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Sir Mr Jony Ive is the number one fan of Vertical Video, my ipad is set up for Vertical Video, and I hate it...I want Horizontal Video...
Please Sir Mr Jony Ive, just admit you have VVS, get a cream for it, and make Horizontal Video cool again!!
Please Sir Mr Jony Ive, just admit you have VVS, get a cream for it, and make Horizontal Video cool again!!
I did say default. Apple could offer a toggle to cut Portrait on. Here is a quick list of facts.
Aspect Ratios
Eyes (average) field of vision (most natural to us).
1.87:1
1.33:1 (aka:4x3) 35mm film/SDTV
1.78:1 (aka:16x9) HDTV
2.35:1 Widescreen movies
0.56:1 iPhone held vertical
HDTV resolution 1920x1080
iPhone vertical 1080x1920
1920 must be scaled down to1080 to fit so iPhone image becomes 608x1080. This means 1312 out of 1920 vertical lines are black. Plus down scaling adds video artifacts (especially odd amounts).
I prefer watching video held in landscape mode, and would prefer the audio to sound like it is coming from 2 ends, and not muffled by my hand. I am strange that way, I was not sure of the term, and the condition of Mr Ive, if the new ipads look the way it does, then it is confirmed Mr Ive has VVS...
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Strong candidate for this year's MacRumor award for "Best Thread for a First World Problem".
Other stuff I'd like iOS to magically do:
- Prevent videos with ugly people screaming about how life at the Walmart sucks
- Prevent coworkers from HR sending any more "Another Funny Cat Video" emails
- Prevent people from wearing their pajamas to the grocery store (if iPhone camera detects AF_Pajamas_Daytime_GroceryStore=TRUE then bricking their iPhone)
Other stuff I'd like iOS to magically do:
- Prevent videos with ugly people screaming about how life at the Walmart sucks
- Prevent coworkers from HR sending any more "Another Funny Cat Video" emails
- Prevent people from wearing their pajamas to the grocery store (if iPhone camera detects AF_Pajamas_Daytime_GroceryStore=TRUE then bricking their iPhone)
My wife does that crap all the time. Drives me crazy and tell her all the time then she just does the same thing. I don't get it either but I can't blame Apple.
....but you can blame Apple. Had they made it landscape video recording while holding vertical from the beginning (Google would have followed) this argument would be mute. No one ever would even imagine portrait video as they never had in the past.
Or you can ask him to change his wife to one who only does video recording in landscape mode !!!
Or maybe you can blame TV manufacturers, perhaps they should make TV sets vertical, that should solve the problem.....
Look dude... I'm not so my into photography and AV... I'm as good as zero... All I know is portrait sits certain of my needs... I shoot potrait or landscape depending on my requirement...
I understand your point of adding a toggle to make it potrait... But how difficult is tilting your phone...? Couldn't get easier to switch than that no...?
Portrait video wasn't even a concept before some more recent phones become good enough at video that people started using them and it came as a side effect essentially. Every normal camera before the poor implementation of the phones never did anything like portrait video and there wasn't anyone going around and being upset that they couldn't do it then, but suddenly people are simply because they got used to the mistake on the phone makers part.
Yeah, they could do what you want easily via software, but then you'd end up with a lower res video when holding portrait recording landscape. As the current camera sensor is rectangular.
The only ways that they could give you the same landscape res holding the camera in either orientation is to either;
A. Put in a new camera sensor that is the same res both high and wide (square) and software crop it depending on which way you are holding it.
B. Put the existing sensor on a gyro swivel that senses which way you are holding it, and keeps the picture level in landscape.
Either way, if you don't want a lower res video, you are out of luck with you're current iPhone as it would be a hardware fix.
HTH
Not true. The iPhone has a 8MP CMOS sensor that is 3,264 x 2,448. So even held in portrait you have 2448 pixels but only need 1920. That still leaves 528 pixels unused at full 1080x1920 vertical recording.
So you get full 1080x1920 resolution without even using the whole CMOS while shooting landscape holding the iPhone vertically.
I think it's a matter of remembering for many. This one friend always does portrait, then people complain, then she exclaims, "I keep forgetting!"
How about a little suggestion overlay (if you are in portrait) that says, "Most videos look best in landscape." That could serve as a prompt to remind people.
How about a little suggestion overlay (if you are in portrait) that says, "Most videos look best in landscape." That could serve as a prompt to remind people.
When I watch videos on my phone I turn it sideways to view them in landscape as video content is generally meant to be seen pretty much across any medium.
It would depend on the focal length of the lens, specifically how far down it would go. I have a couple of video cameras in the basement that haven't been used for years and I don't know if they would be wide-angle enough.
For still photography I had everything from a fish-eye to 1000mm. Of course that meant a bag of lenses and for every pic I'd have had to make sure I had the right lens.
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Ah, gotcha. All I can say is it's the camera I have now and it produces two results and one of them infuriates folks.
