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Amateur recording movie shot in high definition initially earns Oscar (4,5)

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I believe the answer is:

home video

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'amateur recording' is the definition.
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'movie shot in high definition initially earns oscar' is the wordplay.
'shot' indicates anagramming the letters.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
'earns' becomes 'e' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'oscar' becomes 'O' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
The first letters of 'high definition' is 'hd'.
'movie' anagrammed gives 'omevi'.
'omevi' inserted into 'hd' is 'homevid'.
'homevid'+'e'+'o'='HOME VIDEO'

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