Hey! Vidding is a party with no last call, come whenever you want!
The nature of the hobby is such that the community is pretty scattered, there isn't one set of community etiquette rules or whatever. It's hard to build community when video hosts are constantly facing takedowns, so vidding has a long history but a very disjointed history. There are vidding communities on youtube that have almost no contact with each other or with vidding communities on tumblr and on LJ/DW and elsewhere.
A lot of the actual talking in the community these days is taking place out of sight- there's a semi-active vidding Discord server, a semi-active vidding Slack server, plus lots of communication happens peer to peer by email and chat and so on. Also people on youtube clearly talk to each other, I have no idea how that works. If you want invites to the Discord or Slack I can send you those- if nothing else, they're good places to ask for people to beta your vids.
There's also vid_bingo, which has been hosting monthly vid chatter posts. And viddingnews which for a while was posting regular vid news. morgandawn also often posts vidding linkspams full of interesting stuff.
As to how to improve your vidding, obviously the key is just practice, and pushing yourself to try new things. Getting vids betaed by different people also helps a lot- everyone has different things they focus on in vids, the more feedback you get, the more you learn. I've found the vidding community extremely generous with their time in teaching me and providing useful feedback. All you need to do is ask.
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The nature of the hobby is such that the community is pretty scattered, there isn't one set of community etiquette rules or whatever. It's hard to build community when video hosts are constantly facing takedowns, so vidding has a long history but a very disjointed history. There are vidding communities on youtube that have almost no contact with each other or with vidding communities on tumblr and on LJ/DW and elsewhere.
A lot of the actual talking in the community these days is taking place out of sight- there's a semi-active vidding Discord server, a semi-active vidding Slack server, plus lots of communication happens peer to peer by email and chat and so on. Also people on youtube clearly talk to each other, I have no idea how that works. If you want invites to the Discord or Slack I can send you those- if nothing else, they're good places to ask for people to beta your vids.
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As to how to improve your vidding, obviously the key is just practice, and pushing yourself to try new things. Getting vids betaed by different people also helps a lot- everyone has different things they focus on in vids, the more feedback you get, the more you learn. I've found the vidding community extremely generous with their time in teaching me and providing useful feedback. All you need to do is ask.