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[ximfinity]

im pretty sure it was just recording for the length of the movie as it was uneddited, he probably turned it off from time to time or it ht the ground and errored or whatever other device you would like to use. regardless of all of these, i think its just not rational to scrutinize over whether a camera could record for this long when you have already accepted a giant monster as being plausible...

[Random_kid]

ok ok so i get the debate
SD or TAPE?!?!?! 7 HOURS or 1 HOUR AND 24 MINUTES?!?!?

but uhhhhh
why does this matter?
isnt it kind of fruitless?
... as in there is no point in this
because you know its a movie
and movie can do this kind of shit

[Angstfild]

The point is that you cannot partially record over something that is digitally recorded like you can a tape. If you have seen the movie then you understand the problem.

[xboyonfirex]

yeah, the full 7 hours wasn't recorded, and if it WAS edited- wouldn't they have discarded anything that had nothing to do w/ the event?

Perhaps, it was both tape and SD. I like that route anyways... above all- it's FICTION. So you name it and it was just that. Obviously, J.J. wants us to fill in a lot of the information- so, I'm seeing this as a handycam that was both SD and tape accessible. end of story for me.

And just a thought- Discuss this all you guys want and build up as much of a conclusion as you guys would like, but don't tell anyone that they're wrong for their thoughts on how certain unanswered issues worked out because you'd simply be playing a "pot/kettle" scenario and nothing more.

[6slushos]

it makes it seems that yes, it was recorded for 7 hours. because rob was like "7 hours ago..some thing attacked the city". and hud has been taping since then. you as the viewer cant say its 74 minutes because we cant be sitting in the cinema for 7 hours to get a blow by blow. so you'd think its 74 minutes only. but no, its 7 hours of taping in actual cloverfield reality and edited to 74 minutes of important reel by CIA.

the other thing that really really bothers me- SDs can't like rewind back that way to older videos right? it isn't tape.

[Random_kid]

[Angstfild]

[hawkeye41]

[Little Albatross]

[Roe]

It's probably one of those things where the movie was designed and written to be about a tape.

Panasonic then outbid everyone else for the rights for advertising, and hence the conflict.

It is a business world after all, and everything about this movie is to make money. Even all the viral stuff.


By the way, does the Panasonic camera at issue have night vision? That's pretty cool.

[Roe]

OK, if it is the Panasonic HDC-SD1, it doesn't come with night vision.

Hence, obvious conflict, it's not the same camera.

(there is a Panasonic-SDR-H18 which has night vision, and it has a tape! Though this is starting to get a bit carried away)

[Anony]

I kinda assumed that the flashback footage wasn't as much the camera screwing up as HUD not being able to use the camera, thus maybe fast forwarding a little leaving space for the old footage to show.

SO the question is: If I recorded something on an SD card, rewound it, and recorded something else over but left space between the first as second take but not going beyond the time of the original recording; would it show the older footage between first and second take?

Just an idea, I don't have an SD card based camera so I don't know, and can't test it.

[Euchre]

[samuron]