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matt_gh2

@donniewagner Looks very nice. Cool video too.

donniewagner

@agoltz, thanks. it was all windows and skylights. had a few shots where it was just too dark, and ended up shooting at ISO 3200 in some shots, which was a mistake. but it came out ok.

agoltz

@donniewagner I really love the lighting. Excellent.

jdude

@donniewagner Nice shoots. Very good stuff.

Love Moon T7 quality but I have to change to T5 for more stable performance in wedding videography. I receive a lot of cards errors even with the SanDisc 64G 95mbs. The most common error was that sometimes after 18min of recording I tried to shoot another clip and din't let me because it said that the card was already full even with 40min left o recording. Sorry for my bad english.

donniewagner

AnnasArmy

Moon T7 here, but made tons of mistakes while filming like not enough light, some exposure and high iso issues, but neat video helped a ton.

dancerchris

@darkraymond It depends, generally speaking the best card for recording (and generally spanning correctly) is the Sandisk Extreme Pro 64GB. The Driftwood patches push the limits of even that card but some have reported continuous recording with no problems using that best card. However you can get away with some things in a static shot verses something with a lot of motion (variable bit rates). So you aren't guaranteed anything, you need to test based on the combination card/patch/motion/(camera).

darkraymond

@Tjabo, thank you and I have tried it. It's really good but I need to compromise with lower bitrate and quality for long recording. @dancerchris, thank you. I will try it. Do you think the patchs by Driftwood is not suitable for long recording? Or my card problem only? Or there is a limit of writing speed on GH2?

kn3

I've had problems with HBR (NTSC) with hacks - not very reliable when spanning: you may loose footage after 13-15 minutes. 720p is much more reliable for longer recordings.

dancerchris

@darkraymond Anything less than a SanDisc Extreme Pro 64GB card will often cause problems with continuous recording. If you want long recording with cheap card I suggest Sanity 5.

Tjabo

@darkraymond, sorry I can't actually help with your specific question, but I can definitely offer you an unsolicited suggestion, Lol, "Stop wasting your camera and your time on DREWnet T9!" Moon T7 is sooooooo much better, even 24L, which is nice and reliable for the most part.

darkraymond

Hi everybody, I found that my gh2 is able to record a continuous HBR(pal) video around 15min only. I am using DREWnetT9 with a Transcend 64GB SDXC Ultimate Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card. Is it normal? Thanks a lot.

marciocons

After using FMv2.2 for some time, I decided to give Moon T7 a try. When I opened the first file in my macbook, I was totally amazed with the IQ, the low noise and the details. Here is a sample of an unedited video of the GH2 (Moon T7)/ -2 -2 -2 0 (Smooth). Unfortunately, Youtube does compress a lot the video.

Tjabo

@Celullo, thank you, that is some useful information! :)

Celullo

@Tjabo, for my usage 640iso is perfect when there is enough light for shooting. I've tried to say that when I've been working with high iso I did get better result with NR set to 0 not -2, I think it's because T7 is working very hard to resolve the compression with high amount of noise. A bit of NR (mean NR set to 0) make softer image but much more "usable" in a color grading process.

Tjabo

@Celullo, are you saying the low quality images in the early part of that video were done with NR -2, and the better quality stuff was NR=0? OR is it that the better images were with the 50mm set on 640 iso?

I have always had trouble with anything over 800 iso on my GH2, and sometimes even 800 iso stuff needed a little cleaning up with Neat Video.

Celullo

Here is another MoonT7 project, shooted with the pany 14-140 and a lovely Zuiko 50 f/1.4. I know it had already been discussed but I've noticed that noise reduction setting is critical when working in very low light condition, it means if NR is set to -2 then T7 stress a lot compare to NR set to 0, for this second setting result are far better compared to the first one. But what the lens speed make the difference, every shot was at 640 iso with the 50mm compared to 1600 iso with the 14-140mm

soldadoperegrino

Thanks guys, that helps a lot. I was thinking the same thing. I was going to follow the instructions on this video to install the MoonT7 Hack. Is this correct?

and http://osgfilms.com/hack-the-panasonic-gh2/

Thank you so much, Really appreciate the confirmation before I go ahead and do this. I really don't want to turn my camera into a brick.

JSP

the_cubaner

and the second comparison between the GH2 and GH4

The GH2 with the T7M-setting by driftwood is still the queen of FHD filming, and only in the 4K mode, the GH4 beats the GH2 in the quality!

I hope, someday, there is a hack to increase the quality of the GH4 to a new level like the GH2 ...

spaceandtime

@producer Yep i would also like to see this plugin. When will this be availabe? I've seen you've been doing this for a while, are you ever going to make your color plugin available or is this your way of a sick game, showing us what we can't have? :p

Tjabo

I agree completely with @Zaven13. 24H is pretty reliable and looks fantastic, but in my experience 24L looks almost as good (you might not know the difference if you didn't check the bit rate for the clip), and for me 24L has been perfectly reliable.

Zaven13

@soldadoperegrino. Any one of the hacks are much more stable in 24p and 24L modes. You should be the safest with 24L at around 80mbs. Moon variations are pretty good.

TATZU

@soldadoperegrino I would use MoonT7 it runs really good and the quality is incredible! Just make sure if you record a real long clip 5+minutes record a very short one afterwards b4 the camera turns off or it might not want to record anymore.

soldadoperegrino

Hello all, My first post here. I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to provide a little help, but first let me say a sincere "thank you" to all who contribute here. Even though this is a first post, I have read some (as much as I can comprehend) of all this and it is quite phenomenal what you all are doing. Congrats, and thank you for such work.

I just bought a used GH2 with the 14-140mm lens. It's in awesome shape and I am looking to do some shorts on it. But first I am going to a National Park to film some mountain landscapes, lakes, rivers, sunsets/rises (so dark to light and opposite), forests etc. I will be shoot for long periods (-ish) at a time and am trying to decide on the right hack.

I have two PNY SDXC 90mpbs 64GB cards coming in the mail before I leave. So that should be set.

What would be the best hack for this? I am concerned that the ones producing 130+ results will be too much, being that this is my first DSLR and first GH2 and First hack (what have I done? lol). I don't want to run into trouble when I hike five hours up a peak at 5AM to have it produce some kind of error. So maybe something more around 80.

But neither do I want to get done with this "once in a lifetime" shooting opportunity and find there was a much better hack. I want "Wow" quality, movie quality stuff. You know what I mean? I am really tech savy and will do all my testing first, but I am wondering if anyone could suggest (and provide the appropriate link:) for the hack that is most reliable and still produces phenomenal results.

Thanks so very much!

JSP

mjfan

@producer please share with us how to get filmvision pro, looks great!

producer

The newest "breakthrough" test with FilmVision Pro - latest v7!!!

What's new: the "thin" picture of GH2 highly avoided; the videoish GH2 characteristics lowered; plus many other step procedures from A to Z.

No Magic Bullet Looks, no FilmConvert or any other artificial plugins used!

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