*** Update on moon T8 ***

Analysing footage from GH4 to see if there's anything that can be introduced into my encoder settings to improve further. Sorry for delay.

@Jacekk Provide the graphs and compression details and I WILL prove you wrong.

Video of an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday called Maslenitsa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslenitsa) Shot on the 1st of March 2014. GH2, Moon T7

Hey guys! Here by my latest trailer using moon t7

@tatzu The details in the scenery look incredible! Best I've seen from any GH2 footage. That's definitely encouraging me to get some faster SD cards and switch to Moon from Drewnet. I'm going to be shooting several music videos for local artists come late Spring and looking at what you have, the GH2 should compliment the GH4 wonderfully (My preorder is due April 28th, let's see if that actually happens haha)

@dado023 No I didn't keep the bad ones, for lack of storage. I was doing them for myself to choose a codec for my work. It is very easy to do a similar test BUT do use a broadcast monitor to judge it. As has been pointed out here many times, you can't judge a compressed youtube clip on a computer monitor, unless that is what it is destined for as a final deliverable. It is why I said to each his own. By all means listen to other people's opinions buy always do your own test with your own equipment.

My needs are slightly different to most: I shoot many long interviews in low light so look for decent data rate for spanning and storage as well as clean video because it is for broadcast (I have many terrabytes of footage to store for my current project). In a static interview one is much more aware of noise in dark areas than in a camera/scene in motion which is why I said to each his own - it all depends on what you are using it for - I shot film for 45 years before switching to digital, and with film you understand there is an emulsion, an iso, a lens and a light for every situation - depending on what story you are telling. Digital is the same and that is the beauty of these versatile hacks. If I were doing a short bright crisp flashy little piece I would use Moon T7 because it is outstanding for high data rate but it is not the best by any means for long low light interviews, in my opinion....

@paparak_ivi I have the same test results, made many times over. I only really shoot in low light and use FloMotion. Because of how everyone on this topic is so enthusiastic about Moon, at first I couldn't believe the noise in the blacks that I was getting with Moon compared to FloMotion so I repeated the tests at least 20 times - from my tests to my eye and in my opinion only FloMotion is clearly much better in shadows. But to each his own.

23.976fps is the industry standard. If you're not syncing audio or doing professional post production or doing a film recording you're not hurting anything going 24.0fps but if you plan to exhibit like in a festival or work collaboratively you're better off just sticking with 23.976fps and not being "that guy" that's making the process more complicated than it needs to be.

24P cinema mode unless you're shooting slow mo, generally.

When you've updated your firmware with Moon or any other patch that's what you're using, there's no additional switch in a menu.

@rezyserzycia Thanks. I used standard 14-42 with cheap CPL filter.

Mr Drift - still loving your patches v BMPCC and other formats we've been shooting in personal projects - holds up and beyond still - even blagged em into several prime time BBC and CH4/Ch5 title shots shhh :) You've taken the codec and hardware to it's far limit, far beyond the manufacturers expectations. Probably last of the the homebrew good stuff we're going to see for a while, hats off to you inspiring a load of possible next gen shooters and pushing the makers into making the good new shit we're seeing along with Vitaly. Of course Voldermort claims it's ALL his idea but hey ho blog wars are funny. /chapeau

Hello everyone, I want to ask you something that makes me think that moon T7 a lot of noise in the dark areas against flow motion 2.02 given 2 shots below to compare

@driftwood Any info on T8 development. The test footage you posted looked great to me. Thanks for all your great work and settings over the last few years. I've got a project I'll be shooting in a few months and if budget stays low, I might still be on a GH2, so T8 could be the look I'm after.

(BTW - Intravenous v2 performed like a champ on our feature shoot. Great images. 20 days of shooting and only 1 error. Thank you for that.)

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