STOP Shooting Vertical Videos (Do this Instead)

Should you shoot your videos vertically or Horizontally?

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[Timecodes:]
0:00 Stop Shooting Vertical Videos
0:21 Shooting Vertical Videos Horizontally
1:43 The Best way to Shoot Vertical Videos
2:31 Why Shooting Horizontal is Better
3:38 Horizontal vs Vertical
4:03 The Most Important Thing

[AnthonyGugliotta]

Which way do you shoot more often? Horizontal or Vertical?

[silverlightphotoco]

I am glad somebody is finally mentioning this! There are so many reasons why it's better to shoot horizontally first, and coming from a graphic design background, it also works SO much better to have horizontal still images to start with (lots of cropping and layout options, and a lot of commercial photographers who know how to create images that look good with TEXT laid over top of them almost always shoot horizontally. You can actually look at the history of STOCK photography and see a lot of places stopped shooting vertical shots sometime back in the 90s, etc.)

[flogonojo]

The psychology of your thinking is brilliant and really helped settle the anxiety I have between vertical vs. horizontal for me. Now I just need to train myself to not shoot so tight when I'm filming horizontal. That's gonna take a little time. Thanks for the video!

[sofikhmara]

You actually convinced me to shoot my content horizontally from now on!

[RyanTuscher]

That tip about the thirds to make sure they footage is all available when cropping is super useful, I think I’ll try that since I have some ideas to create vertical videos but don’t want to shoot vertical. This will help me to get this video made!!

[withcreativeprecision]

This video is NECESSARY!! I recently recorded a video vertically and regretted it afterwards. I wanted to uploaded it to YouTube, which I still can… it’s just that I wanted to keep it consistent with other uploads.

Your tips were golden! And glad I came across it!

[ERey]

You're so on point!! As a video editor, I am constantly struggling with camera decisions and client choices. Contents are usually generated that are adaptable to all formats, but there's always the opportunity where something was shot exclusively vertically and then the client decides they want a YouTube version. So, shooting horizontally and wide is definitely the best option to avoid future headaches.

[stevesummoned]

I feel like such a dummy. This makes so much sense especially when coming from a background in graphic design where bigger and more DPI is better. I’m sitting here trying to find a way to shoot with two cameras when all I need is one. Thank you so much for this! You got a subscriber out of me.

[unggoyfarmer]

One extra tip when converting horizontal footage that doesn’t fit the frame is to have it zoom or pan. Since the camera is moving it makes the shot feel larger. It won’t work for everything but it’ll work great for a lot of situations

[MichaelHeredia]

This is brilliant. Remembering to shoot content in both vertical and horizontal positions is rather exhausting, so I'm looking forward to giving this a go with shooting horizontally for everything!

Amazing video dude!

[SomethingGoodChannel]

Good video. When shooting long videos, it is true that should not shoot horizontal videos, but when making short videos, usually shoot vertical videos.

[vinevinz]

As professional Instagram Content Manager, my team strictly only shoot 4k vertically. Framing horizontal video does not work because we only can use maximum full frame 35mm lens and nothing below that before everything on the edge is getting distorted aka fisheye effect and the product look wrapped and unnatural. We shoot a lot of indoors too that’s why we often do not have enough camera distance to get center horizontal framing. Also things to consider that your vertical frame got eaten by caption etc when uploading to Instagram, so your bottom part of the frame is already useless. So, I think different needs require different solution, rather than one fits all. Ps: we shot for fashion product (women shoes)

[noahburt]

This is why I hope that open gate recording becomes more industry standard like on the panasonic cameras. I have to get 16x9, 9x16 and 1x1 edits out of my videos for my job and it sucks to have to make such a massive crop. Allowing for more space in your framing is good but not great and I find that the more I have to crop, the less often I'm excited about the framing of my shots and how they turn out.

[imthemaximus]

It might work but sometimes shooting vertical gives us more shallow depth of field in background, shooting horizontal means you have to get wide or step away and it will give you less depth.

[classicmetaldude]

This was crossing my mind recently, you've helped me to set it in stone... thank you!

[LostInTravel]

Super pleased a video discussing this has been recommended to me! I get quite overwhelmed sometimes having to shoot in multiple different orientations just so I can get footage for my vlogs on YouTube or reels on Instagram & Tiktok. It is nice to see that I can save time and reuse the same footage instead of redoing it vertically! :)

[ryanrobertson]

Needed this... super helpful gonna give it a try! I really appreciate how you justified showing the pixel numbers!!

[BrandonTalbot]

I kinda thought this was bad advice, till you got to the future proofing your videos part, and that actually makes a ton of sense. Wish more camera companies used the whole sensor or 4:3 sensors to help with framing options for both 9:16 and 16:9. Great video as always.

[daniloluizgrunge]

This is one of the reasons I like so much using an Insta360 camera. Being able to export both horizontally and vertically is amazing.

[timovehkaoja]

Damn I love the editing of this video. The way you switch locations between shots is phenomenal 👍🏻