Massive video files from my 550D (T2i)

[nateo200]

Hi guys! Ok this may sound stupid but my short clips on my new Canon T2i are MASSIVE. I swear if I do a short clip like 90 seconds long I end up with a 750 megabyte file size....lol Now obviously HD content is going to be massive but come on its not like I'm shooting with red one at 4.5k at 60fps lol. It happens at 720p @ 60FPS and 1080p at 24FPS...I'm all for large files but I only have an 8 gig card that's good enough (PNY 8GB 20MB/s) and it says its rated for "2 hours of HD video" which could mean anything but I mean come on...advice? It just seams weird...can I lower this some how? I'm a total newb to expensive DSLR's (and in debt hehe). Thanks in advance...

[aedipuss]

did you try reading the manual??? you don't get any choice other than size with that camera.

[nateo200]

did you try reading the manual??? you don't get any choice other than size with that camera.


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Haha yes I regret to inform I did in fact read a manual! One of the few times I guess its okay eh? I must have missed that but thanks! I guess its really no big deal since I can just dump video back onto my 1 terabyte of space on my MBP. I take it there is no way to record directly to my MacBook Pros HDD? I read up a bit and It seams I can control the camera but not record to the HDD directly.