@DeShonDixon, love your video man...

@artiswar Was that shot using AN Boom! 24H? Simply amazing quality.

I just noticed, i can not recall any thread with as many different settings in it. Kinda hard to keep an overview on my quest for my best setting.

I really liked AN gop6 nebula soft. Just from the colors something felt a bit weird. I think mostly the "greens".

Flowmotion 2.02 was tossed into the ring: a great setting, great allround, very reliable. Still what AN Boom or Valkyrie type zero gives me, appeals a bit more to my eye.

Valkyrie type zero: great setting, looks very nice, but the files are the same size as AN BOOM! which is all intra.

AN BOOM!: Really a marvellous setting. Just cant figure out, why it is supposed to rather not be good for wide shots. The only bummer with this setting is the file size.

Would be outstanding to have the reliability and file size of flowmotion with the image quality and file size of BOOM! or type zero. But thats probably like askin for a ferrari at the price of a lada. Dont get me wrong, i am not complaining, its wonderful to have so many motivated and gifted people here, I just start feeling that i dont know what to use anymore... :-)

@DeShonDixon - great skate video. I like the imperfect athlete feeling. Very fun. Did you mix 60p with 24p?

@deshondixon Lol. Smooth - wow - interesting. Reminded me of footage others shot on different patch/settings but with standard. Will have to do some test shooting soon will all these great new patches/settings. Great work - keep rocking.

@deshondixon Those 2 lenses cut together real well in editing. Were you on Standard all -2 by chance? Looked like Standard with a mild grade in editor. Nice stuff.

@deshondixon Nice looking skate video with AN Boom. Very smooth edit - well done. What settings and lens did you use?

Got a feature shoot begins on 17th and really digging the boom settings. May be the one.

NEW!!!

I released two candidates of following Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO2 AN.

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/83686#Comment_83686

While improving, I am going to develop this in my thread so that it may not become the obstacle of Nick. :-)

@Mirrorkisser Thanks!

Used Apocalyse Boom

I used Apocalypse BOOM for a video I shot for fun with my friend and it works freaking! Perfect I love it! Even for wide shots and everything! No crashes or anything!! Still sharp on my old manual lens and works even great on my panasonic lens!

My initial reactions to Apocalypse Now 'Boom!' ...

The biggest thing I noticed is that this setting appears to handle highlights better than anything I remember on a GH2. Highlights that would traditionally be a disaster -- aren't with this patch. It's the difference between usable and unusable. It's not magically preserving highlights -- all the old exposure rules apply -- but it is better.

Banding is almost nonexistent. Almost. You need to be looking for it very closely. No normal audience would be distracted by banding.

Sharpness is a bit of a mystery on this one. With classic Nikkors, including the notoriously soft (cheap) 20mm f/3.5 AI-S, it's sharp -- very pleasing. Normally this would mean that this setting would be a disaster with a micro-four-thirds lens. For whatever reason -- it isn't a disaster on MFT lenses -- I saw none of that "edge flicker" that I would normally expect from a sharp matrix on an MFT lens. This setting is either doing something right or represents a very nice balance. Details are handled very well -- nothing "fake" looking.

It's a high bitrate intraframe in the full glory of the Driftwood tradition -- about 140 Mbps. Murder on card/disc space -- and better looking than anything you could possibly deliver to any normal consumer.

Colors are very natural looking -- nothing excessive. Visually -- you'd have a hell of a time telling it apart from almost any 4:2:2 broadcast camera. Visually. I didn't run any keying tests.

I was not able to crash 24H. I shot wide and tele, classic Nikkors and Panasonic MFT. I didn't do the old river tests -- but I did do wide, high detail, fast camera motion. No crashes. AND -- it spanned flawlessly at 24H.

If I could afford the disc space (as I write this I'm sitting next to 27.5 terabytes of storage with about 100 gigabytes free) -- I'd use this for everything.

All of the above is my initial reaction after about two days of playing with it.

Below is an exceptionally crappy and boring video featuring the very initial test footage, along with a lens commentary that may be of interest to those of you who love classic lens discussions...