I've pretty much settled on Cine-V with -2, -5, -5, -2, +1, iDynamic Standard, and +2 shadows / -4 highlights. That gives me wide dynamic range, a pleasing highlight roll-off, and doesn't introduce noise into the shadows like heavier-handed picture styles do. Sometimes I'll bring out the Cine-D, or even Natural, but this configuration works well for well-lit, available light, and low light scenarios, yielding a consistently appealing image. I also used to be all about the shoot flat, grade later attitude... but that doesn't work so well with the GH4 as we hopefully all know by now, nor is it necessary. A picture style that has been set right looks great with minimal grading, and can still handle moderate grading if you need it.

Have anyone tested 10bit external recording? I think that heavy settings works well with 10bit.

I tested highlight setting and everything over -2 gave too flattened and weird looking tones.

I think that there is more noise always when shadows are lifted. Profiles, shadow/hl, idynamic and contrast but not master pedestrial. MP in fact gives less noise but foggy shadows.

The vimeo compression just kills some of the color and quality on this. I'll post short snippets of the final prores file for download cuz the master file is truly beautiful. Even the mp4 is very nice [you can download it from the vimeo page.]

The white cyc stuff and the stuff in the Backyard with the girl dancing was my first 2 days using the cam for 96fps overcrank, and all my tests were with 4k... so in short... I pretty much screwed the pooch on those shoots. By the time we got to the slider inserts, the desert stuff, and the stuff with my buddy Tyler smashing doors I had finally figured the camera out.

Thanks to @vicharris for being my camera and G&E crew, as well as the preacher for the white cyc shoot. He's a one man army... [pun intended buddy.]

@Shian F#@!!G great!! Love it, I posted a comment on Vimeo too. This is the business!!

Anyone who says that the GH4 is non filmic, not pleasing colors, ungradable, noisy ...and all the rest of the crap that people post about this camera...ought to pull their head out of their proverbial arses and watch this clip. its as good as the very best of what I have ever seen!!

Might I humbly address you as Shian Rodriguez LOL!!

Excellent work I hope it gets lots of views Cheers

Dallas, I use Manual Movie Mode (not Manual) unless I am shooting stills. I usually set the shutter speed to twice the frame rate (usually 1080P 60). I adjust Aperture and the + - gain to my needs.

The only variable I allow the camera is auto ISO with a limit of 6400 but I think Movie Mode maxes out at 3200.

Moon T7 is the best..

Once I realized that with these settings [CineD (-5, -2,-5,-5,0) Contrast curve #2 (S+2, H-2)] the GH4 behaved exactly like my old Nikon 35mm film camera, life got a whole lot more fun. I could ignore the LCD and trust my handheld meter and my experience.

In all of these shots I only used a single bounce or a single bounce along with a 1K tungsten fresnel, or the 1K by itself. Essentially no more than 2 lights. Or in the case of the Buddha in the first shot... no lights. [Shot primarily with vintage Nikon manual glass using a Metabones speedbooster to compensate for the crop the GH4 has at 4K - except the wide desert shot which was the Panasonic Pancake 20mm with a canon .7 wide angle adapter attached.]

Obviously the overcranked stuff was shot at 1080 96fps but it cuts nicely with the 4K, you just don't get the same killer image exactly when you are trying to grade. yet the CU at the end still grades very nicely.

The graded footage has lost 2 generations by this point having been exported out of resolve as individual clips and then exported from FCPX to a master file which was imported back into FCPX and edited together with the raw images for this clip.

Those who say the GH4 doesn't produce film like images and/or doesn't grade well are either trying to sell you on another product that they are endorsed by, or they don't know what the hell they are talking about... Or in the case of Shane Hurlbut... both.

Download the ProRes from dropbox here and see for yourself, minus the hit online compression takes on the footage [2.3GB] https://www.dropbox.com/s/ji2ki7lcwi632lc/GH4%204K%20Footage.mov?dl=0

@Shian besides CineLike D and Contrast Curve, what about i.Dynamic, i.Resolution, Master Pedestal, and other settings? Thanks so much for your work!

@shian it looks like v-log is coming in our near future to the GH4! That's exciting news.. Do you plan on getting the Atomos Shogun and record externally 10bit 4:2:2?

@revitdazio not gonna hold my breath on V-log. And not gonna spend money on the Atmos if I don't need it. 10 bit would be awesome... but 8 bit and I have been getting along okay for a while now...

@PiotrJ UHD MOV mode 3840x2160, 23.98, 100Mbps, LPCM

It may be worth noting that my system frequency is set to 24.

What luminance setting to use? (0-255, 16-235, or 16-255).

Will Vic preach weddings too? :)

yes... and that's what I said in this link. http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/175557#Comment_175557

It only affects your starting point in post... other than that it does nothing except a slight gamma boost of .01 in 16-235. It doesn't affect the final product at all. It does not actually add head room on highlights. See the tests that prove it above.