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Beginners: Basic hacks questions
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  • mozesmozes

    Yes, just download firmware 1.1 again...........

  • mrbongomrbongo

    So I just did my first install of one of these settings. Been reading about how to do it for days and finally had the chance to go through it.

    Did everything right except the increment part. Bummer.

    Any way to go back to ver 1.1 stock settings now or am I screwed?

  • itscehrisitscehris

    How do I know if I succesfully hacked my GF2?

  • soulkeepersoulkeeper

    A beginners question about white balance..i don't remember where i read it,but it was a "guide" for GH2 users...It suggested to adjust all the available white balance presets ,2 clicks left (towards yellow) and one click down (towards magneta)... Should i do this? Also,using the lcd in all my indoors shots , there's a greenish tint kicking in the whole image the time i press the record button.. Is there any way we could avoid this? Thanks!

  • itscehrisitscehris

    I found a good deal on a Sandisk Card at Best buy.. It's an Extreme type card by the way, 30mb class 10....Hopefully this will work well with a high bitrate patch? I have a GF2...

  • Tomee21Tomee21

    Should I rename it as 13.bin? I thought that the 12.bin will work every time because the camera see its installed firmware as version 11. If it is the case, should I count the number of reflashes and rename the files one higher every time? Anyway, thanks for Your answer, Tom

  • gamebgameb

    No, just load the camera with the next settings you want to use. Watch how to rename the next bin in PTool, then its easy.

  • Tomee21Tomee21

    A beginners question: If once I hacked the GH2 with one patch (settings) and want to try a different one, is it necessary to reload or reflash to the original firmware first and only after that can I hack it again with a newly loaded setting? Or is it possible to simply start pTool again, load the desired settings, and reflash the camera with another (this time different) settings again from the hacked one I'm currently using ?

    Thank You, Tom

  • orlandopianoorlandopiano

    @Safari, thanks a bunch!

  • mozesmozes

    When i do not set the avchd compresion, i still get higher value's.
    With errors that is.......
    And with extreme high setting the avchd compresion, its just a a couple mb more?
    How possible is that ??

    avchd compresion not set 00002_Frames.PNG
    746 x 440 - 59K
    avchd compresion set 1080 00002_Frames.PNG
    746 x 412 - 62K
  • dtrdtr

    @xtra00: if quality is not an issue, why don't you just go with the official firmware settings and only remove the record time limit with ptools? check how long you could record in 720p H mode.

  • GiovassiGiovassi

    Bump -I can't figure what the variable movie mode does. I looked in the manual, searched here without luck. Can somebody explain to me what is used for? Thanks-

  • safarisafari

    @orlandopiano.. this is film mode settings for Noise reduction, saturation etc, in menu under Motion picture.

  • orlandopianoorlandopiano

    Dumb question, when someone mentions -2 -2 -2 -2, what is that referring to and where in the camera do I enter those numbers?

  • xtra00xtra00

    HACK HELP:

    Can anyone recommend what hack would suit.

    I need to record 3 x 3 hour meetings on the same day.

    -Picture quality is not a top priority -I've ordered an AC adaptor to get over battery issue -I have 2 X 32g SanDisk Extreme and 2 X 16GB Transcend cards

    I'm a newbie to hack world and have been playing about with a number of hacks but have had little success. The closest I have got was using Cluster, which recorded 2hours, up until battery died but then I have not been able to import this clip in to FCP7.

    Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

    Michael

  • frerichsfrerichs

    Thanks @royadkins, worked perfectly. Much appreciated.

  • balazerbalazer

    rmk, you want to change Patches for testers, AVCHD, Quantizer, Quantizer for 1080 (or 720) modes. This setting is the minimum quantizer setting that the encoder will use. The quantizer setting translates to the quantization parameter that gets used in encoding individual blocks - quantizer setting plus or minus 2 in I-frames generally, and the quantizer setting exactly in P- and B-frames. When the encoder is generating a much lower bit rate than the max, it's usually an indication that the encoder is operating at the minimum quantizer setting. So lowering the minimum should enable lower quantizer settings and higher quality. I've set it to 18 in Cake, which is lower than stock and fine for normal scenes, but perhaps not low enough for very dark scenes that don't have a lot of detail. Try quantizer settings of 16 and 14, maybe 12.

    I'll need to see the camera MTS files to know what's going on. Short samples, like 10 seconds, are enough. You can upload to file sharing sites like minus.com or mediafire. Posting in this topic is fine.

  • dtrdtr

    you can also manually edit the .ini files with a text editor. just copy the pasadena audio settings into the other and load it in ptools.

  • royadkinsroyadkins

    @frerichs on combining settings http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/47090#Comment_47090

  • GiovassiGiovassi

    I can't figure what the variable movie mode does. I looked in the manual, searched here without luck. Can somebody explain to me what is used for? Thanks

  • frerichsfrerichs

    I would like to combine @thepalalias audio patch with @bkmcwd GOLGOP3-13_v4.12 patch but not having much success. Can someone be kind enough to point me to a thread or step me through the process using Ptool v3.65d?

    Thanks in advance!

  • rmkrmk

    @royadkins no, I don't mean that. I've had shots with the same light, lense, aperture and exposure where the results where different between MJPEG (being less blocky in some cases) and AVCHD and both are 8 bit and 4:2:0 AFAIR. Some banding due to 8 bit is acceptable. I'm talking about blockiness. So far the best results I got with quantum x rocket but I will try dark matter and post the results. thanks for the hint!

    @balazer Which parameter would I modify exactly? Anyway, I will post some files made with unmodified cake 2.1. Are unprocessed PNG screenshots OK to show the type of artifact I'm talking about or do you need the MTS file because you want to analyze that? is there a specific file sharing platform, I should use for MTS files? Should I post the cake results in the cake thread or here? Thanks for taking the time!

  • balazerbalazer

    rmk, try lowering the quantization setting in Cake. That should give you higher bit rates and higher quality in low light. And post some MTS files. It's difficult to know what you are talking about without samples.

  • royadkinsroyadkins

    @rmk search the forums for info on 4:2:0 versus 4:2:2 (10 bit) . . . I think what you are seeing is an effect of the 8bit color space of the GH2.

    Regarding suggestions for settings, you probably should be more specific to get much feedback, most people will just tell you to test them and see what you like. If you haven't tried dark matter yet I would suggest testing it too.

  • rmkrmk

    Hi,

    I'm looking for advice on which patch to use for my requirements. I'm looking for - best low-light performance for rather static subjects - I don't care much about reliability and spanning as this is for short dramatic stuff which can be repeated if the camera freezes - I'm shooting 1080@25 or 750@50 - I don't care about intra-frame compression for my workflow but if someone says intra-only is the way to go for low light quality, I'll try but it seems such a waste of bandwidth that could be used for quality in parts of the image that are actually moving when I'm shooting a person sitting in the middle of a room and nothing but the eyes or lips of the person are moving

    I have tried a number of things including Quantum X Sedna, Cake 2.1 and EOSHD unified 88 but for my test shots in low light, the bitrate was always rather low and all patches had quality issues (very visible compression artefacts) in some areas in almost all shots.

    One other thing I have observed in the past is that all these issues are very less severe when having a lot of blue in the lighting. I shot a lot of footage for a short film in a cave where we lit everything with cheap LED lights with blue gels to give it a nightish look and I almost never had any visible compression artifacts and really beautiful footage and that was even with factory settings. But as soon as I make test shots in my dimly lit living room with a small lamp that fills the walls in soft gradients ranging from light yellow to dark red, the picture is so crappy in some places that it cannot be used for anything (of course the severity of those problems differs with the patches I tried but so far none of them didn't have these areas with clearly visible macroblocking combined with banding). Is the codec somewhat optimized for blue or is this something that has a physical or mathematical reason that is well-known?

    Thanks for any advice/insight and, of course, thanks for the hack and all the work around it! Apart from the low light problems, I've been a happy user of GH1 and GH2 patches.

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