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Shooting video

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Shooting video

Robbie: So Rich, earlier we covered sort of the basics of what's out there for memory cards, but as you get into shooting video with DSLRs, there are some specific recommendations that we have about the memory cards that we're going to use. Richard: Yeah, I think it's important to really think about what type of formats you're going to shoot. If you're shooting 720, that's not going to be as demanding as shooting 1080 unless of course you're doing 720, 60, then it's more demanding, and then some of the newer cameras coming out are actually supporting better codecs. So we've got new generation DSLRs, sort of the third generation DSLRs coming out, and they'll have options for what they call edit-friendly codecs that are less compressed and those are higher data rates, right? Robbie: Yeah, absolutely. I mean as a rule of thumb for shooting video, if you know that you're going to be shooting video only, what I tell people is that, you don't need to spend that extra money on the biggest…

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