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SDHC file structure
I recorded part of a speech last night onto my SDHC card and noticed when I downloaded it to my computer that it was broken up into two 13 minute clips and one 5 minute clip. The SXS card that held most of the speech was just one big file. Is there a way to get the SDHC card to just record one long file too?
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Sony EX-3
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That’s how the file system works. Reassemble in your editing program.
Noah
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The card format used by Sony (SxS, SDHC, Sony hard drive, makes not difference) is FAT32 which as a 4GB file size limit.
Sony XDCAM Transfer will use the .smi file to stitch them together when re-wraping to .mov.
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OK, thanks guys. Everything worked great, just wondering why the difference.
Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
Sony EX-3
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If you use the Sony transfer utility, all the segments are rejoined… I only use SDHC cards and I don’t have a problem.
TimK,
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OK, I use XDCAM Transfer and it keeps the clips broken down into seperate files. I rejoin them in FCP and it works fine, just more mouse clicks than there should be.
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