@balazer, thank you very much ! I dont know how many different patches, under how many different conditions I've tested.
VK, Driftwood's, Bkmcwd's, Lpowell's, Ralph B's, and all the other busy guys, thank you very much for the good jobs you have done.
Iam happy to be back, relaxed enjoying Cake 2,3 but sorry for buying expensive 95mb/s SD cards.
Cake 2.3. Today I did a long term test with my older lexar 16GB professional class10 (quiet a slow card). On the GF2, 720P H-mode it was indicating 59min of video capacity in the beginning. It ended up recording/spanning nearly 2hours of a normal fixed living room day light shot, with people moving in the frame and light changings etc. couldn't really understand/believe it?
@balazer, thank you for clarification, great and most stable settings.
No, I won't add B-frames. They help efficiency a bit, but they hurt frame-to-frame consistency. The bit rates I'm targeting are high enough to overcome the loss of efficiency in not using B-frames, but not high enough to minimize the differences between the quantization levels of the B-frames and the other frames in the GH2. B-frames in the GH2 make sense for very high bit rates, like what Golgop uses, and for very low bit rates, like stock, but not in between.
@balazer, any chance adding B-frames ? It seams like they help with motion, panning.
Yes, only the name has changed. 2.3 is the same as 2.3 beta 3.
@gameb Ah - what I meant was that I will update it from the earlier version of Cake I had on my camera. Sorry if that misled!
@balazer @Mark_the_Harp, "update"??, I understood Cake 2.3 its the same as Cake v2.3 beta 3, balazer just removed the "beta" denomination? Or is it a new one?
@balazer so its just the name, right? no need to load it again since i have the Cake v2.3 beta 3 on my camera now.
thanks!
@balazer Thank you for your continuing work on Cake - I will update my GH2 with this new one. I like the way Cake handles! Cheers!
I am removing the beta designation from Cake v2.3 beta 3.
Cake v2.3
Version 2.3 improves the quality in 24H mode on high detail, low noise, low motion scenes that push the encoder into fallback mode.
Used cake 2.2 720p (H) just in the past week for recording my wedding speeches! :) And honeymoon videos at the fiji resort. Handled 30 Minutes / ~15gig of 720p@24p Cinema mode , and fantastic detail capturing of a fijian firedance (Defocused amber/coal sparks look fantastic by the way). If there is any interest I took some short clips I can put up when I get back home too :)
If it went into sleep mode when you weren't looking, that means there was a write error. The choice of memory card really matters. These days there's no reason not to use a 95 MB/s card.
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