How To Create A Stable Page For Your FanVids (or A03 and Fanvids)

[morgandawn]

This is not a post about how to fight a takedown notice or a forced audio swap of your vid (although you can find helpful tips on both topics from the OTW here).

It is a more practical post: how to use AO3 to create a stable "page" that you and everyone who loves and adores your vids can link to. A post where all the feedback and comments won't disappear overnight when your Yotube/Whatevertube account gets yanked.

The process is this: create a "page" on AO3 for your vid (like this one ). Upload your vid to your preferred streaming site  (see list below). Add the embed code and/or offer a link to your AO3 page. If you password protect your vid, you add the password to the A03 post.  Most vidders add the word [Vid] in the title.

And you are done. If the vid at the streaming site gets taken down, you can upload to another site and replace the link. But the feedback, kudos etc you get on A03 won't disappear and you'll only need to update your links in one place. More in depth instructions are here

The OTW's Vidding resource page has a list of streaming video hosts. Feel free to mention any not on the OTW list or offer feedback on the ones that are/are not working for you. And feel free to forward this info to any fan vidding forum, LJ or mailing list.  

Comments

[laurashapiro]

Ah! I wondered where those kudos were coming from. (: Thanks for linking to me!

[morgandawn]

I just posted this! Barely enough time for me to drop you a note that I had linked to you. LOL.

[laurashapiro]

What can I say? Your readers are dedicated -- they follow your links!

[morgandawn]

true. but they still will have to click that kudo button on their own. such a fun vid.

[laurashapiro]

Thank you very much!

[echan]

The process is this: create a "page" on AO3 for your vid (like this one). [...] If the vid at the streaming site gets taken down, you can upload to another site and replace the link. But the feedback, kudos etc you get on A03 won't disappear and you'll only need to update your links in one place.

This is brilliant. This thing, right here, that you wrote, is amazing. I had been dithering and wondering what the big deal was about vids on AO3 and what the point was, and you completely sold me on it. I dunno if that was your goal with this, explaining the usefulness of the use case (vs just giving instructions on how to do it), but you were very successful. Thank you!

glad it helped - and yes I was trying to explain

[morgandawn]

I was trying to figure out why vidders were using AO3 for myself and then I remembered reading about vidders whose YT accounts were taken down and how that wiped out all their comments. And I went: doh!

if you use YT as your upload/streaming, you'll probably get comments in both places, but at least the ones on AO3 would stick around in the event of a YT account removal. The other streaming services - vimeo, viddler and blip are not into the social networking aspects like YT - I haven't seen much in the way of comments on vids uploaded there.

but what really sold me - having only place to update links. Such a simple concept - I love it.

[heidi]

I'm starting a "post one vid per day to OTW" project, starting today! Thanks for the impetus!