Canon EOS R10 Movie Stopped Recording

[befeliano]

Hi everyone,

I’m experiencing an issue with my Canon R10. When recording 4K or 1080p talking head videos, the camera stops automatically after just 2-3 minutes, even though the SD card is fast enough (SanDisk Extreme Pro 256GB, UHS-I, V30, 140 MB/s write speed).

Interestingly:

• For 4K landscape or outdoor shots, I was able to record 29 minutes without any problem.
• So it seems the issue is related to overheating and processor load, not the SD card.
• Talking head videos, with the camera close to my face, generate more heat and cause the camera to shut down faster.

Has anyone experienced this with the R10? Any tips for longer close-up recordings without overheating?

Thanks!

[stevet1]

befeliano,

When the camera stops recording, do you get any kind of warning or error messages telling you that the camera is overheating?

Steve Thomas

[p4pictures]

I would certainly try to use a faster V60 UHS-II or V90 UHS-II specification card as the Sandisk V30 UHS-I card you have can be part of the problem. With a slower card the camera has to buffer more data, and if the movie being captured is changing a lot from frame to frame with high levels of detail then the image is not so easy to compress, placing more data in the buffer. A landscape image might have much less rapidly changing action and actually less changing detail so results in a movie frame that is easier to compress and so will not overfill the buffer. 

As a test you could try recording a 1 minute clip of the "taking head" type movies, then 1 minute of the landscape movies. If you then compare the file sizes of the two clips I think you'll find the talking head ones are more MB than the landscape. If so then the card is most likely the problem.