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AVCHD maximum image quality settings and testing
is that a Genelec speaker? :) great testing again driftwood, thanks a lot!

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Best Windows MTS player
+1 on Media Player Classic for .mts

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Official Low GOP topic
@driftwood well done man! Footage looks and 'feels' stunning, going to test some more today. Thanks VK and Chris too.

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GH2 Hack Technical Tests
>I'd rather focus on other things now - like loop filter adjustments and film modes, for example. woohoo

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GH2 Hack Myths and Realities
Thanks a lot Chris, very helpful, I hope everyone reads this.

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The "Let's thank Vitaliy and Chris" thread
Thanks for all the work and time you guys put into this!

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GH2 Gamma Curves
>Man I wish we had this linear curve, but with gently roll-off at the top and bottom. This would still maintain that fucking good looking skin tone, but would also allow more light in the shadows and highlights would roll-off better before clippi…

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US: Black Monday
So what do you guys think will happen next? There will be a crisis but how bad is it gonna hit world economy this time? What bothers me most, once it'll be over, they'll all continue like before.

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Official Low GOP topic
>Static improvements require adjustments to quantization tables... coming soon... Wow, I wonder what can be further improved, I thought static, well lit shots are the situation were GH2 is at it's best already..can't wait Thank you for…

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Truthfulness of short GOP superiority claims
>Whenever bitrate spikes above 70Mbps, it couldn't playback unless rebooted. what card are you using stonebat? I took several clips with average bitrate at 75-76Mbit/s and they play back without error in camera (Transcend class 10)

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Truthfulness of short GOP superiority claims
>Wasting bitrate don't break anything. Less compression is non-showstopper. Hard drive is getting cheaper. SDHC is getting cheaper. What's the issue here? Agree. I'm using kae's 65Mbit because I need to color grade most of th…

Comment by chip August 2011 permalink
Truthfulness of short GOP superiority claims
Now that you say it I can clearly see the difference ;) (No, I still can't)

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Any comparisons between stock and hacked GH2?
Unhacked GH2 has already been good for such static, well lit shots without motion going on. These are the shots you won't notice the difference that much, like VK also has stated several times. Great improvements though in 720p modes and motion…

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Confessions of a VDSLR Shopaholic
>Nah. But I'm thinking about forming a group of shopaholics... and faking buying every new gears we talk about. e.g. "Wow that looks great!!! Awesome. I'm getting one too!!!" "Oh man... mother of FF at only $200!!!"…

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Official Low GOP topic
Butt, if you copy paste from the google translated page everything will turn up in German here

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Official Low GOP topic

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GH2 Stutter/Judder/Strobe issues discussion
Ian_T, I think you're exactely right. I had a Pentax K-x once and it's video was a moire and aliasing mess. The kit lens that came with it was very sharp, one of the sharpest kit-lenses you could get. I popped on an old Porst 50mm 1.4 and …

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GH2 Stutter/Judder/Strobe issues discussion
>it's best to test it on m43 lenses as they tend to give more aliasing. yes, that's what I meant, run a test with one of those lenses against a low contrast, soft, old lens and see if it makes a difference to motion. I don't have…

Comment by chip August 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
kae, what do you use instead of vimeo? shot outside today and got average videobitrate of 75Mb/s with kae's extreme 3-GOP settings, Transcend class 10, no errors. I expected this scene to be much more contrasty in camera but there's so m…

Comment by chip August 2011 permalink
GH2 Stutter/Judder/Strobe issues discussion
If sharpness is the issue than contrast plays a role too. The B&W video Ian-T posted as an example has high contrast, and high contrast strongly improves the 'perceived' sharpness. If we're on the right track, old soft and low con…

Comment by chip August 2011 permalink
Manfrotto 561BHDV-1 Fluid Video Monopod with Head. Any good?
Thanks Shrigg!

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Manfrotto 561BHDV-1 Fluid Video Monopod with Head. Any good?
Shrigg, that really looks interesting, what ball head coupler do you use?

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
5DtoRGB for GH2 - advantages vs disadvantages?
5DtoRGB is supposed to have the best YCbCr to RGB conversion.

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
Panasonic GH 2 LCD Monitor flickering
I have the feeling that what you describe is simply the camera switching from LCD to EVF because something (your hand maybe) gets too close in front of EVF?!

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
GH2 Stutter/Judder/Strobe issues discussion
I suppose you don't see those issues when playing back in camera? I think that's more of a monitor(-ing) issue playing back certain framerates where playback appears juddery.

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
GH2 film modes
@Ptchaw Shooting in B&W mode: for image quality I don't know if there's an advantage, but one advantage is that you can already judge 'color' contrasts better (sry, don't have a proper word for it). For example, if you s…

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
RJ Follow Focus, looks very good
@svart interesting, can you give more detail, maybe even pics? I tried to fix it too in a similar way but failed.

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
A GH2 Hack response rant
Kurt, true words, I guess some just misunderstood you. For the territory fights, for me there is a handful of guys I'm most interested to read what their findings for the hack are as I think they really know what they're doing.

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
GH2 Stalin samples topic
Sage, the woman's shot is thrilling. I must say though that camera movement, music, framing, editing do add a little cinematic feeling to those 15 seconds as well, not just 3-GOP motion ;)

Comment by chip July 2011 permalink
Official Low GOP topic
Elenion, I had the exact same problem...just before finishing 5DtoRGB stops transcoding no matter which settings. Using kae's GH2 hack settings as well.

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