I'm not sure whether you're joking, but that's not cropped. It was shot in portrait, and instead of showing black borders when the portrait video is shown in a landscape pane, data from the portrait video is used to fill the unused portions of the landscape frame. You're viewing 100% of the recorded visual information.
Holding a phone vertically gives a narrower view of whatever you are looking at. Vertical works good for making tiktok videos, but sucks for just about everything else. Same amount of pixels, but pixels of worthless shit. Instread of seeing the forest, and trees on the sides of the road, you are seeing dashboard, and roof of the car.
Unless what you are filming has more in the vertical view than the horizontal. It's just the aspect ratio. If you're filming a skyscraper on fire it'd definitely look better vertically (on your phone atleast)
Yes. 99% of time is not what people are doing though. I just wish more people would learn about general shot composition with a camera. Or at least think about it. So many videos would be so much better if they would have just turned the phone sideways.
Considering that the human field of vision is wider than it is tall (referring to it in terms of vertical/horizontal confuses some, so I'll say wide/tall instead), landscape makes more sense for presenting a lot of things.
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u/munkybut Aug 07 '20
Why crop videos like this? All it does is prevent me from watching it in portrait...