The new Olympus OM-D E-M5 recording format MOV(MPEG-4AVC/H.264) Full HD: 1920(H)x1080(V), 59.94i Recording *3 20Mbps http://www.43rumors.com/ft5-full-e-m5-specs-leaked-via-google-cache/

You think this quality is better that GH2 firm 1.1 HBR 25p 24Mbps? Thanks

I tested ClipWrap 2 from Divergent Media (http://www.divergentmedia.com/clipwrap) to convert Ver. 1.1 30p HBR clips to ProRes. Final Cut Pro reports the clips are, indeed, progressive, rather than interlaced. Why Panasonic wraps its 30p clips in an interlaced container eludes me.

Firmware 1.1 / HBR Mode / Hyperprime magic SLR 12mm/ f.1.6/12ms/ 3200 ISO/ noise reduction 0 /

Firmware 1.1 / HBR Mode / Hyperprime magic SLR 12mm/ f.1.6/12ms/ 3200 ISO/ noise reduction 0 / it is my first movie with the gh2.

Nice Story, well done.

From 1:31 i can see vignetting. Is this with the Magic SLR 12mm a problem at any aperture?

Firmware 1.1 / HBR Mode / Hyperprime magic SLR 12mm/ f.1.6/12ms/ 3200 ISO/ noise reduction 0 /

Is it 2/15/2012 where you are yet?

@pop24 - very cool work - i was wondering what do you use for stabilization - so smooth...

Neo Scene seems to automatically recognize 25p in the HBR files.

I always transcode just because it makes editing so much smoother but in this case I checked the "Maintain source format" since I simply forgot about the 50i wrapper. In AE the original MTS are recognized as 50i and the transcoded files as 25p. Awesome.

I never used ClipWrap but it sounds like you´re actually de-interlacing instead of just rewrapping the footage. If you de-interlace progressive footage you´re bound to get some crazy lines.

Hm... That makes sense to me! ;) Maybe this is the answer I was hoping for, thank you. So ClipWrap converts GH2´s progressive 25p footage into files with visibly offset lines, because it thinks, the footage is actually interlaced? Anyway, this effect only appears if I convert the files to ProRes. "Rewrapped" footage looks as it should, but as already mentioned, AE crashes everytime I try to import it.

@sir_danish that may be the case for you, but i for one, if i look closely, do notice little interlacing-like lines in HBR, at least in the 30p NTSC version. What's causing that, I'm pretty sure, is that even though the footage is progressive, panasonic's firmware sends it into the h.264 encoder already tagged as interlaced and therefore the encoder treats the 2 fields as separate images when encoding. When you have a lower bitrate (like the stock bitrates) the normal compression artifacts are significantly different between the two fields and result in every other line being slightly different giving an interlaced-like feel to the image. This is just laziness or something on the part of panasonic because it seems like they should have first encoded HBR footage as progressive (camera already does that for 24H/L) then just simply tagged the stream as interlaced when writing to the card. This is also probably why the HBR image, especially vertically, is not as sharp as the 24p modes. And unfortunately it seems to be hard to get the camera not to error out when shooting HBR at any bitrate high enough to mitigate those compression artifacts. I remember someone said the line artifacts were not there in the HDMI output (because it's not h.264 compressed). But for those of us not about to shell out $$ for an external recorder (or who want to be super mobile), that's not much consolation.

Edit: forgot to mention that 5DtoRGB seems to be able to make the vertical resolution a little better with HBR, as long as you override the input field dominance and tell it to treat the clip as progressive (which unfortunately means you can't use the free version with the batch script because there's no documented option for that control from the command line)