Oh cool... well.. I´m looking at the "blackout-lpowell native 24/60p patch v.2" and it looks like it´s designed only for 24p? Funny.. @LPowell is there a solution for PAL land for GH1 that is somewhat stable (talking around 75mbits) and also supports 25p mode? :-)

Thanks! I really don´t want to screw this up.. ¨

EDIT: So the "100Mbps Max Latitude Native 24/25p Patch" is the only solution for 25p on GH1? Seems little bit too high at peak 100mbps.. Any chance of 75mbits - or more stable version for 25p?

@MarkV The Blackout-Powell Patch was one of the first to offer Native 24p support in NTSC mode, and 25p support in PAL mode. Both the 75Mbps Peak Reliability Patch and the 100Mbps Max Latitude Patch support 25p PAL mode as well.

@MarkV Just remember that the GH1 does not support SDXC like the GH2 does - so no 64GB cards. Best of luck!

@thepalalias I should be good to go with 32GB SanDisk Extreme® SDHC™ UHS-I card on GH1, right? - the one with the "45MB/s" speed label on it.. Because the one with "95MB/s" label is too damn expensive over here.. :/

After I buy the card, I will start doing some stress tests (this weekend)... Shooting the big project Tuesday and Wednesday next week.. also combined with C550D.. so I´m really interested how it will work out..

@CRFilms Sorry, 75Mbps was the highest 24p peak bitrate I could get the GH1 to do while preserving 50/60p in 720p mode. The GH1 cannot reliably handle the high bitrates the GH2 can sustain.

The GH1 is still a great camera. It's just that it's not as flexible as the GH2, which had more accessible internal parameters that could be used to insure stability at higher bitrates. In my experience, the GH1 is very reliable 75Mbps and lower, while the GH2 can be used reliably at 100Mbps and above.

Ha I just used the GH1 on a corporate video gig as a third backup camera. I had ,y gh4, Gh2 and Gh1 which recorded an hour and ten minutes of video in a dak auditorium and looked great. When I realized it wasn't worth selling conisdering I couldnt get more than $150 bucks for it, I actually wound up using it more and more as a backup camera when I would normally rent a 5D. Its the little camera that could... Thank you @LPowell .

Hello all,

I would like to say a big thanks to all forum members for all the advice herein and in particular to LPowell for the 75mbs patch which I use now.

Until I bought my GH1 a week ago I was making 4:3rds still images and turning them into videos using PD14. This is my first GH1 video it combines still shots and video shorts in a just over 4 mins video, I put it on Vimeo and this is the link:

At the time I had only got a class 4 card so had to use the HD setting to record the video in the above.

I must say that I'm really pleased with what I've got and now I've got a class ten card I'll be able to use the FHD setting.

All your hard work in and for this forum has been a boon to me and I'm very grateful to you all.

Kindest regards - Jem

One issue I've had with SH mode (59.97 progressive), is the audio gets recorded late. The first second or so of the stream is muted, and it seems like the audio is delayed from the video by about that much time.

Edit: Seems to happen in FHD too (I'm playing the mts file directly in MPC+, since I noticed it happened in the re-wrap and thought it was happening in conversion, but it's happening from the start).

Edit #2 Seems like it's with any of the patches (max lat, blackout, 75mbps) there's always that 10 to 15 frames of muted audio in the beginning, just not always offset in video/audio synchronization.

Yep, sync it later @kbeezie. The biggest goal is that the GH1 reliably records without any freezing issues.

Example on the 75mbps patch, I however made one change, I checked the 29.97i to 2400i option (ie: 48i target which is much easier to conform into 24p timeline without a pulldown).