![]() But given that mountains of crappy vertical videos that get uploaded to YouTube every day, it doesn’t seem like people are getting the idea. “But wait! Can’t people just learn to hold their phone the right way?” You’d think so. And if you start shooting in landscape, but turn the phone to portrait mode mid-way through? It keeps its landscape orientation throughout, but zooms in a bit. When you start it in landscape, it still looks like it was shot in landscape. With Horizon, when you start shooting a video in portrait mode, it ends up looking like it was shot in landscape. When you shoot videos in portrait mode, you end up with big ol’ ugly black bars on the sides that take up an overwhelming majority of the screen. Wondering why the whole portrait/landscape thing matters? Others have explained it more aptly than I probably can, but in a nutshell: pretty much every damn screen we watch video on these days is meant for widescreen/landscape content. Even if you rotate the phone while shooting, the video’s orientation stays the same. Horizon is an iOS app that auto-magically ensures that your videos are shot in landscape (read: widescreen) mode, no matter how you’re actually holding the phone. Whoops! Now the entire Internet thinks you’re dumb. You’re totally going to hang out with Ellen.īad news: you shot the video in portrait mode. You’re going to be a friggin’ YouTube sensation. ![]() Good news! You just shot what might be the world’s funniest video ever.
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