English

Noun

songvid ‎(plural songvids)

1. A fan-made video consisting of third-party clips with a song as background.
   • 2006, Kristina Busse & Karen Hellekson, "Introduction: Work in Progress", in Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays (eds. Karen Hellekson & Kristina Busse), McFarland & Company (2006), ISBN 9780786426409, page 12:

     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.

   • 2009, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Robin Anne Reid), Greenwood Press (2009), ISBN 9780313335891, pages 313:

     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.

   • 2013, Karen Collins, Playing with Sound: A Theory of Interacting with Sound and Music in Video Games, MIT Press (2013), ISBN 9780262018678, page 97:

     Songvids, as music-based vids became known, are arguably the most popular form of vidding and influenced machinima.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:songvid.

Hypernyms

• fanvid