Have you ever been watching someone\u2019s home video and realised something\u2019s wrong. At first, you can\u2019t quite place what it is. It\u2019s just an unsettling feeling in the pit of your stomach, disturbing you to the point of distraction. You can no longer focus on what\u2019s being played in front of you. What is it?!<\/p>\n
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Then suddenly it hits you. It\u2019s shot all wrong. It\u2019s not how it should be. Yep, you\u2019ve just met someone with Vertical Video Syndrome. The poor chump has been shooting videos in vertical format, meaning the image before you is a tall and skinny \u2013 like a latte, only far less delicious.<\/p>\n
And we have the proliferation of smartphones to thank for this dreaded curse to home movies. Because we tend to handle phones vertically \u2013 tapping out a text or making a call, say \u2013 some people simply do the same with videos. Point and shoot.<\/p>\n
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Nothing is worse than checking out videos on Youtube, only to discover the amateur Spielberg has opted for a vertical, rather horizontal position. All that wasted black space at either side of the screen makes the videos deeply uninteresting \u2013 disquieting, even – because literally half the screen contains no images. They may think <\/em>they\u2019ve got the best shot of Uncle Ron drunkenly dancing to Michael Jackson\u2019s \u2018Thriller\u2019, but just imagine being able to see the wedding party\u2019s reaction to it as it happens too!<\/p>\n When shooting videos on your phone, it\u2019s always worth remembering to switch your device to landscape. After all, when was the last time you saw a movie at the cinema playing in portrait? Never, that\u2019s when. \u00a0How about on TV? Same deal. And while it\u2019s easy to rotate a photograph from portrait to landscape, that\u2019s just not going to happen with video. Unless we all tilt our heads to one side.<\/p>\n Of course, these days, to quote a familiar advertising slogan, there\u2019s an app for that. Head over to smartphone app stores and you can download apps which will always shoot in landscape, regardless of how the phone is held. Tech-site CNet has even argued that smartphone cameras should be, well, smart, and do it automatically<\/a>.<\/p>\n But until that\u2019s introduced, the best advice for anyone suffering Vertical Video Syndrome is\u2026 don\u2019t. Not only are those videos missing out on a wealth of imagery and magical moments, it also looks pretty unprofessional.<\/p>\n Thankfully, given the way we hold actual video cameras, filmmakers who used old-school cameras rarely suffer from the debilitating VVS. So if you\u2019ve got home movies on video \u2013 and want to watch them the way they were intended \u2013 we\u2019ve got you covered. Here at Video 2 DVD Transfers we\u2019re experts in VHS to DVD<\/a> conversion. For more info on what we do, how we do it, and how we can help you, simply contact us<\/a> on 0800 592 433 or email info@video2dvdtransfers.co.uk<\/a> and we\u2019ll be delighted to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever been watching someone\u2019s home video and realised something\u2019s wrong. At first, you can\u2019t quite place what it is. It\u2019s just an unsettling feeling in the pit of your stomach, disturbing you to the point of distraction. You can no longer focus on what\u2019s being played in front of you. What is it?! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}