SX20IS Movie troubleshoot, drivin' me crazy.

Hey everyone, recently purchased a SX20IS, wonderful camera and I've just recently found interest the movie setting. However, I'm having an issue with taking movies. It will only take 8-18 seconds of footage, a bar with 5 boxes within under REC will show up and it will say BUSY at the bottom of the screen. This happens when I touch no buttons to interrupt filming.

I've read the manual, there doesn't seem to be a preset function that would limit the amount of footage that can be taken. I have an 8 GB San Disk SDHC Speed Class 2 memory card which has 7.3GB left. The camera tells me I can record over 40 minutes of footage.

The manual doesn't even discuss what the bar under REC means, that might of helped me figure this out.

I put new batteries in the camera, even though it didn't need new ones. I reset to factory settings, that didn't help.

Here is a Youtube video of the camera acting up, I took it with my cell phone camera forgive the awful quality but a visual would help solve this I'm sure.

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=KVobDJ72mI4

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I just purchased my SX20IS less then a week ago and I don't have the problem. I am using a class 6 card. I'm no expert but I'm guessing that may be the problem.

Your buffer is filling up because you have a slow writing memory card. I am using a class 4 SanDisk card and even that is not fast enough if you are going to shoot a lot of video.

Wonderful! That makes perfect sense, I suppose I'll just go with a class 6 then.

Many thanks, the both of you.

Also be sure to reformat the card in the camera for optimum video performance.

Woolburr wrote in post #9365613
I am using a class 4 SanDisk card and even that is not fast enough if you are going to shoot a lot of video.

Interesting. I have 2 class 4 cards (PNY and I don't recall if the other is Sandisk or another brand?). So far, I haven't run into an issue shooting 720p video with the SX20. I may try to see if recording longer videos runs out of buffer so I know what I'm dealing with. Regardless, I plan on buying only class 6 cards in the future.

StandSure wrote in post #9426868
Interesting. I have 2 class 4 cards (PNY and I don't recall if the other is Sandisk or another brand?). So far, I haven't run into an issue shooting 720p video with the SX20. I may try to see if recording longer videos runs out of buffer so I know what I'm dealing with. Regardless, I plan on buying only class 6 cards in the future.

I'm using a class 4 Kingston micro-SD with adapter and have recorded up to 30 mins without any problems.