pretty much the same, yes. With Orion looking somewhat compressed (things look different at 24H) and Flowmotion showing some artefacts on edges when you lift the blacks (also things look different at 24H). Differences are negligible, though.

I made a quik test with the Gop12. The image looks very good in stills but by moving the camera jerks very much in comparison with Spanmybitchup.

I tryed the 24p25p-NINE, don´t jerks like GOP12. Give me a medium of 36000 Kbps. No problems with sandisk HD video 30mbps. Hope you continue with your work on HBR.

@towi I have been working on findig settings around 50M, I have found end user only settings that work but I find the ratio between I-P-B frames don't look good. I found your settings and they look very promising. Indoor with fast panning i get as u say near 50M. I will go on testing your settings tomorrow in suny high contrast daylight.

I certanly hope that your version 2 will work to.

StreamParser is not correct in it's bitrate calculations in some of the above captures (it reports what the files say they are correctly, but what the files say is wrong). The GH2 uses a trick mode where they mess around with some of the timestamps and clocks resulting in inconsistencies with how bitrates are reported. I have a new version coming out that deals with this in a couple of days (it's in test now). This issue only comes up with some of the "extreme" types of settings

@Tomaso

yes, 66M is correct for 24p

@Tomaso

That's probably right. In a week or so I should have a new version of StreamParser that resonves this.

There shouldn't be any problems except that many programs will misreport the clip length. Editors shouldn't be a problem as they only use elementary stream timers - which are OK.

HBR mode can have some strange timstamp issues, which I'm still trying to work out.

Can you do me a favor? Run a clip with these settings for about 1 minute and post the report. That will help me get a handle on how much the TS timer is skewed.

--- Update 2012-03-02 19:42 --- @cbrandin ---

This is 94 sec clip of my dog eating a boan. HBR, Lens Lumix 20 mm 1,7. SS 1/50 F1.7 iso 1250

I also have to thank your for your old settings. The 44 and 66 settings have been my favorites and it was the first settings I was testing with firmware 1.0 and 1.1. And they worked just fine.

Thank you @towi for working so hard for this setting. I liked Ralph's SANITY since it first came out, and I am happy you have continued improving it. Of course, one needs to thank all others that contributed directly and indirectly: Ralph, Driftwood, lpowell, Vitaily, and the many who continue to share so selfishlessly... Al

@towi I have NTSC camera and I ran some tests with 720p60 - great; 24p - great, HBRp30 - failure in one attempt, then finally it looked like it worked filming leaves in large avocado tree in the wind, so almost like a death chart of details. Streamparser indicates some blips, see gone B-frames near frame 194.

Similar result with GOP 12 for 1080i60 @towi

@towi How differs the Settings from 3rd March from this above? Tryed both only on 25p (it´s the only mode I use) both spans, works also on ex tele and give me an average of about 36500 Kps. Both also playback on camera. (On SanDisk HD Video class 10 30 Mbps. The funny thing is that with diftwood settings the camera remaining time shows about 26 min, and goes down slow, with yours shows about 55 min. and goes down faster. I like your settings. I have a request since driftwood says that the 720p at 50p intra settings will span (but not 720p 60p) for us PAL users could be prepared a patch that include this settings for shoot slow motions? (I´m completely ignorant of preparing settings).

@Kihlian

"How differs the Settings from 3rd March from this above? Tryed both only on 25p" - Re PAL modes it's the same. I've only changed the NTSC settings.

"both spans" - cool! On my camera the settings don't span. But maybe it also depends on the birate that is actually allocated; maybe with scenes requiring lower bitrates the patch will span. Attached a new patch for spanning (tested at HBR, 25p only). It's the stock setting with only the following settings changed:

• 30min limit removal=Checked

• Video Bitrate 24H=44000000

• Video Bitrate 24L=32000000

• Video Bitrate FSH/SH=32000000

• Video Bitrate FH/H=24000000

• 1080i50 and 1080p24 GOP Size=12

• 24p25p-NINE-Matrix included

"I have a request since driftwood says that the 720p at 50p intra settings will span (but not 720p 60p) for us PAL users could be prepared a patch that include this settings for shoot slow motions?" - Maybe. As LPowell pointed out above, SH settings may also affect FSH (HBR) mode, so we have to try. I've tried to built in one of Driftwood GOP6 settings for 720p, but the camera crashed.

@Tomaso

"SH and H mode have every other P frame low" - I can't replicate this behaviour on my camera. Actually the 720p settings are copied from the Sanity patch. So I would think they should be okay.

Today I recorded at 25p while driving on the highway. Clip duration is a little over 11 minutes. The stream looks healthy from the beginning to the very end (see attachment)