topic Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

lbilsbury — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:55:41 GMT

I am trying to take video with my camera. It records for about 3 secs and then stops. the error message is "movie recording has been stopped automatically." I must be doing something wrong. Can someone help me out?

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

jfo — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:18:57 GMT

What brand and "class" SD memory card are you using? Likely the memory card isn't fast enough to keep up with the HD video. "Class 6" or above is recommended.

More extensive explanation here:
http://www.tested.com/tech/photography/3317-how-to-buy-the-right-memory-card-for-your-camera-sd-card-speeds-explained/

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

CanonEOS600D — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:36:42 GMT

If your camera is not blinking a red non-circular icon, then it's probably the camera overheating, however it shouldn't be happening on a EOS 60D, so I believe it is a SD Card issue.

if your SD Card is Class 4 and below, DO NOT use it to take video, it's not possible. Get a SD Card as said above with Class 6 or above, [It is commonly symboled with a C wrapped around the #6 or #10], I recommend Class 10.

The Class represents write speed, so the higher the write speed, the better performing the SD Card is during a video or photo shoot.

As a reference, the symbol is like the ones in the green circle, make sure it is #6 or #10 in the C:

*These SD Cards in the image is outdated so don't buy one of these, buy the ones on store shelves.

As a personal recommendation:

I highly recommend a Sandisk Extreme (Class 10) SD Card with at least 30mb/s write speed (Cost for 16 GB or less is below $28, black friday deals could push a 16GB into the teens so look out for deals). I had bad experiences on Transcend and PNY Class 10 Cards (the Transcend was a waste due to it being all dead and lost a week worth of shooting; the PNY decided to not work with video for about a month).

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

lbilsbury — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:43:50 GMT

You were correct. I changed to #10 disk and it worked great. Thanks for the help.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

lbilsbury — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:45:09 GMT

You were correct. I loaded in a #10 card and it worked fine.

Thanks for the help.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

jfo — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:45:24 GMT

Awesome! Glad that worked out! Happy shooting!

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

CanonEOS600D — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:09:14 GMT

You're very welcome, glad it is now working smoothly, enjoy shooting great HD video again !

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

segalmedia — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:55:48 GMT

I am having a similar, yet different issue. I am shooting with my 60d. I shot about two 12 min segments of video just fine. It then started shutting down after about 2 or 3 minutes. I am using a SanDisk 32gb, 45 mb/s class 10 card. I had my battery grip on with what I believe to be full batteries. I also had my hdmi monitor attached to the camera. Any thoughts or ways to trouble shoot the issue?

Thanks so much,

Lisa

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Mykolas — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:34:15 GMT

Hi segalmedia!

An increase in the camera's internal temperature may cause movie shooting to stop before the maximum recording time is reached. When shooting movies back to back, the internal temperature in the camera will rise. You could try letting the camera rest powered off for a short while before shooting another clip.

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Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

segalmedia — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:40:58 GMT

How likely is it overheating? I called a couple of experts that shoot with Canon DSLRs and were doubtful that shooting two 12 minute clips in comfortable temperatures should cause this behavior. Any thing else that I should check? Any resources that might help me to use my DSLR for video - run and gun style?

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Mykolas — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:42:51 GMT

segalmedia,

If the camera is overheating, you will probably see one or both of these icons appear in the LCD when the camera starts to get too warm (see attachment). I also included another attachment of another icon you might be seeing on the LCD. This is the buffer warning. If this bar fills up, the buffer is full and the camera will stop recording to finish writing that data to the memory card.

Do you see either of these?

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Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

segalmedia — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:33:49 GMT

Thanks, I will try to recreate the issue. I now have a 5d to act as my primary so the issue is less time sensitive, but still important.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Elliotcowand — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:13:17 GMT

The video recording will shut down even a class 10 card that is reaching capacity. A class 10 card with room left on it may shut down as well if you have been doing many deleats without reformatting the card.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Dima — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 11:23:37 GMT

Hello Lisa! Please advice if you have fixed the issue with 60D buffering? I have the same bug and use 10 class if memory card as you. Did you do something special to recover it? regards, Dima

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

segalmedia — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:36:59 GMT

sorry, i now use my 5d mark ii and i do not have any issues with over heating. good luck.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Dima — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:00:07 GMT

Hi Mykolas!

Could you please explain the following:

If so as you described and this issue is related to overheating of the camera, why other DSLR cameras like 70D or 600D that have the similar proccessors DIGIC4 do not suffer from such bug as unexpected video buffering? There are many friends of mine use these cameras with no any shadow of this issue.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Waddizzle — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:31:29 GMT

@Dima wrote:
Hi Mykolas!
Could you please explain the following:
If so as you described and this issue is related to overheating of the camera, why other DSLR cameras like 70D or 600D that have the similar proccessors DIGIC4 do not suffer from such bug as unexpected video buffering? There are many friends of mine use these cameras with no any shadow of this issue.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,

D.

Do you see either of the buffer or temperature warnings on your LCD? Try creating and recording in a new folder.

BTW, the overheating component would be the image sensor, not the processor.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Dima — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 07:41:02 GMT

Yes I do.

I see everytime before the video recording is stopped on LCD this buffering icon in progress as mentioned in previos post.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Waddizzle — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:04:04 GMT

@Dima wrote:
Yes I do.
I see everytime before the video recording is stopped on LCD this buffering icon in progress as mentioned in previos post.

As described above, the buffer warning means that the write buffer is not keeping up, and is about to overflow. To avoid overflow, the camera stops writing new data to the buffer, which means it stops recording video.

This strongly suggests that your memory card isn't fast enough. Using a faster card, or a lower resolution video mode, may help. I would first test a lower resolution video mode. It's cheap, and doesn't cost anything, except for some time well spent.

Re: I am trying to take video with my Canon EOS 60D

Dima — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 08:27:48 GMT

Hi!

The main question that still turns me is why the buffer is aiming to overflow considering I use this card as shown below.

Do you think it is not enough for camera 60D? Low resolution is a good Idea I think but why other cameras don't require this and record video as announced by CANON - HDQ.