Longest record time with gh1 hack possible

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mark doherty

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I was planning on using my hacked gh1 for a live event this coming weekend. The event features a number of speakers with most speaking for close to an hour while some will be longer.

I did a test recently to see what the longest i could record for was using an 8gb sandisk extreme class 10 card. I have since i removed the 30 minute limit as my camera is a pal camera had a remaining time of 1 hour and 1 minute when using a fresh card. I let the camera run till the card was full, in the end it ran for only 45 minutes :)

I then changed my hack settings to the A settings as they were previously C settings with the hope that i would get a longer record time as the bitrate would be lower yet after i upgrade my firmware the remaining record time on a fresh card was still 1 hour and 1 minute.

Any suggestions regarding how i can increase my record time would be really appreciated, if anyone has had experience using a hacked gh1 with larger cards and got longer record times please let me know because if that is the problem then i will pick up a larger card straight away.
 
Was your card full after the 45 minutes? If it was, then I would expect the card size was the problem...
 
Teap the card was full when i let the camera record on c settings, i then tried to change to a settings have since tried original settings but it is still sayonly an hour record time
 
I don't think that the time is accurate when the hack is applied. It will all depend on how detailed your scene is anyways... For example, if you are shooting a scene where you are averaging 17 mbps then changing from C to A won't do anything. Why not just buy a card? I use a cheap class 6. They are very cheap!
 
I think i am going to have to buy a few 16gb cards. What settings are you using your class six ones on. ANy problems on long takes?
 
No problems at all.. my settings get me a max 35 mbs and my settings are 40,42,45 without 24p Native. I shoot a ton of scenes with a lot of detail with the kit lens and I have never had an error (oh except on pappas' second star chart, that thing is crazy). I have had many errors on other settings...
 
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