{
  "id": 2892758,
  "title": "“Vertical video is driving me INSANE” says sports videographer. And no, open gate isn’t necessarily the answer…",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/vertical-video-is-driving-me-insane-says-sports-videographer-and-no",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-23T21:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Digital Camera World",
    "slug": "digital-camera-world",
    "url": "https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/sports-photography/vertical-video-is-driving-me-insane-says-sports-videographer-and-no-open-gate-isnt-necessarily-the-answer"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Professional motorsport filmmaker Mark Urban has released a video titled \"Vertical video is driving me INSANE\" – and he's not alone in his frustration. As a sports photographer, the author shares Urban's disdain for Instagram's shift towards vertical content. For portrait, travel, wildlife, street, and landscape photographers, vertical format might be inconvenient but still manageable. However, for sports photographers and videographers, vertical video is a nightmare. Sports compositions often demand width, whether it's a moving subject or action occupying a rectangular area of the frame. Active space, which conveys a subject's direction of travel, is crucial in sports photography and videography. This requirement poses a significant challenge for videographers like Urban, who must contend with limited resolution when shooting vertically. The author agrees with Urban that trying to cater to both vertical and horizontal formats simultaneously is futile, as one aspect ratio will always suffer in the end. Open gate cameras, often considered the ultimate solution to multi-aspect-ratio problems, do alleviate resolution issues but fail to address composition challenges. Urban's video explores why one aspect ratio will always be compromised and whether he has found a viable solution to this vexing problem.",
  "summary": "Pro videographer explains why shooting for vertical and horizontal video simultaneously will never reap the best results –and why open gate isn’t the answer",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}