please help..

[dal33a]

i have recorded for about 29.38 min and just read up on it that u cant record for longer than 30min..my sd card is 128gb...and i have taken off all the photos and videos from it and tried recording again and it still wont work..is my sd card damaged or what? pleaseeeee answer...thanks so much...:)

[RobertTheFat]

The 30-minute limit is not a technical glitch or a failure of your SD card to perform correctly. Rather it's an intentinal limit that the manufacturer has incorporated in order to keep the camera from being taxed as a video camera under one or more international trade agreements. If the time limit is a show-stopper, you'll have to buy a camcorder instead.

If the camera won't record at all, try reformatting the card, and make sure the write protection switch that most SD cards have isn't turned on.

[dal33a]

how do you reformat the card and all? and yeh it won't record at all using that sd card and so i had to switch to another sd card.. but how do i reformat it and all?

[RobertTheFat]

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@dal33a wrote:
how do you reformat the card and all? and yeh it won't record at all using that sd card and so i had to switch to another sd card.. but how do i reformat it and all?

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Reformatting is a menu item. I believe that on most Canon cameras it's in the menu headed by a small icon of a wrench.

The write protection switch is a tiny slide switch on the edge of the SD card itself.

[dal33a]

but..its saying that it will erase all my data..

[Waddizzle]

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@dal33a wrote:
but..its saying that it will erase all my data..

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Didn't you say in your initial post that you have already removed all photos and videos from the card?

[jrhoffman75]

That's a standard warning that pops up.

If you press the blue playback arrow does anything show on the camera LCD?