I just bought a brand new sandisk 'extreme pro' 32g card, and set the camera on a windowsill trying to record a jar. It still stopped recording after a few seconds. It has done this with the last three cards I've tried in it. This is pretty much a b...
but, as said, one of the other nice features about magic lantern is that it will automatically start another recording if the first gets aborted, either due to filesize or because of any glitch. That can be a life saver.
I tried 720 also, no difference, since the data rate is the same regardless. As far as I know the only way to lower the datarate, which allows the camera to write fast enough to the card, is magic lantern. I've brought it down to 0.9 and haven't had...
Magic Lantern so far has done the trick, by allowing me to slightly lower the data rate. It also has a tweak that will automatically start recording another file if one stops, though I haven't tried to see if it applies to the 4gig cutoff too, no rea...
perusing the interwebs a bit more, i decided to give magic lantern a try. Seems to be working. (There goes my warranty). Also changed the framerate from 29.97 to 24, but, really Canon...if you're going to sell me a camera that claims to record 1080 2...
seems like a pretty random (but apparently widespread) phenomenon. The obvious fix would be a firmware update that allows one to choose whether or not the camera aborts or reduces quality momentrarily if the card can't keep up. The camera is comple...