Interesting lens combination you got there @mozes, its not too bad with that Tele setup...

I filmed a bit tonight with quantum rocket (just boring stuff at my office) and 24p looks great! My impression though is that 25p is significantly worse and if I understand the various threads regarding 25p it's tough to get 25p to be as good as 24p, at least in a GOP1 or GOP3 setting. My problem is that I am intending to am interested in using the GH2 as a potential A cam on a project for a broadcast project for PAL countries. So my admiration for the formidable work of the short GOP developers turns into frustration when I see that the potential quality of the GH2 is lost when having to film in 25p. I could perfectly live with a long GOP setting if it spares me from macro blocking, mosquito noise and too much banding. My filming style is mainly tableaus anyway, so motion is limited to the motion within the frame. I am willing to test and report, but I would have to know where to start. If some of the more knowledgeable people could provide some settings as a starting point I would be very thankful!

What was the image of? I just made a slow pan from my office couch to the desk, both illuminated by a separate light, shadows in between, and 24p was great while 25p was loaded with banding and mosquito noise, the latter especially on my laptop screen displaying a text doc. Quantum rocket at 25p seems to me as if it cannot handle the information recorded by the sensor. Hence my idea that using the efficiency of a long GOP setting for 25p might solve the problem.

Hi Driftwood.. I just want to know if, The softer Matrixe mean a smoother image....more closer than a film look

Hi! I feel like an idiot for asking this but...is the download link for this patch (or are the settings) actually located somewhere in this thread? This was where I was directed when I searched for this patch, but I'm looking through the thread and so far can't seem to find it.

I've read great things about this patch (and, I hasten to add, I've successfully applied earlier patches, using previous versions of PTool, to both my GF1 and my GH2), and I'm eager to try it out. Thanks in advance!

So far so good on Patriot LX class 10, except for 720p where I get a ton of mosquito noise and strange blinking in the shadows.

EDIT:

Scratch that, only good on 1 of 4 partiot LX cards

First test of Quantum X v.2 with the GH2 and Olympus 12mm F2. All images are shot in 24H, Smooth Film Mode (-2,-2,0,-2), ISO set to 160-640. Images are both tripod and handheld straight out of camera with no additional grading.

My initial impressions of this setting are very positive: blue skies look good with little gradient banding; motion seems smooth. Kudos for your hard work, Mr. Driftwood!

@Kount_Michula Damn nice..and only at 720! Man, I'd like to get my hands on that fuckin lens... Looks great.

@heyjoe

Go to beginner section with this kind of issue.

Get a sandisk 30mb sec card.

There's just no way you should be running the hack with a topram card- too slow, too unreliable. Even for the low bitrate hacks.

@Driftwood

On a visual level with 24H…

First, the positive…

It’s damn good. It’s the second best patch I’ve ever used. It’s better than any AVCHD camera -- including the FS100 (leaving out the whole low light thing). It’s better than the XDCAM HD422 cameras with which I’ve worked. On some levels it could be indistinguishable from or better than a Panasonic HPX370 with AVCintra. It’s damn good.

However…

The bit rates are all over the place. In today’s quick test it ranged from 41 Mbps to something near 140 Mbps.

It handles the motion of the water damn good. But not as well as 9d. 9d was damn near flawless with water motion -- and when viewing 9d I was outraged that there was no delivery format (short of motion DNG or whatever that only Technicolor could view) that could convey the awesomeness I was beholding.

At about 1:05 in the video above you’ll see flickering on the grass. That happened in three clips. It’s entirely possible that was my fault (moving too fast for the focal length and distance to subject at 24p) -- or -- it may be something about which you need to be aware. If you want to look at those raw clips and have some preferred large file delivery method that doesn’t cost me -- I’m happy to forward them.

Obviously, I didn’t do low light tests. In one of the clips not in that video I saw alarming noise in shadows that wasn’t normal. But -- I don’t know enough about that as yet to report anything.

Also, it doesn’t encode out as quickly as 9d did.

So…

It’s damn good. But -- it doesn’t kick me in the face like 9d did. God knows I’m not trying to be negative -- and God knows that when you’ve got something that kicks me in the face I’ll sing its praises and tell the world and celebrate your name, etc. But -- if I’m not honest here -- I’m not really being helpful in my small, insignificant way, right?

As always, I thank you for your meaningful works

@onionbrain the shot at 2:48 is absolutely stunning

Yes, some stunning shots onionbrain. Also, your post is well spoken. This is the type of info Nick wants to here.

I'm finally getting "off the road" this Friday! Looking forward to checking out Vitaliy's new ptool. This guy is simply amazing! Also much respect to Nick, Chris, and all the other's involved with squeezing every bit of quality possible from this.

@driftwood: gh2, ISO1600/3200, SLRMagic 12/1.6, Sandisk Pro 30MB/s class 10, i have the "motion recording cancelled..." error in 720p - I loaded the Quantum X as it is, no modifications. All other modes seem to go ok. While with SanD extreme pro 45MB/s everything works fine. Only Mjpeg FSH doesn't playback, i just get like a still pic, but perhaps this was expected?