I did a little test yesterday morning with the Cluster V6 settings:

@stanlymanly2 that sounds great! how would I merge 1080/24 Senda AQ1 A with 720/50p Nebular?

Here is my take on the competition, shot at the beach of the isle of Islay, Scotland. I used the Cluster v6 settings of @driftwood.

@mozes, haha, I kinda figured it was something to do with the clouds. I'm actually from Seattle, so wind rain and clouds are normal to me. The video above was either the day before, or the day after a typhoon hit, so it's a bit more intense than usual for Tokyo.

the bad weather ;-)

@Mee, you live in holland also i see................

Be as artistic as you like @B3Guy / @all :-)

Driftwood 'Apocalypse Now' Settings' - Soon to Released

LAST CALL FOR OUR COMPETITION

To celebrate the soon to be released 'Apocalypse Now' setting here's a little competition mentioned a few weeks back but we've had only a few entries.. so come on people - WIN A NEW LENS FOR YOURSELF - Here's the rules;-

The best filmed sunrise OR sunset captured on a GH2 or Gxx Lumix camera using any of my Driftwood settings (the winning entry be validated by proving the mts file) will win my precious 14-42 X Lens!

The top Sunrise or Sunset captures will be selected by all in this thread and the top 3 put to a vote - only one will be decided the winner. Filmmakers will upload their entries via youtube or Vimeo and posted as a visual link into this thread.

UPDATE: You can provide a graded version on Youtube or vimeo if you prefer. However, the original mts file must be kept and be readily available to submit when the winner is announced. Don't forget to KEEP the ORIGINAL MTS file as it will be required for verification (certain giveaways like matrix values etc...in the file allow me to know) AND for the film*.

Simple. Get to it. :-)

Closing date: 18th August 2012. Maximum duration of film = upto one minute of submitted vimeo/youtube linked footage

*What do I get? One other thing I forgot to mention, the winner must agree to allow me to use this sunrise OR sunset capture in my forthcoming film 'Swim to Land'. Of course, you will receive a credit too if it is used. :-)

Gonna try cluster v6 this weekend to film a wedding. Gonna use smooth film mode. Intrested if anyone tested custom wb to get better skin colour on smooth?

Hi Everyone, I finally had time to edit the footage I shot using Diftwood hack. here it is on Vimeo :

@feha I used a Nikon 50mm F1.2 for medium and Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f2.8 G ED for wide.

@strancali Thank you sir! Please tell your friends about the show.

Just wanted to report, we had a "happy faces show" recap of a live conference event, I and a coworker were shooting things around this event, from stuff happening on stage to set up shots of people doing daily activities.. I was shooting with a ENG style camera, handheld run and gun style, and my co worker who is not very experienced at using cameras of any sort, I handed him a tripod and GH2 with Cluster6 the 14-140mm lumix lens and put it on AI, said just grab as much of anything I shoot from another angle.. because some of these things were HAVE TO GET items and were live, no redos.. The ENG camera was our main camera but I have to say, side by side in the same project the GH2 kicked butt quality wise, even on AI the GH2 made quality video and from a novice operator. One of his shots actually saved this project.. he was locked down on sticks on the other side of the stage.. the big end award of the awards show was with confetti cannons shooting confetti onstage over the award earner.. a piece of confetti came down and stuck to the woman's eyebrow as she did a kiss blow to the crowd.. my shot had this huge chunk of confetti on her forehead, the GH2 you could not see it since it was more profile from the other side.. saved that shot completely.. That shot was the end shot of the faces show.. slowed a bit for a emotional finish of blowing kisses and confetti falling...

I brought the GH2 for some heavy shallow DOF "artistic" shots, I just cant get with the ENG cam due to its tiny sensor, but in this case the GH2 footage really was a notch above the Panny ENG camera. However on full auto for the novice operator sometimes the GH2 had focus issues.. in the hands of some one on manual this would not be a issue but its nice to know I can hand some one with little to no camera experience a GH2 with a auto tele lens and a pair of sticks and get some great usable footage. My co worker also grabed some handheld stuff that surprised me also, he hasked about taking it off the tripod, i told him to zoom with his feet and not the lens for best shake control.. he did as i said and shot at 14mm and zoomed with his feet.. the shots were great. Ideally i should have gave him the 14mm f2.5 prime , but this was live "grab the persons reaction" in the audience stuff and he happened to find her in the audience before she was announced on stage.. so we just did what we could in the shortest amount of time.

As for the patch, it worked great we did have a few instances that we would hit record and it would give us a error.. then try again and work flawlessly.. happend 3 times, this probably was a card issue, but we didn't have time to figure it out totaly.. just swapped cards and it went away.

Love the this patch, great results on a real world 4 day (and really long days I must add) shoot where it is run and gun type, must get it live stuff. THanks to all that contributed to this patch.

The clients reaction to this project, "Best one ever", (they do these every year and this year decided to let us "inhouse A/V" do it to save 20-30K, they usually hired it out to "real production companies" and we did the conference work to be done.. The reactions we got were, "Absolutly amazing shots" form upper management .. the two of three shots the CEO called out from the rest as amazing, were GH2 shots.. of those one wasn't even manned, just started and left to run for a while in a place we knew would give a great perspective.. the other was skillfull camera work on my part with the ENG.

So does equipment matter , yes to some extent it does really matter.. but again what really really really matters is content, and getting it recorded. Having a patch that can produce quality and be nearly 100% reliable is a HUGE thing in a situation like this where it is "got to get it as it happens" event coverage.