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Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by famousactress »

nbody wrote: post #16

Installing such app almost certainly implies that the user is aware of the problem of vertical videos. So being aware of it, they will simply rotate the device when recording (since it provides better quality/resolution). It seems to me that it would be helpful if such idea is applied on the system level without the need for an app.

I hate vertical video and still end up taking quite a bit of it because the ergonomics of phones really encourage it for one-hand operation. Taking video horizontally with one hand on an iPhone is definitely not comfortable.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by liquidise »

scotty79 wrote: post #49

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 talk…

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.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

scotty79 wrote: post #49

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 talk…

MediaCrush (which I helped make) does this fine:

https://mediacru.sh/H4GxJXvnUosd

It's open source: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by marssaxman »

liquidise wrote: post #52
scotty79 wrote: post #49

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 talk…

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.

The normal human visual field is broader than it is tall. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but 4:3 is a reasonable approximation.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by eyesee »

ryanong wrote: post #27

Hrm, great idea but not in practice? This is a demo from youtube. Looks even more shaky than the default camera app. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-S5SgQFVg

The downside of accessing the full sensor on the iPhone 5S is that image stabilization and rolling shutter compensation is not enabled. That functionality would need to be reproduced in software instead of the ISP hardware.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by StavrosK »

pgrote wrote: post #48
nuII wrote: post #45

Nice to see a new TLD being put to use

Google doesn't think so: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=horizon+camera+app They do show up in site search, though: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:horizon.camera

I think that domain is around a day old or something. At least the site is.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by cstrat »

vanderZwan wrote: post #18
nbody wrote: post #16

Installing such app almost certainly implies that the user is aware of the problem of vertical videos. So being aware of it, they will simply rotate the device when recording (since it provides better quality/resolution). It seems to me that it would be helpful if such idea is applied on the system level without the need for an app.

It allows you to easily zoom while filming.

You already can zoom while filming, two finger gesture (reverse pinch) to zoom.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by rplnt »

higherpurpose wrote: post #9
rplnt wrote: post #2

This is a very nice idea and should really be available in stock cameras. Maybe they could license it to phone manufacturers to include it in their camera apps? Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can re…

License it? Is this such a revolutionary idea that other companies can't "invent it" themselves without licensing it? This is an obvious idea that everyone has been craving for, and I don't think such ideas deserve patents. If stock cameras adopt this idea, tough luck, they'll just have to compete like everyone else and add more differentiation. It's not the implementation that matters here, it's the idea. And compan…

First of all, I was not talking about patents at all.

And my first assumption was that they do something more than cropping, in other words that the implementation is not trivial. But I learned that might not be the case.

Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always

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Post by marssaxman »

jamesbritt wrote: post #46
Kequc wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Goes back to why we switched to widescreen displays. Area of vision man. It is not wasted space to see a horizontal plane, as that is what we expect to see when looking at anything. Vertical video simulates the effect of straining to see through a partly closed door it is tangibly horrible.

Vertical video simulates the effect of straining to see through a partly closed door it is tangibly horrible. Horizontal video simulates the effect of straining to see through a partly closed Venetian blinds it is tangibly horrible. Now, is this any more correct? Or is it an equally arbitrary personal opinion? The move to "wide" screen was also the move to short screen. I don't find anything natural about it; I expec…

There is no personal opinion in the observation that normal human field of vision is wider than it is tall.
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