Quick test and grade using Orion v4d.... bit heavy on grade this time....i love it, this work driftwood is amazing

@jrd i´m almost sure.

@jack I see some kind of heat wave aliasing going on in the wide shots with grass and in the trees when the camera tilts up or moves. Is that normal for the High bit rate hacked gh2? I am just getting my gh2 in the mail today and expected cleaner images from what i've seen. artardi's footage looks very clean in comparison but i guess his camera was pretty static. is this noise expected in moving shots with lots of detail?

@jack thanks for explaining my gh2 just got here so I can join the fray with some footage too!

*** Latest News *** Guys don't expect miracles, all scaling QMs do is affect the frequency weight of the quantiser, which basically means "how much it lowpasses the shit out of your video". But we're certainly making a bit of progress...

Hey, Let me pass this on. I have had a few close friends look at Vimeo postings recently and was confronted with some interesting critiques, of course I said they were nuts or had lousy monitors and video cards.... response, yeah sure, but I asked them to download the mts files from Vimeo, boom, they called back and stated how surprised they were when it came to quality. Night and day. so.. remember where we are parking our work..Vimeo is good but for what we are doing it can be a problem. Thanks

@orla Page one of this thread - right click download

Driftwood, thank you very much for the great contribution for this site. I am looking for "Driftwood Quantum X Series Settings: 'Cluster' v1, Orion v4d, Rocket, β Pictoris, Series 2" and I can not find it could you please send me the link. I want to download and hack my GH2. Thank you Orla

@orla Cluster V1 is on Page 1, like Driftwood said. it's the last 3 Patch on Page 1

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@LumixUser I use V4b because with V4c I could not play back the footage in camera and had some write speed errors. I use a sandisk 30mbs card though, so with a better card like the 64gb 95mbs card I think this would be irrelevant. This says nothing of actual quality of footage, but V4b looks great to me. I don't think I ever tried the earlier versions.

Hi everyone. I am a new GH2 user and experimenting with different patches.

I am now testing a few excellent Driftwood patches. I notice that in wide shots with a lot of details, the patches work much better in 24P than 25P(HBR) in terms of noise control.

Here are 2 screenshots for comparison, taken with orion 4d v3, 24P vs 25P, ISO160.

You may notice that the shadow in the circled shadow areas looks posterized in 25P, but it looks fine in the 24P sample.

Close-ups look fine, and even wide-shots with less details (e.g. architecture) are fine too.

May I ask if it is a common issue, or my camera settings are incorrect?

Anyway, my big thanks to Vitaliy and Driftwood for their hacks and patches. They are awesome.

I can just confirm that Cluster v1 spans OK on HBR 25p on SanDisk Extreme HD Video 30mb/s 32GB. The HBR comes up over 40 mbps in my case and content, will try to "drive it" for more mbps ...

@artardi Just checking to make sure I didnt miss something. You mean "a kind of tonemapping" not "a kind of HDR" right? Because if you found a way to actually record (not emulate in post) a wider dynamic range, then Im listening very intently.