In low light video is still terrible. I tried some test at hacked GH2 with Ptools 3.61d 24H 42mbps but average video bitrate was only 10mbps... Video setting was: Iso: 160/ Color: Smooth -2-2-2-2/Shutter:50/Aperture:1.4/Lens:Nokton25, 095. Also gradient problems in all videos.
Questions: How enlarge average video bitrate in low light? Can I set minimal value bitrate of encoder? or how set encoder value to constant bitrate? Gradiens are problems of GOP or something else?
@Mark_the_Harp. Thank you! I am going to travel to Niigata this August so I will have a good travel video finished up by mid-August. Subscribe to my Youtube to keep updated!
Yes, the pic without hack is simply out of focus at the foreground. So, we can´t compare anything. But thx for your effort. Maybe you can do it again with the exact same settings? And a very short clip would be better than 2 pictures...
@azza_act Could you provide more info about the source footage? I'm assuming this is 24p 1080? Very difficult to ask as you've disabled comments on your video and the Vimeo video obviously only shows what it was exported at.
Thank you for the pictures, but I think the picture without hack is out of focus. The 720p Mode was out of stock not as bad as the first picture shows.
And please use the same focal length, aperture,....
First, you need to calm down and stop thinking the world is coming down on you. After all....you are not the only one using YouTube in here. Now if you want my tip all I can give you is shoot shorter clips and they will fit. Other than that Shield's comment below makes more sense if your purpose is to show off the camera's true image potential:
"What's the point of posting You(compress)Tube videos at high bitrates when it's recompressed again? Wouldn't the filesharing or Vimeo "download original" make more sense?"
Hi everyone, first post on the forum. put the standard hack on today. 2 screen shots of 720p with and without standard hack: 14-140 lens, iso160, 1/125sec, f11(10?) Wind in grass. I loaded the hack in place so lighting and settings are the same. WIll try a few more tomorrow.
@Shield@Butt@Ian_T I can't afford a Vimeo account. The video is 770MB. The free ones only let you up 500mb files max. You wanna buy an account for me? I'm not going to bust my goddamned internet my maxing out the 30GB upload cap by file sharing it either. Instead of shitting on me, why not offer some helpful suggestions? This is the best I can do.
What's the point of posting You(compress)Tube videos at high bitrates when it's recompressed again? Wouldn't the filesharing or Vimeo "download original" make more sense?
"If i can be of any help in comparing footage please send me new firmware patches. I own two GH2's and one body will be used for firmware updating - it's waiting eagerly for the first stable hack with official settings!"
@ishavar A comparison 720p50/60 unhacked/hacked would be really great!
These are frames from a static still life scene. Of course you won't notice a lot of difference in 24p mode because GH2's codec already worked great in such scenarios because codec performance doesn't get challenged. But you'll see big improvements with moving image, pans, moving subjects etc. - real life situations. Also, higher bitrates serve for better postproduction, grading, CC etc. Big improvement again.
@svart Agreed. In still frames it doesn't seem noticeably different, but in video files I've typically seen much less muddiness and pixelation in background images and items that aren't well lit.
Although there is a huge difference IMO between progressive and interlaced stills.
You know, I'm pixel peeping everything I see and I'm still having trouble seeing the difference between stock bitrates and higher bitrates in most of these images.
If i can be of any help in comparing footage please send me new firmware patches. I own two GH2's and one body will be used for firmware updating - it's waiting eagerly for the first stable hack with official settings! Are the versus-test hacked/unhacked yet? http://vimeo.com/earlysun/videos http://www.youtube.com/user/EddieBoschma?feature=mhee