 I'm going to be trying something new that is something that I probably wouldn't have done in the past. Now, let me point out my face. I have two eyes. They're set up in a landscape mode, not a portrait or vertical mode. I would never record a video like this in portrait mode. It doesn't make any sense vertical video. Our eyes are inside up like that. Screens on computers and TVs are not normally set up like that. We have nice white screens that we can watch videos on. Although it's becoming increasingly popular to create vertical video. The argument for this is that people have cell phones they hold in a vertical mode. The thing is, a cell phone can easily be turned into a portrait mode. Most TVs and computer screens are set up in a portrait mode. But again, even YouTube is really pushing for vertical videos. I hate it, but I'm going to make some vertical videos because there are some times where it makes sense. If that helps spread my videos, great. I will never record a video like this in vertical mode where I'm cropped up like this and you have black bars on the side of your screen wasting up space. But you'll notice my computer screens. I have one in a vertical mode. Because certain things like websites and shells make sense to have the text going vertical like that. Like a book because you're looking at text like that. So although most of my videos will still be done in a standard widescreen landscape format. I will probably be making. I'm going to try out making a couple of short videos that aren't recorded like this. That will be the shell or if I do a cell phone video where I'm talking about Android or some other cell phone application where it makes sense to record it in vertical. I am going to give that a try. I think it just might help spread my videos and it does kind of make sense with videos like that. They go either way. Well, if I'm recording something on my phone for my phone, the applications are usually going to be vertical. So it does kind of make sense in those cases for me to record a vertical video. It gives it higher resolution because I am now getting the longer resolution along the screen instead of adding black bars. Because if I was to record something for my phone and not make it a vertical video, then I will be wasting pixels making black bars on each side of the video. Where if I record in vertical mode and upload vertical, it may be displayed vertically if you're looking at a screen like this with black bars on each side. But the resolution is still using the video. Those aren't pixels of the video. I hope that makes sense. So I've criticized vertical videos in the past and I still have that stance on that. But there are certain situations where it is applicable to do that. And if YouTube is really pushing that and they're going to promote my videos a little bit more because I'm making vertical videos, I've come up with this scenario where it does make sense. Again, I will never record a video like this of myself or anything where I'm recording with a camera, something that's going on in the real world and I'm going to crop it down like this and just waste the resolution of my video with black bars and just be annoying to everybody. But again, websites, terminals, stuff recorded on the phone, it makes sense to record some of those things in a vertical format. I'm always pushed for making my videos short. So these vertical videos that YouTube is pushing for are also supposed to be under a minute, which I try to keep my videos as much as I can under five minutes. So if I can do some under a minute, these quick tutorials and have them just be a shell or a cell phone application in vertical mode, I'm going to be doing that. Let me know what you think below. Do you think this is a good idea? Do you think that I'm caving in? And again, I wouldn't do this just because YouTube is pushing it because they used to push for longer videos over 10 minutes. And I've always tried to keep my videos under five minutes if I can, but definitely under 10 minutes for the most part. Some videos have to be longer. I'm almost to the five minute mark here. What do you think? Does it make sense? I mean, the whole reason I have a screen like this set up in my office is because it makes sense when you're working in the shell to have a vertical video or vertical screen. So I don't really feel like I'm caving in to the pressure. I'm just adapting and going with the flow, but in a way that makes sense and not just recording videos and like having this video be like this and ignoring all of this. So like it. Let me know below. I'm going to do a few videos like this and see how you guys respond. But this is just letting you know ahead of time. So go ahead and comment. Tell me you hate it. You love it. You don't care either way. Have a great day. Don't forget Chris.com.