Kodak Playsport file question

I recorded a single event (about an hour) on my Kodak Playsport in 1080p mode. When I plug the camera directly to my TV to watch the video, it appears as a single file. But when plug the camera into my MBP (or just insert the SD card into my MBP) it sees that same video as two .MOV files. Can't figure out why the camera "divided" what was a single recording into two separate files?

Did you pause the recording at any point? I know my Flip will split the files each time you pause the recording session.

Did not pause recording. I got an answer on another forum that makes perfect sense if anyone else is interested. The SD card is formatted in FAT32, which has a maximum file size of 4GB. (My files split into 3.94GB and 1.27GB). So now I just need to see if the camera will recognize a card formatted in something else - will try NTFS, I suppose.

Achilles75 said:

Did not pause recording. I got an answer on another forum that makes perfect sense if anyone else is interested. The SD card is formatted in FAT32, which has a maximum file size of 4GB. (My files split into 3.94GB and 1.27GB). So now I just need to see if the camera will recognize a card formatted in something else - will try NTFS, I suppose.

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Ah yes, that does make sense! 4GB is indeed the maximum file size for FAT32. Can the camera actually recognize the NTFS filesystem? That would be extremely interesting as it's not ubiquitous like FAT32.

Keep in mind that natively, your Mac can't write to NTFS - not sure how important that is when you're just consuming the files that already exist on the camera, but something to keep in mind - especially if you ever try to delete some footage from the Mac.

Now, you can get a third party driver that can help with this, but just something to keep in mind. Thanks for sharing your solution!