real world redmag wear and tear advice

[Brian Merlen]

We have been shooting ten hour days 5 days a week using the same 64gb redmag. We typically capture using hd sdi but keep shooting on and formatting the card as a back up form of capture the entire day, and occasionally we use 4k shots when we need a different frame rate for something. That being said the DP is concerned about real world usage issues that might come up from reusing the same redmag so many times. So far we haven't had many issues, like one clip got corrupted one time, which isn't bad considering we have been shooting 250 shots a day since March 4th. Thanks for the advice!

 

[Louis Maddalena]

I think the primary reason why they are so expensive compared to other media solutions is because of their reliability and their ability to be used a great number of times before issues start arising.. I think you should be fine. Although, you may want to invest in a few more cards just so you don't need to worry about going insane dealing with the one.