I think we all have the tendency to use shorter words in the English language. We still get the message across and it still sounds good. Hey, this country invented abbreviations! And love them in tech speech. ;-)
But the common "street linguist" (we and all) have the tendency to find and use even shorter words, preferably with single syllables. So while "tape recording" says literally what we do, we might only find it in a doctoral thesis, not in our language. Realize it - we don't have time for that long stuff. Say "Did you tape record it" fast 3 times and then say "Did you tape it?"
We could have used the "horrible" "did you video cassette record it"?! But even the abbreviation VCR made it. Too long and awkward spoken - to proof my first point above.
Then times and technology changes. "Taping the show" is still with us even when we use a Digital Video Recorder (abbr.: DVR). Do we say, "did you DVR it?" No - "taped it" is shorter. Though I hear "did you TiVo it" creeping into our language cauldron more and more.

So I think you will belong to a minority when using the term "video recording" in conversations. It's the correct definition of what you are doing or did, but sound it out in a sentence and compare:
Let it flow ............................................................
Ok - what do you think? Any different?
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My own experience, bilingual background and ongoing casual analysis of the English language.

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