I already addressed this. Behold.
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So you still haven't reconciled WHY "shorter chronologically" naturally has to be letterboxed. On what planet does this make any sense? What does one have to do with the other? Are you suggesting that these "shorts" can't possibly be "short" in a horizontal format? Preposterous.
Yeah...again, I addressed this already. Behold.
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How is removing 2/3rds of anything "diverse????" Can you cite a single other example of this?
No sir. This isn't YouTube's doing. YouTube just got so sick and tired of wasting bandwidth on letterboxing that they caved a little more than 2 years ago and actually CREATED a format so those who don't understand filming convention and how to hold a phone horizontally would have a home.
I can "choose" to drive on the wrong side of the road. It doesn't make it "better" or "acceptable."
Choosing to shoot video in a vertical format is a MISTAKE. You don't find great producers and directors taking credit for this great new format they came up with. It was housewives and toddlers with cell phones who didn't understand the conventions of film making who came up with this. Like the film "Idiocracy," after correcting people over and over and over (and even making a video about it), they relented.
I'll just place this here. Please note this video was put out TEN YEARS ago. The industry has been fighting vertical video for a DECADE.
I stand with ALL film makers from around the world.
Yes. Sheer idiocy triggers me a bit. Guilty as charged. It's tough watching people shoot video in the WRONG orientation, and then tout it as "choice." Shooting vertical a mistake. You'd be removed from set in a second if you tried to shoot feature films this way.
Not really. This is literally the biggest issue I'm dealing with right now. Life is THAT good.
You have it backwards. Grow up and hold your phone correctly. It only takes a second. Anybody can do it. More video real estate is better and has been our natural progression over the past century of film making. We're now up to 8K!!! And now the ignorant want to take away 2/3rds of that? How nuts is that? What's the point of that??? There is none. As I stated earlier, NOBODY can reconcile removing 2/3rds of the video real estate. But please, by all means, keep advocating for it.
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