During IBC 2024, Angelbird’s CEO Roman Rabitch shared some interesting insights about the storage media market, trends and undercurrents, and the intricate relationship between cameras, memory cards, and computers. Though there are many memory cards and other video-capture media manufacturers, Angelbird specifically manufactures products for the filmmaking and video industry, so their insights are specifically relevant to our industry. Are SD less reliable? Should we always opt for the fastest card available? Does the future lie with CFexpress media? In this interview by Nino Leitner, CineD co-founder, Rabitch demystifies some common beliefs and concepts about the different types of memory cards. Also, in case you missed it, make sure to also check out our talk with Angelbird from IBC 2023. Let’s take a look! Angelbird AV PRO SX and AV PRO SE CFexpress Type B cards. Image credit: CineD Media card storage – industry trends, according to Angelbird Several trends are pointed out by Rabitch. An interesting one revolves around the different capacity sweet spots of various media types. According to Angelbird’s stats, SD card users usually opt for 128-256GB capacity and V90 speed. This may represent a middle ground between the need for sufficient recording time and not wanting to place all the eggs in one basket. Angelbird AV PRO XT 1320GB CFexpress Type B card. Image credit: CineD Unsurprisingly, CFexpress users tend to go for larger 512GB-1TB capacities. This is probably due to the cards’ faster writing speed, which translates to similar recording time at a higher bitrate...
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