People have strong feelings about the direction in which the video should be oriented. There are good reasons for that, but in some contexts, vertical video is absolutely fine and you should stop complaining.
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You can see the comments everywhere: “¡El verdadero crimen aquí es la filmación vertical!”, “¡Ojalá este tipo fuera capaz de grabar videos horizontalmente como una persona normal!” AND “Uf, vertical”.
Honestly, I don't know why people get so crooked about it. Of course, certain things should be recorded horizontally, like movies, TV shows, regular YouTube videos and anything worth producing. But if you're just filming a clip of your cat doing something funny or a screaming fight breaks out on your flight to Las Vegas, vertical video is ok.
It is the only natural way to hold your phone
Pick up your phone and hold it as you would regularly. What orientation is? ¿Vertical? Case closed.
I hate being so direct, but it's true. It is difficult to hold your phone horizontally in a way that is not awkward, unless you use one of these, so you look ridiculous if you're at your kid's soccer game.
At the same time, when you pull out your phone in an effort to quickly see something on video that is happening now, the last thing you're thinking about is making sure to flip your device horizontally for that epic production value.
Most social networks support vertical video
Of course, YouTube and other video streaming sites use a horizontal video layout, resulting in a lot of wasted screen space when playing vertical video. Despite this, almost all social networks support vertical videos, and those are likely the sites you will be posting your videos on anyway.
Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter have user interfaces that are designed to support vertical video so you don't get those annoying black bars on the sides when you play a vertical video in a horizontal video box..
Actually, horizontal video is actually frowned upon in Instagram Stories, since landscape mode is not even supported. Try it yourself: if you add a pre-recorded horizontal video to your Stories feed, it will automatically turn into a vertical video. You can zoom out and get the whole picture, but it will result in a small video (as shown in the picture above).
Record horizontally when you can, but do not worry
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Horizontal video is still king. It's the best way to record videos and it always will be, Unless the day comes when all TVs start moving towards vertical aspect linkage. Despite this, until that moment, it is always better to record video horizontally when and if you can do it without much trouble.
But in the end, vertical video works well and is becoming the rule on social media. So don't feel like you're committing the biggest digital sin the next time you pull out your phone and hit record without tilting it sideways..
The key is to think about how and where people will see your video..
