Help Verticle video shooting?

[avalidusername]

Triumph seems to have some of the same issues here as my intercept did.

Why is it that when shooting video vertically you get a landscape style picute instead of standard. In my mind it should be standard and horizontal shooting would be wide screen. Is this an option with the phone or is that just the way the lens works?

I like being able to shoot vertical but hate seeing it played back as a narrow strip with a vast amount of the screen blacked out.

Running stock 2.2 with stock camera app.

 

[shmackshmack]

I got a warning and my previous comment was removed. but that wont stop me from saying my opinion, becuase its no different now than my last reply was


I dont think the camera app works like that, the only time it WOULD do that is becuase the phone itself isnt capable of shooting widescreen video, so any angle its tilted will be 4:3 aspect ratio. which is almost square.

the triumph shoots 16:9 ratio video, so when its vertical it looks extremely tall.

you can change the setting to 4:3 if you can find it, see if that works. if it doesnt, its becuase the camera app was designed to shoot videos horizontally.

the most obvious answer is to not shoot vertically as it causes a video format that doesnt satisfy you.

 

[avalidusername]

I can't find anywhere to change aspect ratio.

The camera app does indeed have the same issue the Intercept had when it ran 2.1. It was set only to shoot video horizontally (even though it didn't shoot 16:9). All videos when played back were intended to be the horizontal perspective. Unlike the images the perspective wont rotate when you change the orientation of the phone. After that phone was updated to 2.2 it was able to shoot either depending on how it was oriented when you started shooting.

Anyone else know? Is it a matter of fact that a camera that shoots 16:9 cannot be adjusted to shoot 4:3 when verticle? That doesn't sound right to me. Could an update or non stock rom fix this? Or is it as simple as using a different camera app from the market?

 

[shmackshmack]

I can't find anywhere to change aspect ratio.

The camera app does indeed have the same issue the Intercept had when it ran 2.1. It was set only to shoot video horizontally (even though it didn't shoot 16:9). All videos when played back were intended to be the horizontal perspective. Unlike the images the perspective wont rotate when you change the orientation of the phone. After that phone was updated to 2.2 it was able to shoot either depending on how it was oriented when you started shooting.

Anyone else know? Is it a matter of fact that a camera that shoots 16:9 cannot be adjusted to shoot 4:3 when verticle? That doesn't sound right to me. Could an update or non stock rom fix this? Or is it as simple as using a different camera app from the market?

I like Angel Camera. its better than the stock app.

i was certain when i switched to SD size video, it recorded in 4:3 at 640x480 rather than widescreen.


anyways im on android 4.0 and the camera doesnt work here so i cant test. The video recording capabilities of this phone are far below what I expected from a 5mp camera. for a quick snapshot camera I use my old phones 3.2 mp camera, since it seems to have better optics and produce better pictures.