So whats the consensus here? Is there no real resolution for the strobing?

Here is what I discovered with the strobing/judder issue:

In my case (basic hack, 44kb cinema mode) my GH2 footage looked unaaceptable -- judder / strobing when I tried to play it back in Premiere Pro CS5.5 PC and even in CS6 for Mac. No preset that I could find fixed the problem.... AVCHD, DSLR etc.

When I played the raw clips back right from the sd card in my sony Blue Ray player (with an sd card adapter no less thru usb) HD to an hdmi monitor, the footage looked AWESOME --thank you to the guy who recomended this btw...

SO I KNEW THIS GH2 CAN REALLY REPRESENT

When I used Final Cut Pro X 10.3, to "import from camera" --- it captures automatically -- and looks pretty damn good --not sure what the tech specs are - it even burned a regular sd dvd and IT looked good..........

fucking AWESOME

So it's some kind of transcode issue, fields and framerates

the footage is a little blurry during motion - wise

but you can pay a lot for that feature...

solved my problem

VERY usable

@jthomps123 Probably a bit late for this reply. But I became obsessed with the strobe issues on the GH2 (especially when panning) accompanied by an annoying flicker. I live in PAL land so I used the HBR 25frame and also the 24P, and tried a lot of the hacks, nothing worked, filters, Screen resolution refresh rate, turning off I.R, all manner of shutter speeds etc..decreasing sharpening ...Plus I read countless forums. My TM700 at 1080 50P does not do this at all, but if the footage is converted to 25P then it is not as smooth, so frame rate does help a lot. Then I read someone said shoot at 29.97 all the time, so I switched my cam to NTSC, set the shutter to 50 (for lights in PAL land) and 60 as well...and lo and behold the problem was FIXED.

No more flickering, very little strobe effects AWESOME!! Try it ....do some A/B's you will see a big difference, and the best part is I can use 29.97 for just about everything I need to, so for me anyway the problem is solved. Cinematic look (24P) just does not work that well on current digital CMOS cameras, its not a Cinema look, its more of an epileptic fit inducing look...29.97 has made me love the GH2 LOL!!

Cheers

Yes, if you prefer your footage to look like a video game, shoot in 30 fps :P

24P strobes and stutters always if there is movement in scene. 30P handles little better but 60P is OK for movement. I hope standards will some day meet that.

This comment doesn't reference any particular comment but may be worthwhile as a comment on the whole topic of judder. If someone else has covered this I apologize.
Judder or stuttering is prone to subjective interpretation. Further it is difficult to watch an on-line clip and really be sure that what you are seeing is what the poster is seeing at the source. When I got my GH3 I was very convinced that what I was seeing was what was actually what was being captured within the camera. Even when reviewing a clip as played directly from the camera I could see judder on slow pans. After running the clips on a variety of video cards I've came to the conclusion that the high bit rates of the codecs used are generally just too much for many video cards including the one within the camera. The result is slowed or dropped frames and visible judder. I upgraded to a GTX770 video card and many of the problems disappeared. Within Premiere Pro I may still see some judder/stuttering after applying an effect like Warp Stabilizer but that too disappears as soon as the clip is rendered down to a more playable format.

Apart from fps, other causes of judder people aren't aware of is that LCD-based screens hate switching from very dark < > very bright colours quickly. This causes a horrible flicker that has nothing to do with the footage.

Try this checkerboard image - make sure you're zoomed to 100% so there's no scaling: http://slorg.freeshell.org/pictures/checkerboard%27.png Resize the browser window so you can scroll it a bit. On an LCD based screen, when you scroll it will flicker really badly (some screens are worse than others). Nothing to do with the image, just LCD pixel-refresh issues. On videos, the same thing happens with high contrast movement, eg. panning on sharp dense bare tree branches (which is where people often see it).

Another reason for stutter on computer monitors is refresh rate to fps mismatch. If they don't match perfectly, it will judder, and often in a pretty random way. In fact, Nvidia's new 'GSync' technology (http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/g-sync) will fix that, it matches the monitor's frame rate dynamically to your output. That's especially important with games (who's FPS is all over the place), but will also fix refresh-rate judder in video playback. I'm very sensitive to this and hate it with a vengeance.

@falconking Shot in the dark here - are you on a tripod and also using a lens with OIS switched on? I've heard OIS needs to be switched off when on a tripod or it can introduce problems with the image.

Well, it's time to up this thread. I have the same 24 fps strobe problem. I remember i can fix it a little. I put my 24fps files in 30fps composition and use frame blending. I think it helps, but it can be placebo effect)