@gottue

First and foremost I think you captured the even great, good pacing and concept......

The first and main problem is stabilizing your footage, to much shaky camera. This is one of the main things that separates decent footage towards excellent and professional. I would suggest using at least a monopod to stabilize your camera's footage. Then you can look into other options.

Grading, don't even think about grading until you can light your subjects and with on the fly shooting it is very difficult. I would suggest using an on camera led light as well as someone else helping you with an led light or two to light your scenes. This is the easiest way to light on the fly and keep it moving.

The quality was good and you had nice colors in the sky, my main knock is to much shaky camera footage and you need to find a way to light better. Overall good for family and capturing the day, but if you grow and expand you can begin to get paid for this art.

Well I gotta say, after starting out with Driftwood patches, and getting hooked on super high bit rates, my journey has led me to discover other patches which provide smooth motion but consistent shadow detail. Until now, I've been using the Flow Motion v2.02 patch but started noticing an odd diagonal noise pattern in all of my footage, especially in the shadows and underexposed skin tones.

Today, I tried Sanity V5 for the first time, and damn. This patch is killing it. I feel like I'm essentially extracting the same amount of detail as all the high bit rate patches I've used in the past, but with excellent shadow detail and very smooth motion. Wish I would have discovered this before! And goddamn, the files are so tiny it's... just... so nice. More people need to seriously give this patch a shot.

Yeah, I'll probably start reading about the patch soon enough. I do like the approach of a patch made for absolute dependability, but not necessarily compromised in quality.

Here was the first thing I shot; kind of lame, but didn't have much time to do anything more interesting. Suffice it to say, I'm loving the patch so far. Plan on doing a better test maybe tomorrow or Sunday.

@Ralph_B ... oh shit... lol, I feel like a dumbass now haha. I'd like to say that it's cause I'm drunk or tired, but I'm neither... ugh so sad.

Ah, just realized I only made the mistake on the image I wanted to use for the thumbnail; thought I actually put 'santy' on the vid itself ha.

@Ralph_B It's just the sigma 30mm 1.4, manual focus. I tried the lumix 20mm AF once... never again.

@L1N3ARX - Cool. You did a nice job of finding focus.

@paulo - All lenses work with Sanity. Why would you think otherwise?

Ralph, another question: do you agree that gh1 produce clear images and beautifull collors than gh2? I guess gh2 images, and specially the light, are too much 'controlled' . May I step back to gh1 ?... Thanks.

Sorry, nether I have a gh1. I just feel this watching videos on vimeo and youtube. I would like more light, more brilliance in my shots with gh2. Any settings sugestion? You are experient with these cameras and I'm a little cinegraphist. Thanks a lot and congratulations to your work!

OK, thepalalias. I am happy I'll try Sanity 5. But untill I not test it, say please if I can get more brilliance images adjusting the GH2 settings (because there we only have 'contrast', and not 'brilliance' to set...). My old camera panasonic had this control and it was so easy. And at the least: in your opinion, how sanity 5 works to capture the colors of nature as blues, reds, etc and not only greens, browns and yellows? Thank you very much!

Shot this with sanity the other day! No complaints.

MattRobertson7, please wich lenses and settings are you using? Very good. Thanks.

OK Ralph and thepalalias! You help me so much! I think now I'm ready to set my gh2 and keep my target! And also hack it with Sanity 5 and work! I wish all you the best, Paulo Leão - from Brazil.

@Daniel_R It is hard to know what is going wrong in these images because it looks like everything is going wrong with them. These images are very underexposed which some people think is the worst thing you can do when recording GH2 footage. Your snapshots are showing posterisation, interlace artifacts and pretty coarse grain in the low luma range of the image.

The problem for me with making any judgements about patches, modes or settings based on your images is that the problem might stem from the player you are taking snapshots with. If you are using VLC for example it might be that the deinterlacing settings in VLC are causing the artifacts in your PNG files. VLC might not be deinterlacing your footage properly before you take the snapshot. It is hard to say which is why I am trying to think of way to analyse footage more robustly.

All I know is that if these images truly represent the footage it would be very hard to bring those shadows up in post without it looking really bad. Next time you shoot in the dark you could try a much higher ISO and expose to the right - clipping a little bit of the sky might be worth it.