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Just Created A Short Film Using GH13! The Enemy Is At Your Heels

spaceandtime — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:11:31 +0000

So I just finished my first short film for a christian ministry with a gh1 hacked. Used the max latitude patch. I would like your input on the visuals as well as the content. I understand many may disagree with Christian views but I encourage you to still to have an open mind and give thoughtful input if you have any. :)

Music Video: What Happened in Vegas - "Clearwater"

Stormlotus — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:10:35 +0000

I'm sure most of you would rather see a GH2 video, I think I would too lol, can't quite afford one right now... will probably wait for future releases. I posted this video in a topic I started in Skill, I see I should have put it here instead perhaps, anyway any feedback or questions are welcomed. Thanks!

Shot on 7D. We used quite a few lenses, the 70-200 2.8L, can't remember the focal length of the tilt shift, standard 50mm, 10mm, 60mm. Not that they were all necessary, but hey its fun to experiment.

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Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:44:41 +0000

Ex tempore piece with 44Mbit 6GOP 24P

TommiH — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:15:52 +0000

I Shot this Ex tempore piece with my 44Mbit 6GOP 24P settings and a Class 6 card. Although not quite art, I'm quite happy with it. :) Most of the shots were underexposed, then color corrected to something interesting. :) Used the 14-42 Kit lens with a Richarm 0.45x Adapter. Insanely Low budget (0 €)? YES! :D

Worlds First GOP1 Wedding

PerryWilson — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:52:19 +0000

So today I shot a wedding for my very good friend and old boss at the motorcycle shop, Manfred. A great little ceremony with good friend, amazing family and great people. GOP1 (QuantMeBaby) is stunning, EVERY FRAME IS A PICTURE!!! I am finally IN LOVE WITH A CAMERA... here are a few stills to hold you over until I post the video in a few days. But tomorrow I have to finish my film festival submission, early shoot day better get to bed... GOP1 ALL THE WAY!!!!

Music Video graded in Magic Bullet / Color @ Prores 422 HQ

thougts2uk — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:43:16 +0000

Hi Guys!

Our video Sincity for German singer/songwriter Schmidt is based on a quirky idea and hopefully fun to watch. As the video with the most Facebook Likes receives not only a prize but great exposure, we would kindly appreciate your support. If you like our video, please hit the "Like" button UNDERNEATH THE VIDEO on the GENERO.TV website and please share the clip on your own Facebook and to all of your friends. Above is the link to the video.

http://genero.tv/watch-video/32414/

At present I'm unable to post on Vimeo due to rules and regulations attached to music video. I will embed a link as soon as I can, but for now please go to the above link.

Also now working on developing a short film using the new AVCHD Intra 176mb. It's gonna look amazing I'm sure.

Thanks for your support guys.

Music video I shot with my 3 unhacked GH2's

brianluce — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:06:36 +0000

My final "non-hacked" GH2 piece of work

ed_lee83 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:29:39 +0000

Of course a lot of GH2 buddies here talk about the latest hacks and developments. So I'd like to take a step back into the ancient time of "28mpbs" and introduce my latest work which also happens to be my final video shot using standard AVCHD.
It was only shot a few days before Mr Kiselev released the first hack tools for the GH2 (but only now published by 686). How I was both excited and disappointed! I could have really used the hack to boost the shadow details.
The following video was shot using only Lomo prime lenses.

Other than the fact that today's hacks allow us to shoot up to crazily 176mbps, has it changed your shooting style or film making method?

Thanks for watching

Ptools 3.62 videos

JDN — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:17:42 +0000

We look a lot at streamparser, and shoot a lot of trees, and all of that is very, very important, but at a certain point, we mustjust watch what the camera can and can't do, and develop an intuitive sense what lights, situations, subjects, angles, etc it is most happy with.

Want to see other people's best test videos with the latest hack and start to understand more about the character of the unchained gh2. Please post!

A poem shot on GH2

kazuo — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:56:28 +0000

I recently acquired a couple of lenses and decided to let them out of the bag.

Had less than an hour's coverage, shot with an unhacked GH2.

Here's the clip:

80Mbit MJPEG 4:3 for 2x anamorphic shooting

EOSHD — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:58:02 +0000

Yesterday I shot this footage (but only at 9Mbit) in 1440x1080, 4:3.

No settings for this apart from the resolution / size change as was default in PTools for MJPEG.

Today I am testing new MJPEG encoder settings for improved image quality.

I have started off with these settings by CRFilms and LPowell as a basis http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/1762#Comment_1762

The purpose of these settings is for those with 2x stretch anamorphic lenses to get true 2.35:1 cinemascope from the GH2, rather than the more extreme 3.55:1 aspect ratio generated the lenses when used in 1080p 16:9 mode. I much prefer the less extreme cinema standard of 2.35:1 or 2.39:1, since that is what these anamorphic lenses were intended to make with 4:3 35mm film.

Today I have found MJPEG settings that seem to work well for recording quality and so sharing them here. I'll also share my further tests here. There is always room for improvement and new discoveries. The GH2 is good hardware, faster than the GH1 so who knows how high we can push it?

Rather than use 1440x1080, 1280x960 is necessary to avoid corruption, unexpected clip curtailment and enable the much higher bitrates.

Bitrate with my settings is approx. 80Mbit (variable). VLC Player reports a stream between 65,000kb and 85,000kb per second. 80,000kb is 78Mbit (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1504&bih=877&q=80000+kb+in+megabits&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=). Please correct me if I am wrong on anything technical. The footage looks great so far in this mode.

I need to do more reliability testing and see how far we can push it. Yet to find the final 'sweet-spot' but these settings are a good starting point for fellow testers.

480p Width: 1280
480p Height: 960
F1 Quality=280
F1 Table=4
F2 Quality=250
F2 Table=10
F3 Quality=225
F3 Table=24
F4 Quality=200
F4 Table=48

Lens was a LOMO 35mm 2x anamorphic in OCT18 mount.

I did not change any other settings.

A big thanks to Vitaliy and every tester, giving up valuable time for the good of the community. I salute you! - Andrew

Random Musings (shot on GH2 44M)

Greek_m43 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:09:39 +0000

This is my short film Random Musings, Shot on a GH2 with Chris' 44M hack. It's shot with the 20mm pancake and Canon FDs.

DSLR~ a citizen journalist's machete

eyeBOX — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:05:45 +0000

DSLR's.. People don't tend to think of small, 35mm type cameras as being able to record video as well as news / ENG type cameras. What are your thoughts on these types of well-camouflaged devices and techniques on gathering the "story?"

Worth a watch. Rien à déclarer

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:02:06 +0000

Don't know if english sound track exists, really :-)

Music performance shot on GH2vk with cbrandin's 66M settings, 24p

Sam_Mallery — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:42:41 +0000

Here's a short video I just shot with my GH2vk using cbrandin's 66M settings:

I know this is far from a raw MTS file... I had to compress it to 90mb to make the file fast and easy to upload (the promotional nature of the video didn't leave me with much time - I needed to get this out the door ASAP). But, to me, this video shows how nicely the visual quality holds up.

Canon FD 50mm 1.4, set on f1.4, just a regular house lamp for light (with my V96 LED pointed at the back wall with a purple gel over it, to give you something to look at). 24p, highest quality settings on the cam.

My 110 Mbps High Contrast Example

Ian_T — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:04:17 +0000

Below is an example of the detail I can get out of a high contrast shot when using an extremely high data rate. I attached 4 iterations of the same snapshot view from a video I took last night. In this example I'm using Henry Olanga's 110 Mbps PTool settings to film my (7 month pregnant) wife. You can see the original file is high in contrast. I had the camera set to Nostalgic mode 1/50 shutter and 640 ISO (it could have been 800 ISO since I was dancing between the two ...so I'm not quite sure at the moment).

What I did was play with some extreme settings to see what (if any) I could recover in the shadow areas. You can see in the next clip I lowered the contrast a bit. Then in the following clip I lowered the contrast and highlighted the shadow areas. It's a bit extreme....but this was purposely done to see how far I could push the image. Before the hack...most of this would have been a noisy mess (compression artifacts/smeary dark areas/macroblocks etc). What the hack allows is for detail to stay put in the dark areas with a lot less hassle. In the last image I just highlighted the shadows of the original file. That would be the optimal setting I'd apply for an image like this. Others may do differently....but at least we have somewhat of an option now.

For those who claim they don't see any benefit of the hack vs the stock video....I'd say this is good enough evidence "favoring" the hack.

Short UFO Documentary shot on GH2

fatpig — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:29:54 +0000

Hi Guys, i decided to post my little spontaneous action-UFO-Documentary, which came into existence after I experienced the sighting myself. it covers our journey from seeing the objects to trying to uncover the truth!
Its german- for all of you who don't speak my language, be sure to turn on Subtitles! (CC at the Bottom, click play, then arrow up, then cc.)

Isobel - a GH2 short film - 50mbps GOP3

jrdise — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:13:00 +0000

Short film using mostly kae's 50mbps GOP3 settings.

GH2 110mbps (GOP 3) Slow Motion Helicopter Test

VK_Editing — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:59:07 +0000

Just for fun.... Helicopter crashed on accident lol.

GH2 Terence Fixmer videoclip

Unleashedvisuals — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:26:35 +0000

New video for Terence Fixmer we made, shot in GH2! ISO 400, 800 for interiour shots
NO HACK present, out of the box cam! Color grading in FCP, noise added in post!

Shortfilm made for 48hour film project

piewee — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:05:45 +0000

Probably most of you guys know about the 48hour film project, for those who don't in a nutshell:

The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours. On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.

So we took the genre "Film Noir", and the prop was a "ladybug" this is the result, shot on a Canon 60D with a old Nikon 50mm f1.4 AI-S and a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8, let me know what yáll think:

Underwater video test with GH13 Lpowell patch

telesteric — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:00:19 +0000

sorry for link not sure how to post video, one thing missing in video info ISO 400

My Webseries - Self Storage Season 2

bannedindv — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:42:36 +0000

Season Two of our comedy web series. I'm the DP on the show - first season we used all Canon DSLR's. second Season All Panasonic GH2 (some flashbacks were canon from 1st season)

Season 2 premiere:

Season 1 1st episode:

They had some encoding errors on upload - gonna have to tell them...

GH2 Footage - "Shack in the Back" Music Video

David_Cole — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:56:49 +0000

Background
These shots were taken as pick-ups to be included in the more complex, official "Shack in the "Back with Us" music video. The official video is produced/edited by LA filmmaker Todd Segal which includes fancy cars, flying objects and more complex elements.

This edit is intended to provide material for filmmakers using or considering the GH system as a filmmaking tool.

Camera used for this shoot:
Filmed entirely with Panasonic Gh2 (hacked).

Lenses:
Standard Panasonic 4/3 lenses...
Primary... 14 - 140mm w/ OS on
100-300mm w/OS on... used sparingly
7-14mm was used for one shot... overhead crane-up shot from drums.

Settings
Motion JPEG/HD, 30fps

Support Gear
Entire shoot was hand held, excepting a couple of specialty shots (crane up from drums and rotation shot in which a basic 557B Manfrotto mono-pod was used. (The OS on both the 14-140mm and the 100-300mm are exceptional and greatly minimize stability issues).

Edit:
The footage is straight out of the camera as shot, except processing to remove some sensor noise (^ISO) which was prominent in a few clips. Neat Video was used (fantastic plug-in) for this purpose... and only in automatic mode.

Posted on Final Cut 7. (I did not find FCPX to be useful for this edit. (Just couldn't quite make the jump due to multi- clip sync issues)

Lighting:
Two or three desk lamps

Production:
About 3 hours of shooting. Filmed at Shack in the Back Studios. (somewhere out there:)

VIDEO
Director, DP, Editor... Robert Bruce Baldwin
(aka robert da bruce:) big stick prod.
co-producer... Ellen Bukstel (aka Queen Bee:)
featuring: Brett Segal (The General) and Carla Barberis (Jampony Firefunk)

MUSIC
Title: Shack In The Back with Us
Artist: The General (Brett Segal) feat. Anton, Jmic, Jennifer Sidney
Music/Producer: The General (Brett Segal)
Lyrics: The General (Brett Segal), Jmic and Anton
Label: Shack In The Back Productions and Polyrhythm Publishing

Official Release
The official (music video) will be released in the very near future and will include elements filmed by Todd Segal which were previously shot entirely on the GH1 hack platform. Should be interesting to compare the Gh1/Gh2 platforms in the same mix. Stay turned

Special thanks to Brett and Carla and the all the unmentioned super beings at Shack in the Back! ... RBB

Those dudes are crazy

chef — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:55:29 +0000

Sit back relax and check this amazing video out!

Worth a watch. Man on wire.

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:33:00 +0000

If you did not saw it yet, you must.

Complaint to Canon (very funny video - very true as well!)

dacloo — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:10:54 +0000

Spur of the Moment Short Film on GH2

B3Guy — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:50:59 +0000

Here is a short film/documentary/mockumentary (I documented my friends as they pretended to be making a documentary??) shot on GH2 with 14-140 handheld. On vacation so I didn't have my full kit with me.

Fracking with a GH2

Felix — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:53:40 +0000

Thought I'd tackle an environmental issue and a broadcast example of the GH2 in action. This Fracking action was shot on a standard GH2 using a 14 - 140 with exTele using 720 x 50p (I So need PAL) Video footage was broadcast by ITN and the BBC. Any advice on getting a stable 720 x 50p setting?

Vitaliy you rock!!!!

Ausboy — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 05:52:57 +0000