#VerticalVideo

You know the trope about "when you're in the know about something, you see every example of that something which is bad, and you feel bad"?

Like "teach someone typography, and they will examples of it done wrong every day", that sort of thing.

Well, one of the things I have knowledge about and experience with is cinematography - film & video. And here's one I run into regularly.

I watch an online video.

On my 16:10 monitor.

The browser letterboxes it into a 16:9 area of the screen.

It's some bloody stupid video site with vertical video, so it's 1:2 (or even worse), pillarboxed into the browser viewport.

And then the video maker is commenting about another video, so it's a 16:9 letterboxed into a tiny section of the pillarboxed video, with enormous borders on the top and bottom.

This hurts my head, even without considering that it results in trying to watch a video that takes up about 5% of the screen.

#letterbox #pillarbox #video #aspect #AspectRatio #VerticalVideo #argh #aargh #TeachAManToFish

Pornhub :verified:pornhub@asstodon.social
2026-02-01
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2026-01-27
Pornhub :verified:pornhub@asstodon.social
2026-01-27
Stephen Blumstephenblum
2026-01-23

Stream vertical by switching resolution to 1080 by 1920 pixels.

Mela News :verified:MelaNews@mastodon.uno
2026-01-22

Netflix testa i video verticali.
La piattaforma avvierà la funzione entro l'anno.
Il formato si adatta alla visualizzazione su smartphone.

📱🎬 #netflix #verticalvideo #streaming

youtube.com/watch?v=dechvhb0Meo

Deadlinedeadline
2026-01-06

First UK Microdrama App Launches With MMA Drama, ‘Dog Dates’ Reality Show & Desire To Repurpose British Classics For Vertical Video

deadline.com/2026/01/tattle-tv

Deadlinedeadline
2025-12-31
Deadlinedeadline
2025-12-02

British Microdrama Firm Onset Octopus First To Board Irvin Gelb’s Standard-Setting Micro-Series Certified Alliance

deadline.com/2025/12/microdram

tom™ ⋮🦎⋮ :blobcatcoffee: ⋮🐉⋮lulawab@norden.social
2025-11-28
2025-11-28

NiemanLab: News publishers embrace vertical video with in-app “watch” tabs. “Nearly three-quarters of Americans watch news videos online and most of them (61%) use social media or YouTube to do so. This year, The Economist, Newsday, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN all launched dedicated tabs for video viewing in their apps, to try to keep some of those users on their own […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/niemanlab-news-publishers-embrace-vertical-video-with-in-app-watch-tabs/

Simon Zerafa (Status: :no_AI_logo: :catthink: 😊)simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
2025-11-27

Just say no to Vertical Video! 😠

youtu.be/f2picMQC-9E

#VerticalVideo #JustSayNo

Deadlinedeadline
2025-11-25

U.S. Studio & Turkish TV Industry Veterans Form Shorties Studios: “Verticals Are The Moment”

deadline.com/2025/11/shorties-

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