Just released a before and after of my latest experiment:

You can find info about the video and all the settings about 6 comments above.

@peternap Two great settings to use in any situation. I would use Sedna even more if I shot a lot of things with blue, but since I often do not, I use CM Night a lot.

There are two patches I keep going back to, Sanity 5 and Sedna AQ1. I need Broll today under a lot of different conditions and as little n post as possible so I pulled out the Sedna. It's still champ in it's field.

@strancali Thank you very much! No I don't, maybe I'll make one in the future. Just get out and experiment with the curves effect. It's actually the greatest tool in grading imo. Thanks again!

Here's a short experiment I made with GH2, Sedna A1, Smooth (-2-2-2-2). I was using Samyang 35mm 1.4. The test was to create a nice vintage look with only grading in PPro (Using tints and rgb curves).

Hope you'll like it!

@daq Sanity, Cake and Cluster all perform well on slower Class 10 cards. The same may be true of Flowmotion and lower bitrare bkmcwd settings (I think Natural was the name of one of them).

Personally, I rely on Sanity when I need reliability on lower spec cards. I also use it when I need to transmit the MTS files quickly after shooting. I am not comparing the quality to the higher bitrate/max quality options in intra. But the size to performance ratio for Sanity is currently unsurpassed in my testing.

If you need intra, start with SMBU v2, fallback to v1 if that does not work (it has lower bitrate). I have not tested much with Pictoris, but it should produce even smaller files.

Sanity and SMBU are my main choices for long record times. I wish I had more time to test the others.

@mozes Very nice video, seems very smooth.

This video is not mine but it's shot with Mysteron and slowed down with twixtor. I think it's very smooth.

@hakosuka Sedna is consistently better than Quantum V9b for 24H - my testing was unequivocal on that subject. I did not perform similar testing for 720P between the two.

With twixtor you better use a Intraframe setting.
i have M6 stable with 720 pal with gop 1 intraframe, ntsc sadly not, so it is in gop2. "not released yet".
But Driftwood have some very good settings for 720...

this one i did with Driftwood GOP1 AQ2 'AQUAMOTION' Experimental patch.
No skater to a blue clean sky, but with sand what gets around, thats a big problem for twixtor

@thepalalias No....I shouldn't be trying to do 2 things at once. I can't think straight when I'm only doing one. 1/2000

I've used Sanity 5 at 2000 fps shutter for slow motion without problems,

@strancali No, I wouldn't. That's a hard question to answer and if I had the answer, I wouldn't still be testing.

A lot depends on what you need/want. If it's the most stable, reliable setting with very good image quality...I'd say Sanity 5. If it's the very best image quality with less stability, Mysteron. If it's stable with very good Image quality and low light, Cluster.

Depending on testing, Flow Motion 2 is looking good.

That's just my opinion though and there will be a lot of disagreement.