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isabellelecompte

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Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 3:44 pm

How can I see the record time left on the SSD card while I'm shooting?
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 3:50 pm

You can't. :(
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 4:06 pm

...yet

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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 4:17 pm

Always the optimist, huh? :lol:

Seriously though, I don't recall any real or implied commitment from BMD to address this particular feature request.
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 4:23 pm

mhood wrote:Always the optimist, huh? :lol:

Seriously though, I don't recall any real or implied commitment from BMD to address this particular feature request.


True that BMD has not made an explicit point to add that but I believe that most, if not all things that came with the 1.1 update were unannounced as well.
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 4:28 pm

Maybe they'll "unannounce" this and VUs in 1.2. ;)
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 4:29 pm

It would be enough if it stated how much storage is left on the drive just to give you an idea if you should switch.
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 5:03 pm

I cannot imagine myself telling the director that I missed the shot because I didn't know how many time left I had on the card...
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 5:45 pm

The "Disk Full" indicator is flashing when the SSD is almost full, said the camera manual, page 16.
However, a more precise indicators would be very useful (at least like the battery one : 25%, 50%, 75%…).
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Re: Record time left

PostFri Jan 11, 2013 5:45 pm

This is something that will undoubtedly be fixed in a firmware update, eventually. In the meantime, the math is pretty simple to figure out. You should be able to work out when your drive is roughly 75-80% full pretty easily.

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