Looks like you've got plenty of offers, but since you asked, I'm usually willing to be asked and to beta. I'm better/more secure if I know the fandom, but have definitely betaed without that. Though I think I've become a less and less effective beta over time, heh. Partly because I always use the same beta now, if at all, who I know really well and who knows me, and we take shortcuts and feel fine ignoring each other's beta comments. :) I usually like to know what you're looking for though, because at some stages of the vidding process I just want cheerleading or general reactions b/c it's not done, and at other stages I am ready for more closewatching feedback, and it kinda sucks when I want one and get the other. :) I also used to think "more eyes = better" until the first time I had multiple betas who had completely opposite reactions/advice, which was yet again different from what I preferred. Panic! Though I think as a beta, it's pretty different with everyone, depending on what they want, how they vid, etc.?

I've definitely relaxed how I approach the whole beta process from both sides. In general, now I definitely approach it more as, like, kicking things around, and am totally cool with people listening to my comments and then deciding not to take my suggestions. I often vid pretty intuitively, without always having a reason for putting something somewhere? So beta comments might make me think about why I did something, and change it, or not, but even if I don't listen to the advice, it was helpful? So that's the kind of beta I like to get, and tends to be more and more the kind of beta I am better at doing. If that even makes sense. :)