Meanings
plural songvids
- slanglifestyleA fanmade video made of third-party clips with a song as the audiotrack.
Songvids, as music-based vids became known, are arguably the most popular form of vidding and influenced machinima.
2013, Karen Collins, Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 972 more examples
Whereas formerly vidders would create songvids by using their VCRs to splice together scenes, now vids are more sophisticated, with vidders using complex authoring software to manipulate electronic files.
2006, Kristina Busse, Karen Hellekson, “Introduction: Work in Progress”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 12The resulting videos, known as vids or songvids, may comment on or otherwise interpret the filmic source material, or tell new stories that feature the characters.
2009, Robin Anne Reid, editor, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 313
Origin
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