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  • App Looks to Kill Oft-Maligned Vertical Video Syndrome

    If your friends are always yelling at you for your vertically-oriented videos, a new app is offering a solution.

    The app is called Horizon, and it’s a video-shooting tool that promises one important thing – your videos will record in landscape mode no matter how you hold your phone.

    “Horizon lets you record horizontal videos no matter how you hold your device. Hold it upright, sideways or even keep rotating it while capturing, the video will always stay horizontal! You can add filters, shoot with the back or front camera and share your creations!” says its creators.

    With Horizon, you can cure yourself of vertical video syndrome.

    Of course, one may argue that this app will do little to rid the world of VVS, considering the videomaker would have to record their video inside the app in order to reap its benefits. To truly rid the world of VVS, Apple (and other companies) would have to build this sort of technology into their OS by default.

    I’m assuming you heard that, Apple.

    But some people simply record video at awkward angles and others just like the feel of holding their phones upright when shooting. For these mobile filmmakers, Horizon can provide proper landscape mode stabilization – and that’s a nice little tool.

    The app is available on iTunes for $0.99, if you’re interested.

    h/t Engadget
    Image via Horizon

  • Just Turn The Damn Phone: New PSA Wants To Stop Vertical Video Syndrome

    We’ve all seen it, and it’s just as painful every time. Not all of us are afflicted with the disease, but we all know someone who is. If you’re tired of someone you know negatively affecting everyone with their illness, it may be time you show them this public service announcement and suggest that they get help.

    It’s called Vertical Video Syndrome, and it affects millions of the lazy, clueless, and moronic among us every day.

    Vertical Video Syndrome (VVS) is when, for whatever reason, a person decides to shoot a video using their smartphone while holding it upright (vertical). The result is a horribly unnatural video that goes against every advance that humans have made in terms of filmmaking in the last century – as well as human anatomy. I mean, our eyes are like “O_O,” not like “8.”

    This PSA, courtesy of Glove and Boots, shows us what can happen if amateur videographers continue to shoot in the vertical. First, YouTube will find a way to monetize our stupidity. Then a whole string of problems would result from vertical video being the norm. The future involving Mila Kunis and George Lucas makes me cringe.

    Check it out below:

    It’s easy, guys. Just turn your phone horizontal. Do your part and save us all from new Star Wars movies.