remix Articles

A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. Sometimes this term is also used for alterations of media or recreation other than song (film, literature, beverages etc.). Remixing is the adoption, alteration, and recombination of pre-existing cultural texts (songs, literature, paintings, etc.) to create something new.
A remixer uses audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing th...

Epic Videos From Epic People [Fun Video Friday]

We have a ton of epic stuff this week. How animals eat their food, Skrillex vs. Mozart, a 100-pound chocolate bar, Mystery Guitar Man gets stuck in a video game, there are epic ask-outs to prom and formals, Old Spice gives their usual cracked take on 80's soap commercials, CGP Grey talks about The Vatican. Are you not entertained? Watch these, you'll definitely be entertained.

Now We Can All Create Our Own Dancing Pony Remix. Awesome.

Move over Harlem Shake, Socks the dancing Shetland Pony is set to trounce all comers in every viral video chart for the next few weeks. However, replicating a moonwalking horse isn't so easy for those who like to take a trend and run with it but a new remix tool lets everyone join in the fun.

Video: Old Computer Parts Have FUN with 'We Are Young' Remix

Finding something already popular and creating something all your own with it can be a great way to hit it big on YouTube.  In the past couple of years, we've seen some of the top YouTube videos like Karmin's version of Chris Brown's "Look At ...

Mozilla Introduces Popcorn Maker, Interactive Web Video Remix Application Open to All

Well, it took a year after we first mentioned it, but Mozilla's Popcorn is now open to everyone.  Popcorn Maker 1.0 is a web app that allows video makers to make interactive video, and you can go to this page to download it and/or take ...

Gotye Embraces YouTube Parodies with Cover Remix of 'Somebody That I Used to Know'

By far and away one of the biggest YouTube success stories this year is Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," which received a huge boost from Walk off the Earth's five-player, single-guitar version from January and suddenly became something infinitely imitable.  Not only are ...

7 Tips for Using Copyrighted Music in Professional Videos & Slideshows

This legal video question comes form Malia Leinau Meyers of Malia Professional Photography, out of Kailua, Hawaii, concerning the use of copyrighted music in her video montages of photography work. Attorney Gordon P. Firemark explains what you need to know about copyright infringement, getting proper ...

"Digital Natives" Transforming Online Video, Part 3: Teaching Citizenship

In my final article from my discussion Dancing with Digital Natives co-editor Michelle Manafy, we talk about the opportunities for parents, schools, organizations to pay attention to young peoples desire to make and share video content; and find ways to recognize and reward creativity in ...

YouTube Creative Commons Licensing for Remixes? I'll Pass

Yesterday YouTube added the option for users to select between two licenses for their videos: YouTube's standard license, which basically lets you retain ownership of your video while granting YouTube permission to host and share it; or a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), which allows ...

Reel Trend Watch: Video Games Tying into Online Video - Lights, Camera, Game On!

There have been some big announcements about games tying directly into sites like YouTube lately. At first I didn't think it was much of an interest piece here. But then I thought about it and realized, when I got another announcement today, that this was ...

Can Collaborative Online Video Creation Go Mainstream? Stroome Hopes So

Are you familiar with Stroome? I was introduced to the service this week, and I think they might be onto something. Stroome is a collaborative video editing service, where users can share clips or partial videos with friends and other members in order to get ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

It's Friday again, and I'm guessing there are many of you in the path of the great blizzard that are probably still working from home today, though hopefully most of you are starting to thaw out. Which, I suppose, might increase the need for some ...

Can You Make Money From Posting Video of Other's Misfortune? Fountain Lady Fights Back

Some of you may have seen the recent YouTube clip last week of a woman falling right into a fountain at a mall while texting (now dubbed "The Fountain Lady"); which has millions of views, many duplicates, and with both YouTube and some partner channels ...

The Year's Top 10 Most-Watched YouTube Videos & Viral Clips

Last week we talked about Google's Zeitgeist presentation, which details the 2010 year in search behavior around the world, and now little brother is getting in on the year-end action.  YouTube has released a report on the most-watched videos of the year, and it's quite ...

Vimeo Festival + Awards Wraps Up, Videos Online

In case you weren't the lucky winner of that contest ReelSEO had, or just didn't make it to New York this weekend, Vimeo is kind enough to be putting up the events in, of course, video form on their site. Not only are there award-winning ...

The Vimeo Festival and Awards – An In-Depth Look At What To Expect

You might have notice our contest announcement yesterday regarding the Vimeo Festival+Awards—we're giving away 4 pairs of tickets to the event for free, and all you have to do is submit a video with a tip for using Vimeo.  I though it might be a ...