giving yourself credit for editing your AMV music?

[808-buma]

in my first AMV, I am using a pretty heavily edited song (a lot of creative clipping, cutting down of repeats of choruses, etc.) that I did myself using Audacity and using a single audio source (a remix of a song). At one time however, I thought of mixing different parts from different mixes into 1 final song (so, for example: taking parts of original song and remix 01 of original song and mixing parts of it into remix 02 of original song to create your own custom mix of the original song).

At what point would you feel that you should credit yourself for your own custom mix of the song? I mean, if you're just editing out a lyric or two, I wouldn't consider that a remix, but if you did some extensive editing, rearranging of lyircs, creative meshing of lyrics, etc., do you give yourself credit for the remix?

Not looking for a hard and fast rule, but more of just wondering what the general concensus would be here - what's your opinion on the subject?

[Beowulf]

If I messed with the song enough to make it change the original impact of the song, I would call it my own remix. Cutting out a 2nd verse or a 3rd chorus doesn't really change the overall impact so I don't credit myself with cutting it.

Of course, the "original impact" is as relative as music itself, so I guess its up to each person to determine if what you did warrents merit.

If you were to creatively mess with the order of the verses and choruses, and maybe mix it in with a verse or chorus or an instrimental section of another song, that would definitely be a credit worthy undertaking, imo.

[Flint the Dwarf]

If all I did was cut and add transitions, I would just put that in the video description, probably near the top. When you start adding effects or mixing with other audio samples, then that's a remix and you could credit yourself.

[Infinity Squared]

In that sense, would you still credit the original artist of the song? I mean, if you look at the convention that is often used in the DJing world, if a DJ remixed a song (say a song titled Dreaming, originally sung by No Name), usually any release of that song as far as normally and 'at a glance' seen, the title would be "Dreaming - Afro Remix", Afro being DJ name in this case.

Do you believe this same convention/ethic sticks to what we do?

[808-buma]

I always thought that the original artist should always get credit, just say add a tagline such as:

original song, by original artist (remixed by buma)

for example...

[mikestrife]

Even if you don't change too much that it's a remix you could call it

(808-buma edit). That's what I would do, just so people know, this isn't the original version of the song.