Leo stood in his home studio, staring blankly at his computer screen. He had just finished shooting a wedding in a remote mountain village, a career-defining gig. But as he tried to transfer the final 4K video clips and high-resolution RAW photos, his SD card threw a fatal error. Half of the files were unplayable; the "Final Vows" video was a garbled mess of gray pixels, and several critical portraits were heavily pixelated.