Vidding
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Vidding is the act or process of creating a fan-oriented Vid or Fan Vid. The packaging of Microsoft Windows Movie Maker® has increased the number of fans vidding. However, as with Fan fiction, more does not necessarily mean better, only that Vids, which once required some additional software and equipment, often difficult and expensive to come by, are currently being made by a far greater number of people, some of which have never worked in any kind of visual medium before in their lives.
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[edit] Historical Definitions
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[edit] History
The new digital vidding medium has also given rise to numerous talented and amazing vidders. And recently, vidder Luminosity's vids were recognized in a New York magazine.
[edit] Demographic composition
ravenbell made the following observation regarding the difference between vidding and AMV communities:
- I'm a viewer too, who started out in anime fandom. What struck me about the vidding community when I first ran across it was that it was seemed like such a narrow subset of people - nearly all women, mostly US based, focused heavily on a certain group of fandoms. And they all seemed to know each other.
- While there are certain major competitions and definitely big names in the AMV community, it always felt like a bigger, broader, kind of free-for-all activity that anyone could do (even in the early days, all you needed was two VCRs and a lot of patience). Every major con had a little competition, so there were more opportunities to participate. Back in the good old days of scouring P2P apps for AMVs, you often had no idea where the vids were coming from, who had made them, or even what the source material was. It was a great way to preview new or unfamiliar shows. And a lot of influence came the international anarchy of the fansub culture. People were already listening to L'Arc en Ciel and Yoko Kanno from the anime OPs and EDs, so language was never much of a barrier. Someone using Ramnstein or Bjork or Utada Hikaru could be American or German or Japanese. [1]
[edit] Examples
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