areej Loc: Atlanta,Ga

Hi Everyone,
I have a canon 60D camera and having trouble shooting videos with it , The recording stops automatically after few seconds.
Does any one has the same camera and has this problem?
Thanks

Awagner Loc: St. Louis

I have a 60D, but haven't shot much video. The one thing I know is that you need a fast SD card in the camera, so the buffer in the camera keeps writing to the card. The reason the camera stops recording is probably because the buffer in the camera is full and can't write to the card fast enough. You should have a class 10 card in the camera to shoot video. Hopefully someone else will chime in with more info.

areej Loc: Atlanta,Ga

Thank you, But I already have an empty 32G with 10 speed memory card in it

Awagner Loc: St. Louis

OK, you've got the speed thing covered. Sorry I can't be more help. I have not shot enough video with the camera to give any advice.

Dria Loc: Ohio

I have the 60 D--haven't shot video with it--probably never will...BUT now I will have to try it to see if if works or quits.
OK just tried it. I recorded for 3 minutes. I turned it off.
I have a 16g Sandisk Pro card. where he "class" is is a U with a 1 in it.

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

if my battery got down to about quarter power mine would do same thing

Sam55

I have the T3i, same basic camera, and for sure all class 10 cards are not the same. I purchased the 32 GB Sandisk Extreme Pro, which has a guaranteed write speed of over 90 meg/s, and it does HD video just fine. This card is not cheap, be forewarned! I had to order mine on line, I could not find one localy. Best Buy.com has it for a list price of $165 right now, but on sale for $99. This is what I paid for my card. They are on backorder right now, but you can go ahead and order it at the sale price, and they will ship when it comes in. They will try to get you to change your order to another card, but refuse and wait for it. You will not be sorry. Just playing around the other day and ran off over 8 mins of video. A class 10 PNY 8 GB card came with the camera, but that card only has a write speed of around 15 meg/s, and the camera would take less than a minute of video before the buffer was full and everything came crashing down!

danielb59 Loc: The South

I've had a 60D for about a year and have shot a gizillion videos of my granddaughter with no problems. Initially, however, I had the same problem as you describe. Have used a Transcend SD HC 16GB card with a speed rating of 10 ever since without problem one. Transcend is one of the cheaper cards, but it works fine for me.

Try it! You might find it works.
Dan

migdalskiy

60D writes about 5.5Mbyte/sec. Class 10 card "asserts that the card supports 10 MB/s as a minimum non-fragmented sequential write speed", but in real world they don't always sustain 10 Mbyte/sec.

I have a 60D and I bought SanDisk Extreme with "HD Video" and "30 Mb/sec" ratings for $46 (it's more like $20 nowadays) , just to be sure. I could record hour-long clips on this card on many occasions without a hitch.

This is not the cheapest card, but "30 Mb/sec" is a pile of B.S. - capital letters. At best, my copy of this card can sustain 20 Mb/sec, that's somewhat ideal conditions. But it seems to be enough for the 5.5Mbyte/sec throughput that 60D puts it through.

Anyway, just buy an "HD Video" "Extreme" "Pro" with a huge slack in perf (30Mb/s is 5+ times faster than needed) and hope that the morons that rate it didn't overstate the performance by 400%. It's cheap enough these days.

Sam55

I guess that in some peoples minds that I waste money, but when I pick up something I want it to work, Period! For that reason when I need a car battery, I get the biggest most powerful one that will fit into the box, Not a cheepo rated for two years, that yes, will start the car under the best of circumstances, but if there is a problem, I guarantee you that it will let you down. So keep buying that memory that works for you, After all it is your money. I, on the other hand will continue to get the best that I can afford, and recommend others to do the same. I haven't been disappointed in doing this, and don't expect too.

blkvsn

I just shot the rest of the open space on the card in my 60D and got almost 8 mins of video with no problems. This is on a SanDisk Ultra II, 4 GB, class 2, rated at 15 Mb/sec. Camera at near full charge.