Google Photos adds features and performs replacements, however, a recent replacement has left many users baffled and frustrated.
Frustration occurs when you check the use of Google Photos’ movie creation tool to create a movie in landscape mode, because recent settings to Google Photos, with the help of Android Police, seem to have made it impossible. Regardless of the orientation of the source material, Google Photos will create a vertical movie and there is no way to convert it to a horizontal movie. The challenge is obviously described in this Google Photos help article.
Portrait videos look wonderful on phones, but terrible on any other type of device. Now, who needs to create a horizontal movie that can be displayed on a TV, computer, or even a Google Nest Hub Max is unlucky.
Worse, this scenario is the result of an error or oversight in the Google component. As David Lieb, product manager of Google Photos on Twitter, confirms, the forced switch to portrait mode is a planned decision.
According to Lieb, Google’s resolution is based on the confidence that vertical video has supplanted the horizontal as a dominant format. The explosion of vertical formatting on social media such as Instagram stories and Tik Tok videos is undeniable. However, creating forced vertical films from horizontal video clips produces terrible effects and, frankly, it doesn’t make sense.
Google’s YouTube service is a testament to the importance and popularity of horizontal videos. Therefore, it is disconcerting that Google Photos deserves to no longer be able to create them.
Fortunately, Lieb “thinks” that an option for horizontal video is being worked on. Go to Google, we want this horizontal movie option to be added as soon as possible.
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