What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes full?

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What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes full?

PostMon Jul 15, 2013 6:15 pm

I'm thinking of shooting some interviews in 2.5K Raw next week on 480 gig SSD sandisks. I should be able to get about 34 minutes of footage per drive, correct?

Since the display doesn't give you an estimate of how much space is left, what happens if you are recording and the drive runs out of space? Has anyone experimented? Does it simply just stop recording or is there a chance that it creates a corrupt file?

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Re: What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes fu

PostMon Jul 15, 2013 6:17 pm

I haven't tested this out though my card almost became full by accident, I was like 500 mb from being full.

I believe that it records the file as far as it can and then the record button goes off.

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Re: What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes fu

PostMon Jul 15, 2013 8:40 pm

The REC indicator switches to a "SSD FULL" indicator.
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Re: What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes fu

PostMon Jul 15, 2013 9:53 pm

Coming from a 7D with 12-16 minutes of continous recording and having done 5 films with it, Iask myself how hard it might be to have a look at the time and change the SSD after some 25-30 mins of interview?
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Re: What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes fu

PostMon Jul 15, 2013 11:26 pm

Forstm wrote:I'm thinking of shooting some interviews in 2.5K Raw next week on 480 gig SSD sandisks. I should be able to get about 34 minutes of footage per drive, correct?


You can record at about 52 minutes of 2.5K raw on a 480GB SSD. I would play it safe and stop after 50 minutes to allow space for the sound files.

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Re: What happens when you are recording & your HD becomes fu

PostTue Jul 16, 2013 12:36 am

What happens?

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