Split files?

[jla930]

I have a Canon Vixia HF R800.  The memory card in it is formatted as exFAT, which supports file sizes greater than 4 GB.  However, I shot a continuous video about an hour long, and the camera stored the video on the memoy card as 4 individual files, 3 of them a hair over 4 GB, and the last one a bit under 4 GB.  Why is this happening?  The memory card should support one large file.  I can't find any camera setting that specifies the maximum file size, or anything like that.

[Ed22]

Hi, 

Well I think you pinpointed the differences and ruled out the FS and cards sizes. Nice specific answers, thank you. 

I see it as an advantage having one larger file vs smaller files. There always seen to be some overhead in switching files and

a few dropped frames. So I think this is better. My Opinion.  I guess a phone call to Canon will let you know what their intent was.

As a retired Software Engineer, we always did think that managers never understood the how and whys off.

So don't be surprised if you get same vague answer form Canon !

I guess you can put in a FAT32 (not exFAT) and see it it's smart enought to roll over into the next file, or will it just stop? 

I guess I wasnt much help, but you helped me understand the problem much more, thanks for that!

-Ed 

[Yanqiao]

Hi, eugenepsantos, to merge the splitted files together, you can try Joyoshare Video Joiner. It would help you.

[Rawill]

My issue is not really with the video split but rather the audio. I record my music shows which last from 60 to 90 minutes. The camera separates the files into about 5 or six smaller files and when I attempt to join them together in Sony Vegas 17, there is always an audio drop in the middle of a song due to the sparation. This is very frustratining and even a video joiner program can't fix the dropped audio. My camera is a Canon Vixia HF R300.

[shaunshaun]

Try a different joiner program. I use fjoiner.exe but there are a couple of others around too.