So caveport, you are saying that Panasonic has all the hack settings like 1080p 25fps showing-up in their support page manuals? I have my doubts. Perhaps someone who has worked on this Flow Motion 2.02 hack can make comment. Thank you!

Hi Caveport, thanks for taking the time to respond. It has been helpful. I found a good post that pretty much clarifies the menu issue many struggle with here goes:

Clearity about GH2 video modes/ frame rates by Neil Redman on Jan 21, 2012 at 6:52:47 am

Hey, I was hoping somebody could give me a little advice on the Panasonic GH2 video modes and tell me if I figured them all out correctly. I find them to be named pretty confusing and generally they don't tell you the frame rate. By the way I got the PAL version of the camera and I'm editing all my footage so some of the modes are pretty useless to me.

I also just updated to the newest firmware so I got the Hight Bit Rate mode as well now. So basically as I understand the modes:

Lets start with the VARIABLE MOVIE MODE:

80% = 30fps = might be useful for a small amount of slow motion or to shoot for NTSC format

160% = 15fps = could only be useful in some really special cases, where you would like to speed up the footage and want it at exactly that speed instead of doing it in post.

200% and 300% = completely useless as you can do exactly the same in post production (unless maybe you wanted so save some hard disk space, but basically useless)

Then there is the MANUAL MOVIE MODE:

• It is described as being manual, because you can set the shutter speed and the aperture manually. Now this is a pretty stupid description as you can set them manually in any mode.

• Then I can choose Motion JPEG, which I would consider useless for a professional use/good quality images and the only advantage would be smaller file sizes

• AVCHD 1080i = 50fps (interlaced) = Only good if you really want to shoot Interlaced and it became somewhat obsolete with the firmware update to record 25p

• AVCHD 720p = 50fps (progressive) = Good option for slow motion. Am I right that there is no option to record 720p24 or 720p25?

And finally there is HIGH BIT RATE and 24P CINEMA:

• They have the same bit rate (24mbps) and therefore the name HIGH BIT RATE is confusing again. (Only difference is in 24p you could change the bit rate to a lower setting.)

• The difference between them is that one records 24p, the other 25p

• HIGH BIT RATE is RECORDED at 25 PROGRESSIVE but then stored in a 50i wrapper. Am I getting this right, that you could then in post just interpret the footage as progressive? (and to this everyone on 2cows said yes but the clip is simply flagged as interlaced, but in fact it is progressive....this is really the culprit in misunderstanding.)

To sum it all up: The only modes one would really use is in most scenarios is 24/25p and 720p for slowmo!

By all means I'm looking for confirmation or consideration on your part. Thanks!

Hello can somebody just help me and tell me whats mode/option is best for GH2 shoting alongside with GH4 ? I tried to shot with HBR - too much sharpness for me with blurry edges / manual movie mode - looks ok but in details some rasterized texture / 24p cinema - best but i cant do a smooth motion (24p/50shutter) thank you

@sergeiicz - shoot HBR 25fps with a 1/50 shutter speed if you want pal footage. Flowmotion 2.02 is the hack I would install if you haven't already.

Shot this with Flow Motion v2

I really thank you about what you are doing here, now i can use a great camera with good price for my passion. And im learning to improve my skill and how to control my gear so i need you guys help me to learn about that. I have a question, there is some mode can down the shutter lower than 30 or 25? It can make camera record people moving like floating, i remember i did it one time but i did record and how to set up again, thank you very much!!!

Hey @LPowell! I just wanted to say thank you for this great hack and all your work, I use Flowmotion v2.02 on my GH2s for all my unrepeatable shoots because of its great quality and reliability. Latest work, shot on two GH2s, equipped with the kit lens 14-42 and the other one with canon 50mm MC 1.4:

First time use of this hack. Must say it is very nice. One thing is the issue (weird diagonal rain stripes) with after fx cs6, but if you convert the file before importing then the problem is solved. Thanks @LPowell

Flowmotion v2.02. 24L. 640 iso. Rock solid performance even after all this time. Great job, @LPowell.

Finally got around finishing this up. GH2 with Flowmotion 2.02 on shoulder-rig and GH1 with Reliable In-Camera Playback Patch on Tripod.

Workflow: Merge spanned clips with MTS merge script, transcode to DNxHD in XMedia Recode, editing in Premiere Pro CS6, Audio mixing in Audition CS6 (only camera sound sadly, always make sure to record from mixer even if the sound guys tell you it's fine and they'll record for you, learned that the hard way...) Export to DNxHD, transcode for web in Handbrake with custom setting.

Again BIG thanks to @LPowell for this wonderful patch, still going strong!

Quick question

I need a new SD Card for my new GH4 to be used along my beloved GH2.

I'm still using the SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC 64 GB 95 MB/s Class 10 UHS-1" Is there any new product that will work flawlessly with this setting and GH4? Should I buy another card?

Thank you in advance

Once again, the Flowmotion 2.02 hack delivers the quality, reliability and small file sizes (24L) needed for this artist short film:

@Mrgatopardo Thanks, Man. Sigma 18-35mm (Nikon fit).