divinglover
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Hi everyone,
I recently got the gopro hero 3 black and started testing it couple of days ago, preparing for some underwater shooting i will be doing very soon.
But i have an unexpected issue - my battery (with battery bacpac) lasts LONGER than my 32 gb card! Based on everything i read so far, i was expecting the opposite problem - and even stocked up on the spare GoPro batteries.
But every video file size is HUGE! i have been testing recording at 1080, 60 FPS, Wide, Protune ON, raw cam and got the following results:
- gopro, no battery or lcd bacpac - lasted 1.07 mins, file size 19 GB (broken into 4 GB chunks). (Checked that about 5 times, every time the same result)
- go pro with battery bacpac - lasted 1.30 mins, then stopped recording itself, although battery (and camera) was stil running. I restarted video recording couple of times, but it stopped after few secs every time (a recurring issue i have). I then took 3 photo shots, at which point it showed memory FULL. I checked the SD card in my Mac and the video size on the card really is 30 GB. (after only 1.30 mins of recording!)
i have formatted the micro SD card before every use.
all of the above are straight out of the camera (not imported/converted in cineform or anywhere else)
what am i doing wrong? surely the file sizes are just too huge?
and as a separate issue - my hero 3 regularly stops recording after 10-20 secs. It doesn't switch off and it doesn't freeze in any other way but it stops recording. (despite me formatting the sd card every time). i keep restarting the video , but it keeps doing it. so far i haven't found the solution- keep doing various things, then it starts working and recording for long periods again.
anyone experienced the same and fixed it? please advise what to do - i am going away i(to Galapagos!) in a week so have very little time to sort it out!
apologies if i am missing and asking something obvious - i am very new to the whole set up and videoing on different resolutions etc.
thanks you all in advance!!
I recently got the gopro hero 3 black and started testing it couple of days ago, preparing for some underwater shooting i will be doing very soon.
But i have an unexpected issue - my battery (with battery bacpac) lasts LONGER than my 32 gb card! Based on everything i read so far, i was expecting the opposite problem - and even stocked up on the spare GoPro batteries.
But every video file size is HUGE! i have been testing recording at 1080, 60 FPS, Wide, Protune ON, raw cam and got the following results:
- gopro, no battery or lcd bacpac - lasted 1.07 mins, file size 19 GB (broken into 4 GB chunks). (Checked that about 5 times, every time the same result)
- go pro with battery bacpac - lasted 1.30 mins, then stopped recording itself, although battery (and camera) was stil running. I restarted video recording couple of times, but it stopped after few secs every time (a recurring issue i have). I then took 3 photo shots, at which point it showed memory FULL. I checked the SD card in my Mac and the video size on the card really is 30 GB. (after only 1.30 mins of recording!)
i have formatted the micro SD card before every use.
all of the above are straight out of the camera (not imported/converted in cineform or anywhere else)
what am i doing wrong? surely the file sizes are just too huge?
and as a separate issue - my hero 3 regularly stops recording after 10-20 secs. It doesn't switch off and it doesn't freeze in any other way but it stops recording. (despite me formatting the sd card every time). i keep restarting the video , but it keeps doing it. so far i haven't found the solution- keep doing various things, then it starts working and recording for long periods again.
anyone experienced the same and fixed it? please advise what to do - i am going away i(to Galapagos!) in a week so have very little time to sort it out!
apologies if i am missing and asking something obvious - i am very new to the whole set up and videoing on different resolutions etc.
thanks you all in advance!!