@liquidify. I think the past few months have proven that 720p and 1080i are not a good fit for low GOP settings such as GOP (1, 3, 6, etc...). For those low GOPs to have good quality, you need to use high bitrates like 144/72 mb as in most of Driftwood's high quality settings. Those high bitrates while producing good quality, generate a lot of write errors on majority of the class 10 cards. If you try to reduce the FB size and Frame Limits until the write errors go away then you end up with low resolution video that is noisy. In contrast, longer GOPs like the ones used in Sanity (30, 39) allow you to have lower bitrates 44/28 in my case and have very good quality that can be used with majority of the class 10 cards. So by using high quality GOP1 settings (Orion, Sedna) for 24P and longer low bitrate GOPs for 720/1080i, I am having best of both worlds since 24P settings are not as prone to write errors as 720/1080i are.

As far as having favorite settings for different scene selection, that is too much hassle for me specially since you can address those scenarios through selection of an all around hybrid setting combined with various color profiles and post production. Everyone has different taste and it is a subjective thing for me.

ok just uploaded the comparison between sedna q1 and the orion remix that zaven just uploaded. I ran standard and dynamic, then standard and dynamic with saturation @ 100 and sharpness @ 100. can't see a difference between the 2 until saturation and sharpness are turned up. then sedna looks like it'll be more flexible in post.

@zaven13 I'm wondering what is the benefit to having the Sanity 720 over the 720 from Orion 4b? Actually my favorite part of 4b was the 720 settings. Can you tell what differences you see? I must say, I am a big fan of sanity 3.1 considering its excellent bitrate to quality ratio. It has certainly produced some of my favorite images from the GH2 also.

Really people need to start listing patches that are their favorites along with scene selection. Example

FOR low light High detail with low motion, I choose SEDNA a aq1. For low light low noise with moving people I choose...? For Bright light outdoor with high motion - ? For medium light outdoor landscape with good color i choose SEDNA a a20 For great contrast fast 720p footage, I choose Orion 4b For awesome 24p in medium light with low bitrate I choose Sanity 3.1 For all audio so far no one beats thepalalias setting. For All around Stability in all settings with 64g 95mbs with best quality I choose...?

So on and so on. It is certainly becoming difficult to choose, and there are really becoming many "best settings" that apply to different situations. Obviously I haven't answered some of these questions yet. And there are many more questions to ask and to answer. Someone made a chart a long time ago, but it was not maintained. Too bad.

@thepalalias. Sanity 3.1. I am not aware of any 4.0 version. Attached is the Orion - Sanity hybrid settings using Orion's matrix with the new audio settings included.

For those of you who are fans of Orion v4B. I will create a hybrid setting with Orion for 24p and Sanity for 720p, 1080i60 and HBR but using Orion's CBR matrix instead of Sedna or stock matrix. I will also include the audio setting and post it later tonight. Zaven.

@thoughts2uk The GH2 does not offer 1080 60P, so the options are 1080 60i, 1080 40P (for one secon d as stills) or 720P.

The hack has helped motion encoding a lot in several of the patches but it hasn`t changed the upper limits on the frame rates for a given mode.

@CraftyClown I'm not as sophisticated as a lot of them here and I do shoot in 720 almost exclusively. I didn't see anything really wrong with the 720 in Sedna but I liked Dark Matrix better.

It may be my imagination because I just started working with it but, Zaven13's hybrid..."Sedna A Q20 for 24P. Sanity with Sedna matrix for 720p60, 1080i60 and HBR. "......looks mighty good in 720 so far. I finally got it to lock up in 720 riding in the car and taking video of the trees on the side. (Card Speed Error).

The 1080 is stunning.

@CraftyClown. The easiest thing to do is to try both and see which one looks better to you.

okay looks like i'll stay away from shooting everything in tungsten to reduce noise. I don't like spending more time in post than i have too.

also sedna a q1 has spanned fine for me on the 95mb/s extreme pro card

@peternap The reason for stopping at 4 minutes is it's not spanning (Sedna is not a spanning patch). After 4gigs, it not writing a sequential file (spanning) that continues. It may span with the 95mb card though. Hope it goes well! Salud

@Zaven13....Just when I get happy with one, they get better. This thing is faster than a Briary Branch Woman! Thanks, I'll try it today!

You can merge Cluster with Sedna yourselves, v easy takes a few minutes, nice combo :)