Youtube Split Screen

[Prudie]

Why do lots of the youtube combination clips I watch (things like funny cats, funny dogs etc) often have the view split into 3 vertical panels with the central one showing the clip and a panel either side all fuzzy?

[FinnyMick]

I presume it is the way it was uploaded.

[Mamyalynne]

I've pinched this...

//It's actually quite simple: Most people shoot video with their cell phones in a vertical orientation. When you display that on a TV screen it leaves the sides black. So TV stations and networks fill in the black space with blurry, and sometimes magnified, versions of the original video just so parts of the screen aren't blank.

This is why you should always remember to shoot video and take pictures horizontally.//

[anotheoldgit]

I have often wondered that but it is not only Youtube clips it can also be seen on television news reports.

The only thing I can think off the clips are taken on a phones camera, and it produces a picture in a different format to those of wide screen shots.

[Prudie]

Well Mamya that is so obvious once you know! That reason never crossed my mind. Thanks!

[Mamyalynne]

It bugged me for quite a while, but yes it does make sense.

[Tuvok]

Sometimes you need a portrait picture rather than a landscape one - so if I'm taking photos for work, I take both portrait and landscape.

When we have profrssional photographers in I also ask if they can do both.