What is up with.......

[Brian37]

Not sure how to describe it, but on places like Youtube and even in TV reporting video clips are being edited to cloud the sides of the screen and have only the center of the clip clear, like they were making it look like the screen of a cell phone. In any case, I find that fucking annoying. 

Especially when I am watching TV news. I am not on my damned cell phone.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You may be watching cell phone or cam videos taken in portrait mode.  Can you post a couple of examples of what you're talking about?

Boru

[Brian37]

You may be watching cell phone or cam videos taken in portrait mode.  Can you post a couple of examples of what you're talking about?

Boru

I get that they have that sure, But I see way to much of that shit in the news to think it isn't manipulated after recording it. If you can make it look like that on a cell phone, I am quite sure a laptop can manipulate the video after the fact as well.

It is probably a mix of both, but still, that shit is annoying when you are watching a TV, I hate a truncated view. The old fogie in me.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You may be watching cell phone or cam videos taken in portrait mode.  Can you post a couple of examples of what you're talking about?

Boru

I get that they have that sure, But I see way to much of that shit in the news to think it isn't manipulated after recording it. If you can make it look like that on a cell phone, I am quite sure a laptop can manipulate the video after the fact as well.

It is probably a mix of both, but still, that shit is annoying when you are watching a TV, I hate a truncated view. The old fogie in me.

The person who takes a video or a photograph owns that video or photograph, and it can't be edited without their express permission (here, at least).  News outlets who use content from outside providers may be prohibited from manipulating the video.

I'm not a video editor (someone please correct me if I get this wrong) but I suspect that if a video taken in portrait mode were expanded to full screen, it would distort the image.

Boru

[Little lunch]

It does.
I'm somewhat an expert after all the amateur porn I've watched over the years.