I assume you mean the manual video / data recording functionality without any lap notion... That's certainly possible but will not give you any lap timing. It is exactly the operating mode of my app "Optrix VideoPro": press start, record whatever you want, and stop later. No triggers, no automatic operation.
That is true. I did not know that when I posted it. After I spoke to him he cleared it up. He said for a few reasons it is better to do the individual laps. It makes it much easier to overlay and edit.