Now I remember that you asked me to post this patch and I was confused because I really never did it. It was a patch attached in one of your posts, maybe I made mistake of the name of the patch somehow... I see the Scalling Tables that need to be copy/pasted, but what about FallBack and Deblocking Tables (Flag / High)? And yet, tell me more about "apefos_444_02", please!

@apefos: Please, give me explanation or just step-by-step! I also want to try the same procedure with your "apefos_444_02", but really don't know what and how to do. Would you write more info about "apefos_444_02" matrix and its effect on the image? Thanks!

I ended my work with patches.

You can copy/paste the matrices from one patch to another

I found my old notes, where I tested a ridiculous amount of patches and wrote down the pros and cons. I have tried almost all of your stable patches. I tested sharp for sure but from the gibberish I see here I was seeing more even grain/noise across the image and in the shadows with Workhorse so that threw Sharp out of the running.

I have in my notes that the best patches I've EVER used have been The End Intra (April), and CanisMajoris (PM).

If those two had a baby that kept ETC, and Live Preview that would be probably one the best patches ever. I don't have any post production notes for the patches though, so it's hard to say which grade and correct better.

the latest versions of NR4 patches are inside the zip file in this post (the zip is 02april2015):

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/194204#Comment_194204

I'll have to try that one again. If I remember correctly the all-I hacks tend to not work in live preview-on camera. For me thats a useful tool to re-check shots to make sure I have them.

Workhorse sept 9th seems to be more friendly to lumetri color and lighting corrections in post, also the noise patterning for just about everything seems more fine and smoother with the cinema profile at 200 to 1600 iso. The end looks great but I tend to find macroblocking in the falloffs of shadows and as soon as I start pushing colors/LUTs the macroblocks become very prominent. From memory I remember the workhorse noise "dances" more slowly than the End or other hacks for that matter. Noise is fine to me but when it is dancing erratically and has completely different colors than the scene is when it is unusable.

More Sept 9th Workhorse this time in much more low light.

GH2 Nikon Nikkor 28mm @ f2.8 I had to crank down the shutter a lot and was typically @ 1/40 and sometimes lower so i could milk out any dynamic range I could get. Cinema Profile From memory I think everything is cranked down to -2, except NR, That I set to 0

In grading the image: There was not a whole lot of ability to adjust the red's and orange color ranges. Part of that is not being able to 100% adjust color temperature when needed, and this was hardly a controlled set.

However there as a lot of latitude in the highlights.

The noise was an issue, but I knew that going in considering I was only going to open up to f2.8, would've loved 1.8 or heck .95 but the 28mm is what I had and it went to 2.8...better luck next time. There's a small clip that was done with a cellphone, I'll let you figure that one out.

Thanks again Apefos, still love this hack.

@apefos i-dynamic off, no image stabilization, no auto focus it was in low light high ISO, and lit room. Will report today with all those turned on.

@apefos @frullaccia Was busy with video shoot that's why I couldn't test new Patches. Just Tested your new Patch G-Spot on the Highest setting 112mbs / Pal 720p-50fps it's flawless man gives long recording. Max i-frames 276 & P-frames 176 Quality is phenomenal as well. Great work team gonna keep testing it's night time around my way but in the morning I'll test it out outdoors in more extreme situations.

@apefos In fact your older versions (5, 7, 9 september) need a deeper testing, because I like very much the last Workhorse Flowmotion, but I don't know if it is really the best of the bunch.

Canis Majoris has also an interesting PM version, supposedly made for afternoon light, which seems to be better working than CMajoris Night in HBR mode.

All these old patches have low chroma fidelity, compared with these two last months series!

@NikolayM @apefos Right! This patch gives a natural and balanced picture.

@apefos At the moment, I doubt there is a patch like that.

For instance, I noticed a real good chroma quality in the last three @driftwood patches: classix, moon t8, and nebula.

Speaking about older patches I liked Flowotion and the Cluster X series. Occasionally I also used Canis Majoris Night, Valkyrie 444, and for different purposes Natural Beta 3. Some of these patches is interesting in dark areas. But none is really good as the last three by Driftwood and all your versions. Not to mention about the great improvement with noise (a main problem) and moiré disturbance.