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So I just got my new T3i awhile ago and started playing around with video mode, but whenever I try to take video after about 15 - 50 seconds of recording it stops and shows "Video recording has stopped automatically" on the screen.

Before you say "The sensor is over heating" or "Your SD card is not good enough" I should mention that:

A) The sensor overheat icon did not once pop up on the screen (plus, why would the sensor overheat in less than a minute?)

B) My SD card is a 32GB SanDisk Ultra SDHC Class 10 card, and at the time of shooting video it had 27GB of free space

I guess I should add that I was attempting to shoot at 1920x1080p @ 24fps in RAW

Are you sure its not a setting r something? Did you google the topic?

Turn off the video snapshot feature.... That is recommended on several resources.

It's disabled I checked that first (plus the max video snapshot is 8 seconds), but I did search that it can be a problem where you have to format the SD card or possibly fiddle around with the set button in some way.

I will try soon and post results

I've had that happen to me as well. Try reformatting the sd card and try again.

Your ultra is 30mb/s? Should be too slow. Try Extreme 45mb/s. I'm pretty sure it's the card. 32gb for $40 at Aden right now.

+1

I also read somewhere that the 45mb/s card is what you need.....

Well I got around to saving all the pictures I wanted and then formatted the card, now video mode works just fine.

You should stop taking hardware advice from whoever gave you the idea that 30mb/s is too slow for transferring 1080p video. You can easily shoot 1080p raw video at more than 60fps with a 30mb/s card, you would only need a 45mb/s card if you were shooting 1080p at 120fps or higher.