@9voltdc: nice footage. looks good. about time i get my hands on some good leica glass ^^

@phazedreality818

"i guess it does span just not the way i had hoped."

That is the only way spanning works, for all cameras and all codecs.

@artiswar - Yeah it is! What I like about it is that it's crisp, but not oversharpened. I kind of dismissed Boom myself because some of my tests looked oversharpened, but that screengrab looks just phenomenal. I'm going to load it back onto my camera and do some more testing.

ahh guys sorry for my confusion about spanning. i am new to the gh2. literally just got it yesterday and loaded the hack. i walked around my neighborhood with it today..... i was blown away by how amazing the video quality was....

great job guys!

I recently recorded a music show, and the result was beautiful! I used the 444 sharp2 drewnet cluster v7... really amazing thankx everyone!

@fatpig haha your funny, no i am not a pro in ANY way, to be honest i am a beginner! I just started working with dslr's and ae for half a year or so... I learned the camera tracking and c4d from youtube and vimeo tutorials with a lot of patience and trail and error :-)

Grading i did the basic grading in PP and some adjustments in AE

Look at this great tut, its not for c4d motion but this is one of the tuts i started with...

http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2011/12/how-to-make-an-animated-title-sequence-in-cinema-4d-and-after-effects/

Btw i used the new 3d camera tracker in cs6, not the way Nick is showing, its amazing!

Thanks for the the compliment though :-)

@Sangye

Thanks for your reply, however i know about shutter speed should be set to 50 @ 24 and 60 @ 30.

Look at the two following clips (the jib crane shots) the first one is shot at 29.97 the second one is at 24 (on the 7d but the result is the same as on the gh2) Slider movements are ok in 24p maybe i am doing something wrong in post... I did test several different sequence settings aswell as camera settings, i did think the 30p recordings (and video's) are a lot smoother...

30p crane shots:

24p crane shots:

I will futher do some tests with shutter speed and i will stick to the 24p mode on the GH2 as i only use the 7D on the crane due to the amazingly wide tokina lens, witch btw does not work on the gh2 :-)

Thanks!

@Splendiddd if your footage looks stuttery, it's more likely that your shutter speed is set too fast. Try to keep it between 1/50 and 1/25 for smooth movement. I've never, ever seen 24fps footage that looked too stuttery due to the framerate, no matter how fast the motion was. Footage with too fast of a shutter speed, on the other hand, can definitely look stuttery.

To answer your question, though, HBR in NTSC mode records in 30p. Some of the patches are optimized for 30p, but they use motion JPEG, and cannot match the image quality of the best 24p patches.

Does anyone know why i cannot access 720p and the mjpeg modes when a field monitor is attached? When i unhook the hdmi it works again, but when i connect it the options are gone...

@Mirrorkisser, yes the spanning works, however there is a (very) tiny delay in the recording with this patch that i did not have when spanning with the old quantum 9b patch...

Maybe a noob question.. but i rather record i 29.97 fps than 24, due to that i mix my footage with that of the 7D on a Crane (a lot of movement, 24 is too stuttery) however luckely Premiere accepts every mix of framerate and codecs. What is the best mode on the GH2 for 30p? and how do i set it up? i can only see the interlaced option, am i missing something?

Regards,

Rob

i discovered something. its not that it stops at 4.1gb... it starts another file that finishes at 4.1gb and when the next file starts it stops at 4.1 and on and on. and in premiere when i put one after the other, it is seamless. so i guess it does span just not the way i had hoped.

whenever i film, it only records up to 4.1gb and then stops while using the AN drewnet soft hack. on camera it says its still recording, but when i go to check the footage, it stops at 4.1gb which is about 10 minutes worth of footage.

edit: using a sandisk 64gb 95mbps card. installed everything correctly. filming is 24H and 24L

@peternap Thanks! I really like the natural grain of AN444. Combine it with some extra grain layered on top and I think it really comes across nicely for shots of faces, especially close up.

NEW!!!

bkmcwd Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO2 Candidate1.3

This C1.3 is the setting stabilized more from C1.2.

bkmcwd Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO2 Candidate1.3 'Apocalypse Now' with cbrandin 'Pure Original 444 Matrix' and 'Modified 444 Matrix' - Seta.ini - Released 25/09/2012

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/88237#Comment_88237

While improving, I am going to develop this in my thread so that it may not become the obstacle of Nick. :-)