@valpopando:nice footage and such an exceptional place....

@valpopando - MeShUgGhAvertigo, wow, that is one hell of a flow motion test!

Hello is there a tutorial to install the firmware please ?,

i dl the ini file, i dl the 3.66 ptool, i had the v1.1 bin crack, i put it in the folder, then it doesnt works, i had to load the v1.0 bin file, it works....weird

thx for support

@vgtah I think you mean the video of @valpopando - He will have accelerated the clips in the post for this effect

@butt i saw the acceleration, im speaking of the video mode that gives that animation effect, i knew it but i would like to know the set up precisely. I can t install the new firmware, im damned.

thx for the tips butt, im on it

omething special about the blues.

Yes I currently use it for underwater shots!

@Butt Nice beach video, I'm curious how you achieved such a mellow, low-contrast look on a bright sunny day?

@edubz the 30MB/s Ultra is not so good, get the 30 or 45MB/s Extreme, for me it works very good, and very stable !!!!! Ultra 30MB/s is slower than the Extreme 30MB/s !!! i have tested it.

@edubz

Sandisk Ultra cards fail at very low data rates -- much lower than those typical of FM. These cards are only really suitable for the stock firmware.

I wanted a 64 GB card, to store more stuff, but is it better, for fragmentation problems to have 2 32 GB cards?

keep in mind, that I also experienced a nightmare when my sdxc card would not connect to my version of apple os x 10.5.7. And yes, I know that an old OS, but guess what, everything worked on it. It should be noted that in the sticky somewhere about the sdxc os x nightmare, if your not on the newest version of OS X, your sdxc won't be read, because only the newest lion version of os x supports sdxc. 32 GB cards are NOT sdxc right? there for mac os x users who don't want to be forced to upgrade can stay on their stable systems, and still use the failsafe patch.

There is no patch that will let you work will make sdxc files open on anything other then lion,

So I was forced to upgraded to lion, which I find no different then 10.5.7, but now some of my logic plugins broke, and crashes logic. But I can open up my files, and I am working, and not all was lost. But I figured that fast action performance would be theoretically be for my class 10 card, but its not.

Flow Motion v2.02 versus Apocalypse Now - Boom Flat 4s - 24H mode

The latest version of Apocalypse Now - Boom Flat 4s, uses a GOP-1 all-Intra patch for 1080p24 video (as well as for 25p and 30p video modes). What makes this Intra patch interesting is its 1080p24 quantization Scaling Table. Standard GH2 quantization matrices use finer quantizers for the broad details than are used to encode the more minute details in an image. This technique takes advantage of psycho-visual properties of human vision, allocating larger portions of the encoder's available bitrate to features the eyes are most sensitive to. The Flat 4s matrix used in Apocalypse Now Boom instead takes the radical approach of quantizing all spatial features in an image at the same level of precision. That same matrix is also used for chroma channels as well as for the luma channel.

Compared to the earlier Apocalypse Now Pseudo-444 Soft matrix by Chris Brandin, the Flat 4s matrix is extremely sharp. Rather than attempting to simulate a 4:4:4 color space, the Flat 4s matrix records all available image data indiscriminately at the finest practical level of quantization. In addition, the GOP-1 setting in this patch encodes all image data in individual I-frames, at a peak bitrate of about 150Mbps. What this means is that Apocalypse Now Boom Flat 4s is one of the purest examples yet of applied brute force - it is designed to record as much data as it can at the highest practical bitrate in each individual frame of the video.

Flow Motion v2 uses customized Scaling Tables as well. Unlike Flat 4s, the quantization matrices used in FM2 are designed to discriminate between luma and chroma channels, using high-precision quantizers for finely detailed luma data while smoothing the minute details of the chroma data. I optimized it this way because I felt that even with 100Mbps, it was vital not to squander its bitrate on image details that are visually imperceptible.

Using Stream Parser, we can examine the differences in the encoding properties of the two patches. In the screen shot below, the Flow Motion v2 chart is on the left and the Apocalypse Now Boom Flat 4s chart is on the right:

Many of the statistics in these charts are similar - the QP and DC columns (which measure peak image quality) are close to the same (and as Chris Brandin explained earlier, DC values below 5 produce no further perceptible improvement in image quality). The differences that stand out are in the Max and Range columns, which indicate the worst case image quality. It can be seen here that Flow Motion v2 permits only a narrow range of QP factors, maintaining consistent image quality within the macroblocks of each frame. Apocalypse Now Boom Flat 4s extends into a much wider range of QP factors, allowing image quality to become very coarse among many of the macroblocks in a frame. Even at 150Mbps peak, there doesn't appear to be enough available bitrate to encode all the details in the Flat 4s matrix at the intended level of image quality.

Here are unedited 200% crop frame grabs from the two video files analyzed in the above Stream Parser report. Differences in the detailed image quality of the two patches can be seen in the rusted metal mandalas:

Flow Motion v2.02:

Apocalypse Now - Boom Flat 4s: