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I'm sure every owner of the 60D is well aware of the 12 minute stoppage of video recording for "file limitation". I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to avoid this and record video straight through without stopping?

Muchos Gracias.

Buy a 1D X when they become available in March.

Ya can't.

Magic Lantern has a feature that automatically restarts recording when the limit is reached.

If you look at any film or TV footage, no clip is anywhere near that long, so I don't see that 12 minutes is a limitation for shooting video.

With Magic Lantern you can record up to 30 minutes without stopping.

As others said, use Magic Lantern....or get a camcorder

Thanks for the feedback.

Are any of you using Magic Lantern? My concern would be conflicting problems with the camera's firmware and/or damage to the camera. Though, upon reading briefly about ML, after thousands of downloads, they haven't had any reported problems. I'm still a bit apprehensive until I actually hear/read from someone who is actually using the firmware. Until then, I'll try to find more about it and read it's capabilities.

artyman wrote in post #13296591
If you look at any film or TV footage, no clip is anywhere near that long, so I don't see that 12 minutes is a limitation for shooting video.

My wife shoots a Podcast every week for a knitting group she participates within (yea, I know, boring). She was using a little flip type video camera but it's no longer uploading properly to her computer. I let her try my DSLR, but told her the drawback is the 12 minute stoppage. Being new to the camera and not yet using video, I didn't know it would actually stop without restarting. I was under the impression it would stop for a second or two, then simply restart with another file. She worked around it just to see how it looks and she was floored at the clarity compared to her other video camera. Now, of course, she would like to use it every week and this is why I posed the question of continuous shooting.

artyman wrote in post #13296591
If you look at any film or TV footage, no clip is anywhere near that long, so I don't see that 12 minutes is a limitation for shooting video.

just because the final *edited* program has short clips, that doesn't mean there isn't a need to record long ones in the process of making it.

For instance, you might want to set up a bunch of cameras in various positions to record an hour-long event, and make an edit from those recordings later on. Or you may want to leave the camera recording and have an artist improvise a bunch of takes without interruptions. Lots of other reasons too.

In any case, for these kinds of uses, DSLRs are pretty inferior to a conventional pro video camera, that are designed for this kind of thing. I tend to regard DSLRs as "pretty" camera to get those beautiful shots, rather than as a replacement for an event camera, or a mobile documentary platform etc etc.