GH2 High Quality GOP3 Settings, Series 2: 'AN' Valkyrie, GOLGOP3-13, GOP3ZILLA, Duke, natural :-)

bkmcwd

The meanings of my account name "bkmcwd" are "Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's." LOL Please do not mistake! :-)

Because my English is poor, there may be many unclear things, but I do my best in some questions to answer enduringly.

Series1: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2960/an-valkyrie-golgop3-13-gop3zilla-natural-freeze-less-reliable-all-round-gop3-settings-/p1

[The common feature of my settings]

For example, if some setting tries to use low qp with the frame size limited like Intra, many level lines of the high qp macroblocks will also appear in each frame pictures. Although it is unclear for appearance in looking with eyes, it means that the codec is not committing this correctly. I am making the settings which can use the lowest possible qp appropriately, avoiding this isuue by using the biggest possible I-frames. On the high detailed scene, if the minimum qp is too low, the range of qp will spread and, as a result, many of these level lines of the high qp macroblocks will appear.

Therefore, in my settings, on the high detailed scene, it has adjusted so that the minimum qp may become high appropriately. On the other hand, it has adjusted so that the lowest possible qp can be positively used under the lowlight. I think that 3GOP can realize this all-round performance with the motion. Therefore, when using my settings as only for lowlight, you may feel thing insufficient only a few, although sufficient dark place performance is still given. However, also in a bright scene, the codec hardly wavers with my settings. This is the point that especially I am scrupulous.

And

My top priority is "recording does not stop by any means in any situations."

*The issue which the high bitrate hacked GH2 cannot often span more over 4GB is not contained in this.

In order to adjust so that recording may not stop in a high stress scene, you have to test supposing the stress beyond it. I have spent many hours also on the torture test for it.

*The purpose tested with this screen is the check of durability or reliability to the last. About image quality, it cannot check at all by this test.

I understand that this test exceeds the stress assumed practically. However, in the settings which cannot clear this test, the Risk of Freezing Camera momentarily practically is large.

Moreover, although the issue of "freezing the moment a focus suits" is recognized in many other GH2 settings, about it, it cannot necessarily solve only by this test. I have also solved this issue now by the test which repeats focusing for several minutes.

I aim at the setting not freezing.

If my settings may become unstable with SanDisk 95MB/s SDXC, please give me feedback.

*The spanning is possible perfectly in 24p with SanDisk 95MB/s SDXC.

These features are common in almost all my settings.

REMEMBER: IF YOU USE THESE SETTINGS PLEASE MAKE A DONATION ABOVE TO VITALIY KISELEV FOR HIS TIRELESS WORK IN MAKING THIS HAPPEN. THESE SETTINGS ARE TOTALLY DEDICATED TO HIM. THERE ARE MANY QUIET USERS OUT THERE WHO HAVE NEVER BOTHERED OFFERING ANYTHING. PLEASE, PLEASE HELP TO KEEP THESE HACKS GOING. NO MORE DONATIONS = NO MORE SETTINGS. IF YOU HAVE MADE A SMALL CONTRIBUTION IN THE PAST, NOW IS THE TIME TO DONATE AGAIN. Thank you, bkmcwd

Again, special thanks to @driftwood, @cbrandin, and of course @Vitaliy_Kiselev! :-)

bonkuratv

@maxr @matt_gh2 Thank you for watching!!

BTW google translated your PV user's name as dickheadtv, is it? The google translator works perfectly!

avidemux Thank you for informations!! GH2 is still enough image quality for me.but compared with recent camera,high iso noise appear much.so I will try this next time!!

matt_gh2

@bonkuratv Cool as a mother-fucker. Inspirational.

maxr

@bonkuratv ja aj aajaj aja what a great little video!!! That deserves sum over the top foley sound effects :P
I'm sending this to my kungfu, surfer, chinese doctor, bet he's gonna love it.
BTW google translated your PV user's name as dickheadtv, is it?

PS
If you ever shooting high ISOs, avidemux has a good set of (fast enough) inbuilt noise reduction filters. The drawbacks are avi export (HuffYUV) and batch; this last one can be scripted but I still haven't managed it. Personally I find it to work great even with underexposed footage; one can also lift gamma up quite a bit with inbuilt filters. Tried this both with Driftwood's Sedna and Valkyrie. Together with Hybrid's dithering and for particular cases (few files, heavy grading) - tweaking tweaking tweaking says Igor - it works even better than 5DtoRGB+Hybrid combo =)

avidemux march build for OSX 10.11 - direct DL link

and nightly builds' directory (also win 32/64) - http://www.avidemux.org/nightly/

bonkuratv

bkmcwd "Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO3 3.1&filmconvert

sab717

Im new to this hack gop3zilla 176mb, is there anyway to remove the auto iso, i prefer manual everything. Secondly is it normal for HBR setting to disappear? I had sedna AQ1 pack which still had the hbr recording setting. Thanks in advance

maxr

First things first: thank you bkmcwd and the secret japanese sushi-geeky team, also Driftwood, cbrandin, VK and his mustache, thepalalias, and all the retailers of tech, feedbackers, improoveners and beer holding monkeys with no shame whatsoever =)

I brrring... nothing special really, just more boring tests, je je jews!, mainly around grading... cohesion of workflow, banding solving, skin tones... uff!!! aware of me odd compromises (yes dude, I failed) - IMO those 2 are the Achilles' heels of the GH2.
Cineform is a good, fast alternative if done directly from MTS, AME is incredibly fast digesting them and colors are rendered pleasantly, nevertheless much less leeway (non dither/denoised) for CC. Motherfuckin riping 444 type-zero beta5 Valkyries!!!!
Piss, I mean peace!

maxr

I know I know, a masterpiece, ja aja ja

INFO: Laundry Lexi and his nomad roots' test, shot with a GH2 patched with bkmcwd's Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO4 BETA5 (salud!) through a clumsy daylight vari ND fade, rinsed in free 5DtoRGB and dyed with a cocktail of free Hybrid, still graded with homebrew Alien_H_01 LUT, added pinch of grain and glow (just because), cropped with free Tuttle OFX Crop plugin in a fancy yet ridiculously fake 2:35 ratio, all inside free DRL

Love GOLGOP too, so great in lowlight and kind of clean denoising process, I want to use it more...
but I'm pretty sure the Valkyrie is staying for a while, at least with µFT glass ,-)

Zen Kiû bkmcwd extended to @Driftwood, @cbrandin, @VK and all the cool folks that walk and talk with love.
A very special thanks to @thepalalias, dude you rock and I mean it, class =)

frogfrog

Oh My God!

My GH2 with Valkyrie shot " Golden Lotus - The Musical" was screened on May 31 at the Lebovic Centre for Arts and Entertainment in Stouffville.

limax_china

@Alex_K It's small to carry with 14mm panny lens, and GH3 GH4 JP model has no English menu.

Alex_K

@limax_china there is no reason to hack gf2 at all

limax_china

@bkmcwd @duartix @stonebat @driftwood Thanks for your great works. I was follow the firmware hack since 2012, and flash my GF2(14mm 2.5, 14-42mm X) for tens of times. Since 2013 the hack setting of GF2 is not update. So, I wonder if your setting of GH2 is compatible for GF2. I noticed that many GF2 users are waiting for better setting of there CAM.

I summaried the require, we want a setting witch working with sandisk 45MB/s SD card stable, no 4GB spin issue, balenced performance, fairly color correction, smooth and low light performance.

It's very nice if you can answer the question.

bkmcwd

BTW, I know that 60i/HBR of the latest GOLGOP3-13-A2 and MAX are unstable slightly actually.

I have even improved until the middle, there is no time to test recently, so it can't be released yet. However, I think even the settings released already are no problem when not using Panny 7-14 lens. ;-)

bkmcwd

@Sanjohn

do you think it is possible to simulate a Log profil in the GH2 with the hack ?

I think at least, it's difficult at the stage now. :-(

bkmcwd

@Marathonianbull

Hi mate, I'm sorry to make you wait for a long time.

Many thanks for telling an impression for my settings. I think my settings are most stable, too.

I don't understand at all about MJPEG, so it's being just diverted from Nick's set in the past.

Please tell me: what are the main practical differences then between GOP3ZILLA and your other patch called NATURAL3 ?

The difference between those is only the data size and used QP. There is no difference in particular, but many Japanese users like natural, so I also continue that.

which ONE of these several settings & versions (among GOLGOP3-13, GOP3ZILLA4, VALKYRIE TZ 3.1/TZ4, NATURAL3, DUKE...) would offer the best Fluidity, Versatility, and Colour Accuracy, so as to become the most likely all-around solution in a GH2?

It's very difficult to decide that, but I think the latest TZ3 or TZ4 is balanced most.

bkmcwd

Everyone. I'm out of touch a long period and I apologize for that. I didn't log in for a long time because work for a life was busy recently.

@MrZz

Hi mate, I'm sorry to make you wait for a long time.

I think I found it myself - the difference in TZ3 and TZ4 is the matrix used in the 24p mode, correct?

Yes, that's right! And thanks for the info of batteries. :-)

MrZz

@bkmcwd Hey man I hope everything's fine? Even though I'm still waiting for your answer to be sure, I think I found it myself - the difference in TZ3 and TZ4 is the matrix used in the 24p mode, correct? I'm hella confused which one to use, I will try both, getting a second gh2 soon as a... well second A-cam ;)

Oh and if you didn't see check out this thread: http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/74/gh2-third-party-batteries#Item_196 finally easy to obtain third party batteris for the GH2 which show the battery indicator ;)

Cheers

SanJohn

@bkmcwd do you think it is possible to simulate a Log profil in the GH2 with the hack ? Thanks for all your hard work !!!

Marathonianbull

@bkmcwd

Hi,

If I understand your notes well, GOLGOP3-13 is a mix of Driftwood's Sedna and the stock matrix; Valkyrie 444 is a carefully-modified 444 matrix; regarding GOP3ZILLA, you wrote earlier that it was "the simple settings which harnessed the features of the stock (firmware) as it was..." Please tell me: what are the main practical differences then between GOP3ZILLA and your other patch called NATURAL3 ?

So overall, to your opinion, which ONE of these several settings & versions (among GOLGOP3-13, GOP3ZILLA4, VALKYRIE TZ 3.1/TZ4, NATURAL3, DUKE...) would offer the best Fluidity, Versatility, and Colour Accuracy, so as to become the most likely all-around solution in a GH2? (No specific shooting style in mind, using a Sandisk 95Mb/s 32GB with AF and some electronic features "On") I've tried all the latest of each set; they appear to be very stable on my card so far (AMAZINGLY SO!)

Sincerely,

Marathonianbull

Hi bkmcwd,

I've just put your latest work Valkyrie 444 TZ4 Beta5 to the harsh test of my fragile GH2 / Sandisk 95Mb/s 32BG equilibrium, and I must say that so far it is VERY stable (as stable as Flow Motion or Sanity X); not a single crash, freeze, writing error, or missed in-cam playback in ALL modes (!?) With the proper WB, the colours were also spot-on, i.e. very true to life. Settings were: iA OFF, i-dyn OFF, i-Res OFF, AF ON, (Leica DG 25mm), Shutter P, Auto-ISO...

Everything runs smoothly, except maybe the 24H mode which seems a little more jittery / vibrant than Flow Motion 2.02 for instance (in spite of the higher frame rate). Note that this is just a first impression, but in any case I LOVE it!

By the way, I personally opted to manually remove all included MPEG modifications so as to keep immediate playbacks available. I wonder what would be the threshold for improved MPEGS that can still be viewed from the GH2...

THKs

MrZz

Hey @bkmcwd is the new Valkyrie TZ4 a upgraded version of TZ3? and is TZ4 usable for PAL?

Best Regards, Great Settings!!!

bkmcwd

GOLGOP3-13-MAX_BETA11 24p ISO3200 No color grading

bkmcwd

GOLGOP3-13-MAX_BETA11 24p ISO3200 No color grading

@frogfrog

Thanks for comment, mate! :-)

frogfrog

Had installed Valkyrie 444 TYPE-ZERO4 BETA5. I found it's having outstanding low light ability.

I will use it for shooting a musical in HK.

Thank you so much!

bkmcwd

@dlzn

Thanks mate! :-)

dlzn

LOVE IT. @bkmcwd

[The common feature of my settings]

My top priority is "recording does not stop by any means in any situations."

I aim at the setting not freezing.

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