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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
"Overscan" or "Fill".
Some of the worst settings to ever be devised.
Overscan zooms in and crops the image (losing ~5-15% at least).
Fill stretches up/down + left/right, completely distorting the image (the "oompa loompa" effect).
I explained similar situation back with book covers in "SVG images - why?".
Now with cellphones being all sorts of odd ratios (18.5×9)... some people are cropping/distorting their videos/images even further to "fill the screen". It's a travesty.
And don't get me started on disgusting vertical video... (Made even worse by "converting to widescreen" by filling the black bars with complete gibberish! The absolute worst of all worlds!!!) |
I really dislike when you get the out of focus bits of the picture instead of the black bars for a 4:3 picture. I also cannot stand fill. I want the black bars to keep the aspect ratio correct. I never did like when a movie was cropped to fit the screen. I'm glad that most movies I watch on TV are in the proper aspect ratio.
As for cellphone video. Shoot it landscape unless there's a reason to shoot portrait. Most portrait cellphone video I've seen could have easily been shot landscape.