Portrait only videos?

Rimsy

Rimsy

Rimsy

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I feel like I'm probably missing somthing really obvious here but why do people take videos in portrait and then have huge blurred bars down either side?
The BBC seem to insist that if anyone submits a video to them they must be in portrait too... I dont get it - we have these big screens of which only a small percentage is actually used to view content. Do people like the massive blurred bits at the sides? do they serve some purpose I'm not quite understanding?
All monitors and TVs are landscape. We see in landscape. Whats with all this sudden portrait obsession?
 
With an old basic film (still) camera, you'd usually take pictures of people in portrait, because it fits the screen better. When videoing with a phone, which doesn't have a 'correct' orientation like a video camera would, you naturally film in portrait for the same reason. It's also customary to hold a phone in portrait when using it, so people just do the same when videoing.
 
It’s because that’s the way you normally hold your phone...some people don’t have the reaction of turning it round whenever using it as a camera!
 
Rimsy said:
I feel like I'm probably missing somthing really obvious here but why do people take videos in portrait and then have huge blurred bars down either side?
The BBC seem to insist that if anyone submits a video to them they must be in portrait too... I dont get it - we have these big screens of which only a small percentage is actually used to view content. Do people like the massive blurred bits at the sides? do they serve some purpose I'm not quite understanding?
All monitors and TVs are landscape. We see in landscape. Whats with all this sudden portrait obsession?
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Where to the BBC insist that? Sounds like nonsense.
 
VincentHanna said:
Where to the BBC insist that? Sounds like nonsense.
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Exactly. I'm sure the BBC just get what footage they can, if it happens to be shot in portrait by some dribbling idiot then they'll put some nice bars down the side to fill in the space...
 
You normally hold your phone in Portrait, and once you’ve hit the shutter button, it’s decided on what way it orientates.

An annoying thing happened yesterday - a friend wanted to show me a video on his YouTube app, the video was filmed in portrait, but when you force full screen in the YouTube app, it turns the video to have two massive black bars down both sides. You’d think streaming sites like YouTube would have some smart code to know which way to best display footage taken from a mobile phone.
 
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