@mystasynasta I doubt Panasonic can change encryption without changing GH2 bodies, as current bodies would not be able to recognize new encryption ... Also restoring to original firmware it shows you version 1.0. My 2 cents
i searched for this answer also. to go back to factory settings do i just load original firmware and save it with next increment? what if panasonic puts out new firmware with different encryption and our version number is lower than the one were using? im assuming that this is just a risk that we take...
I haven't hacked yet but downloaded all tools and loaded someone's ini. A whole bunch of new options. But it looks... experimental. Last year I read about someone bricking his GH1. If I don't understand, I don't wanna take risk.
is lacking details. More explanations about a couple dozen parameters would make a world of difference to noobs.
Its safe stonebat, I'm a noob! I have a problem with 1080 60i FSH though.
Every time I see the 1080i 60 FSH even frame by frame in after effects I can see a huge downgrade in IQ compared to 24H. My stable bit-rate is now 38Mbits with GOP at 6 on Transcend 32GB Class 10. I'm maxing it out on trees.
It's night and day quality and it shouldn't be as in the factory settings 1080i looks close to 24H when de-interlaced properly. Anyone has this problem?
BTW does anyone know if 30p is going to be a possibility or we have to stick with 60i? Thanks!
@stonebat I'm not a tester and gave it a try, it's working good for me. I'm using 42mbps in the next few hours for news promos. Around 9 o'clock pacific time I'll post up our 30 second promo with that footage.
I know it's going to be a dumb question, but it seems like the new avchd files are of the same size, and when I look into every mts file description in adobe premiere it says the bitrate is around 2mb per sec. Sounds like what it used to be before the hack. I'm totally stupid in technical details, so don't get infuriated.
@Angry_C "could you test the ex-tele mode in each filmmode? Thank you! "
FSH/SH = 32MB + ExTele
This worked for me (no FSH/SH card error). Caveat is that my testing was limited to just a couple of clips for FSH and SH with ExTele enabled. Did film grass and trees with a lot of panning.
... what's really interesting about the bad footage (not so clear from the still above) is how the top of the frame has pretty good detail, and then the bitrate seems to run out and the rest of the frame is macroblock garbage. So the bitrate seems to be allocated from top to bottom.
The 42mpbs file is fine (max 45,012,884), but the 22mpbs is far too low (min/av/max: 48,505 / 3,905,782 / 6,920,084), total macroblock garbage for the full 9 seconds . It looks exactly like the 1st second of the good file, but it just doesn't recover.
[Settings] Version increment=1 30min limit removal=Checked PAL<->NTSC Menu=Checked Video Bitrate FSH/SH=42000000 Video Bitrate FH/H=16000000 Video Bitrate 24H=42000000 Video Bitrate 24L=22000000
'k, I'll shoot some more tomorrow (running water is a great stress test). With my attempted settings, both H & L ended up ~24mpbs. On the plus side the flashing went without a hitch on my PAL GH2 (first time I've used Ptool).
PAL<>NTSC patch seems fine (after card format & power cycle), and changed my 50i to 60i successfully. @V., do you know why the firmware doesn't allow recording NTSC and PAL to the same card? Do you think you can defeat this in the future?