 Hey guys, welcome back to my youtube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here another video regarding the wonderful beast of a camcorder the Canon XA40 Professional camcorder from Canon. I upgraded to this guy from the Vixia HFR HFR 800 which I'm using to shoot this video with Today's topic as I continue to learn more things about this delightful piece of technology is regarding the SD storage and the various options for using two SD cards So when I upgraded to this guy, I only had one full-sized SD which I was using in the camera I am recording this on it's just a standard Sandisk full-size SD now you can use Micro SD with an adapter however in the experience of many people including me you're better off using full SD to avoid Any potential issues, so this is my original card. It's nothing nothing special or fancy. It's just a sandisk SD XC1. I know there's different Classes of memory. I don't really understand much about them. So I've always just gone with standard sandisk I've yet to have a problem perhaps because I never I almost never record in for 4k. I'm mostly recording in 1080p So that was this guy and today I said, you know what as I have two SD cards available to me now and I as well use the second one So I went ahead and bought Another SD card and you can see they just fit side by side here And it's I tried to get the same one, but they didn't have it in stock So I've got one it looks like to me the right speed is a bit slower It's a hundred megabytes a second as opposed to 120 So I'm not sure if that can even do 4k, but it's probably never gonna actually use it It's just there for for backup. So I'm gonna put this guy in Well, not really for backup, but for over capacity if I fill up the first one, which as I'm gonna show you now is Pretty unlikely to ever actually happen So more likely it will actually be for backup of this for some reason fails at least I'll have a second one in the machine Now there's this little visor that you just flip down to protect them And if you don't do that the system will give out to you and say hey put down the put down the visor now What I want to show you guys is the various ways you can use your two memory cards because there's a couple of options here in the menu so if I go into menu and I go I'm gonna just use the Physical control I'm gonna turn off the camera lights here. So you can get you guys can see the screen a bit better Menu one menu one menu two Yeah, it's gonna be under this one. So it's the second main menu The format menu and all that good stuff and then you need to jump over to page number two And here you're gonna have everything related to recording media So the first thing it says is you have an option now that I have the two cards in I can actually choose to put photos and videos on different memory cards, which is quite a nice functionality For my use I'm using be as I said for overflow So in other words if I for some weird reason filled up 256 gigabytes worth of memory I would just want it to go straight on to be so I'm gonna keep everything on the same card now Here's the main option dual slash real real really recording you have standard recording dual recording really recording Now I've just read the manual. So I hope that I have this accurate Please verify with yourselves in the manual dual recording is going to record to both cards at the same time, right? So that's gonna record everything to card a and card B. It might silver What's the point of that the point would be back up? So you'd be recording a backup track a backup of everything onto one card Standard recording will just be standard. So in other words, I could just say well I'm gonna do be for photos a for video and that's the way the camera will work Really recordings what I'm actually gonna go for and you can see if I just zoom in on a bit the symbol It says it kind of pushed over so really recording is a is gonna fill up and we're gonna automatically go over to be and Then the other thing you can see is available space and memory So I have a nice little schematic here where I can see my two SD cards and I can see the total space is 256 gigs I've used up 10 gigs at the current time on the first card And as you can see it gives you also a little breakdown of the various codecs So you can see now if I use mp4 codec at 17 mega bits per second I have 31 hours of recording time. So I don't know how I fill up this to be honest I mean I need to kind of given that that's more than the hours on a day Maybe I'd be on some crazy 24-hour a day of my life 48 hours in my life madness And I fill up the card, but realistically it's probably not gonna happen But you can see anyway what your remaining time is on the card and if I use the XF But this is actually a little bit more more credible You might fill it up if you use the XF AVC codec at 45 You've got 12 hours and if you went up to 4k you probably would get less So if you're using XF AVC and 4 channel and recording all data conference It is possible you'd actually burn through a lot of memory and I've got look at this This is insane at 16 to 9 aspect ratio I can take 234,800 photos So combined I can probably take almost half a million photos with all the storage here Then I can see my class B I won't bore you guys with the details same business, but it does detect the class You can see there it says class U1 and then gives you all the details Okay, so about half a terabyte now memory in the final thing that you can do is you can choose to Format the memory cards separately right so you can initialize Either memory card one by one if you want to do that But they are pretty much good to go. So that's basically how the dual SD card recording works on the XA40 and as I said before I think the XA50 and 55 pretty much function The same way in this regard. Hope that video is useful. Thank you guys for watching