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Memory Card Indicator Please Help
Hi All,
I have been using my DSLR for a few weeks now and all has been good, my first wedding is in 2 days time and today I am seeing a five level indicator on the right hand side of my LCD screen which keeps reaching the maximum and shooting just stops. The cards I have are the Transcend 32GB SDHC Class 10 memory cards, I have formatted the cards but as soon as I start to record again they stop and I see the indicator. I just don't know what to do as I have purchased 6 of these. The indicator is on page 164 of the manual. I am recording at 1920 50fps with image set to Raw.. Please Help |
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Have you got Magic Lantern running high bitrates ?
Are the cards genuine ? Before you use any card on a paying gig, record them to full and playback to make sure they are all ok. Better to stick to 16gb cards, all your eggs in one basket and all that. If a 32gb card fails, your going to lose twice as much footage I only ever use 16gb Transcends, never missed a beat in any of my cams. (EX1, 550D, TM900 and HX9) If your using DSLRs, make sure you always have 2 cams covering all the essential shots. Do you mean 1080/50i ? The raw setting has no effect on video recording |
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I don't have Magic installed and purchased the cards from Amazon. The cards had great reviews and were also suggested to me in this forum. 16GB cards have the same write speed so I may get the same error. 1920x1080@50FPS. I can't afford a two dslr setup yet but I have spent over 1.5k purchasing good quality highly recomended hardware. Why can't things just work! |
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So wait, every single one of these cards does this?
What other card have you been using? I would find someone with a similar camera and try them in there just to make sure it's not yours that they don't get along with. |
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What camera do you have? There is no 1920x1080@50fps on Canon line of cameras.
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Sorry 1280x720@50fps t3i 600D Shutter Speed 100.
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Tariq, could you try this software out to test your cards and let us know the results: http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/bo/...2testw_1.4.zip |
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If I am shooting at 50fps should I not be using the 180 degree rule meaning the shutter speed should be 100?
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What scares me is I will find out in post what the footage actually looks like. I am shooting a wedding so movement wise I have dancing, and that’s about it. The rest is just people sitting down eating and talking. If I shoot using 1/50 that should good for low light. All these figures that are out scare me a little as I am new to DSLRs but in general would you say
50p = 1/50 basic shooting 50p = 1/100 lots of motion like dancing and sports ? |
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Great, I will try this tonight. Is it worth doing a low level format on all the cards?
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The XHA1 default shutter speed at 25p is 1/25th and the footage is choppy. I need to change it to TV mode and increase it to 1/50 to make it watchable.
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Not at home at the moment but I will later. 1/50 "last time" is a bit harsh, I must say you are going against what pretty much every forum, YouTube video and piece of advice I have ever been given. I would love to hear other forum members’ thoughts on this also.
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Sorry Tariq, didnt mean to appear harsh, its just that you dont seem to willing to try anything for yourself. I have never shot 25p, and never will, simply because of the jerky nature of the footage. I have never used any shutter speed other than 1/50, for anything other than light control. Its simple, try shooting some footage, at various shutter speeds, then play it back, you will soon see for yourself what works, and what doesn't. The bottom line is, you need to know your equipments performance capabilities inside out. The only way to is to shoot, shoot, shoot, then tweak to your own preferences. I will admit, I am not a great fan of using DSLRs for wedding shoots, I did try for a year or so, but the DSLRs were, and still are, used as B cams only. For me they added far to much extra work in a wedding situation. And I was never taken with there relatively low resolution, and aliasing and moire problems. But hey, each to his own.
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Thanks for your comments, I am willing to try but DSLRs and 50fps is a new concept for me. The footage is fine shooting at 50fps@1/50 or at 50fps@100fps I don't see a major differnce. What I really don't want to do is shoot knowing that my camera is set up correctly using advice from experts. e.g DSLR video & shutter speed - Digital Grin Photography Forum |
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Like I said Tariq, try it, and satisfy yourself that it is doing exactly what you want it to do. When it is just so, leave it at that and you can shoot with confidence.
Good luck with the wedding by the way |
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Check this out Tariq, it may help. http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/sony-xdc...x-720-50p.html
Lots of different opinions, as I say, the best way is to try out all settings and see which one works for you. Good luck. |
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Either you got some bad cards or they are "counterfeit" (which I doubt because Transcend is not a topnotch brand that gets counterfeited). Do not even think of using those on a wedding, you are flirting with disaster. Spend the money to get several SanDisk media FROM A TRUSTWORTHY SOURCE (SanDisk is probably the most counterfeited brand, which should tell you something), format them in camera and test them thoroughly. But don't "dink around" with those Transcend cards anymore. (Watch all the Transcend "True Believers" argue with me here). |
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Pay attention to what Colin Rowe is trying to share with you. |
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On the other hand, several of the cards that work well in my cameras aren't even recognized in my H4N. But that last line is very true.... don't use them for a wedding. |
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