This is a not quite finished version of my first ever music video shot with Moon 3 (or maybe it is Blue Moon) The rapper is my little brother aka Rad Nasty. We filmed this over his 2 week visit to Japan which just ended last week. It was shot entirely using a Nokton 17.5mm lens. Day shots were shot using very high film speeds (often 1/4000) which created flicker at times ( a trade off for the look I was going for) Night shots were 1/100th film speed with ISO around 1600 to 2500. It is ungraded, and the only effect is speed ups and slow downs.Thoughts ,comments and criticism as always are welcome, keeping in mind I do plan on cleaning up the out of sinc lip bits, as well as replacing some of the footage. Driftwood, I am really loving Moon. Better than CM night and equal if not better for day shots than all predecessors.

@maddog15 from your experience, is it stable for longer recordings?

@botha, come again? Are there details about the Bowie thing anywhere?

moon T6... anything for us poor fellas with average class 10 cards? :\

@benzopilas

yea it is there, but maybe it would be best to do it in Davinci

Some of you might find this useful when it comes to GH2's dynamic range:

Just in case you haven't seen it ;)

@x_worpig_x Nice work. Very nice. Moon really works well for this style and feel. Nice choice in music bed. Emotional...complements the video instead of complicating it. Also nice sound work with the interviews and VOs. Baffles me still to this day that "videographers" seem to often regard sound as an afterthought.

@driftwood

I just left work...on my way home...battery charging.... SD card formatted... the countdown has begun...let the games begin! Haven't looked forward to something like this since I bought my GH2. Hats off to you Mr. Driftwood.

Be careful not to compare uncompressed vs. compressed either. The GH2 has about 9.5 stops (measured with Xyla 21).

@producer u r rite. but, improved Dynamic Range and Bitrate will sure help i believe.what is the actual Dynamic Range of Gh2. i heard its around 8 - 9 is it true?? 5D Mk III claims a 11.5 Nikon D800 has 13Fstop why Pany is so slow, Gh3 again has a same Dr range??

Filmed using Cluster X Drewnet Trial 8 and Panasonic 14mm f2.5. It's been butchered by Vimeo by comparison, but the details in the original mts files are incredible, and when I shot similar test footage with an earlier trial the camera repeatedly crashed. No such problems this time on the 45mbps card.

@producer You might be happier with IV2 - see how it works for you. I haven't encountered the issue with Moon 5 yet (or any recent patch from @Driftwood, @LPowell or @bkmwcd, et all) but I haven't looked for it either. It did not show up in the "EX24H Painting Detail" tests I have done, however. Did you carefully control all variables and shoot a reference clip with different settings to ensure that the results you experienced were in fact caused by the settings?

Also, I don't think anyone is saying that it wouldn't be great if the color profiles/film modes were hacked. If it happened, I bet everyone would be enthusiastic. Some people simply think that it's more likely than others and the conversation often reflects that.

@vicharris Remember, Moon 5 is designed to scale well up to extreme detail settings while IV1 and IV2 were designed to maximize detail in lower scenes (eventually running out of bitrate in higher detail ones). Also, keep in mind that IV1 may somtimes record as much as 20mpbs more than IV2 in low detail scenes. If you mainly want to max out detail in low detail scenes, one of those might make more sense.

Personally, I've found Moon 5's detail-scaling to be quite effective in the scenes I've been shooting and has led to being able to use slower cards on low-detail shots. Also, keep in mind that the performance at low-bitrates for Moon 5 completely outclasses what you would get with older low-bitrate intra settings (like SMBU v1) when they approach the same bitrate. If you want to smile, do a head-to-head comparison. :)