I am not quite sure what you meant by playing a “pre-recorded flight or something”.  One X-Plane 11 feature comes to mind is the “Let A.I. Flies Your Aircraft” option.   In which you can start from an airport gate, sit back, and X-Plane will do the rest.  During the flight, you can place yourself in the passenger seat, or move your view about to any internal or external view.
X-Plane’s Replay feature is available and you can choose and move your view during playback.  However, the segment is not recorded (not stored).  Other than that, X-Plane has a Video Recording feature.  You can playback the recorded video file, but is not interactive during the playback.