BMCC maximum record duration?

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Rudy Satria

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BMCC maximum record duration?

PostWed Oct 30, 2013 10:08 am

Hi everyone, my bmcc is going to shoot live event 2 - 3 hours. Any suggestion how long the maximum record duration for BMCC ? is it safe to shoot 2 - 3 hours standby record? please advise. thanks so much.
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Re: BMCC maximum record duration?

PostWed Oct 30, 2013 11:03 am

Rudy Satria wrote:Hi everyone, my bmcc is going to shoot live event 2 - 3 hours. Any suggestion how long the maximum record duration for BMCC ? is it safe to shoot 2 - 3 hours standby record? please advise. thanks so much.


If you have the battery and a 1TB SSD you should be right.
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Re: BMCC maximum record duration?

PostWed Oct 30, 2013 12:55 pm

Jace Ross wrote:
If you have the battery and a 1TB SSD you should be right.


i only shoot in proress with 240Gb x2 for SSD and plug the camera charger for powering the camera. The thing is i haven't tried shoot continuosly for 3 hours. im afraid it will burn my camera. What do you think?
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Re: BMCC maximum record duration?

PostWed Oct 30, 2013 2:18 pm

Should be no problem. The weakest spot is the SSD. We shot for a concert app. 2 hrs non stop, and yes, the SSD was quite hot but everythin fine. Since this was for a payed job we decided to record parallel to a Hyperdeck Shuttle via SDI - just to have a Backup in case.
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Re: BMCC maximum record duration?

PostWed Oct 30, 2013 2:31 pm

MIDDLEEASTMAMBO wrote:Should be no problem. The weakest spot is the SSD. We shot for a concert app. 2 hrs non stop, and yes, the SSD was quite hot but everythin fine. Since this was for a payed job we decided to record parallel to a Hyperdeck Shuttle via SDI - just to have a Backup in case.


Thanks :)
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