songvid
songvid noun: a fanmade video made of third-party clips with a song as the audiotrack.
Noun
songvid (plural songvids)
- A fanmade video made of third-party clips with a song as the audiotrack.
- 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...
- 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
Forms of songvid
| plural | songvids |
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Origin of songvid
From song + vid.
Questions about songvid
- What does songvid mean?
- Songvid means a fanmade video made of third-party clips with a song as the audiotrack.
- What part of speech is songvid?
- Songvid is a noun.
- What is the plural of songvid?
- The plural of songvid is songvids.
Words near songvid in the dictionary
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