Why are so many YouTube videos portrait rather than landscape now?
The sheer number of videos taken "the wrong way round" (for my computer's monitor) is mind-boggling. I get that some people watch videos on their phones, but is it really that many?
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I would assume because most videos are taken from mobile now. Camera quality in phones is crazy good now.
I mean, like I suspect for most people, my phone is my camera too, but it's perfectly capable of taking landscape videos.
I think this is going to be a generational divide. Most of my millennial friends will insist on landscape while zoomers tend to default to portrait.
My Moto G Stylus even does landscape videos with the phone held vertical. Moto gets me.
Right. I only take vertical if I'm showing a tree or a plant but for a scene or most other pics it's horizontal.
The large majority of content is also consumed on phones, so confirming to computers is making less sense
Can't wait for the first Hollywood movie in portrait format! /s
I had to look up the name but Qibi was (...is...?) a streaming service specialising in precisely that.
Seems like something Rian Johnson would do.