• HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Today’s internet is very different and has things actually designed for vertical videos so complaining about it makes no sense anymore.

    It absolutely makes sense. You can design whatever you want for vertical videos but it makes no difference if the actual content isn’t designed for it.

    How many times have you seen videos with multiple people falling out of frame while simultaneously half the frame consists of ground and sky? Then the camera operator viciously whips back and forth to try to capture everything, creating a jarring fuckin video? How many times do you see TikTokkers trying to contort their bodies so you can actually see what’s going on in the image behind them? What difference does the size of resolution of the image make when half of it is consumed by nothing important?

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          10 months ago

          Once you’ve got everything you can just crop to where the action is happening later, as well as chose a different aspect ratio if need be

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            10 months ago

            Crop it? Sooo then you’re just back to horizontal but at a significantly degraded resolution…

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              10 months ago

              Not really. Most phones can film in 4k and most services compress it to absolute shit anyway nowadays. You’re not losing much but cropping first

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      10 months ago

      It’s often hard to adapt already existing horizontal videos into vertical videos, but the current high prevalence of vertical video platforms create incentive to create better editing tricks. I personally am often surprised how they accommodate for these situations now a days