Kingston Canvas Go Plus SD card issues with DJI O4 Pro

Hi there

One of the recommended SD cards, as per O4 Pro specs, is Kingston Canvas Go Plus.

I bought three of these but none of them work on the air unit (they do work in my goggles N3).
No matter what video quality I set for recording, the air unit always throws “sd card error”.

Other SD cards I have work fine up to 4K 60 fps, but I haven’t managed to record at 100 or 120 fps yet as they are too slow. I guess I will have to try with more expensive sd cards?

Any thoughts on the Kingston Canvas?

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Can you not format them in the Air Unit?
That normally sorts any compatibility issues

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It throws error when I try

Have you a link

Yep

Bought it from amazon too

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0858MY6RT?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor

At just £6 quid from Aliexpress, it’s probably a fake card :confused:

If you’re buying from Amazon and the seller is not Amazon direct, it’s also probably a fake :confused:

Try a SanDisk Extreme Pro:

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:wink:

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Yeah, or one of those Pro ones :grin:

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I bought one.
Lets see how it goes

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I can vouch for the sandisk extreme pro cards and the non pro both work great I’ve got them in all my tech. Usually pick up a few in the black friday deals every year as you can never have to many. :+1:t2:

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I suspect they’re probably fine, but beware of a market flooded with cheap fakes :see_no_evil_monkey:

The one I bought from amazon came from Kingston

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I just bought a few of the amazon basics ones, they’re rapid. Copying off at over 100MB/s which was plenty for me pulling content off the o4 pro. Edit: just re-read you want 4k 100fps. Not tried it yet but think it should be fine.

The 4k60 h265 content was about 1GB/min so the 4k100 could be say 2GB/min meaning sustained write speeds of 30MB/s - should be easy for these cards, no?

I always now use Sandisk, never had a problem. Did try Kingson compact flash in my camera, tbh it was utterly crap, I tried another make (can,t remember which, but that had issues too. Lesson learnt- Stick To Sandisk, in almost 20 yrs of digital photography I’ve never had a single problem with Sandisk. Get the fastest you can to avoid buffering issues.

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Ok there might be a possibility that I am actually recording at 120 fps with no issues, but I have issues when playing the video on my pc.

It stutters a lot, so I associated that to a “corrupted” recording due to a slow sd card, but maybe the reason is my pc struggling ???

Could someone kindly check the video I uploaded and tell me if there is something wrong with it?

Thanks

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Ok it embeds the video which is not ideal.

I zipped the video and can be downloaded from here

:slight_smile:

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Plays OK for me - and Davinci Resolve is happy to edit it. :+1:

Ok It seems a pc problem then.

I imported the video in Capcut and exported at same resolution and frame rate.

The exported video plays fine.

odd

But you said

:man_shrugging: