I mean what is all this? It is so complicated and confusing lol

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3454/driftwood-settings-series-5-cluster-v6-ultra-reliable-mysteron-crossfire-quantum-9b-sedna...

What do I use? :(

oh dear I put the sanity hack on it and it still looks weird am I missing something? Have I damaged my camera? :(

Hmmm put the sanity hack back on and no improvement.

It seems that in 24fps mode I am able to play back the files on my computer but in HBR I am not. It doesn't seem to matter how I apply the hack HBR is always bad and the bitrates never get high on anything.

Have I broken my GH2?

Was it faulty before I started hacking it?

I am so confused.

I immediately had problems with it when I tried playing mts files back on my macbook and thought it was just a apple issue with this codec but it appears the cinema mode (24fps) plays back just fine and looks much cleaner with no moire and aliasing.

This is all pretty weird I never had any issues with my gh2's in the past and always got great footage out of them.

I hope someone can help me untangle this cluster fudge?

I will try just putting an unhacked firmware on there first I guess?

Really this has taken my whole day of testing and scratching my head. I do not know. I want that driftwood hack on there with great bitrates but it just seems to all be doing the opposite.

HBR mode recordings are PsF interlaced. Some players handle PsF footage improperly. The right way to treat PsF is to not de-interlace it (or de-interlace by weaving). Try VLC as your player and see if the video looks any better that way. Properly treated, HBR footage looks just as good as Cinema 24p. The problem you saw in the roof is caused by improper handling of PsF.

Also, not all GH2 hack settings have good bit rates and stability in HBR mode.

I guess the title of this topic should be different like: "aliasing in HBR on mac". Or: "compressed look in HBR".

I am suprised that the highest quality mode has aliasing. That makes no sense. I shall try playback on a windows machine.

The timeline was actually not set up right but even after setting to all intra progressive it is still looking really bad.

I still had problems with 50 shutter or not even being able to set 50 shutter in 30p mode as it will only sec in increments of 30ish

Well due to this camera being crippled in 25p mode I am forgetting about it and goin to use the eos m with magic lantern. Shame it has such bad aliasing and moire and RGB noise but there are advantages to. I just need a stable codec that plays and edits well on my pc.

Usually driftwood patches are consider the best quality for GH2. Did you follow the hacking tutorial? Have you checked the files with stream parser? Your sample video don't look so bad to me, beside those rolling shutter when you move the camera.

Here is the video again with magnification x 3

Hi thanks for the replies no there was definitely something terribly wrong with the HBR mode after the driftwood hack. I know it is meant to be the highest quality, so I am very confused. Really I would like to use it and shoot at 25p HBR seems ok now anyway. TBH I AM hoping to sell this documentary or at least there might be the possibility of it being broadcast one day. I wanted to use a combination of my BMPCC and the GH2. Using the gh2 for risky situations where I wouldn't want to be carrying a £700 camera around (lot of money for me!). So 25p is a must.

I actually decided to keep the panasonic gh2 and return the Canon EOS M. After many tests I decided it was better image quality in every way even for stills which I was shocked about. The amount of detail, low light capabilities, colour rendition and dynamic range are all better on the gh2. Plus articulated display, better sounding audio recording (even though its compressed vs PCM on eos m!? EVF eye piece, more buttons on the body, built in flash, better battery life (by a long way!) it is just a more practical camera. ALso I already have all the lenses and a focal reducer. SO even if I use it to shoot only 720 50p I prefer it to the eos m, which is like a 720 camcorder in 1080 mode as it lacks detail and the gh2 is super sharp.

After a break from getting so stressed out by it all I looked at HBR mode again and it is ok. It was just driftwood that messed things up. Now I am using Sanity 5.1 and all is well.

Dear @disease8

When making the hack patches several issues had to be ignored to achive such grate quality on gh2. So compromised was gh2 stability, that lots of it's features had to be Taken away to achive extra encoding performance. The color matrixes and quantification process, where heavily modified, so a lot of its modes, where altered, just like HBR.

Driftwood moon t7 is one hell of a patch. Once you grab the triks of gh2 you will see literally, how well implemented, the códecs áre, and how the límits of it's, we're suprassed, youll be amazed.

Goodyear luck.