During the first interview at the church, I also learned about other technical limitations that I would have to work around. One significant limitation had to do with file size. Working with other cameras in the past (when I was merely filming stage shows I produced), I saw that they would break up large movie files on their own, with a maximum file size of 2 gb. The iPhone does not do that. What that means, then, is that it merely produces the whole movie file as one large file. The only reason that this is really a problem is because there are file-size limitations that certain hard drive formats recognize. Because I use both Apple and Windows machines, my hard drives are all formatted for fat32 files, which has a max file size of 4 gb.
During
my first interview project (that wasn't completed), I saw that
iPhones kept huge files together. That meant that this time I was
going to be sure to only film at about ten minutes at a time. I had
to be mindful of that so that I could be sure to simply hit stop, and
then record again around 10 or 15 minutes in.
Of
course, all of this is on top of the max storage issue that I must
deal with, since I've only got a 16gb iPhone. (My friend actually
laughed at me when I told him I was trying to shoot a short doc with
this; he has a 128gb iPhone). Even with two 16gb iPhones, it would be
difficult to shoot more than 30 minutes on any day. Perhaps if I
continue with such projects, I will have to upgrade.
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