D7000 - Card Recommendations for Video?

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I recently bought a D7000 and a couple of 32GB SDHC Class 10 cards at the camera shop at the same time (Silicone Valley brand). After shooting about 10 minutes of 1080p video 24fps the one card froze up. The reading on the camera said 'card error'. I tried the 2nd card and got the same result.

After switching the camera off several times and even removing the battery for a minute or so I couldn't get the damn thing to record properly. Now I'm no expert about card compatibility and had heard nothing about having to use specific types of cards with the camera, but if somebody out there can recommend a solid card that DOESN'T freeze up when recording in 1080p 24fps on the D7000 PLEASE let me know. I'm really not in the financial position to go around buying and testing cards so any help would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
 
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Have you tried getting the camera itself to format the card? That often helps with movie recording errors. There's an option to perform a card format in the menus.
 
I have Just purchased a D7000 and I have two transcend 16gb class 10 cards bought from amazon. I have yet to put a lot data either photographs or video on them. I will try them out with a long 1080p video soon as that is also part of the reason I bought the camera. If these work ok I will let you know. I am in the uk and the cards cost £17 each. Probably $17 in the states I expect. In the mean time Andrew made a very good point about in camera formatting. Give that a try. If I was recommending brands, well sandisk or lexar (if they still exist) are good brands I've found but they are premium brands and cost more.
 
I've only used Lexar or Sandisk since I started using digital cameras. Never a problem and they work fine with the D300s video.
 
I haven't heard about formatting the cards before using them until now. I will try that and see if it helps. Still, I just ordered the 32GB SanDisk Class 10 High Capacity card from Amazon that records up to 30mb per second so I'm hoping that would do the trick. It's expensive - $154 - but I'm willing to pay more to make sure the footage is being recorded properly. Thanks for your replies!
 
For the OP, some card brands are just not compatible for reasons I never figured out. I'd just return/sell them and get a different brand, like sandisk, lexar, transcend, kingston, ect. also consider that some generic brands lie about speed, especially if you paid substantially less for them relative to similar spec'd name brands.

I use various sized sandisk extremes -class 10's...I even tried recording video to a 2gb kingston micro SD card..I think the speed rating was around class 6 - it worked but I would dont recommend...I use it as my stealth media when In shady situations.
 
Hey guys,

I just got a D7000 and I'm pretty much blown away by a lot of things... :) It's just that although I'm using a shutter speed of 1/50th the resulting video is still somewhat choppy. Computer is fast enough and I tried ProRes, VLC etc. So I'm wondering whether my class 6 SD card is maybe just a little too slow. So that it drops some frames. Could that be the case? Any experiences...
 
I just got my wife a d7000 Monday. I am trying class 6 also. When I down loaded to Aperture it was choppy. When I downloaded a clip into IMovie it did a conversion and it is not choppy. I will keep you posted. I have not had time to play with it. I'm trying Lexar Platinum II in our second D7000.
 
It has nothing to do with your card speed's. The camera would give you an error or warning if its unable to record to the card in full. If your trying to play back video from the card, then thats your problem...Dont do that. throw it on your harddrive and then give it a try. If your still getting choppy playback, either your computer is not capable of playing it back (its resources might be hogged for instance) or you have a weak video card.
 
Thanks for the info and recommendations everybody!

Here's an interesting bit of info I found in a detailed review of the card I ended up buying which may be some useful info to DSLR users:

"Tip for maintaining memory card speed: Once you have copied all the photos from your card to your computer or storage device, format the card in the camera you are going to use it in using the camera menus. This provides two benefits: all fragmentation is eliminated because you are starting out with a brand new file system with no data in it (filesystems with all files deleted can still suffer from directory and file allocation table fragmentation). Secondly, the camera will optimize the file system parameters (such a sector size) to work the most effectively for that camera. The SD card may take longer to copy to the computer, but that is OK: the important thing is to be able to have top performance in the camera. In-computer performance may be traded off for faster camera performance."
 
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