Here is a video clip i did with "Cluster v7 'AN' 12/15 GOP (DREWnet) with cbrandin/driftwood '444 Sharp2 Matrix" I used VIVITAR fd lens, and a canon 35-70. Watch it in vimeo so you can see it in HD.

@Mirrorkisser Sedna settings are intra?

@stray: thats my observation aswell. Sedna still seems to be the best allround settings. I stick with them, too. You might want to try the valkyrie settings, especially 1.5b, which is not all intra, but excellent.

@cam_boy I've been pulling sky keys a bit myself recently so your results are interesting. Personally I've found that both AN and Intravenus really aren't as good as sedna A for that kind of work. Both AN and Intravenus to my eyes are producing less detail (they are smoother deliberately after all) than the sedna patches, do you think this is making pulling a key with Intravenus easier ?. I'm finding edges are very difficult with this patch, though the skies I'm dealing with aren't blue. I'm pulling keys with primatte and creating my own despill mask from edge detection masks, so its pretty easy with sedna and AN/Intravenus. However, the results are a lot better with sedna. The reason why I switched to sedna was the shot involved a roof with small tiles and as the roof is quite far away in the shot I was getting bad moire with both AN and Intravenus that wasn't there with sedna. The other reason for switching to sedna relates to what driftwood said about potential blocking problems in shadows. Yeah, they're there, but they are only an issue if you want to lift them, which I think I might have to.

I can say with pretty good confidence that there is no real, as in gobsmacking, improvement to the blue channel with these new patches, in fact I think its slightly worse than sedna.

I have been testing out both "Apocalypse now BOOM" & "Intravenus v1" for a few weeks now and I am really liking what Intravenus is doing with the blue channel.

I tested the performance of the two patches by filming trees from wide angles and close up, which I would then key out the blue from the sky in the background. I was floored by how easy it was to pull a clean matte, specifically with Intravenus! While Apocalypse Now BOOM did a great job with a key, there was still a bit of jaggies and blocking around the edges, where intravenus had virtually smooth flawless edges.

I then attempted to do the same thing with footage from an earlier date that was using sedna, the matte was okay, but nothing in comparison to these recent patches.

Bravo driftwood and Cbrandin for the great work with the matrices.

I'm sure Driftwood will build on top of the performance that these two patches bring to the table. I just hate having to check back in every day to see if a new one has been released or not! :)

Enough whinging. Sheesh, what's it been, a week since Nick announced his next rev? Relax, hummingbirds. You can survive on such substandard, barely adequate patches like v7 till Nick slides down your chimney again. Or we can form an angry mob and go stand outside his flat and all yell "FAIL!!" in unison because he announced a patch before he and his betas were ready to share it.

I don't know. I've got some important shoots coming up - walking around in my backyard pointing at shrubbery, a "spec" rap video, and yet another montage of tourists walking down the street (man these never get old) - and I can't bear the thought of shooting them on such unwatchable crap as AN v7. It would be an insult to everything I - nay, we as a filmmaking community - hold sacred.

So I will WAIT, and I will WHINGE with the rest of you. Nick!! NICK!!!!! FAIL!!! FAILY FAIL FAILWHALE!!

@rajamalik: Yep, this time it seems it's a dead thread.

This thread is going dead it seems :(

I have noticed Nebula v7sharp2 in HBR 25p sharp edges(box corners etc) have a jagged interlaced look. In 24 , FSH, and 720 it is fine. PAL mode.

@getmezzy use cluster v7 for these sd cards.

@driftwood what setting I should use for wide shots/fish eye/ultra wides? Using 12-35x Lumix lens, boom or intravenus?

does this patch work with the 30mbps SD card? actually, what is the lowest card it will work with?

@orgie18 Looks promising ;)

Could you please render that out as 2160x1080 square? to see the whole potential:) (someone correct me if thats not correct resolution)