Bus Ride Performance Test 3

Lately my bus ride videos felt off. It was like the phone was pointing down at the road and not the passing buildings.

So guess what?

I fixed that issue.

In this video, I experimented with the camera and laid the phone on the windows of the bus vertically, then on my editing app, I just cropped it to 16:9, resulting in the passing buildings being shown more than the road and sidewalk. However, this, of course, had to come with three other problems. One, the speaker is partially obscured so parts of the video may sound muffled. Two, the phone will attempt to fall down if my hand doesn't keep it occupied the entire ride, resulting in soar, tired arms. This is likely due to the bus' body tilting at times. Before this technique, I used to let my arms rest during stops and lights. And three, cropping photos in the past messed up the pixels on the editing app. It may happen here but meh.

Anyhow, this is how future bus ride videos to come will look. So get used to it, I guess. 😁

This may end up replacing the existing videos out right now.

An NJ Transit bus ride from State + Warren to Princeton + Myrtle.

2010 NABI 416.15 #5528 on the 606🏛 Princeton Shopping Ctr.

Filmed 1/7/2026.