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30 Days of Vidding: Days 23-24
12 December 2013 01:31 pmDay 23: When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?
I upload the video to my website for people who want a downloadable copy as well as to Vimeo. I've finally given in and started uploading to youtube as well. I dislike how youtube makes my vids look, but I also want more people to see them.
When I first got my website, I'd imagined it would be a cool little site with summaries and images to go with each vid. But I haven't actually updated the site itself in ages and it's basically become a semi-permanent repository for downloadable vids that I link to directly from my vid posts, as well as for images that I want to include in random DW posts. Since it doesn't seem like people really go to individual sites to find vids anymore, I don't feel a lot of motivation to change this.
Also, I keep meaning to post all my vids in AO3, and I keep forgetting.
Day 24: Betaing: How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your vid? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?
0-2, most times. I've gotten really solid, helpful feedback from all my betas. There have been a few times when I just didn't feel like using a beta, most recently with "Everywhere". Mostly because it was a birthday gift and, by the time I had a workable draft, the deadline felt too soon to ask anyone. I also didn't ask for a beta for "A Thousand Miles" and I think that could have been a mistake. A good honest beta might have pointed out that the vid would be massively improved by cutting down a whole verse/chorus early on. Something I didn't really appreciate until a month or so after I posted it. Oh well.
When I first started vidding I was desperate for betas and had no idea how to find one. At the time it felt like the hardest thing about getting into vidding, much harder than finding tutorials on tech questions or something like that.
Once I put out a beta request on vidpub and got two responses. One of them ended up having a serious personal issue that kept them from beta-ing, which obviously I totally get. The other person just sort of stopped responding to my PMs. Not exactly a horror story, but I ended up dropping the vid entirely despite having a full timeline and a concept that I think was at least workable. Sometimes I still wonder if I should give that vid another go, but it was a horribly depressing vid and I don't actually want to come back to it all that much. Which is another reason why I dropped it, but the main reason was that I started having serious doubts about it. Maybe a beta would have confirmed my doubts, but maybe they would have been my cheerleader and given me the confidence to finish it.
Another time I did an "open beta" on vidpub, and that was a great experience. I got some really helpful feedback for the first time on a vid. I almost feel like things like that are easier to do when you're a newbie because, if you're afraid the draft sucks and you don't know it, you can always tell yourself that no one is judging you too harshly. Or at least they shouldn't be.
I've tended to only work with betas when I have a full or almost full timeline. I think it'd be interesting to try working with a beta when the vid is less developed and seemingly-final. But I'm afraid to ask for that much from someone, you know?
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I upload the video to my website for people who want a downloadable copy as well as to Vimeo. I've finally given in and started uploading to youtube as well. I dislike how youtube makes my vids look, but I also want more people to see them.
When I first got my website, I'd imagined it would be a cool little site with summaries and images to go with each vid. But I haven't actually updated the site itself in ages and it's basically become a semi-permanent repository for downloadable vids that I link to directly from my vid posts, as well as for images that I want to include in random DW posts. Since it doesn't seem like people really go to individual sites to find vids anymore, I don't feel a lot of motivation to change this.
Also, I keep meaning to post all my vids in AO3, and I keep forgetting.
Day 24: Betaing: How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your vid? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?
0-2, most times. I've gotten really solid, helpful feedback from all my betas. There have been a few times when I just didn't feel like using a beta, most recently with "Everywhere". Mostly because it was a birthday gift and, by the time I had a workable draft, the deadline felt too soon to ask anyone. I also didn't ask for a beta for "A Thousand Miles" and I think that could have been a mistake. A good honest beta might have pointed out that the vid would be massively improved by cutting down a whole verse/chorus early on. Something I didn't really appreciate until a month or so after I posted it. Oh well.
When I first started vidding I was desperate for betas and had no idea how to find one. At the time it felt like the hardest thing about getting into vidding, much harder than finding tutorials on tech questions or something like that.
Once I put out a beta request on vidpub and got two responses. One of them ended up having a serious personal issue that kept them from beta-ing, which obviously I totally get. The other person just sort of stopped responding to my PMs. Not exactly a horror story, but I ended up dropping the vid entirely despite having a full timeline and a concept that I think was at least workable. Sometimes I still wonder if I should give that vid another go, but it was a horribly depressing vid and I don't actually want to come back to it all that much. Which is another reason why I dropped it, but the main reason was that I started having serious doubts about it. Maybe a beta would have confirmed my doubts, but maybe they would have been my cheerleader and given me the confidence to finish it.
Another time I did an "open beta" on vidpub, and that was a great experience. I got some really helpful feedback for the first time on a vid. I almost feel like things like that are easier to do when you're a newbie because, if you're afraid the draft sucks and you don't know it, you can always tell yourself that no one is judging you too harshly. Or at least they shouldn't be.
I've tended to only work with betas when I have a full or almost full timeline. I think it'd be interesting to try working with a beta when the vid is less developed and seemingly-final. But I'm afraid to ask for that much from someone, you know?
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