Movie times out EOS2000D

[Jerry4]

When in Movie mode, camera stops at early times.  7 minutes, 11 minutes.  I thought it was to run 29 minutes?

[stevet1 · Accepted solution]

Jerry4,

I tried to research this for you with no luck.

32 gigs should be more than enough to hold over an hour of video at that resolution, and yes, your camera should shoot videos of up to 29:59 in length.

The only suggestions I could find is that your card could be full, or that it's corrupted in some way. The solutions were either to format your card or buy a new one.

Sorry I couldn't help.

Steve Thomas

[rs-eos]

It could be due to other factors:

• File size reaches either 2 GB (or 4 GB).
• The camera is overheating.
• Your SD card is fragmented, or too slow.

I suspect it's the file size limit that you're reaching.   What specific SD card are you using and what specific movie settings are you using?

[Jerry4]

I have a new EOS2000D.  So I have sent this question to Cannon.  They only have 4 options for recording size:
1920X1080/30
1920X1080/24
1280X720/60
640X480/30

So even at the lowest recording size, it still times out well before 29.9 minutes.

"Even on the lowest movie recording size, the camera times out (4GB) after only 10-12 minutes. Are there no options for size like 1080X720 so I am not chunking up so much file space? Goal is to shoot 29.9 minutes. Timing out at 11 minutes is too soon."

Thanks for your help and I will close this off for now.

[Jerry4]

Using a SanDisk Ultra 120MB/s HC "10"

None of the files were close to 2GB

Set to Movie Exposure Auto, Movie recording size 1920X1080

[stevet1]

Jerry4,

120MB is the read speed of the card.

What size memory card are you using?  16GB?, 32GB?, 64GB?, 128GB?

Steve Thomas

[Jerry4]

32GB

[stevet1 · Accepted solution]

Jerry4,

I tried to research this for you with no luck.

32 gigs should be more than enough to hold over an hour of video at that resolution, and yes, your camera should shoot videos of up to 29:59 in length.

The only suggestions I could find is that your card could be full, or that it's corrupted in some way. The solutions were either to format your card or buy a new one.

Sorry I couldn't help.

Steve Thomas

[Jerry4]

I am going to try a new card. Someone else suggested that too. 

[Jerry4]

I am going to try another card and format it on “low” format and see what happens. After that I’ll see if I can call Canon I guess. 

[rs-eos]

That card is most likely a V10 rated card (10 MBps).   But HD at 1920 x 1080 appears to only require around 5.7 MBps, so you should be good there.

The User Manual does state that there is a 4 GB file size limit (see page 169).  Thouh the file size should be around 340 MB/min, so 11 minutes would only be around 2.3 GB.   Not sure what is going on.

Do you have another card you can try?  Be sure its a full-sized SD card and not a micro-sized with an adapter.