The terrible and infamous vertical videos are a real scourge of our time. When you shoot a video with your smartphone and hold it in a vertical position, it becomes long and narrow, practically unwatchable if published on Facebook or if viewed on a computer screen or on TV.
Once a vertical video has been recorded, it is also impossible to try to rotate the video artificially, without cutting it or changing its resolution.
The videos with the smartphone should always be done with the phone placed horizontally, but it is difficult to remember it.
To remind us to turn the phone when recording a video there is the Google camera app for Android, which, in the video function, shows an animated drawing in the center of the screen to say to put the Android smartphone horizontally.
Even better, however, is the Horizon application , available for Android and iPhone, with which it is impossible to make a vertical video .
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The great idea of the application is to always keep a horizontal shot, even if the mobile phone is held in the hand in a vertical position.
With Horizon it is impossible to record videos upside down or crooked because the shot is enlarged or tightened horizontally depending on how the smartphone is held in the hand .
The application works like that of the camera, only for recording videos.
There are three video recording modes that are activated by touching the button at the top left with the record:
- Flex is the mode in which the frame turns on its own and automatically enlarges according to the orientation of the phone. getting bigger or smaller, if the smartphone is horizontal or vertical.
- Rotate is the automatic rotation mode of the frame without changing the size of the frame.
- Locked is instead the locked mode, where the shot only rotates in two ways, vertical and horizontal.
The app settings allow you to adjust the camera resolution, video quality and default mode.
It therefore becomes a pleasure, with Horizon, to shoot videos even on the move, turning the phone with the confidence that the shot will never be turned upside down.
The application also supports flash and also works with the front camera of the cellphone.
This application with a brilliant and unique idea that really solves the problem of vertical videos, is free with limitations for Android phones (the full version costs 1 Euro) while it costs almost 2 Euro for iPhone .
The free Android version allows you to record videos only 15 seconds long.
It would be questionable why this intelligent lens rotation mode is not present in all photo applications.
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