video recordings

Saved moving images

Video recordings are moving images captured and stored on media for later playback.

The term covers everything from home movies to professional productions, stored on tape, disc, or digital file.

In legal and archival contexts, video recordings distinguishes captured footage from live broadcasts: The security video recordings were reviewed by investigators.

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camcorder · broadcasting · B-roll · behind the scenes · timestamp · VHS · DVDs · archives · surveillance footage · security camera · frame-by-frame · CCTV · fast-forward · cassette · streaming · replay · instant replay · clips

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media format

video recordingsphotographs

Light-captured images

snapshots · pictures · freeze frames · prints · slides

temporal mode

video recordingslive broadcasts

Programs transmitted instantaneously

live events · live performance · live television · fleeting moments

sensory modality

video recordingsaudio recordings

Stored sonic content

sound recordings · audio tapes · podcasts · radio broadcasts · oral testimony

Family

record, video, recording, recorder, videos, videotape, recordings, videotaped, videotaping

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