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Re:Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboa... by mlindner on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:09AM (#31037062)
My thesis is that the most natural way of viewing videos is with a longer axis in the horizontal than in the vertical. Users should rotate their device to watch videos.

> To expand on this, should mobile device camera apps warn users to not shoot portrait video due to being ”unergonomical”?

Mobile phone camera apps shouldn't even understand the concept of shooting footage in a vertical direction.

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Re:Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboa... by savolai on Sunday April 17, 2022 @11:50AM (#31061682)
The boat you are wishing for seems to have already sailed. Social apps are growing / have grown a generation that ejoys vertical video as a medium of its own. So whether vertical video is unnatural seems debatable either way at this point.
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