Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vid.
abbreviation of vide, Latin imperative singular of videre "to see" (see vision).
Wiktionary
vid.
adv. (label en uncommon) (altform viz. English) n. (label en legal) (abbreviation of vidua lang=en nodot=yes) (gloss Latin for “widow” English). vb. 1 (abbreviation of vide English) (= ''see (singular imperative)'') 2 (abbreviation of videte English)
Usage examples of "vid.".
The whole sky turns dark as night and the clouds blow up on you like time-lapse vid. You can see the wind roaring along the surface of the ground, throwing shit up in the air, a big cloud of dust rolling in on you.
Assembly and we actually went to it instead of watching it on the vid. It was Richard B.