Square sensors make sense for online video

I think square sensors make the most sense for video shared online. We watch so much of it on phones and tablets, turning screens and moving between feeds, full-screen playback, and smaller windows. The same recording needs to work in several shapes. Cinema already has the right setting: a movie theater, where the screen presents the intended composition. This idea is for video that travels between devices and orientations. A square sensor, recorded as a square image, gives portrait and landscape equal room. Keep the square master with the author’s instructions for framing it on different screens. Framing as Metadata I would like the video to carry suggested crops, points of interest, or both in its metadata. The author would choose what suits the work: compose specific frames, mark a face, object, or action to follow, or combine the two. Either kind of instruction could follow movement and change at cuts. At playback, the device could use a suggested crop that fits its window or…