@crunchy Thank you! That alerted me to an oversight I made in importing the HBR video into Adobe After Effects CS5.5. The GH2 records progressive HBR videos into exactly the same 1080i file format as interlaced FSH files, and there is no explicit way for an editing program to tell the difference. As a result, After Effects naturally assumes that HBR files are interlaced, and interprets the footage as "Upper Field First", which causes spurious interlace artifacts. To correct this, I had to use AE's Interpret Footage dialog to set Separate Fields to OFF. That eliminates the interlace distortion in the HBR frame grab I first uploaded, which I've now corrected in that post. Here's two frame grabs for comparison:

Flow Motion v2 1080p25 HBR mode, incorrect displayed "Upper Field First"

Flow Motion v2 1080p25 HBR mode, "Separate Fields OFF"

Thank you! Now it shows "There was a problem loading this video", but I was able to load the original file.

@LPowell, I tried but it says: "Sorry but you do not have the proper permission to access this area of Vimeo.". :-(

@LPowell You mentioned that "the original HBR video is available for download from the Vimeo link". Can you state it more precisely where is it? I've found only 24P and MJPEG version.

Here are links to the original Flow Motion v2 low light video files previewed in the previous post. Unfortunately , Vimeo balked on compressing the HBR version into its online streaming format, but the original HBR video is available for download from the Vimeo link.

Flow Motion v2 1080p 24H mode

Flow Motion v2 1080p25 HBR mode

• Download link: vimeo.com/43353433/download?t=1338757200&v=101354523&s=755c93b6e6ca720a1688fc3b17521719

Flow Motion v2 1080p30 MJPEG HD mode

@EH_films Nice sky shots, was the graininess added in post?

I decided to take some shots this morning with the 2.0 patch. I used the 720p in a few places and didn't really notice any problems. Video was converted to 2:35:1 for that look...

@v10tdi I tried every kind of shutter-button focusing trick I could think of, but still couldn't find a way to provoke a recording error in 720p60 Creative Movie Mode in the "P" setting. I was using a Panasonic Lumix 45-200mm lens in OIS and AFS mode, and zooming occasionally to alter the aperture setting. I don't have access to a 14-140mm zoom, so if it's something specific to that particular lens, I don't have a way to test for it.

@LPowell - I'm able to reproduce the error in 720p SH creative movie mode using the 14-140 panny lens. I usually produce write/speed errors when focusing (shutter half-press) or exposure changes (aperture) during filming. Sandisk 16GB Extreme 30MB/s Class 10

On the flip side, the footage quality is spectacular.

Let me know if you want the MTS

@LPowell: I shot the 720p60 samples in "Stills P-Mode".

I tried recording the same scene 3 times in a row, it stopped in all three cases, the first time after 8 seconds, the second time after 15 seconds, the third time after 12 seconds.

Since I had to revert the firmware due to the 720p60 issue anyway, I decided that I could just as well use the opportunity to take some more shots in 24H, first with FM-2.01, then with GOP3ZILLA-MAX_Standard_V2_BETA5, to do some image quality comparison.

I merged some test shots in 24H at ISO 160 (the tree), at ISO 3200, 6400 and 12800 (just some dark corner of a hallway with some stuff) into a short video, with the patch settings side by side.

I did not apply post-processing to the ISO 160 shot, but to the ISO 3200/6400/12800 shots I applied a spatial/temporal noise reduction filter, a level/gamma correction and a bezier-curve based desaturation of the darker parts, choosing the filter parameters such that I liked the FM 2.01 recorded footage best, then I copied the filters including all parameters to the video track that I had recorded using GOP3ZILLA (which gives the latter some disadvantage with regards to fitting my personal preference, but I wanted to use the same parameters for a better comparability).

Of course, everything but the ISO 160 shot were extreme conditions where the result is far from being ready for the cinema... ;-) - but I just wanted to know how the many adjustments in FM 2.01 work under these difficult conditions.

The screen shots that I appended to this post were taken from frames that I considered "fairly comparable" - I tried to choose frames where both settings deal with the same (low but not zero) amount of motion.

I think it is not easy to decide what actually looks better, from the ISO 160 and ISO 12800 shots I could not assign a winner. In the ISO 3200 and 6400 shots, I think GOP3ZILLA retains a little more details, but it also has a little more contrast, which may or may not be a good thing. In the end, it's probably a matter of taste - and others may have preferred other postprocessing settings, of course.

Being one of those who had reported aborted recordings with FM 2.00 / 720p60, it took me a few days until the weather allowed to retry with FM 2.01 - but today there was sun & wind, again.

Alas, I have to report that FM 2.01 failed again, stopping the recording after only 8 seconds (on a freshly formatted SanDisk 64GB 95MB/s).

Find attached a screen-shot of the scene (just leaves of a tree moving in the wind, sun shining, GH2 mounted on a tripod), plus an animated GIF showing 12 frames near before the recording aborted. Recording parameters: 720p60 SH, shutter 1/200 (mode P), aperture 4.0, lens Panasonic Vario X PZ 14-42mm, f=~35mm was used, AFS.

If you would like to have the .MTS file (70 MB), too, please tell me where I could upload it (I don't have a vimeo account or alike).

@LPowell. Nice work. Which film mode (Nostalgic, Smooth, etc. )did you use to open up the shadows?