Newbie: I'm a newcomer to vidding and wondered if I could have advice to learn the ropes.

[kottonkrown]

Hello! I think I may be very late to the party, but I'd like to get into vidding. I've made two vids so far (they're here) and I'd like some advice on how to get involved with the community, how to improve my vidding, what etiquette and protocols are used, and so on. I plan on making another tonight, although I haven't decided what fandom. If someone could help me learn the ropes that'd be lovely.

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[seekingferret]

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.

[kottonkrown]

Hi! I'm very much interested in getting deeper into vidding, so thank you. I think I have the Discord link via festivids. I don't have Slack but if that community's any more active than the Discord, feel free to point me there.

Could you look at the vids I've already done and give me any tips? I was careful to synchronise the music and the video as closely as I could.

[beatriceeagle]

I know I'm super late to this and not the OP, but I would love the links to the Discord and Slack, if you're willing!