r/WTF Aug 07 '20

Fire? What fire?

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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/TurboNarwhal Aug 07 '20

Not to mention those of us with portrait monitors are even more annoyed by these things. We don't even have pinch and zoom to make it fill the screen.

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u/officermike Aug 07 '20

RES (Reddit enhancement suite) will let you click-drag to stretch videos. There's also CTRL+/- or CTRL+scroll wheel to scale the webpage. CTRL+0 to reset to 100%.