It was Montréal cold which for this week was pretty cold! But not extreme or anything, like -20 or so? I was out for about 45 mins or so with camera in bag, then about 20 minutes shooting and noticed the cam seemed to acting strange as soon as I started shooting, which was stills at the beginning then video. I took no steps to acclimatize the cam.

The weird thing is the problem persisting after having been indoors overnight... Worrisome!

Hi, I am wondering if anyone has come up with a satisfactory work flow for shooting 720p footage (for slomo) on the GH2 while using a monitor on the HDMI out to pull focus. I believe the HDMI out and recording still default to 1080i when a monitor is connected and/or recording is initiated. If that is still true, can anyone suggest how to work around this most efficiently to use an external monitor to pull focus. Is it simply a matter of turning off the monitor before dropping into recording? Thanks for the thoughts here! Cheers, David

Couple of questions in regards to hacks:

1. Is there a patch vault?
2. I'm assuming you can only have 1 hack installed on the gh2 at once.
3. Assuming 2 is a yes, whats the most popular slowmotion hack? i.e for 720p 60
4. Driftwoods Quantum is the best intra frame hack, but is in beta, so I should stick with reaquintince (this being for maximum resolution) (though after reading through teh whole quantum thread i'm assuming I can pretty safely use the 1080p24, side of things from that patch)
5. People using FCP to edit, are they re encoding to pro res 422(hq)?

Cheers!

@aticam

Still don't understand. GH1, GF2 or better, GH2 can be got on ebay.

@aticam It is not a place for this discussion. I already told you all I think.

one of my friend suggest me quantum v9b for my music video shoot out. but i am afraid to patch with this experimental one. will it be stable so long? any over heat or any worst problem experienced by users before?? fiends please do suggest me the best for longer and stable run. but with a superb quality. i need something which is never compromised in 1080 24p mode ;)

Problems with spanning files: The clip is aprox 28 minutes long, spannned perfectly in camera on CBrandins 44Mbps Patch, can watch it with MPlayerX in whole length, but when it comes to transcoding with ClipWrap or Log and Transfer (FCP) it would only recognize the famous 4.29GB which is aprox 7 minutes long and ignores the rest of the take. Also when I get "info" through "command - i", it says, the clip is only 4.29GB big (should be around 16GB) When I import the clip into Adobe Premiere it shows the whole length. Any suggestions apart from using Premiere? I still prefer FCP.

@Fearseeker: The following threads are where VK is posting developments related to updating his hack to work with the GH2 v1.1 firmware. The latest announcement he made is that he "most probably" will have something out the first week of February. My understanding is that the new PTools will allow all the old patches to be installed on the v1.1 firmware base, and will also unlock some new settings for the patch-makers to fiddle with to potentially improve quality even further. My guess is that there will need to be some testing/experimentation needed to port any given 24p settings (like cbrandin's 44Mbps patch) to 25p, but I'm sure that the community will pounce on this sort of project immediately after PTools is released.

As eager as we all are, there's no real point in nagging VK to hurry it along or pestering him for daily updates. He's certainly working on it as much as his time and other obligations permit, and will release it as soon as it's ready.

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1656/gh2-v1.1-new-firmware-with-25p-discussion-topic#Item_583

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/50/official-gh2-stalin-hack-development-topic#Item_780

I have a couple questions I haven't been able to find definitive answers to. Hopefully someone here knows! I was asked to move the question to this forum so hopefully this is the right way to do it.

Are there any hacks out there for the GH2 that include the ability to shoot 1080p at 60 fps?

Do any/all GH2 hacks include 1080p at 30fps? Could you point me to a higher bitrate hack that does include 30p? I notice a lot of the hacks say they allow 24p, but it's very important to me to be able to shoot 30p.

Thank you very much!

@taikwanjo: On 1.0 firmware, using the variable speed mode at 80% will give you 30p, but without sound. This works with many (but not all) of the patches. Patch developers often note whether their patch works with 80% mode, ETC mode, etc. But it's always a good idea to test it yourself on your particular setup.

Here's a newb question thats proabably been answered before. Is there a hack setting that will let you shoot faster than 60 to do more pronounced slow motion? Anyone have a tutorial to get the best effect in post with optical flow?