video clips

Brief moving pictures

Video clips are short segments of recorded video, typically excerpted from longer footage or created as standalone pieces.

The term emphasizes brevity—a clip from a film, a clip of a news broadcast, a clip someone posts online.

The video clip went viral overnight.

In digital contexts, video clips are the basic units of shareable content.

Related

B-roll · shorts · short form · AVI · multimedia · snippet · MKV · compilation · storyboard · archival footage · montage · upload · social media · scenes · visual storytelling · streaming · animation · screen recording

Categories
Opposites
length/completeness

video clipsfeature films

Standard-length theatrical movies

director's cuts · miniseries · documentaries · raw footage · television series

media format

video clipsaudio recordings

Stored sonic content

sound bites · podcasts · radio broadcasts · photographs · print media

temporal nature

video clipslive broadcasts

Programs transmitted instantaneously

live streams · live television · live video · live feeds · simulcasts

Family

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Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G