Driftwood Cluster X series 3:│moon T7│ЅріzZ T6│Nebula T7│Drewnet T9│

Zaven13

@babak, you are not the only one with that problem. Somehow HBR and FSH/SH are more demanding on resources when it comes to spanning and cause write failure. This problem is not specific to T7. Other hacks can fail on HBR also. As you may have noticed on the previous page, @driftwood mentioned that he is working on T8 to address some of these issues. The way I have addressed this problem is to experience with bitrate manipulation (reduction) until I get HBR to span or use FH/H modes if I need longer recording periods.

Alex_K

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/7703/hq3gop-3gop-setting-optimized-for-pal-users/p1

T9 seems stable in HBR.

"moon T8 is under development. For improved reliability for 50i/60i/HBR & 80% modes plus improved 720p60"

babak

Hello all. I have read much of the thread here. Its amazing to see the dedication and interest of everyone, especially those directly involved in developing the different hacks like driftwood et al.. And I should thank you all for the detailed info placed here which is enormously helpful for someone like me who's new to this 'world' of GH2 hacks. I am video artist, and somehow ignorant about all the technical things here. I've been trying the 'moon T7" on my GH2 this past few days. It runs and spans perfectly in the 24p mode, but somehow stops recording in HBR 25p after a few minutes. I am using scandisk extreme pro 95mb/s 64GB. Has anyone here face the same issue? Should I rather use a different hack, like T9, T6 or T5? (I should say that the T7's image quality in 24p is simply amazing.) I would really appreciate some help. Thanks a lot!!

matt_gh2

@electria0814 Damnnn! - Looks great.

electria0814

drewnet t9 part 2

matt_gh2

@Nameless Just watched it on laptop - looks great. Very cool.

Nameless

@matt_gh2 thanks for taking time to watch and let me know your thoughts...it definitely looks better on the big screen but I'll let you be the judge. Thanks again

matt_gh2

@Nameless Very cool video. Liked the story. Masks were cool. Like how guy twirled his girl when they got into vault. Watched on phone so YouTube butchered image quality but I'll def check on computer when I get home. Shot composition and editing was great too. Thanks for posting.

matt_gh2

@Nameless Very cool video. Liked the story. Masks were cool. Like how guy twirled his girl when they got into vault. Watched on phone so YouTube butchered image quality but I'll def check on computer when I get home. Shot composition and editing was great too. Thanks for posting.

Nameless

Thanks again to @driftwood, @Vitaliy_Kiselev and this whole community for making this possible:

Recent vid shot using the infamous "Moon T5" See below

babak

Can someone please advise me on why moon T7 does not span when shooting in the HBR 25p mode (at least in my camera)? It stops at 4.29 GB. While it spans perfectly when shooting in 24p. I am using a Sandisk Extreme Pro 95MB/s 64GB card, and am new using patches and would really appreciate some help. thanks

eclipp

Shot on Moon 7 the entire thing.

redbaron

Here is our entry into the 2013 "Down to the Wire" 24 Hour Film Race in Wichita KS. We used Moon T7 on the shoot. We placed in the Top Ten - and screened at the TallGrass Film Festival!

The required elements for the Competition were:
Theme: Stolen Identity
Prop: Car Radio
Action: Slap
Dialog: "You can't stand up in a Cadillac either."
Camera: GH2 - Driftwood Moon T7
Lens: Roknon 35mm f1.4, Rokinon 85mm f1.4, Rokinon 14mm.
Grading: After Effects, ColorGhear

lolo

"in other words pleassse be true" :)

cjdincer

moon T8 Lol! :-))

driftwood

*** Driftwood News ***

Hi guys, been very busy of late. Lots of film/editing work. Some great looking footage I see above. Congrats to all.

Just like to mention, moon T8 is under development. For improved reliability for 50i/60i/HBR & 80% modes plus improved 720p60. More news soon.

Nick

olegkalyan

Yesterday run a quick test BMPC, GH2 using moon T7

cbm32221

@powderbanks I would like to know as well. Having those two horizontal lines would be much more ideal than the tape that's on my screen. Probably nothing a little tinkering around in the firmware couldn't fix.

powderbanks

Related to @studio2010's post about crop marks, is there any way to get the vertical manual guide line to switch to horizontal? I imagine it would be somewhere in the firmware, just not sure if it's actually possible.

electria0814

gf3&gh2 drewnet t9 part 1

for my grandmother,To commemorate the dead relatives, love of memory . 心=heart.

BurnetRhoades

Yes, there's exposure, color temperature and an analog for the LEVELS corrector effect, with black, mid and white point controls plus RGB histogram.

They've since added a tri-wheel corrector and are trying to position the tool as a full-blown correction tool, at least for primary/tech passes, giving all of the controls at the plug-in level that their standalone has, with improved GPU acceleration. Their standalone, while impressively fast, isn't really ready for the job they're wanting it to do, IMO.

It should also be appreciated that their conversion tables are based on ideal exposure so importing footage that may or may not be at this reference will mean it's definitely not a fire-and-forget plugin. It makes me also wonder if they offset the exposure for their GH2 reference to reflect 18% gray not registering as 50% on the GH2's meter. One would think so.

thepalalias

@davjd I know you already got a god answer from @BurnetRhoades, so let me just weigh in with a couple additional thoughts on this.

Don't worry about the color differences from the different matrices in some of the hacks. They are generally subtle, if even present at all. One rare exception to this would be CM Night - there you might notice a bit of difference, depending on the colors in what you shot. Either way, I definitely do not think it would be worth it for the FilmConvert guys to do an additional set for the hacks.
Do you tend to use the FilmConvert profiles with additional grading and are you mixing footage from multiple cameras? If you are mixing from multiple cameras, then "exact" accuracy may become more important, but if you are shooting everything with the same camera, in the same way, then biggest question is how to set it up to get the look you like. I often grade the FilmConvert footage after the fact so I'm not especially worried about getting it contrasty right out of FilmConvert.

@tihon If you look at the examples shot with RED vs the FilmConvert version on their site, you'll see that they tend to desaturate the reds a bit, among other changes. If we look at skintones (especially pre "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" digital grading) for film vs. digital footage, this makes a certain amount of sense.

But for me personally, I shot almost all of my FilmConvert footage with -2, -2, -2, -2 and liked the results. Part of the reason is that the GH2 has a fairly limited dynamic range. The second is because I exposed the scene with grading in mind. Whenever I apply FilmConvert (or other film emulation products) I've noticed that my shadows tend to move down a few shades or go higher contrast (depending on how you look at it). Thus I tend to do my original exposure based around three questions: 1) How much detail do i need to preserve in the shadows? 2) Have I avoided over-exposing the face to the point where I lose color? 3) Are any areas clipping in an unintended fashion?

With the GH2 you want to shoot as bright as you can without creating problems (such as clipping or losing color) and then bring it back in post. When using this approach, noise levels are minimized because you get the most noise in underexposed areas. This especially helps skintones seem smoother in the shadows, for instance. When you shoot using this approach, it will generally look slightly washed out during shooting, so histograms and and indicators are your friend - just make sure to avoid clipping.

Now I don't have FilmConvert in front of me at the moment, but I seem to remember there's an exposure control in at least some of the user interfaces for it. I would try messing with that before you mess with anything else.

pchristoph

@cjdincer for sure! Here's some details about the project. http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/8449/still-master-vodka-the-beach

studio2010

@cbm32221 it works just hand to change the file name thanks

ignatius

@studio2010,

What you have to do is take a picture on the GH2. The file name will be named something like _1050386

Make sure the 2.35 jpeg is in the sub folder within DCIM (eg the sub folder will be named 105_PANA). Then make sure you name the 2.35 jpg as _1050387 for example. Then it'll show up on playback. I Just tried this and at first I couldn't see the 2.35 jpeg because naturally I named it "2.35.jpg". Once I did what I've just outlined, it showed up.

Many thanks @cbm3222!

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