Is there a video hosting site that displays vertical videos without cramming them into horizontal frame?
I think lot of hate against vertical videos comes from the the way that youtube displays them.
I tried to create browser extension that displays vertical videos without the horizontal frame but I couldn't figure out how to determine orginal dimensions of the clip.
Vertical format was picked so that two people talking fit the frame. Today we more often see one person talk while being accompanied by non-video content (related, comments, slides, code). When single person talks (s)he's small and often accompanied by useless background on both sides, regardless of whether the video was recorded vertically or not.
I think that youtube went embrace (allow to upload), extend (by useless horizontal frame that makes the video smaller), extinguish (by the hands of all the people enraged by vertical videos due to previous stuff and the fact that people often use fullscreen on non-pivoting monitors).
I'm not so sure. When i facetime with family (on phone or laptop), i find the experience is strictly superior when in horizontal mode. There is something about gaining the peripheral context that makes the entire experience feel more natural.
I think lot of hate against vertical videos comes from the the way that youtube displays them.
I tried to create browser extension that displays vertical videos without the horizontal frame but I couldn't figure out how to determine orginal dimensions of the clip.
Vertical format was picked so that two people talking fit the frame. Today we more often see one person talk while being accompanied by non-video content (related, comments, slides, code). When single person talks (s)he's small and often accompanied by useless background on both sides, regardless of whether the video was recorded vertically or not.
I think that youtube went embrace (allow to upload), extend (by useless horizontal frame that makes the video smaller), extinguish (by the hands of all the people enraged by vertical videos due to previous stuff and the fact that people often use fullscreen on non-pivoting monitors).