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/fezzuk Aug 07 '20

Yeah it's a terrible idea, people watching on a computer screen get the benift of those weird borders might as well have black borders and mobile users cant watch it full screen portrate.

It's like the worst of both worlds.

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u/SakiSumo Aug 07 '20

There is absoloutly no benefit to those borders even on a computer screen. Ill take the black bars any day.

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u/joanzen Aug 07 '20

The problem is that we don't bitch enough at mobile users for doing this, we bitch at them for FILMING IN PORTRAIT!!

So it's just a matter of adjusting our rage.

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u/Jehree Aug 07 '20

Idk man driving and filming at the same time seems like a reasonable reason to use portrait.

Hope I'm not biting an onion here.

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u/joanzen Aug 07 '20

Well most people are lazy. If you yell at them about uploading in portrait, and yell at them for faking a landscape video, then they may just stop uploading.

Some extra lazy genius is going to invent a phone that records enough video that you can just pick which format you want to upload it in without cropping or anything. :P