@OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:Yep, just look at how many new vehicles are now going over to vertical displays. I saw several in new models and their displays now look like large phones!
I can understand and appreciate the value of a vertical display in a car. If you're using the GPS/map feature, a vertical display lets you "see" a bit further ahead on the map as you are driving.
@MartyE posted:YouTube can call it what they want. It’s incorrect and poor technique.
Yessir. Absolutely.
The ONLY place a vertical video looks OK is on the tiny screen of a phone. If you show that video on a TV or computer monitor, it's going to be on a Landscape format screen.
And then vertical video just looks silly.
To me, vertical video is not "cool." For me, it is a stunning example of how ignorant and unobservant people are in their daily lives. Every TV screen and computer monitor in use today is a HORIZONTAL screen. Yet people are totally unobservant or unaware of that fact. Consequently they hold their phone vertically because that's how they hold it for everything else they do on the phone.
That is a sad testament to the level of education, the lack of intellectual curiosity, and the low level of common sense among millennials. They have no intellectual curiosity to learn how to do something right because the way they are doing it works...sort of. It's good enough. They don't have the common sense to relate the phone to the TV screen and realize that holding it horizontally makes for a better video. The way they do it is good enough. However, "good enough" is not the same as doing it right. And here, there definitely is a right way and a wrong way to shoot video.
I see things today on so-called "professional" videos that would have gotten me thrown out of the video production classes I took years ago. Jump cuts are everywhere. I see people talking directly to me on camera, but seconds later the producer cuts to a second camera and now the person is talking to someone off screen over in my dining room. What sense does that make? I watch videos where the editor cuts to a different scene literally every second. God forbid we stay on a shot for two or three seconds. And on the so-called "reality" shows (like Gold Rush) whenever something exciting happens, we shake the cameras around and look at the ground because that makes it more "exciting." Total BS. All the bedrock standards that make for good-looking video are being thrown out the window.
Significantly, you won't see any vertical video movies in theaters or on sitcoms and dramas on TV. Why? Because television and movie professionals know it's bad technique. Why waste all that screen real estate with a couple of black bars, or a blurry version of the main scene, when you could fill the screen with meaningful and enjoyable video?
For those of you who may have gotten to this thread late, here's the video from the first post again.
OK...sigh...I'll step down off my soapbox now.
