I noticed the pulsing too, it may be caused by VIMEO compression. No Original file available for download to test. The hair detail, fur on the dog and nets are near perfection. If I have this kind of quality at 30p I would be in heaven.
I've started a Google Docs spreadsheet for testing results. Maybe something like this will help : https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEgzTkhsZGRqdWZZdk5raWFxbmtobXc6MQ The "see responses" pie-chart generated is not helpful, but the full spreadsheet is. There must be a way to share/publish the plain spreadsheet, maybe with separate sheets if Google Docs can allow form input. Please feel free to fill in the form with suggestions for other fields of what to put in. Right now, the spreadsheet itself is still in Alpha mode. You probably can't break it, but do be polite, clean and no buffer-overflows.
Macro shots tell us nothing. The codec never breaks up for macro shots. It also doesn't help that he doesn't allow downloads. Plus he re-encoded it before he uploaded it. All benefit is lost once it is re-encoded. I checked his settings and those will not increase bit rate. I call Shenanigans on this one.
I've been trying to get any version of his settings to work by changing encoder settings. no luck yet either. Would be nice to get a solid 30-35mb out of the gh2
Yes, that is correct. I am trying a GOP of 6 right now though. It looks like the lower the GOP the higher the average bit rate. Yet it will still show a max of 18 which is less than the average. :)
is the 720 setting you posted stable? And yes, good question Mimisan, does it work for PAL as well? I fly to the US on tuesday and if I change the standad settings, I need 100% stable PAL settings. Othewise I rather wait, until stable settings are found.
@mimirsan yup, thats what I did, halve the original gop for 50p from 24 to 12. Achieved 28mbps 720p50 that way (like people before except 60p for them) :D Always remember to record 24H before 720p SH of course !
"Then I shot with high mpeg settings (quality 400, 300, 250, 188; table 4, 4, 4, 4), with another class10 card, and the data rate went up to 126 Mbit. 1 minute continuous shooting with this setting was no problem either."
@cinegraphy can you post some footage of that 126Mbit recording pls.
@KrisCanonizado: I'll shoot some more footage today, the stuff I shot yesterday aesthetically wasn't very special, to say the least - and then again, in the 1 minute sequence bitrate was "only" 123 Mbit I think. Today I'm at a location with small waterfalls, I thought that'd be interesting for cranking up the bitrate, since there's a lot of fast movement (also for testing 50p AVCHD) :-)