C200: SD Card strategy

chris f

chris f

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So I took my new C200b out for its first shoot and used it as a B-Cam for an interview. The editor was on the shoot doing on-site back ups of the cards and while it was taking forever to transfer it got me thinking on the fastest/most efficient workflow moving forward.

If I was filming a long interview in 4K internally to SD cards I'm thinking I could record dual slot with this two pack: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1348108-REG/sandisk_128gb_extreme_pro_uhs_ii.html

And then always have a 300MB/s card in one slot and a 95MB/s in the other slot. When it comes time to dump footage, hand the 300MB/s card off to the editor for fastest transfer and just have the 95MB/s card as a safety (and potentially never transfer from).

Not sure how much time that would save in practice, but in theory it seems like it would be a waste of money to have two 300MB/s cards in there recording dual slot and a waste of transfer time to have two 95MB/s cards in there recording dual slot.

Are there any holes in this logic?
 
I guess we'll find out..... just ordered. Will test next week and post results if anyone is interested.
 
Yea that would be a great option. When I'm producing, offload speed usually isn't an issue cause I do it when I get back to the studio, but when I'm shooting for someone else, I've found their card offloading preparedness to be all over the place so I'm always trying to have the fastest solution on my end so I can leave once I'm all packed up. Last week I had a producer that was on top of it - dumping cards throughout the day to his external SSD drives & everything was thunderbolt or USB 3. Once I was packed up everything was done and I was headed home. The other day though, the editor brought an external harddrive that was a single 5400rpm drive and it was going to take 1.5 hours to transfer, so I finally just told him to keep the card and I'd get it from him next week.

I'm a little too risk averse so whenever a dual recording option is offered I take it & putting all of my eggs in a 512GB basket would make me a little nervous (but I supposed you could always put a second one in the other slot as a backup....)
 
Definitely hear you on all of that...you ever use your 7Q as a backup? (Or it's probably with the C500 if two cameras are being used.)
 
I'm still working out how I'll incorporate the C200b into my shoots. My original thought is that it would be rigged on my Ronin-M on standby 90% of the time so I can go from interview or easyrig handheld b-roll with the C500+7Q straight to filming on the Ronin in a matter of seconds and the other 10% of the time use it as a B-camera for 2 camera interviews along side my C500+7Q, so I don't think it would ever have the opportunity to pair with the 7Q. Also, since I have the older 7Q and not the 7Q+ I don't think I could record the 4k signal coming out of the HDMI on the C200 anyways
 
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