Longest shot lenght on a Epic?

[Dimitri Luedemann]

We're looking into doing a heli tour and the camera would be on a external mount so we figured we'd set it to record hop in and let the card run out. Is this safe? Is there a safety threshold of what the camera can endure in running time?

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[Hudson Tanimoto]

Should be fine, just check your fan settings. If it's set to hold a lower fan speed during record (like 30%-40%) you could run into overheating problems. Setting it manually to say 75% should keep everything nice and cool.

 

[David Kuhn]

I've left my camera taking time lapse shots for hours... as Hudson indicated, just keep an eye on your temps.

 

[Wil Wong]

I've shot over 60 minutes continuously (one shot) at 8:1 without it having to stop. We only stopped when the first act finished. We were inside a theatre (not under the sun or anything). No problems.

Not sure what happens to the clip when the card finishes. In the past, I know that this last clip would get corrupt because it didn't not get closed (when you hit stop). Not sure about the current firmware.

 

[Chad Lancaster]

put the fans on adaptive

 

[Jon Carr]

Depending on your build, if you run out you might loose the whole take. As the epic/scarlet goes to zero before giving a writeout code. Where the redone stopped at 2% for the writeout code. The newest builds does stop the camera far enough at 0% to do a writeout code but older builds don't. So do test a whole card from 100-0% before you fly.

 

[Terry VerHaar]

You might be able to stay connected to the camera via REDlink with the RED iPad application or Mikael's Foolcontrol app.

 

[CJ Roy]

I had a start/stop switch go bad during an aerial shoot with a Dragon. Ended up filling up several 512 mags with one take. No issues.

 

[Michael Romano]

Don't worry about heat, an external helicopter mount will keep you cool as a cucumber.

 

[David Battistella]

technically the answer is this.

on a 512 GB card.

at 5kFF

at 24FPS

@18:1 360 minutes
@8:1 160 minutes

Dragon 6K FF same settings

8:1 99minutes
22:1 272 minutes

you can let the card run out, but I would test it on a small card with the lowest compression setting to see what happens before you fly.


Cheers,

battistella

 

[Dimitri Luedemann]

You guys are the best! We ended up going out of a cessna and everything came out amazing running at 120 fps. I did cut at 1% just to be safe.

Thanks again,

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