Galaxy S9 Plus Recording times

videooman · Jan 4, 2019

I am a pro videographer and TV producer for FOX Sports. I am considering using the S9 Plus as a B-roll camera with gimbal. I have read where the recording time has it's limitations; i.e., can only record for 5 or 10 minutes. What does that mean?

I would be using the S9 Plus as a camera that would require shooting as much as an hour of video in a one day shoot. But I would be shooting in scenes no longer than 1 or 2 minutes each.

Is this phone a good investment for me?

Thanks much,

Danny
(Los Angeles)

Unforgiven · Jan 4, 2019

videooman said:
I have read where the recording time has it's limitations; i.e., can only record for 5 or 10 minutes. What does that mean?

I would be using the S9 Plus as a camera that would require shooting as much as an hour of video in a one day shoot. But I would be shooting in scenes no longer than 1 or 2 minutes each.

I think the limit, if it exists, would be continuous filming. It should easily do 1-2 minute clips as often as you want provided you have battery (overcome with a portable charger) and storage (either SD if available or cloud storage if your plan allows it).
This page from Sandisk give some guidelines for how much storage you would need for various storage needs.
https://www.sandisk.com/about/legal/hd

This has an actual calculator, so 60FPS of 1080p would require ~90GB of storage.
http://studiopost.com/contact/tech-specs/calculating-disk-space-requirements

videooman said:
Is this phone a good investment for me?

I'll let folks that know more about the S9 answer this part, particularly:

camera quality
internal storage
if it supports and SD card and if so, what maximum size

videooman · Jan 4, 2019

Thanks for your rapid response. So, if I were to use say a 256gb sd card then I could configure the phone so that all video would be recording onto that external card and not the internal memory. Correct?

Unforgiven · Jan 4, 2019

videooman said:
Thanks for your rapid response. So, if I were to use say a 256gb sd card then I could configure the phone so that all video would be recording onto that external card and not the internal memory. Correct?

Like I said, the phone specific questions would need to be answered by someone that owns an S9 or is familiar with Samsung devices in general. My experience on other phones with SD Card support is that I can direct media (i.e. photos, videos, music) to save on the external storage, but I don't want to mislead you when you are looking at an $800(??) phone.

electricpete · Jan 4, 2019

videooman said:
Thanks for your rapid response. So, if I were to use say a 256gb sd card then I could configure the phone so that all video would be recording onto that external card and not the internal memory. Correct?

Correct .my s9+ had 64gb internal storage (internal sd) and a chunk of that is occupied by system files . I don't think any variants come with more than 128gb internal sd. so long videos need to be recorded to an external sd .

I've never heard anything about s9+ having a non-sd-storage-related limitation on recording other than in super slow motion... in that case the 960fps frame rate is too fast to write to any sd (internal or external) so it is buffered to ram and recording duration is limited to a few seconds.

caveat I've never had occasion to personally record more than five minutes of video, so I can't say 100% from personal experience that it would keep going as long as there is sd storage available, but I certainly expect that's the case.

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