How long can t3i record

When I hold it and there's movement it stays recording. It's probably a setting so you don't accidentally record hours of video but how do I turn it off? I'm pretty convince this is NOT a memory card I was looking at some cards and suggestions, and I was wondering how much p and p video could fit on a 32GB SD card.

Below, I have links to some Go to the Canon website. Download the manual in PDF form. Read the manual, including the table near For Christmas I got the Canon rebel t3i and I love it so much. With it I also got the sandisk class 6 memory card. I have not used the video very much until now since I started making YouTube videos.

Every time I try to record it gives me the error Get a decent Class 10 one. Also you need to use an empty and reformatted card. The ability to gradually build edited movies in-camera in a relatively straightforward manner will make it attractive to amateurs, but the inability to edit already-existing clips together after the fact may prove frustrating, as will the requirement that all clips in an album have the same length.

It's also not possible to create an album that doesn't have a strictly chronological order. An example showing three clips joined in camera can be seen above. Essentially, this cropped the video stream from the centermost portion of the image frame, and saved it at pixel resolution. Where VGA Movie Crop was available only at the lowest video resolution, Video Digital Zoom is curiously only available at the highest Full HD p resolution, and offers only a minimum of 3x zoom -- there's no way to obtain a zoom level between 1x and 3x.

It's also a variable zoom, ranging from a minimum of 3x to a maximum of 10x equivalents, rather than a fixed zoom like the earlier mode. A little back-of-the-napkin math suggests that even at the lowest zoom level, there's a little interpolation going on to yield a 1, x 1, pixel video with 3x zoom from the sensor resolution of 5, x 3, pixels. By the time you reach the maximum 10x zoom, almost three quarters of the image data must be interpolated. Where the VGA Movie Crop mode made some sense in that it didn't involve interpolation, and took its video feed from what's typically the sharpest, least aberration-prone area of the image frame, the new Video Digital Zoom function seems to make rather less sense.

There's a clear degradation in video quality by the time you reach the maximum zoom level, and much the same effect could be achieved simply by interpolating the data post-capture, with either a huge savings in flash card space by recording at a lower resolution, the ability to change the crop area to provide stabilization and follow your subject around the frame, or to a lesser extent both.

However, with that said, consumers shooting with camcorders have happily put up with digital zoom functions with much greater strength than this for many years, and there's no need to use the function if image quality or storage space is a concern.

Like most competing SLRs with video recording capability, the Canon T3i sports an internal monaural microphone that can record an audio track. Canon doesn't publish specs for the T3i's audio recording capability, though video players report monaural bit PCM audio at 48 kHz. Subjectively, audio recorded with the camera's internal mic seemed clear, although we don't currently test frequency response or sensitivity, and wasn't particularly directional, picking up noise from behind the camera as well as in front.

While we noticed some audible hiss in audio tracks recorded with the in-camera mic in quiet environments, it didn't seem as significant as in some cameras we've tested, and fortunately, we didn't hear any audible "breathing" from the auto-gain system adjusting sensitivity as sound levels got louder or softer. Internal mics are somewhat problematic, though, in that they're prone to picking up noise produced by autofocus operation, control actuation, or even just moving your hands while recording.

While we haven't noticed pronounced differences in how much camera-handling noise various models' internal mics pick up, they do vary significantly in terms of how much noise there is during autofocus operation, and with the kit lens, the Rebel T3i's autofocus motor noise is extremely clear indeed.

Thankfully, the T3i also provides for an external mic, courtesy of a 3. Simply switching moving to a shoe-mount mic with some form of shock mount can do wonders for your DSLR audio, while moving the mic off camera at a distance can completely resolve the issue. Another feature that can help resolve audio problems -- and one that's still relatively rare in consumer-oriented cameras -- is the adjustable sensitivity for the microphone.

There are no less than 64 sensitivity levels to choose from, along with an Auto gain function, and the ability to disable audio capture altogether.

The settings apply both to the built-in microphone, and to external mics. There's also an optional wind filter function which dials back low-frequency sounds, squashing wind noise, but also potentially doing the same for bass levels in captured audio. What are these limits? The camera came with a minute recording limit.

Because of the way the camera stored files on cards, the files needed to have a cap. If there was no cap, the camera would overheat. As time went on, the cameras got better at this. This big brother to the 5D Mark II had a newly designed interior, overcoming the overheating issue. Seamless file spanning also fixed the 12 minute cap. Suddenly, 30 minutes became the new video recording limit. More companies began to add video features to their DSLR and mirrorless cameras.

Consistently, they met this minute recording cap. Nikon, Sony, and more — all capped at 30 minutes. It seemed you needed a true video camera in order to record any long-form interviews or shoot without having to stop and start your recording. The problem is, most of these video cameras come at an extreme cost. What determined whether a camera was a video camera? In short, the ability to record longer than 30 minutes. Thus, companies like Canon and Nikon decided to cap their video clip lengths, preventing their enthusiast and prosumer cameras from being considered video cameras.

This is all supposedly going to get phased out starting in July of only about a month from the time of this writing. Keep an eye out here for more news on that front. The reason why this is being questioned is the 30 minute video recording limit is just not necessary. It has nothing to do with file systems and overheating cameras anymore. The GH5S is one of the first digital cameras of this class and form factor to break away from the video recording limit.

Panasonic is putting a lot of effort into video capabilities for its users. However this will void your warranty. One thing is clear, video is here to stay.

These cameras has seen a huge uptick in sales due to their video capabilities. Only time will tell. If I am shooting a wedding video will the time limit reset if I stop at 5 or 10 minutes to recompose?

Why does one want to shoot for such a lengthy time frame? I'd doubt it would even fit on an CF card. Recording a lecture at the college might well require up to 50 or 60 minutes of continuous recording. There is a feature in ML called movie restart that tries to restart recording after it stops at 30 minutes.

It causes about a second worth of dropped frames though. Thanks everyone. Your replies have been helpful, and it looks like I'm getting a T3i! I've thought about a dedicated camcorder for the purpose, but that would limit me to video only, and I enjoy still photography from time to time.

I too am in a position of needing to record 2 hour lectures, hour-long interviews, and 1. Is this something that can happen in ML? What exactly causes this limitation? I'm aware of the European legal reasons that canon would choose to do this, but I'm in America and not governed by those tax laws and thus I feel perfectly justified in my want to circumvent such a trivial limitation.

If this is a technical problem, could someone please outline it for me so I can understand it better? Thank you! The technical problem is called "reverse engineering". It's what we have to do to be able to do anything at all on the camera. It is a very slow, tedious, time consuming, unpredictable, and challenging process.