Hello Dragos,
Thanks for reaching out.
1. It is not possible to use one field in two field groups. One field can be registered under one field group (meta box) only.
2. Which media field type you are using? If it has the setting 'multiple' => true
in the default field settings, it is expected result to save the array value (serialized) to the database. You can test with the field single_image
to see how it works.