Dictionary

songvid en · NOUN

Etymology

From song + vid.

Meanings

1. (slang) A fanmade video made of third-party clips with a song as the audiotrack.
   • The 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:
   • 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 97:
   • 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 12:

Forms

Coordinates

HMV · AMV · PMV

Hypernyms

music video · vid · fanvid