cinematography Question about camera and field recorder datacards.

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harmonica44

My friend wants me to help shoot and record a short film for her. But the trick is she wants to shoot it all in one take, kinda like Hitchcock's rope. Now I have been looking online. I have a canon T2i and a 10 GB card for it, which holds 12 minutes. It was that other cards can hold up to 64 GB for example, but how much time is that, shooting at 24fps at 1080p? Is there a card that can shoot at that for an hour?

I also have the FR2-LE but are there any cards for that that can last an hour, while recording 24bit/48khz? I can't find a site that tells the specifics of recording at those speeds and volumes. Thanks.
 
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Rope wasn't shot in one take. Hitchcock created the illusion that it was.

But there are plenty of other experimental films which have been shot in one take.

As for ur DSLR, it doesnt matter how big ur card is because it can only record 12 mins at a time so you would have to cut anyway. Make a short less than 12 mins and you could do it.
 
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Thanks. Well yeah, I know it wasn't actually all shot in one take, I was talking about the illusion. However she wants to do it, and not have it be an illusion, especially since some of it, is non-scripted, and will have to shoot live. So I cannot add the illusion here, and will have to shoot without cutting.
 
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harmonica44 said:
I also have the FR2-LE but are there any cards for that that can last an hour, while recording 24bit/48khz? I can't find a site that tells the specifics of recording at those speeds and volumes. Thanks.
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Did your device come with a manual? It's in there. If no, did you look on Fostex's website for the manual? It's also there. Not a bad thing to grab if you don't have the manual; I usually give the user's manual a read for any bit of kit I'm considering buying before I do so. It's a good way to find out if a device will do what you want it to, and compare specs between different devices. That way you can ask (and answer for yourself) "will this do what I want/need" rather than "which one is better".

I'm not trying to be an asshole; I'm trying to teach you better habits here. Information like this is easy to find if you know how to look. I don't have the FR2-LE and it took me five minutes to find. Learn to research the basics for yourself, and then you can ask deeper questions.

But if you really can't be bothered to look it up...
It's approximately 1GB per 60 minutes of 24/48. But if you can't be bothered to read a manual, perhaps filmmaking might not be the best hobby for you.
 
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Sorry your right. I was busy with all this other filmmaking stuff that I forgot to even think of the manual. I checked the canon T2i book, and it doesn't list what kind of card you need if you want an hour, just goes as high as listing a 16 GB card.
 
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No I didn't think of that. I just read that it overheats about 20-80 minutes of filming depending on the room temperature and what not, but there are some ways around that.
 
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You do realize that your T2i will over heat looooong before you ever film for an hour??
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This.

Rope was shot on a series of magazines, each take using the entire magazine and the cuts between cleverly hidden. I'd suggest doing the same and breaking it up into 10min segments and hide the cuts. The t2i just isn't going to roll for more than 12 minutes.

Even with a camera that could roll an entire hour at a time I'd still break up the takes. Way too much margin for error trying to do it all in one.

Also this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABYnqp-bxvg
 
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Okay thanks.

So since I am to shoot all this footage in a hurry, within a real time series of events that will be happening, how much minimum of time will the camera need to cool in between recordings?
 
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