EOS Rebel T6 Movie Recording Has Stopped Automatically?

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Hello,

I have recently purchased a Canon EOS Rebel T6 with a Sandisk Ultra Plus SD Card with 64GB and 100 MB/s speed.

When filming a video of myself in 1920x1080 quality, the movie recording stopped roughly around 12 minutes.

I assumed for it to atleast stop around 30 minutes?

Even if it stops, it doesn't even continuously record and make a new file when the recording stops, it just stops and I don't notice it stopping until after I was finished recording my video. 

If there's a way to make it exceed 12 minutes or even just continuously record and make a new file when the recording stops, I would like to know.

I have researched hours on this topic and cannot find a solution. I truly don't think it's my SD card that's the problem.

Thanks.

[chillpanda]

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@MikeSowsun wrote:

Your card may have 64GB capacity, but the way the file system works, 4GB is the max file size, and video will stop recording when it reaches 4GB. 

Your 64GB card can hold a total of 2 hrs 59 mins of video, but it will be made up of multiple 11 min files. ( 4GB each)

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But that's assuming you are operating the camera the entire time? 

I tend to find myself having to shoot by myself so I'm wondering if there any way for it to automatically start a new file while recording instead of just stopping? It's already been made clear that the file size limit prevents it from creating a file size that's any larger but is there a setting I've overlooked that will make it simply start a new file rather than wait for manually pushing the record button? Essentially something like loop recording I believe it's called? 

Although Waddizzle mentioned:

"In addition, the T6 does not automatically continue recording in a new file once it has reached maximum recording time, or file size."

I'm wondering if they might have been mistaken similarly to what they said about the 2GB file size limit. Thank you for your previous reply nonetheless.