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Hi Christopher. Welcome to the forum.
It is normal for dashcams to record smaller clips, the nextbase i think ( no personal experience with the brand ) are locked to 1 minute ones, personally i use 3 minute segments, but some cameras can do 5 too or even 10 minutes.
If you have a choice in segment size they are usually 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 10 minutes.
The reasoning is if something go wrong, but not catastrophic wrong, you only loose a little footage VS if dashcams recorded one long file you would loose it all.
But there should not be duplicate's, that sound strange to me.
If you have G sensor on while driving, a pothole or something might trigger a event file being made, typically they go in a RO ( Read Only ) folder, but i think some cameras do some kind of suffix to the file name.
I dont use G sensor while driving myself as unwanted event files would annoy the hell out of me, so my camera just record all the time and if i encounter something small i use the event button to either save the actual event in the RO folder, or in the case the camera are the buffer style to save,,,,,, "something at least" in the event folder i can use as a beacon to find the actual event if it are not in the actual event file.
Some cameras dont even allow you to turn off G sensor, in that case it is a must to have sensitivity set to low, personally i think that is stupid way, but it can actually work okay but it must be dialed in well.
So my advise is to turn off everything G - sensor and motion detect in the camera settings
Are your camera hardwired / used for parking mode ?
It is quite easy to drop XX number of files into a video editing software, and then output them as one long video instead, i think most software's are even able to sort the files according to their name so getting them in order are no big deal.
I think some dedicated dashcam players are able to bundle up a bunch of files and export them as one big file, not sure how any nextbase PC software are on this, but i think the dashcam viewer software support it, you can try and DL it, it is fully functional but will just load a couple of files in the free version, but if you can stitch together and export 2 files with DV you can probably also do it with XX files
It is normal for dashcams to record smaller clips, the nextbase i think ( no personal experience with the brand ) are locked to 1 minute ones, personally i use 3 minute segments, but some cameras can do 5 too or even 10 minutes.
If you have a choice in segment size they are usually 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 10 minutes.
The reasoning is if something go wrong, but not catastrophic wrong, you only loose a little footage VS if dashcams recorded one long file you would loose it all.
But there should not be duplicate's, that sound strange to me.
If you have G sensor on while driving, a pothole or something might trigger a event file being made, typically they go in a RO ( Read Only ) folder, but i think some cameras do some kind of suffix to the file name.
I dont use G sensor while driving myself as unwanted event files would annoy the hell out of me, so my camera just record all the time and if i encounter something small i use the event button to either save the actual event in the RO folder, or in the case the camera are the buffer style to save,,,,,, "something at least" in the event folder i can use as a beacon to find the actual event if it are not in the actual event file.
Some cameras dont even allow you to turn off G sensor, in that case it is a must to have sensitivity set to low, personally i think that is stupid way, but it can actually work okay but it must be dialed in well.
So my advise is to turn off everything G - sensor and motion detect in the camera settings
Are your camera hardwired / used for parking mode ?
It is quite easy to drop XX number of files into a video editing software, and then output them as one long video instead, i think most software's are even able to sort the files according to their name so getting them in order are no big deal.
I think some dedicated dashcam players are able to bundle up a bunch of files and export them as one big file, not sure how any nextbase PC software are on this, but i think the dashcam viewer software support it, you can try and DL it, it is fully functional but will just load a couple of files in the free version, but if you can stitch together and export 2 files with DV you can probably also do it with XX files
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