@driftwood - You are amazing to have pulled this off. We've been testing all morning, and I can say for sure - and this is just a gut level thing - the motion does seem to 'feel' better.
That said, this patch seems to be creating files about 1/2 the size of the previous gop3 132 patch (which we had been using and love). How and why would this be? Will you continue to play with bumping the bitrate higher?
Awesome, ill donate what I can for now and continue doing so... can you possibly PM me the file for that patch? getting the GH2 in wed. gonna be doing some interesting external powering tests, from a not so likely source. but its lithium, 3.5lbs (130watt hours) and best of all its $239 for the unit, with $80 swappable batteries... oh and rechargeable with two power output sources... report will be done wed.
The file spanning worked for me with @driftwood new INTRA GOP1 setting. The nice thing was that when I did log and transfer in FCP the 3 files where recognized as one big 11,5GB file. The quality looks also amazing in 5DtoRGB but you need harddisk space and didn't found a batch possibility yet. To convert to Proress 4444 (in 5DtoRGB) the MTS 4.29 GB file becomes 22GB each. I'm currently working on laptop so need time to convert and upload some shots but what I saw on the playback on camera looks really good. And what I like so much is no importing issues or write errors. Excellent work!
so I see someone has release a 220 at GOP1? where is the ini file for that setting Im assuming its driftwood's? 1 How do i get it and 2 How do i send HIM money for saving me a scarlet :P
@driftwood I did not have, so far, no problems with your most recent settings GOP1. The files are played without problem in Win XP and Win 7 and the Premiere Pro CS 5 and Adobe After Effects. You are fucking gorgeous!!
GOP = group of pictures. Long story short, the longer the GOP, the longer you go before you get a true "snapshot" as one of your frames, rather than partial frame that is based on an algorithm that tracks changes between your "snapshot" frames, properly known as I frames. So basically, the lower the GOP, the closer you are to replicating actual film strip where each second is composed of 24 individual frames.
New to all this, previous RED and Canon shooter, GH2 come wed. and I plan on using @driftwood 's patches immediately... is monitor viewing supported with this latest low GOP? and BTw what is "AQ" and "GOP"
@ Stip and @Ian_T -- impressions now posted in new topic in "general and news". Hopefully answered your questions, but if not, reply there and I'll get back to you.
@driftwood. Downloading your patch now. Can't wait to try it. Thanks!!!
I was shooting today with the New GOP1 INTRA hack from @driftwood. Didn't crash once and spanning worked fine. A 25min shot became 3 seperate files of 4.29 GB I'm downloading now and will try to post some shots today on Vimeo. Will post my findings.