@Splendiddd

First and foremost -- your work is better than 98% of beginners -- both in terms of composition and your technical implementations. The Cinema 4D and AE camera tracker work in that car video was outstanding and inspired me to mess around with the new camera tracker in AE CS6. So, you've got an outstanding eye, and you've got the brainpower to make stuff work. Stick with it and in a few days you'll blow away anything I've ever done.

Regarding your questions and my initial answers -- the two videos you posted are examples of everything I wrote. When you get that flicker/strobe -- it means the camera is moving too fast for the frame rate and focal length and distance to subject. That's it -- that's why it's happening -- you're moving the camera too fast. At 24p -- pans/moves need to be really, really, really slow. Look at the mom's garden video -- you'll see in some camera moves you don't have that flicker/strobe, yet in other shots you do. The difference is the camera is or is not moving too fast.

I assume you've got a slider (and if it's a manual slider it's tougher to learn) -- so run some tests. Keep your shutter speed at 1/50th, have your subject not too far away (three or so feet), use a wide angle (that Tokina is fine), and do a bunch of slide at different speeds -- way too fast through to way too (outrageously) slow. Then, examine the footage in post. You'll see the flicker disappear when you get down to some very, very slow speed -- and that's the rule at work -- that's the speed a pro cinematographer would know to use.

And, the higher the frame rate, the better motion will be handled.

As a long shot side note -- if you're using high bitrate patches for the GH2 and comparing it to the standard (from memory) 38 Mbps 7D footage -- your video card may be more challenged by the high bitrate stuff during playback -- especially if your video card isn't wonderful. But -- that's only a playback thought -- and has nothing to do with the rules I described and the issues in your sample videos.

So -- you're good -- and if you stick with it you'll be beyond great. You've got talent. The problems you describe aren't yours or the camera's -- they're the issues of the business. Stabilizer work should be done at 60p with the widest lens you can use. Slow that to 24p in post for the stuff that pleases normal audiences. Camera movements at 24p need to be slow, or you need to be focused far away and have the quick motion stuff be not in focus in the foreground.

I could go on -- but I've got to run. Filming stuff today. Good luck and enjoy the journey!

@Splendidd, i dont know what chu talkin bout... that GTX vid is great.

The Garden one is better...

awesome.

maybe try out some intra patches on that crane?

I'm very happy with the GOP6 444Soft matrix, low light is sharper, better grain, and less macroblocking than I have seen on other settings. I'm going to edit up a few clips from this show after I get a friends wedding video done, just a raw preview:

Hello all,

I've got some issues with AN Cluster 7

I use CineMode 1080/24p - Smooth -2 -2 -2 -2 with SanDisk Ext Pro 32 GB class 10 95MB/s

But it always fails after 4 or 5 minutes. Do you know how to fix this issue ?

Regards, D.

@orgie18 Looks promising ;)

Could you please render that out as 2160x1080 square? to see the whole potential:) (someone correct me if thats not correct resolution)

does this patch work with the 30mbps SD card? actually, what is the lowest card it will work with?

@driftwood what setting I should use for wide shots/fish eye/ultra wides? Using 12-35x Lumix lens, boom or intravenus?

@getmezzy use cluster v7 for these sd cards.

I have noticed Nebula v7sharp2 in HBR 25p sharp edges(box corners etc) have a jagged interlaced look. In 24 , FSH, and 720 it is fine. PAL mode.

This thread is going dead it seems :(

@rajamalik: Yep, this time it seems it's a dead thread.

Enough whinging. Sheesh, what's it been, a week since Nick announced his next rev? Relax, hummingbirds. You can survive on such substandard, barely adequate patches like v7 till Nick slides down your chimney again. Or we can form an angry mob and go stand outside his flat and all yell "FAIL!!" in unison because he announced a patch before he and his betas were ready to share it.

I don't know. I've got some important shoots coming up - walking around in my backyard pointing at shrubbery, a "spec" rap video, and yet another montage of tourists walking down the street (man these never get old) - and I can't bear the thought of shooting them on such unwatchable crap as AN v7. It would be an insult to everything I - nay, we as a filmmaking community - hold sacred.

So I will WAIT, and I will WHINGE with the rest of you. Nick!! NICK!!!!! FAIL!!! FAILY FAIL FAILWHALE!!

I have been testing out both "Apocalypse now BOOM" & "Intravenus v1" for a few weeks now and I am really liking what Intravenus is doing with the blue channel.

I tested the performance of the two patches by filming trees from wide angles and close up, which I would then key out the blue from the sky in the background. I was floored by how easy it was to pull a clean matte, specifically with Intravenus! While Apocalypse Now BOOM did a great job with a key, there was still a bit of jaggies and blocking around the edges, where intravenus had virtually smooth flawless edges.

I then attempted to do the same thing with footage from an earlier date that was using sedna, the matte was okay, but nothing in comparison to these recent patches.

Bravo driftwood and Cbrandin for the great work with the matrices.

I'm sure Driftwood will build on top of the performance that these two patches bring to the table. I just hate having to check back in every day to see if a new one has been released or not! :)