Thanks @hay for your answer. The reason why I haven't tried IV or BOOM so far is because for me In camera playback is important while shooting things. I'm not yet grown so confident as a Cinematographer although I feel it is a journey that I'm already midway through. Another reason is I really don;t have a lot of TB's to spare so file size matters a bit. I have tried Cluster 6 and FM mainly and I think FM is the sweet spot of quality and size. I took FM on my holiday to GOA with me. Everything I shot was handheld but I was amazed by the quality and no artifacts from FM. I'm mainly making narratives (short films and feature) and I think in proper lighting or even some guerilla lighting situation, FM is your trusty companion that can be graded to beautiful looking frames. Ofcourse If I have the money to get more hard disks, I would definately try IV or BOOM or as I hear, long gop versions of these. I'm excited. For now I think FM is a good choice for me. It is also interesting to see that a quick search on youtube about all patches reveals while for all patches you got test footage ranging from Tree tops to Birds, FM has the most finished projects. Like Music videos and things. Just an observation. I could be wrong. :)

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I finally plunged into Intravenus. Been a long time satisfied Flowmotion user. Tested on Sandisk 32gb 45mb/s cards. Doesn't span after 5mins, but it went thru the whole card fine. Really looking forward to testing more on it. Thanks again PV

@Swiss_Boy not sure about 25p, but I've not had any issues with 24p. Although I haven't just set the camera on a tripod, hit record, and let it set for 3 hours either.

@GravitateMediaGroup ok that sounds good! Did you also try HBR and 720p and regarding stability which one would you say is better? Cause i think i read here that 25p wasn't stable on V.2.. Right now i'm happy with V.1 but i will give V.2 a try for sure

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@onionbrain Cluster v9 Boom! DREWnet coming featuring Driftwood mainly all 4s matrix.

Cluster v8 DREWnet & Nebula 'cbrandin Cinema Smooth matrix' also on the way.

That hopefully will fill all the missing jigsaw pieces...

@shian @driftwood ok so i will use v.1 for now since it's already in my gh2 plus i don't know much about v.2 i didn't test it yet and didn't read too much about it. Intravenus is really dope the grain is so filmic that i think i won't even add emulations of 35mm grain in post i'll just keep the original fine grain. 25p is also amazing on this patch!

Variation 1 :-) variation 2 came out later.

@shian which version of Intravenus did you use on your test? and is intravenus v.2 better(Grain,Grading) than the first one and is it more stable?

My initial, un-scientific reactions after relatively brief play...

"Apocalypse Now 'Intravenus' v2 With cbrandin 'Smooth Cinema' Matrix" Very, very sharp -- and I really, really liked it. Would love a long-gop version. Didn't try making one because of the reason below with Low Rider.

"Cluster 'DREWnet' GOP12/15 (LongGOP)" I like it -- but I can confirm irregular looking noise -- kind of an underlying static (remember television static?) under various conditions.

"GH2 'Low Rider' trial Setting" I liked it, it looked great, but I wasn't left with any exceptional good or bad impression. At ISO 3200 using the incandescent white balance setting it looked great. I was interested enough by it to modify the GOP settings back to camera default. Modified -- the 720/60p was awesome and the 24p(h) was a disaster that I can only imagine is the "fallback mode" because it looked like the old DV when overstressed.

Of the above three -- the AN Intravenus V2 w/ Smooth was the most intriguing and I liked the super-sharp resolution. The only alarm was that I seemed to be getting that sharpness type ghosting with camera movement. I assume and expect I was panning too fast for the frame rate -- but -- it was extremely noticeable.

As a side note for general audiences -- I've been using Cluster V6 "DREWnet" for everything on the current productions -- and the results have been stunning and two small time television stations think it's the best looking local stuff they've ever seen produced.

Video shoot went well fairly good results with "Lowrider" in Low light. Haven't tried Intravenus V2 but since Shian swears by it I think Ill give it a go soon. Ill upload the raw footage when my lazyness subsides till then here is a still from PP-

Just a note/question regarding post-prod greenscreen: I would think that to maximize the chance of pulling the most detail for keying that a 444 matrix intra hack would be the best option, wouldn't it? From what Nick has described, it seems that the 444 matrix is trying to best emulate a 4:4:4 color space for 8 bit footage by pushing as much detail into the Chroma channels. I found keying some Boom! footage to be quite successful, although, as per, to get every niggling bit of detail you can your screen lighting has to be near spot on perfect (no more than 1/4 stop variance).

I imagine true 4:4:4 footage would be easier to to key given the fact there is some latitude (especially 10-12 bit raw) than 8 bit footage, so there must be a bit more forgiveness as it were if they screen lighting isn't so perfectly even.