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Any Standard SD card will work with the GoPro as long as it is 2gig or below and formatted as FAT only. SDHC Cards will not work, they are formatted as FAT 32 and the GoPro will not write to cards with this format.

If you share your SD card with your Still Camera or other device it will most likely reformat the card for use in that device, so avoid sharing cards. If you have done this and want to reformat the card back to FAT so the GoPro can read it, do the following.

(You must have a Card reader plugged in to a USB socket to do this)
WARNING - (make sure the you select the correct Drive you do not want to reformat your main Hard Drive)

1.Click on My Computer
2.Locate the SD card in My Computer ( it will appear as a new drive letter eg: Drive D or other letter)
3.Right click on the drive letter and select format from the drop down menu
4.Select FAT for the system file (not fat16 or FAT 32) Just plain FAT
5.Tick Quick format and press start
6.This will take about 30 secs and your card will be formatted to work in the GoPro.

If you find your GoPro does not record the full 54 mins (and you have the correct batteries) then most likely you have a corrupted card and need to do the format above.
Some people report Psyceldelic/Kodachrome colours some times, the recommended fix for this is to remove the batteries and reformat your SD card, this fixes most of the discolouring.

On my MAC I can't seem to format anything less than FAT 16. ???

I'm not sure if formating is my problem. During my last session with the gopro in video mode the red light stayed on solid, it was not blinking. Then when I tried to load the video on my mac the file appeared to be corrupt. I cleared the card and tried to reformat it but again I can't seem to do anything less than FAT 16. I have put the card back in the camera and it appears to be recording. The light is now blinking.

I'm using Energizer advanced Lithium for the cold weather/water.

Thank you for any input.

Fishcamp wrote:On my MAC I can't seem to format anything less than FAT 16. ???

I'm not sure if formating is my problem. During my last session with the gopro in video mode the red light stayed on solid, it was not blinking. Then when I tried to load the video on my mac the file appeared to be corrupt. I cleared the card and tried to reformat it but again I can't seem to do anything less than FAT 16. I have put the card back in the camera and it appears to be recording. The light is now blinking.

I'm using Energizer advanced Lithium for the cold weather/water.

Thank you for any input.

I don't use a MAC, but what i would do is reformat the card in a friends PC to Fat and then only use the card for the GoPro nothing else. From then on, only clear the card using the Gopro delete function in the menu. (see your manual - user guide)

Lithium AAA are OK for cold conditions but are expensive to buy all the time as they are not rechargeable. The only rechargeable AAA lithium are 3.2v eachand too big for the GoPro and will blow it up.

Try the Everready recharge able in cold weather they are not too bad, you should still get 50 - 75% life.

The red light staying on is an indication of a "Hung card" and corrupt file.


Cheers Rambo

Thanks for the input. I'll format the card on a PC. I think I botched the card trying to force the format to FAT on the mac.

Once the batteries die I'll pick up the rechargeable ones. I did pick up a cheap card reader to save batteries and time. Wow what a difference is transfer rate.

Thanks again.

PS - this is my second gopro and I'm loving the new wide angle, when I have a working SD card. I lost my older 3M model off my kite. I love these little guys. I do miss the wrist attachment for surfing that is not available for the helmet pro.

Cheers.

Rambo wrote:Any Standard SD card will work with the GoPro as long as it is 2gig or below and formatted as FAT only. SDHC Cards will not work, they are formatted as FAT 32 and the GoPro will not write to cards with this format.

I'm not so sure about this one! I believe it will write to FAT32 cards.

This explains why this change has come about

Getting to the bottom of this, i can't believe GoPro didn't inform me of this earlier.

From GoPro Cameras

You can use a 4GB SD card on our new 5MP cameras, but you cannot save a file larger than 2GB or it will corrupt the file. This will change in two weeks when we release an update patch for all of our 5MP cameras that will allow you to use a 4GB SD card and save 4GB files. That's 1 hour and 54 minutes of record time.

And our new 5MP cameras will last for 3 hours and 15 minutes of recording (straight or split up) when using Energizer Lithium AAA batteries. We're still testing run times with NiMH rechargeables but it is looking to be the same.

We're working on a second patch that will allow for 8GB SD cards and 4 hours of recording but the time will be limited by the batteries...3 hours and 15 minutes.

thanks!!! http://www.goprocamera.com

Rambo

So the 5 wide can run 4gb SDHC cards and 8gb SDHC cards, right?
Yep I am right, as long as each video shot is less than 56 minutes.

Hmmmm....
I just put a 8 gig card in the pc, running vista, and clicked the format option. I only have 3 choicses. fat 32, ntfs, and exfat.

No FAT only option.

which should i use to format the card??

Leave it at Fat 32, or reformat at Fat 32. The 8gb firmware is still being debugged as of 2 weeks ago according to Gopro. I believe the priority is getting the HD Model ready for launch.

R