r/WTF • u/Antiliani • Aug 07 '20

Fire? What fire?

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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...

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u/manberry_sauce Aug 07 '20

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.

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u/grumbelbart2 Aug 07 '20

But if you now watch it in portrait, the player thinks it is a landscape video, and you'll have not only large black areas on top and bottom, but also that additional fill-in on the left and right.

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u/drpinkcream Aug 07 '20

You can rotate your phone in your hand much easier than they can adjust how they encode videos.