Online Farscape fandom got me into vids, mostly either on www.farscapefantasy.com or at the Kansas forums (and then the Terra Firma forums after Kansas shut down).
After that I found LJ in general because I was getting into BSG fandom and there wasn't a popular centralised forum for it (my primary mode of fannish communication until then) and I found that most of the discussion was on LJ, so I got an LJ. At which point I found first the bsg_vids LJ community (which was way more active than most other fandom-specific vidding comms at the time), and after that the vidding community and started learning that there was a vidding fandom that centred on vidding, not vidding within particular fandoms.
As to making vids, I made my first one towards the end of my Farscape tenure and then started making them more frequently and incorporating vidding into my fannish identity for BSG around the time I got an LJ. (Eventually breaking into other fandoms too, of course!)
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After that I found LJ in general because I was getting into BSG fandom and there wasn't a popular centralised forum for it (my primary mode of fannish communication until then) and I found that most of the discussion was on LJ, so I got an LJ. At which point I found first the bsg_vids LJ community (which was way more active than most other fandom-specific vidding comms at the time), and after that the vidding community and started learning that there was a vidding fandom that centred on vidding, not vidding within particular fandoms.
As to making vids, I made my first one towards the end of my Farscape tenure and then started making them more frequently and incorporating vidding into my fannish identity for BSG around the time I got an LJ. (Eventually breaking into other fandoms too, of course!)