GH2 Remaining record time indication all screwed up

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mslade

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SO...I have several 16 G Transcend class 10 cards. When placed in the camera and formatted they have consistently shown 2 hours and 4 minutes available. This past weekend I noticed at about 1 hour into a recording that one of the cards showed 1 hour and 15 minutes remaining. As I watched it, it seems that the remaining time continued to increase past the normal 2h 4m. By the time it hit 2 hours recorded it showed 35 minutes remaining. Worried that something was amiss ( namely that it wasn't showing the correct remaining time), I took it out and put in another just after the 2 hour mark. Now the strange part. When I went to dump it to my laptop.....it only had about 14 G on it.....which would correlate to it having about 30 minuets of record time left....which is what the camera had indicated. SO it appears that the camera is showing a record time that is smaller than it really is.
Any idea why this is happening. It's occurring on multiple cards.
At the moment I'm testing on my other GH2. Right now it shows 15 minutes recorded and 2 hours and 2 minutes remaining......something is definitely wrong....

Mark
 
Not sure if this is your issue, but keep in mind the GH2 uses an AVCHD codec. It has 24mbps to work with... BUT, just because it has that much "bandwidth" to work with doesn't mean it always needs all of it.

AVCHD is a variable codec. Some shots are more detail/motion heavy, requiring more codec "bandwidth." Some shots are easier for the camera to handle, and thus require less bandwidth.

So the counter on your GH2 will never be entirely accurate. It just gives you a rough idea of how much time you have left, given the current recording circumstances.
 
Don't think that is the issue. They have always been close to the 2hour 4 minute mark......within a few minutes. Now they are 30-40 minutes off with the counter indicating more time recorded than what actually has been. The remaining indicator "seems" to be accurate....but I know it was working better just a week ago.
 
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