Official Low GOP topic, series 4

Alex

wow! was there a special skin tone treatment? looks like a subtitle highlights glow ...

Swiss_Boy

@shian wow now that looks great! i read you said that sampling white balance create noise, what about auto white balance is it cool to use it or it also creates noise?

proaudio4

shian, looks great.. Nice job all around.

mozes

that looks real good, and the music is Wow, all those things together.. good job

Hallvalla

@shian

Bravo, looks great.

shian

Teaser Trailer for "What Lies Between Us." Shot on Quantum v2.

After seeing v9b, which came out the day we started shooting, I wish I has used 9b. These clips came in at 88Mb/s. We've done one P/U shot for the film so far with 9b...and it looks amazing. And the 9b clips are coming in at 149Mb/s. Driftwood is my own personal Jesus Christ.

thehaz

Hi guys. Just thought I'd post something up from here in super hot and sunny Singapore. It's nothing much.. if anything at all. Just a video I shot during lunch to test Quantum v9b updated patch. No color correction or anything else added on. Just straight out of the camera and into edit and out onto Vimeo. Seriously, you guys are my heroes. Great great work done keeping the love for this small little camera. Thanks folks!

Quantum Lunch (GH2 + Quantum v9 Updated + Nikkor 50mm ƒ1.4D) from Hazrul Idzwan on Vimeo.

stanlymanly2

Hey guys! Heres a video I shot with the Aquamotion V2's 720 60p at 66 and 55 mbps. I am so very satisfied with Aquamotion V2 720 but it fails sometimes too. Sometimes it run perfect, sometimes i get the card write speed limitations. anywho, watch it for some slow mo rugby! :) enjoy!

sdope79

Seaquake and Quantum 9b!

disneytoy

What I think about noise and ISO. There are no true ISOs. There is the native sensor signal. Then before the analog signal gets converted to our 8 bit sample, a "pre-amp" boosts the signal based on the selected ISO. Anyone familiar with a transistor, a nominal signal is applied to the transistor, and a voltage is added to boost the signal on the output. My guess the amount of signal gain is controlled by Pulse Width Modulation PWM. And depending on the quality of the input crystal and the PWM, some "frequencies" of pulses to control the gain are probably "cleaner."

kholi

Dunno if it's V9b or not, but wanted to add that I had no issue playing back a single clip today in camera, and had done a mix of formats. 720/60P, ETC mode, 1080/24, ETC mode.

Good stuff.

mozes

Driftwood GOP1 AQ2 'AQUAMOTION v2' did give me some errors.
So i put back the Driftwood GOP1 AQ2 'AQUAMOTION' Experimental patch
And it did what it must do, working without any error.
Iso 160 to 4000.
Shutter 50 to 320, and lens from 14 to 150 and tele2.

Nothing special in the clip, just a lot of movement..

bkmcwd

@ Silent users of my patches again :-)

I improved the previous Economical patch and gave the name of "natural." Originally, I made this because I wanted a patch that keeps the frame size of 1M wielded much as the camera up and down in the forest I have always tested. I took just the right balance of quality and data size as a patch that I use everyday. Of course, this patch is also made so that big frame size as occasion demands may be utilized and the lowest possible qp may be realized.

NOTE: *24L mode is for 24p80%(30p). *Except 1080/24p, it is completely the same as my usual, and they are the contents of Chris's 66M. Of course, you can combine with your favorite patch except 24p and 50i. *In camera playback is available. *Spanning in 24H and 24L with SanDisk 95MB/s 64GB SDXC Card.

Chhatrapal

This is my attempt on Hacked GH2 for that matter any Gh2 and I came directly from neo Palaeolithic, having Sony Z1 as last extensively used Camera and DVX 100 before that, barring few hours of fiddling with 7d,5d and Gh2. Shot on Quantum100 24H Smooth -2,-2,-2,-2 . It is a student short Film. There were all kinds of situations. And hack never failed in 24H even using extele on 32 GB 30MB/.

There were noise more than usual (now I don’t have any reference as such … never shot on stock, so spoiled!!), and I was aware of noise bug and tried to avoid it. But shoot was hectic and hence might have made some mistake. I think Noise is function of Film Mode, Film mode settings, ISO, Light, extele, exposure and Patch. But I like noise structure … pleasing. Shot using mostly Canon FD 50mm 1.4 and few shots were on kit lens 14-42. None in this Video.Very good patch which holds very very well while grading. I j wanted to try Quantum 9vb. But I want something which can playback in camera, which can be shown to actors and director. Specially when we are shooting on real locations and one has to keep low profile for both for authenticity of the film as well as for the Police. Few police officers caught us and asked us to shoot without tripod and hence all outdoor scenes are handheld, I did not had any stabilisation tool nor even Gorillapod  But then Quantum100 is meant for documentary style filmmaking.

bkmcwd

@ Silent users of my patches :-)

I improved a few in order to stabilize "GOP3ZILLA" more. At the same time, I has also created the "MAX" version to slightly higher quality in the high-resolution scene by increasing the maximum frame size limit. In the "MAX" version, but may become large enough that can not be played in the camera frame size in some case, the file has no problem that has been recorded.

Of course, these are also the patches focused on image quality which referred to advice from Chris Brandin and Nick Driftwood, and was made.

Special thanks to @cbrandin and @driftwood!

NOTE: *24L mode is for 24p80%(30p). *Except 1080/24p, it is completely the same as my usual, and they are the contents of Chris's 66M. Of course, you can combine with your favorite patch except 24p and 50i. *In camera playback is available with "GOP3ZILLA v1.01". *In camera playback may not be available with "GOP3ZILLA MAX v1.0" in some case but file has no problem.Please use v1.01 of the normal version for you to be able to playback the recording data on a camera IF IMPORTANT. *Spanning in 24H and 24L with SanDisk 95MB/s 64GB SDXC Card.

UPDATE(2012.Feb.9th): New "GOP3ZILLA v1.02" 1M Max Frame Size patch is added. *I improved a few in order to stabilize "GOP3ZILLA v1.01" more. *This is the patch focused on image quality which referred to advice of Chris Brandin and Nick Driftwood, and was made. *24L mode is for 24p80%(30p). *Except 1080/24p, it is completely the same as my usual, and they are the contents of Chris's 66M. Of course, you can combine with your favorite patch except 24p and 50i. *In camera playback is available. *Spanning in 24H and 24L with SanDisk 95MB/s 64GB SDXC Card.

MrEdd

I´m really enjoying Driftwood´s Quantum 9b, the amount of detail is incredible! Even Vimeo´s H264 compression doesn´t put that away

mozes

i just updated form AQUAMOTION ver1 Experimental patch withs works great without any error to Aquamotion ver2
And that gives a write error in 720p mode, but only if i shoot someting in 24p H first.
1 file was saved, so i uploaded it, there is nothing strange to see in the clip, exept the movement just before the error popt up. (zooming)