How long of a shot can you take on the EPIC?

[vagabond Beaumont]

i'm shooting a documentary and was wondering how long of a shot we can continuously hold on?

Is it something that i'm limited to Media wise?

Just curious...

Much thanx...

 

[Phil Holland]

You're pretty much limited to the media size. I've rolled 45 minute through 1.5 hour takes.

 

[Dr. Sassi]

http://www.red.com/tools/recording-time

 

[Alex Kiritz]

http://www.red.com/tools/recording-time

That implies that you could record for 23 days at the minimum bitrate. Has anyone done that?

 

[Jordan Buck]

I recently had an issue running for an hour long interview - the camera switched itself off near the 60 minute mark, on camera I could not play the clip and had no choice but to restart the interview as a safety.
Luckily when I went home the clip was fine..also the client was incredibly accommodating and had asked to repeat the interview to clean up some answers.

Lately I have been keeping it to 15 minutes then cutting and re rolling just as a safety its near on seamless but it means if you do end up with an error the other clips are already safe.

 

[Brian Merlen]

oh I've shot for hours and hours man in a single roll...timelapses 1fps, don't know if that is helpful tho

 

[vagabond Beaumont]

Much thanx for the replies...

My interviews take seem to be running in at about 15 - 20 minutes a take...

But i was curious about running the camera for an hour or so...

Again, much thanx to all for the replies...

 

[Elan Gunos]

That's a good habit. I don't care how long it rolls. If I can take a break and swap in a new card I will.

I recently had an issue running for an hour long interview - the camera switched itself off near the 60 minute mark, on camera I could not play the clip and had no choice but to restart the interview as a safety.
Luckily when I went home the clip was fine..also the client was incredibly accommodating and had asked to repeat the interview to clean up some answers.

Lately I have been keeping it to 15 minutes then cutting and re rolling just as a safety its near on seamless but it means if you do end up with an error the other clips are already safe.

 

[Tony Harris]

I'm old school...I wish we can go back to exporting to a hard drive. Not one that cost 2-3K for pro res