Continuous Shooting Video?

[NarwhalDancer]

Hi everyone, slightly strange question but I was wondering if the Z2 can shoot continuously or if there is a time limit? I know it may also depend on how much space you have (I have a 64GB micro SD card btw) but I was thinking of using the phone as a video camera and wondered how long I can keep shooting for, battery-life wise?

[_alexdon_]

If you want to shoot 4K,the bitrate is around 55-56 Mbps ~ 7 MB/s.So if we make some calculus here,from 64 GB you have about 59.6 GB.That is about 60000 MB.So 60000/7=8514 s.So,you get about 140 minutes for 4K recording.But of course your battery will not handle that much.

[NarwhalDancer]

Oh I wasn't planning on shooting in 4K, sorry I should have said. I will shoot in 720p. I just wanted to check if the phone would stop recording after a pre-determined amount of time like on my DSC-HX9V camera.

If it just shoots continuously until either the memory card is full or the battery has run out then that's fine.

Thanks for your explanation though.

[_alexdon_ · Accepted solution]

I think that the limit will be 4GB due to FAT32.

[biistu]

Format your Sdcard as exfat and the file size will not be an issue.

[NarwhalDancer]

Thanks very much for the info. I think shotting anything for too long will make the files too big for editing anyway but at least now I know what leeway I have.

[hedrox87]

Is exFat somewhere available from windows to format? I can only see the Fat32 and NTFS format. Where to change the file system of SD??

[_alexdon_]

You could try a low level format tool,that could let you format to exFAT.

To do it directly,try this:

- Open a command prompt by typing cmd into the Start/search box and pressing Enter
- Type format g: /FS:exFAT and then Enter to begin formatting the G drive as exFAT

(Replace g with the correct drive letter of your external drive.)

To see all other options, type format /? and press Enter.

Read more here.It seems you cannot format to exFAT an internal drive.