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 to mention that there are lots of square videos out there too, where social media also encourages us to edit and upload videos in square format.

So, it is up to you to upload videos in square format, portrait or landscape, but as CDV, I always try to upload in landscape, which is good for TV viewing that can also be viewed anywhere.

And CDV is not a regular vlogger/YouTuber.