@toxotis70 Give me ALL your exact settings and shooting location and try and upload a screen grab. Its something I'm looking into.

@lstewart When you get a long filename saving a patch from personal-view just use save as and overwite whatever name it is to what you want to call it - e.g. driftwood seaquake.zip (remember these patches are ALL ZIP files and need to be unzipped). Once unzipped, copy the setx.ini files into your ptools folder, run ptools (start afresh by closing down and re-running ptools if you were already running it, and to see the new setting you downloaded and copied to your ptools folder hover your mouse over the A-J buttons below). Click one of those buttons to load the patch. Then, save firmware to sd card, load up to camera off your sd card. EASY!

I can't get it to work guys. Just getting the no valid picture error. Looks like you guys are having fun but I think I'm going back to Canon, I just don't have time for this hacking hobby.

OK. Thanks for the info. I'll keep two separate SD cards with the different hacks on them, and make sure I have full batteries available before I begin.

@Driftwood, Sorry to keep bugging you man or woman, I just got out of an annoying long chat with Sandisk, and they are claiming I need to benchmark my card before returning it. This seems a bit stupid, but my basic question is does it matter if I tell them I have a hacked camera. I did not mention this just cause it seemed the path of least resistance, but if it comes up that a GH2 doesn't write at more than 20mbps, I am just wondering what to say. Anyways PITA Sandisk support. I am thinking my next card is coming from elsewhere.

So, I can't set the 24H to the super-high bitrate and have the 24L be the low bitrate? I'd have to re-flash the firmware every time I want to change the bitrate?

Hello, all. I'm a noob when it comes to the GH2 hack, so forgive me if this is a stupid question. I also posted this on DVXuser but I'm hoping somebody here can chime in.

I want to try out the GH2 hack in order to shoot the best quality footage available from this camera (at the moment that's the Seaquake patch by Driftwood) for narrative filmmaking. However, I also frequently have to shoot long-form events where being able to shoot 3+ hours in a single take is essential. I do this now very well with the stock GH2 24Mbps 1080p @ 24fps and a 32GB SD card.

Is there a way to have both modes on the camera at the same time? I mean, one of the custom scene files be set to the Seaquake settings and another to the stock settings for long-form recording? That way I can switch between the two modes easily without having to re-flash the firmware. Is this even possible?

Thanks for any help!

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

"This is why I asked to READ SOMETHING.
Like instructions in PTool topic."

I have read time and time again, the problem it seems is once I have the patches from the patches vault, PTools won't load them-it states they are already a patched file. The downloaded patches have long names e.g.: 3f96361537aa4d43754a6a157bc01c-should I then just rename as described in instructions and drop to my SD card? Still very unclear-maybe I am just brain dead.

I understand that Psf is truly progressive video which has simply been “disguised” as interlaced video, but how do i get to that progressive video?

And what are some alternitives to StreamParser on the mac? Media deosnt seem to display info like i-Frames.

I understand that Psf is truly progressive video which has simply been “disguised” as interlaced video, but how do i get to that progressive video?

And what are some alternitives to StreamParser on the mac? MediaInfo deosnt give info like i-Frames.

Good to know if that worked. For some unknown reason my GF-1 S/N FV0JC001007 does not want to play by the rules. Not a huge deal as it is not the main camera but would be nice. It's a snow-white "cutie" and her job is to look ridiculous and distractive so people do not suspect, it's a serious camera, not just a silly toy. And thives avoiding it for her look. To bad, they did not made GF-1 in pinkish panty color, with yellow polka dots. That would be my top wish. I did read a blog of a traveler who tracked in Nepal and people DID SMILE straight into his GF-1 because "it does not look like a real camera, just a toy". That's what it is for!

1. You make sure your battery is fully charged.
2. You put the firmware file in the root of the SD card.
3. You insert the card, switch the camera on and press the "play" key.
4. The firmware update question appears (or not. On GH-1 it appears, on my GF-1 it does NOT) and you proceed.

Just tried the pTool on the (new) GF-1 body, it seem to be still "unhackable". Anyone was successful with it?
I Hacked all my GH-1-s so far, did not hack the GH-2, waiting for the December Panasonic firmware update being hacked.