RicardoGray
Second Officer
Flight distance : 4356421 ft
United States
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QuadKid Posted at 2017-10-31 22:45
I use 32GB UHS1 cards, reason being, you will not fill the card filming in 4K during the flight time of 1 battery, when you change battery change the SD card, another benefit of this is if something happens during your flight and you loose the bird you will at least have the previous flights videos/photos as a fond memory.
I have experienced the lost aircraft with my sd-card and yes it sucks. I know of those who just keep adding files to the card, but I have always practiced saving my files to my PC after every time out. I was lucky to only loose the video I shot on that one flight.
As far as shooting in 4K, yes those files are huge and I have to ask why do you need to do that? It is nice for some short clips, but quite honestly 2.7K is still too much for me. I shoot in 1080P, and my videos are just as sharp as some I have seen in 4K. Now I'm sure some will argue that it is not possible, but I am not a photographer either. I'm talking for most PC's and TV, it will look just fine. The other thing is 4K or even 2K will take a lot of processing from your PC if you are going to edit. Anyway, just a suggestion, but just because you can shoot in 4K, doesn't mean you are stuck with that. Roll it back and you will find you have much smaller files and they will look just as good as the 4K stuff.
And to the point of sd-cards........yes they are much cheaper now for the most part, and it's not a bad idea to have a couple extras.
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