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  1. SirLiesAlot SirLiesAlot is offline

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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 1:30am)

    So I bought a camcorder online last week because it was super cheap at the time. I got it in the mail today and just started messing around with it. The camcorder has a built in 64mb hard drive for the memory. I realized I would have limited recording time but I think something is wrong.

    I have 0 files on the camera and in the lowest resolution I only have a little over 5 minutes of available recording time. If I go to the highest resolution, 720, I only have 33 seconds of recording time available. The standard resolution only gives me just under 2 minutes...and so on.

    Is this normal? In the manual picture the display that shows the available time actually has it in hours. I was just wondering if anyone has, or was familiar with that type of memory on a camcorder and what kind of recording times they got.

    I've googled the living daylights out of this and got nothing. Please help.
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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 3:01am) in reply to SirLiesAlot

    64mb isnt that much....cant u just record to something else i.e. a SD card or the miniDV?
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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 3:05am) in reply to pokerhitman

    I can record to an SD card, just thought there would be more time available on the built in memory. Do the times seem right to you?
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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 3:07am) in reply to SirLiesAlot

    lol ya 64 mb is nothing in terms of video memory. sd cards are incredibly cheap these days tho so thats good news for you.

    edit. heres a pretty good deal on an 8gb card for $13.50 this should increase your recording times by about 125x

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-453-_-Product
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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 3:09am) in reply to ucantbeatthemeat

    Yeah, was planning on using one but the amount of time seemed super short. Probably because I know nothing about these things. Thanks for the advice guys, I appreciate it.
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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 3:13am) in reply to SirLiesAlot

    Ya seems about right...just think about it a 3 mintute MP3 is like 5mb....so 64mb of video is not gonna be that long....is the SD card ur only option?
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    Jan 29th, 2009 (1/29/2009 3:24am) in reply to ucantbeatthemeat

     
    Originally Posted by ucantbeatthemeat View Post

    lol ya 64 mb is nothing in terms of video memory. sd cards are incredibly cheap these days tho so thats good news for you.

    edit. heres a pretty good deal on an 8gb card for $13.50 this should increase your recording times by about 125x

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-453-_-Product

    I literally just ordered that exact card. I went from the confirmation page to here. Too funny. Thanks again for the help.
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