are we ready yeah are you sure you're ready for this actually hold on a second
let me just let me just fix the uh well no you don't it's it's already I I set
it up before we did anything so you don't have to change oh right this one
no no oh oh oh oh okay you know what
just for forget it I'll just I'll host it you you operate the camera let's just
go back to the normal way doing things what's uh what's this video about again SD
cards no right now I remember why you're
doing this okay let's
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now to learn more hey guys what's up Brandon here so SD cards they're boring
right line us obviously thought so but they're way more exciting than you
probably
realize
mine's changed no okay fine but onto my actual
point SD cards are one of the most important things I personally use on a
day-to-day basis and while I get some black for the number of them I've
collected over the years i' if I didn't have them I wouldn't be able to do my
job so learning about them for me was worthwhile investment and I'm going to share some of that knowledge with you
guys to start with we need to demystify some of the confusing numbers and
letters associated with the different classes of SD cards cuz there's a lot of
them class 4 class 6 class 10 UHS 1 UHS
3 does your brain hurt yet let's break it down each of these numbered classes
represents an increase in the minimum right speed in megabytes that a card can
can handle with UHS 1 and UHS 3 denoting
the most recent Ultra high-speed cards recently there's been a lot of hype
about consumer devices that can shoot 4K video and 4K support and SD cards which
is why the UHS 3 standard was introduced and is the focus of our video today does
it matter do I need a UHS 3 card to shoot 4K video well I wanted to know and
I also wanted more SD cards to play with so I asked lus if I could put in a few sample requests and he said oh yeah I
guess as long as you do the benchmarking on them so I did I ended up with nine
cards in total and I ran a number of different benchmarks including Crystal dismark as well as some real world
testing on a Canon 60 DSLR and our lovely Panasonic GH4 which is a 4K 30fps
capable camera these two cameras will be
amongst the most demanding cameras that can run on SD cards with the higher
performance options like our fs700 requiring SSD or proprietary media
something that you can see in this video here so how do we do well the numbers
speak for themselves most cards performed in Crystal dismark as expected
within the range of their rating benchmarking was done in an MSI gs70
with the built-in card reader which I used out of convenience when I observed
its results were pretty much identical to the one we were getting with the Standalone and Kingston USB 3 reader now
crystal dismark is only a synthetic benchmarking software and those numbers
are not necessarily representative of real world performance where other
factors like cam former can come into play so on to our real world tests for
the GH4 test I shot multiple 30 second and 1 minute Clips on each card the
first clip is in 4k at 30 FPS shooting at a bit rate of 100 megabits per second
the second clip is in 1080P at 30 FPS shooting in a very stressful bit rate of
200 megabits per second I was astonished to discover that every single card in
our Roundup worked perfectly with the GH4 I did a combination of static shots
with a slow pan and tilt with each card when playing back the footage in
Premiere none of them had any drop frames moving on to the Canon 6D test I
shot 30 raw Stills per card using the burst shooting mode here are my camera
settings to give a visual representation of this I recorded audio of the shutter
during the T test the audio bunches that you see here are the 18 raw Stills that
can be taken within the camera's buffer and every Spike after that is the
following picture leading up to a total of 30 to my surprise the Sony card came
in the slowest in this test even with its higher read right speed compared to
the lower-end ad and Kingston cards with sandis cards taking the win with very
solid performance in the shortest amount of time so conclusion time is One SD
card really better than another yes is it absolutely necessary to have a UHS 3
card for 4K video the short answer seems to be no
for now while only half the cards in this test are classified as UHS one they
all manage to have high enough speeds to handle the 100 to 200 megabit bit rates
of the G4S recording modes but in future cameras we might see higher supported
bit rates and you'll need to be careful to get the card that can handle the right speeds to match it should be noted
that if you're shopping that read speeds are far less important since they'll only come into play when ingesting
footage that you've already shot something that is rarely the bottleneck
with our workflow so thanks for watching let me know what you guys thought of the
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