 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here I want to talk today about the best video communities for video enthusiasts on reddit. Okay so reddit might not be the first place you think to go if you're looking for communities on the internet to talk about your camera or post-production or any aspect of videography but in my experience this is actually one of the places where reddit excels and that's because reddit does a really really good job at allowing users to create super super niche communities so to a certain extent you're going to find there is overlap there are video related communities on facebook and there's stuff like for instance the canon community forums and i'm sure panasonic and black magic all have their own forums what i particularly like about reddit why i got started using reddit is that everything is together on one website so instead of needing to have an account on you know the canon uh the canon community forums and then the panasonic one and black magic and uh uh you know a dji you can just have your account on reddit and participate in all these different communities and if you're totally new to reddit each community is known as a subreddit and it follows the url format reddit.com forward slash r forward slash subreddit so for instance if i'm talking about our videography that's how subreddits are typically referenced the full url for that is reddit.com forward slash r forward slash videography if you type that into your search bar right now you'll get to it so what you've gone ahead and done i've been participating in video subreddits for a couple of years i've seen which ones are active and i've created a custom group of 31 different video subreddits and i'm going to go through them now um the this custom collection is publicly visible so i'm going to link to it in the description and if i can overcome my laziness um i will add links to each individual subreddit i've referenced um but uh that might not because i like to curate these things so i might be adding more so if you're really interested in exploring the reddit videography ecosystem if you will then go to my collection rather than an individual subreddit because there might be more added in the future so to further do uh let's go in and just one one final thing to say in the intro here um there is a little bit of a selection bias going on here because i personally edit uh using linux now most people don't so um you know i've included stuff like the cadence live subreddit that really probably aren't going to be of interest to most non-linux users if you are a conventional user and you use premiere or after effects etc please know that there are subreddits for those as well and more popular naturally than the linux ones you can find them by typing that into the uh into the uh into the search bar and don't forget there's also a blender subreddit i actually forgot to include this in my little list so if you're doing uh video effects in blender or other animation programs you probably have subreddits there too so let me jump over to my screen now and show you guys the list i have put together and just make a few comments on the most pertinent ones so uh these are the communities i've sort of identified as ones i think are really good and wholesome um generally i look for bigger communities and well moderated ones so those are my two kind of criteria so the first one here i'm not going to go into every single one of them but just to show at least a few of them uh black magic pocket cinema camera has its own subreddit it's r slash b m p cc and uh so if you own a black magic pocket cinema camera this community is going to be of interest usually mostly subreddits um you know the general rule that um across reddit is that reddit is a really really not friendly place for spammers which i think is a really good thing uh so just just be aware that these subreddits if you choose to participate in them they're not places to like spam with your latest youtube video some of the subreddits because these are for video people do actually have stuff like a uh sunday critique post in which people can post their own videos for critiques so that's really useful but uh make sure you read the rules which are generally in the sidebar uh before you go even before you even think of doing anything that could be vaguely construed as as sort of promotional okay uh let's continue marching through the list here so here is a really interesting one it's called build a video um build a pc video editing so it's called this because there is a much bigger subreddit for there's a few subreddits in fact for building uh pcs if you're thinking about building your own computer um but this subreddit has 2400 members and its focus is actually for people who are specifically interested in building pcs for video editing because that requires slightly different specs and people who are just general pc builders may not be familiar with it so i think this is a really clever idea for a community um and it's at build a pc uh video editing so the next one in our list ah i couldn't resist including this one because as anyone who's been following this youtube channel knows i'm uh one of the minority of modern video creators who've gone down the the camera route this one allows you to add your own user userflare by manufacturer which is nice so you can say whether you're using canon or whatever um so yeah this uh this is a community for discussing camcorders as you'd expect vintage modern and anything in between um i'm going to close these down as i as i kind of finish showing them off so this is as you'd expect smaller smaller subreddit 2000 members but if you're into camcorders it's definitely nice to have a place to discuss uh this gear with other enthusiasts much much bigger is our cameras so this is a a six figure subreddit it's got 110 111 sorry thousand participants uh post reviews articles and videos of products unboxings etc subreddit to discuss new cameras and camera comparisons camera lenses and gear and accessories now my observation here would be there's duplication both between facebook and reddit and there's also duplication within reddit so personally my favorite video subreddit and i'll get to it is our videography um you can definitely talk about cameras with really knowledgeable people there but if you for whatever reason cameras uh appeals to you more uh the difference the one of the differences of course is that cameras doesn't imply that they're just focused on video um so okay um now this is an interesting facet of reddit again that you're going to have these like manufacturer forums as and there's generally in a parallel ecosystem actual manufacturer run forum so this is a perfect example you have the canon subreddit and then canon have their own forums um this one is good as well but it doesn't focus on video so if you happen to own a canon camera or are you using it for video then uh check out canon and again i'm just in the interest of sort of some kind of brevity skipping over a lot of subreddits i'm pretty sure this one's for sony panasonic jbc what have you all the kind of major manufacturers are going to be represented here on reddit and in the form of communities all right so um more interesting ones cinematography really good one forum dedicated for to becoming an active resource for cinematographers of all skill levels now something you'll see on reddit um in the kind of video subreddit ecosystem if you will is that you're going to see some subreddits enforcing a breakdown between communities intended for pros and amateurs because you've got a lot of people who are amateur videographers like me and then you've got a smaller group of people who are doing this professionally it's their job um so because communities that are big like this and welcome both sides of that divide it can be really useful because uh you know you're getting a wide participation so that's cinematography and you can just get a feel for what kind of stuff's being uh discussed for instance do the rules for fps for not getting choppy footage apply to shutter speed as well general camera question and there's two comments so this is a beauty of reddit as you'll connect with people who are interested in the niches you're interested in um okay DaVinci resolve i'm not going to go into it because i mentioned i'm including some things actually i will i was going to say i'm including things because they're linux favorites but DaVinci is actually getting really popular even on the non-linux world and kind of chipping away a premiere so there is a DaVinci resolve sub not officially affiliated with black magic and if you have your DaVinci questions you can ask them in there um i ask a lot of questions on reddit in the realm of video i'm trying to get better at answering other people's questions it's just a natural thing when most other people on the forum know more than you do but um encourage people to be sort of conscious of that as well to be contributors as well as drawing on the expertise in the community but don't forget when you're creating reddit posts by asking questions that you're also helping others in a way because people will come across your question and if they have the same question you can save somebody from posting that on on reddit so that's one of my rationales for for being pretty active about questioning stuff let's go into the drone world for a second so there's a sub here and this is why i love reddit because these are the kind of very very niche communities you might have a hard time finding elsewhere diy drones for people who want to build their own drones that's something i've never considered doing but if you want to consider doing it uh go on to diy drones and you'll find a bunch of experts uh in that area dji you know i won't go into dji it's for the whole bunch of dji products there's also one just our drones now here's one definitely worth going into editors and i'll just call up the equivalent so this is the amateur divide i mentioned video editing is obviously a huge topic post production um so it's divided into two on reddit there is this one called our editors and our editors is for the pro it's the pro one um and then our video editing is for the amateur so this one is a subreddit for amateur hobbyist and prosumers editors to meet share techniques tutorials etc 306k members so like this is again the good thing about reddit i'm sorry i'm repeating myself a little bit here if you're in like you know i live in jr so i might find a jr photographer group but when you open up a social network to the world you're going to just get so much more people firstly and much more diversity of expertise and opinions etc so these are big communities 90 000 people in the pro uh editing reddit subreddit and 306 000 people in the amateur equivalent all right keeping the tour going linux filmmaking i'll skip over um because as i said it's for linux people cate and live is really mostly for linux and there's a small cate and live one now here is a uh what i would consider a uh my brain is failing me tonight um julian the rough is that is that is that the analogy anyway one one of the subreddits that are kind of just like hidden gold is this one location sound so this is one where you're going to get a lot of pros posting like legit industry people who work in hollywood and again if you're coming into this like me is sort of a more um enthusiast and you're drawing upon the time of professionals just be kind of tactful and whatever but uh this is a great subreddit you're going to find a lot of questions about sound capture i'll read the description the subreddit for location sound production sound and field recording we are the sound department responsible for recording the audio and shooting film or video and they have a wiki as well so yeah this is an incredible resource if you have i have asked my kind of obscure sound questions here that i think are kind of too sound sound obscure for our videography um stuff to do with you know wireless frequencies you know do you guys know of a uh you know uh wireless system that has xlr plug-on transmitter and the xlr plug-on receiver those kind of really obscure things these guys are unbelievable so it's a really good subreddit they've 20 000 people not as small as you might expect it to be uh but yeah really great resource all right continuing continuing i'm going to need a big glass of water after this um in terms of subreddits for youtube so this is actually my favorite one it's called new tubers and it's really big 253 000 and you can talk about specifically youtube on this so a few questions regarding creating thumbnails or blah blah blah uh this is a so yeah there's um there's a few other youtube subreddits uh let's see those youtubers partnered youtube i haven't even visited a bunch of these i've joined but they're there uh small white small white t channel this one is a lot less valuable in my opinion because it's people like kind of uh this is one that allows you to um share and gather feedback so you're just gonna get a bunch of people posting their videos so i actually find uh new tubers to be more useful because you know it's it's more open to like requests from viewers to sub my videos in chinese and share with audience anyway i don't have time to get into each the latest questions in each sub but um that's why that new tubers is my favorite one obs i'm actually recording this video using obs and i think it's a really really incredible piece of software for given the fact it's free for recording whether you're doing streaming and by the way there's a twitch twitter subreddit too uh but um obs is one is a is a software that i think it really pays to get under the hood of so if you want to do that check out the obs subreddit again there's also an obs forum like on it's on obs's website but this is really good you'll get people troubleshooting their obs issues and you can post to other knowledgeable obs folk okay streaming um sony alpha name virtually any major camera and even a specific type of camera you'll find a subreddit so just as an fyi there is like sony alpha um saving the best till last or some of the best till last so getting again into the sort of niche your communities you have wedding videography for people who are uh you know uh doing doing wedding videography i actually don't think there's a subreddit for stock video creators specifically but i think there is one for stock in general called microstock it could be wrong about that uh it's a pity actually because that's another revenue avenue for a lot of video people is selling stock um here's an interesting one video professionals aimed at creating community for professionals who make their living so again this is one of the ones that's for for the pros um and it's pretty open-ended finally my very very uh favorite community and i actually just posted here a few hours ago asking for recommendations for a camera shop in boston uh this is this is i would consider the most valuable uh community for video people on reddit because it's really open so it specifically says here our videography is a community for videographers of all skill levels and feels to just weddings events live performance music one i forgot to include it's going to take a while for me to really update this thing because as i as i sort of do this video i'm like oh i forgot those um there's actually one for broadcast journalism i think it's called our broadcasting again one of those jewels in the rough really small but really niche and focused so if you're interested in specifically broadcasting questions you'll get you'll get those uh you'll find people discussing those there um but coming back to our videography because it's much broader um this is basically is and they direct you for video professionals if you're looking for a professional one but you'll find people asking all in every manner of questions related to video on this i think that's enough for my whistle stop tour frankly it's been kind of exhausting to speak to speak this fast for whatever however long i've been speaking um if you're getting into um video and you want to ask and that's the beauty of reddit is you know in your real life social circle you might be the only person into video or you might not really have a real life community in your city or town but if you go on reddit you'll find a ton of people it's a bit overwhelming how many different communities there are i would recommend personally starting with our videography and then uh branching out so if you own a dji ronan fc you might find value in joining the dji community if you own the fpv drone join that one etc and you'll just kind of discover these uh it's very hard to say what's going to be generally useful but videography and location sound because sound matters so much i would say are two of the ones i would really recommend off the top of my mind to people hope that was useful thank you guys for watching and if 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