Why CDV Prefers Horizontal Videos
As you watch some videos on my YouTube channel, Facebook page, Instagram and Dailymotion, my videos are mostly in landscape . I know there are some users who prefer to upload in portrait these days, because social media have been encouraging us to upload portrait videos on a regular basis. Well, I always do everything I can to shoot in landscape, edit in landscape and even upload in landscape. Even if social media encourages me to upload in portrait, I reject that expectation and upload in landscape as much as possible. Even my videos may look small on a phone when played. Even if I had to reach for my phone and shoot some video, I always tilt the phone to landscape. While many portrait videos are mainly for phone viewing, my videos are mostly in landscape so they can be viewed from a phone to a TV. Even though I did one portrait video, just to test out YouTube shorts. Here is a video of pelicans swimming, in landscape (as a base video) and in portrait. I also forgot...