Screen Record Stop Itself, IPad!

Hi, I screen record a imported lesson for a hour in my IPad and when I wanted to stop the recording, i found out that the recording had stopped by itself. Then it comes up a note that the screen record had stopped because of some problem. Is it still possible to find the record back? It is very impotent to me and it was not saved in my gallery.


Thank you

Posted on Feb 15, 2021 10:10 PM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2021 11:26 PM

Screen/video recording takes up a lot of intenal data storage space

One minute of 720p video costs 60 MBs of internal data storage space.

One minute of 1080p recorded video takes 130 MBs of internsl data storage space.

An hour video at 720p takes up over 3.5 GBs.

An hour of 1080p video takes up nearly 8 Gbs.

While video is recording, it is actually temporarily taking up double this amount of storage space as it is save into a buffer before saving the single video file.

So, this goes to 7 GBs for an hour long 720p video and 16 GBs for an hour ling 1080p video, respectively.


If your iPad does not have sufficient intenal storage space to screen record a long recording, then the recording will prematurely end and will not save.

That screen recording is gone, never happened.


Sorry.


Before doing any long screen/video recording, it is necessary to make sure your iOS device has sufficient internal device storage to do so.

Otherwise recording will stop and will NOT save and you lose the recording.


Sorry,


Something new for you to learn about your iPad and video recording.

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Feb 15, 2021 11:26 PM in response to kayiaa

Screen/video recording takes up a lot of intenal data storage space

One minute of 720p video costs 60 MBs of internal data storage space.

One minute of 1080p recorded video takes 130 MBs of internsl data storage space.

An hour video at 720p takes up over 3.5 GBs.

An hour of 1080p video takes up nearly 8 Gbs.

While video is recording, it is actually temporarily taking up double this amount of storage space as it is save into a buffer before saving the single video file.

So, this goes to 7 GBs for an hour long 720p video and 16 GBs for an hour ling 1080p video, respectively.


If your iPad does not have sufficient intenal storage space to screen record a long recording, then the recording will prematurely end and will not save.

That screen recording is gone, never happened.


Sorry.


Before doing any long screen/video recording, it is necessary to make sure your iOS device has sufficient internal device storage to do so.

Otherwise recording will stop and will NOT save and you lose the recording.


Sorry,


Something new for you to learn about your iPad and video recording.

Feb 16, 2021 11:09 PM in response to kayiaa

Okay,

Thank You very much for the screenshots and for all of this info!

Thanks!

You actually have much less storage space than you think and that is being reported by the OS.


A 64 GBs storage iPad starts out with approx. 60 GBs.,after initial internal flash drive formatting.

Minus approx. 7.0 GBs for iOS/iPadOS leaves 53 GBs.

Minus 2-4 GBs, for iOS/iPadOS system operational reserve, that needs to be maintained at all times, leaves approx. between 49-51GBs of actual, usable data storage space.

You have used up 37 GBs of that 50 GBs.

This only leaves your iPad with an actual, free internal data storage space of 13 GBs


This is the actual internal data storage space you actually have left inside of your 64 GBs iPad.


So, you really may not still have enough sufficient intenal data storage space to record an hours worth of video at a high video quality setting.

Which is something I had suspected all along.


You might be able to still do this IF you go into the Settings app, under camera settings and change the video quality to its lowest possible quality settings.



Best of Luck to You!

Feb 16, 2021 10:23 PM in response to kayiaa

What year and model iPad do you have/own?

The “A” model number can be found on aluminium back of your iPad in small print right under the larger bold print “iPad”.

What iOS/iPadOS version is this iPad, currently, running?

What is the rated, internal data storage space/capacity of your iPad model and how much of this free, internal data storage capacity is left inside of your iPad model?

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