[Blargonaut]

I'm so confused right now. How does this relate to the post you're replying to?

It's a business joke, a quite humorous yet delicately biting statement about corporate interdepartmental relationships.

Now it's ruined, ew

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

For portrait videos, I don't care because that's how the person decided to record the video. Why should I be "annoyed" by how they decided to record it?

I highly doubt most people are making a deliberate choice to film in portrait.

 

[theusedversion]

I'm talking about filming, not photographing.

I think he is too.

Just out of curiosity, why is portrait photos ok but not portrait video?

 

[Osiris]

I know what Pan and Scan is and I don't watch the version of any movie that uses it. I don't care, because I have an option.

For portrait videos, I don't care because that's how the person decided to record the video. Why should I be "annoyed" by how they decided to record it?



I know Lawyers that have a monitor setup like this to read legal documents.

P-L-P set-ups are vastly more productive than L-L-L set-ups, it's just going to take the masses a while to catch-up / realize

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I think he is too.

Just out of curiosity, why is portrait photos ok but not portrait video?

 

[mclem]

(Being a scene from Strictly Come Dancing where Darcey Bussell was asked to explain to the audience that they can only use landscape footage for videos that were sent in)

There was an attraction at Luxor that was filmed in an extreme portrait ratio, which worked fine if a bit confusingly at the start. Footage or images *designed* for portrait viewing are fine - and of course, portrait photos are generally framed with the intent of portrait viewing. The issue comes when people are using portrait when it's ineffective for what they're intending to record, and that's more common than it ought to be.

 

[Osiris]

Still not seeing the problem.

 

[John Kowalski]

I think he is too.

Just out of curiosity, why is portrait photos ok but not portrait video?

Because most motion is horizontal, and you want your orientation to follow the dominant motion in your shot? If you're taking video of someone climbing up a building then the motion is vertical, and vertical video is appropriate, if inconvenient nonetheless because most people simply don't have screens dedicated to vertical video. But the vast majority of situations have far more horizontal and diagonal movement, and you have to make it so the longest side of your ratio is accommodated to that. Ergo, landscape 99% of the time.

Whereas photos are about lines, and vertical lines are probably as common, if not more, than horizontal lines.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Still not seeing the problem.

I know.

I care so little about this issue that I now purposefully shoot everything in portrait mode, just to annoy people who do care.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

It's a business joke, a quite humorous yet delicately biting statement about corporate interdepartmental relationships.

Now it's ruined, ew

I'm so sorry... I didn't mean to man!

 

[raphier]

Still not seeing the problem.

Because in a portrait there is a picture of a vertical person, establishing the picturesque authority above you. There is no need for background space.

Your eyes are laid horizontally, in a video you more than observe the situation that exists within the film and not just one grandiose painting of a person.

what is not to understand?

 

[Randam]

Still not seeing the problem.

2/3 of tha picture is just black space.

 

[Coreda]

Just out of curiosity, why is portrait photos ok but not portrait video?

Even in professional photography it's used far less, as landscape is a more natural orientation for capturing and displaying scenes. Mostly portrait is used for that - portraits, or where the presentation medium matches such as magazines. In amateur photography it's seen used far more frequently.

The trouble with portrait recording is a larger audience will be watching on landscape screens if posted online, which adds gigantic black bars on both sides. Not only that but real life plays out mostly in a landscape direction. If someone is filming a scene in portrait the full event is getting cut out unless the camera is constantly panning. Landscape recording is almost always the better choice.

If the main audience are those with portrait oriented screens there isn't as much a problem, but this isn't taken into consideration at the time of recording as it's often more convenient holding phones upwards.

 

[Blargonaut]

Look people, the issue with Portrait mode is simple.

1. You have 2 eyes.
   
2. Are they stacked vertically, one directly above the other?
   
3. No.

 

[Fuchsdh]

I, for one, don't. Portrait mode recording seems like an issue, to me, that come from the same people that complain about 4:3 Pan Scan.

So, perfectly justified. Got you.

 

[mrklaw]

Just curious, why is one ok but the other isn't?

Because photographs were originally printed out and so there isn't any notion of a fixed aspect ratio or orientation. With videos you assume they will at some point be viewed in a TV or PC monitor, which are all landscape as standard. So videos should also be landscape. You can easily turn your phone landscape to view gem so you aren't losing anything there either.

I don't really get it - do people take photos or landscapes in portrait mode on their phones? I hope not. So if they are holding their phones horizontal for photos, why aren't they doing the same for videos?

If Apple had put a bloody physical shutter button on iPhones we wouldn't be having this problem