It’s called the GIMP because that’s how you feel trying to use it when you have the muscle memory for Photoshop.
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Only two posts on this long thread about how wonderful this video is, even if one disagrees with its message. I want to make it at least three. The creator and her friends are extremely talented, and I hope their work brings them much recognition and perhaps more tangible compensation.
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Came here to post that.
… this is my first encounter with that spelling of embed in the context of teh interwebs.
Yes, there is a way to embed video vertically. It seems like BB’s stupid placeholder for videos image thing is the part that borks it.
because it works fine on laughing squid. Try this on your phone, or resize the browser to narrow.
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Nothing can usurp horizontal aspect now, since the large majority of motion media has been made that way. Irrespective of people’s desire to shake the paradigm, that orientation will always win. Aside from its current ubiquity (which will continue to condition viewers) it will always remain as the “norm” because almost all screens that are naturally vertically-oriented (phones, small tablets) have orientation sensors and can easily be made portrait. All those monitors and cinema screens? Not so much.
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Exactly, the devices that can accommodate and display vertical videos correctly, can also accommodate horizontal videos just as easily, while the largest, highest-def and most comfortable screens don’t handle vertical video gracefully at all. So it’s pretty much a question of your audience. Do you want to make videos that look good on a screen bigger than 7-9", or is this only ever going to be viewed on a phone? If it’s the former, then you might be better off doing horizontal videos so that everyone with a 16:9 horizontal screens are able to watch the full size video without tons of letterboxing wasting 3/4 of your screen real estate.
That’s the other way around. While phones and tablets are certainly capable of displaying video as well as other monitors, their size does matter. You’re not going to get the immersion of a theater or large screen from a tablet no matter how close to your face it gets. And that’s okay. It’s really awesome that we can get video everywhere.
What I think @teapot is saying, and what I’m definitely saying, is that the majority of large screens pretty much can’t accommodate vertical video, even when technically they are able to. I mean, who’s going to rotate their 55" TV 90 degrees after going out and buying a $200 stand that allows for that type of rotation? And why should the large screen users have a bad viewing experience, when the small screen devices can accommodate either format equally well?
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Now that i think about it, I don’t view a lot of videos fullscreen on my ipad. I do use my AppleTV a lot, and prefer it when it functions as a second screen, while letting me use my ipad for other additional things besides playing the video. Now, if only I get my appletv to play both A,azon Video, amd ignore video advertising.
I’m sure there’s a way to do hostfile filtering on jailbroken iOS devices, that would give you the ability to prevent nearly all advertizing if it’s your phone rebroadcasting the video stream to your tv. At least that’s how it works with chromecast.
My hostfile blacklist and AdBlock plus proxy on my Galaxy phone let me chromecast youtube, amazon etc to my TV or Roku without any ads at all.
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At least that’s how it works with chromecast.
The phone or tablet does all the heavy lifting here. I’m pretty sure that it does any work necessary to transcode it into an H.264 signal and sends it off to the AppleTV,
What I usually do is select an episode in the Amazon Video app, select my Apple TV, press play, and then switch out of the App to do something else, usually in Safari. The problem, is that sometimes, that something else contains videos-- videos which my ipad then feels compelled to display on my AppleTV-- which should be showing “The Americans” It drives me nuts that I can’t just say-- “this app has video privileges, and this app, at least for the time being. doesn’t.”
Arghh
Sorry, I can’t really be much help there. But it sounds like you can get airplay to do mostly what you want. Although it’s ridiculous that you have to relay amazon videos from your ipad via airplay to get amazon videos on your apple tv. I’d expect that to be sort of a basic thing. Even my crappy old blu-ray player has built in amazon video. Is there an adversarial licensing dick-measuring contest between apple and amazon preventing amazon directly on the apple tv device?
Large hi-def screens can handle vertical video quite gracefully if it’s not in full-screen mode. I don’t need an immersive experience when watching an interview with a talking head or a puppy learning to climb stairs.
Even in full-screen, that ¾ of real estate is going to be “wasted” one way or another: in portrait by letter^Wpillarboxing, in landscape by a bunch of nothing meaningful or interesting in those parts of the frame. Great, I can see so much more of the blank wall this guy is standing in front of, feels like I’m right there in that utterly boring room with him!
I think imbed and embed are different words, like insure and ensure, but I haven’t asked Merriam-Webster.
In the course of my confusion I did do a search, because there’s often several accepted spellings of a word. Turns out that ‘imbed’ is a synonymous verb for ‘embed’ - so there ya go. In the context of web design (which is probably the sole context I’ve ever had to type the word) it’s always spelled embed so I guess it’s just what one is used to reading/typing.
You guys still spell aluminium wrong though!!!1! ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
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