Comments on: One rescue puppy teaching another rescue puppy how to walk down stairs

By: bkad

bkad — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:14:00 +0000

Meanwhile, I just saw the cute video and didn’t even notice it was letter boxed…. I guess it is a good thing I don’t work in the visual arts. Because I wouldn’t be working for long.

By: Squirrelleigh

Squirrelleigh — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:30:00 +0000

Jeeze, guys – it’s a cute video, not “Citizen Kane.” Get over yourselves and enjoy the movie!

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:40:00 +0000

Yep, the embedded YouTube player can be set to any aspect ratio via sizing.

By: Egypt Urnash

Egypt Urnash — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Vertical format video is just about perfect for this subject. It’s just that Youtube is stupid about playing it.

By: Velocirapt42

Velocirapt42 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:14:00 +0000

God hates figs.

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:16:00 +0000

I don’t like it either, but consider that maybe the original video was encoded with the pillarboxing. You wouldn’t want Youtube arbitrarily stripping out portions of uploads, even pillar/letterboxing; sometimes there are subtitles or annotations in those areas.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:33:00 +0000

Thank you. That was great.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:27:00 +0000

“Vertical Video Syndrome”? Wasn’t that the title of a track by the Fall?

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:23:00 +0000

Jesus was British on his father’s side, so he probably cursed most “foreign” things.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:09:00 +0000

that is like saying that, oh never mind.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:03:00 +0000

Maybe you just don’t care about how the work looks on the page. Of course they should remove the black rectangles and allow the page designer to decide how to fit it into the page. If you don’t care you don’t care. All the tech you are talking about is beside the point. We now have vertical video showing up with some regularity and youtube has not made an effort to accommodate. we used to happily watch blurry 640×480 analog video and think nothing of it. Now we have all these possibilities and you are talking about “standard layout” Haven’t you realized there are a bunch of horizontal formats now and we don’t blink or ask for 640×480 because “standard.” Pictures, moving or not, can be landscape or portrait. It is only the ghost of the past insisting otherwise.

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000

I think this whole discussion is why they coined the terms geeks and nerds. —> People who are incapable of experiencing/appreciating the content and only notice the medium/formatting/skill of the person recording the event.

Killjoys. Buzzkills. Whatever you want to be called, sometimes your observations are not necessary.

By: Shibi_SF

Shibi_SF — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:36:00 +0000

I just narrated their entire dialogue in my head. It was awesome.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:17:00 +0000

Like ocker3 said, what exactly is there to fix? Remove the black bars and have just the webpage background? The problem isn’t the fact youtube uses 4:3 or 16:9, it’s the fact that a lot of people take video with a fixed format “camera”, like a phone. A real video camera could have just zoomed out or even a DSLR with the right lens could have captured the whole scene in a more standard layout.

The problem will sort itself out anyway once everyone moves to a tablet. You’d just rotate the screen to accommodate the video layout.

By: Bucket

Bucket — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 02:05:00 +0000

Just say no to old Mila Kunis, just say no to Vertical Video Syndrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

By: timquinn

timquinn — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:57:00 +0000

Oh wait, Antinous can you see if it will post with a vertical orientation if you change the resolution in the embed link which has {width=”600″ height=”337″.} what if you just reversed them?

‘scuse my minding your business . . .

By: timquinn

timquinn — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:46:00 +0000

if there is any aesthetic sense to it why is the whole thing surrounded by white but the two bars black? It is just stupid masquerading as standard.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:23:00 +0000

Those are full grown.
Kittens are smart enough to learn on their own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQjxBoFqwyw

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:56:00 +0000

As soon as I saw that it was vertical, my first thought is, “Get the telescope.” How can it not be bad to discard two thirds of your viewing area?

By: khangt1

khangt1 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:41:00 +0000

Contrast that with cats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V3GJycgu-cs

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:38:00 +0000

How would they Fix it? In this case, the vertical perspective makes sense, are you suggesting a new layout option in YT? I don’t think the bars are that ugly, perhaps my brain just edits them out

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:35:00 +0000

Jesus cursed one.

By: B A

B A — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:45:00 +0000

Thank you Xeni.
This just made my day.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:43:00 +0000

I’ll apologize for thread jacking. It is a bad habit.

Thing is, Xeni, you have an outlet to hundreds or thousands of people and some of them quite influential. This is a pet peeve of mine, those big black un-necessary bars at each end of the video. I’ve seen a few people complain recently about the vertical format, which is elegant and appropriate in some case (like this one.) It is handled badly by youtube. Maybe if I take this chance to say something a dialog will start that could lead to a change. It might take a good coder twenty minutes to fix it. Realistically, it isn’t a hard problem to fix. Why haven’t they done it?

By: RadioSilence

RadioSilence — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:38:00 +0000

I’m normally against vertical video, bit in this case I think the framing fits. Now if only the youtube app on my phone would display it to its fullest, instead of including the black bars at the sides.

By: timquinn

timquinn — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:32:00 +0000

me too.

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:23:00 +0000

I’ve seen that movie, and that WOULD be terrifying.

By: Danilo Albergaria

Danilo Albergaria — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:22:00 +0000

Fog.

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:19:00 +0000

Why is it distressing to be called a fig?

By: Damian Barajas

Damian Barajas — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:14:00 +0000

It brings to mind how much of what we think of as exclusive to humans is just par for the course for a lot of other animals as well. :) Love it!

(Also, if I ever watch that Cyriak spirit of Christmas video again, this would be the perfect unicorn chaser for that)