Hello, pmsphram. The two words are unrelated in current meaning, and you don't have to use either one of them. Vide is a learned word, an academic word used in formal papers to direct the reader's attention to a reference, often in the phrases vide ante (see before), vide infra (see below), vide post (see after), vide supra (see above), vide ut supra (see as above).
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These two words "vide" and "via" are totally unrelated as they have different meanings.
"vide" (pronounced VY-dee, with the VY- rhyming as "my", or VID-day) is a Latin word which means "see", used to direct a reader's attention, as in "vide page 64" to mean "see page 64".
"via"(pronounced VY-yer) means 1.(a) By way of; through, as in "Take the route to Cardiff via Reading and Oxfor