Does a shorter term exist for videotaping ?
Tape doesn't cut it.
Vtape may do it, but I haven't seen it used.
Video is kinda weird.
Film is technically inaccurate.

I, as well as others, have had the same conundrum. I typicly use video, vid, film, record, tape, archive.

Sometimes I say: "videoing". But I think it is "taped". As in "____ is taped before a studio audience."

shoot?

Shooting, shot on, taping, recorded, acquired, acquistion... we had a big discussion here once about using the term "filming" and came to the conclusion that "film" has definitely changed meaning in recent years and is an acceptable term. Lots of recognizance with that word. Technically not correct, but still applicable, as long as there aren't any projectionists from Colorado reading this (that's an in-joke, forget I said it).

When I worked in TV we always taped. Film was, uh, filming.

Film is a perfectly acceptable term for shooting an image on to any sort of motion picture media.. the argument made before was that it's like painting a picture, which can mean you're using acryllic, oil, watercolour, etc..

For me:
Shooting
Filming
or
Getting my shoot on. :)

But if you describe taping as filming you confuse people. The next logical question is "are you using film?" Which automatically leads people to believe it will be in theatres. Taping leads people to believe it's video or for TV.

Until I came to this board, I had never heard of taping being called filming. And my first video job was in 1971!

Earlier this week I just had the same dilemma when printing up several 12 foot banners for my http://www.talktothecamera.com project.

I finally ended up with a large "Now Filming" on the banner which technically wasn't correct since I'm using video but "Now VideoTaping" just didn't cut it. And "Now Shooting" combined with the subject of my project would be even more confusing.

Videotaping is accurate, but other posts indicate, it takes a long time to utter five syllables.

Vtaping !

Remember, email is short for electronic email. It's too bad that
the significant word "video" is first. Doh.

Within the decade, many video recorders won't have tape. The video will be going to flash cards, hard drive, even by wireless network. 6GB flash cards already exist, although they are prohibitively expensive. 6 GB is about 1/2 the capacity of a miniDV.

How about V-Filming? If you are going to go that route...


V-Film, V-Filming, Copyright 2003 Pyroglyph Films, All Rights Reserved. Send me royalties now. :)

Once blue-ray recorders take on, should we use video-disking instead? Or should it be DVD-ing?

The other thing is the simple fact that certain terms sound nicer. Would you rather be a chauffer or a cab driver? Laisez-faire or "let them do as they please?"

When I hear "videotaping" or "taping," right away I think of old, clunky Betacams. Filming implies art.

viddy viddying viddied

To some, a Laisez-faire cab driver is simply an unambitious driver.

I've never even seen a betacam, so videotape is synonymous with home movies and sitcoms in my mind.

"Presented by" -- "a presentation by" -- "presenting."

Is that nebulous enough?

;-)

Part of it is a generational thing. If I hear the term home movies I think of 8mm or S-8mm film, not video.

Here in Florida most people don't know the difference. I cracked out my dod's old Regular 8mm film camera for a special project. People who walked by kept asking what I was videotapeing.

Are they films? videos? movies? talkies? soundies?

Who cares. Yes, there are snobs who like to argue such things. Heck, I've done it myself. Life's too short.

i shoot skateboarding, and nobody i shoot with really knows anything about cameras or dv other than me.

i generally interchange video/film all the time, but if i'm talking to another dv enthusiast i try to get it right, although i find film sounds so natural as a noun/verb. most people i talk to that are into dv say 'shot' or 'videoed'.

many of the younger guys i shoot with use pretty funny nomenclature. combine this with the fact that i am on the east coast of canada - it's a real laugh sometimes. most of them use the noun/verb 'vid'.

"vid mission today at the park boys"
"get the vid out harry!"
"hold on; i wanna get that drop on vid b'ye!"
"boys got two vids rippin for multiple angles"
"want me to vid so you can try some stuff?"

honorable mention:

"is that the fishbowl lens? let me look through it!"

but i digress.. is there a thread already dedicated to funny or unusual terminology anywhere?

harry