The Single Most Important Tip for Recording Video on iPhone
Jul 18, 2012 - 9 Comments
Have you ever noticed that iPhone video gets recorded according to the orientation of the device? If you haven’t noticed that yet, pay attention to it now, because you’ll create significantly better videos if you just rotate the iPhone into horizontal orientation before hitting that record video button.
The image shown is a humorous look as to why this matters, and unless you’re living in a zero-gravity space station somewhere, do everyone and yourself a favor and just orient the iPhone properly before shooting video. This applies to iPad and iPod touch as well, take advantage of the orientation lock if you must and start recording the right way.
To further beat the point, here’s a ridiculous video.
Heads up to CultOfMac for the silly find.
LOL, the worst are when they are uploaded to YouTube this as vertical it’s like why!!!! what are you doing!!
Though if your friend sends you vertical video from iPhone and you watch it on iPhone it does look ok.
So, you think that the readers (us) are morons, and we don’t know how to hold an iPhone for recording…
Nope. It’s mostly a joke, relax.
Dan, do you realize how many youtube videos are suffering from VVD? Sure maybe some OSXdaily readers aren’t the culprits but it’s certainly an issue. And some OSXdaily readers have actually been amazed at tips like how to show the path bar in finder or how to use the iTunes Equalizer. Really? So I’m sure some vertical video creators are on this site.
I absolutely cringe when I see people taking video or pictures in portrait view due to the problems listed in this very article. The only thing that sucks is when I try to tell somebody about it, they won’t switch to landscape unless I spend 5 minutes explaining the consequences of NOT video recorded in landscape. Time to forward this article to everybody….
hahaha.
Insane.
Best.tip.ever.
so funny!
thank you for the tip!
any idea (pc program or app) how to switch our wrong recorded videos?
#nobodyisperfect! :p
Do you realize that in your picture you show the phone with the volume bottoms on the top and not the bottom. This creates an upside down video when transfered to your PC. Maybe you should think twice about throwing around the word “moron”.
I meant Dan, Sorry Paul