|Synonyms:||Fanvid, Songvid, music video| |See also:||Vidding,
AMV, Machinima, Feral Vidders, Songtape Collection, VCR Vidding,
Digital Vidding, Contape, YouTube, iMeem| |Click here for
related articles on Fanlore.| A vid or fanvid is a fannish form
of music video. Vidders take short clips of footage, generally
from live-action source such as tv or movies, and arrange these
clips over a song to make an argument or tell a story. They were
originally called "songvids"--to distinguish them from
professional, MTV-style music videos--and collected on
songtapes. The term was later shortened to just "vids". History
of Vidding - Main article: Vidding The earliest vids, circa
1975, were slideshows set to music; with the advent of VCRs,
vids could be made by copying footage from one tape to another.
Eventually, computer video-editing software became the standard,
and today vids can be made by almost anyone with a computer,
using the freeware supplied by Microsoft or Apple or other
software. Distinct fannish video-makin