@towi I can't understand how you say "Because you can't really edit MTS files in real time" Even a lowly editor like Corel Visual Studio X4 handles native mts file well and without any issues. I have a feeling you need to modify your view about workflow.

okay, I stand corrected regarding editing MTS natively. I only know Avid and FCP for editing MTS files. Too, playing back MTS files in QT (through the Panasonic plugin) or in VLC there's always a lag when you start to play the streams. I wasn't aware Premiere and Vegas handle MTS natively without background transcoding or so. Thanks for the clarification.

Anyway... I didn't start to compare Sanity and Flowmotion beacause I wanted to see which hack works "better" in the first place. I've tested Flowmotion and found there's clearly a noticable drop in resolution when you compare 24H and HBR (HBR is not really better than FSH). I then went back to Sanity with FW 1.1 & PTools 3.64 and found 24H and HBR are almost indiscernible. First in FSH mode you really see a drop in IQ. This is why I started to look closer into a direct comparison of Sanity and Flowmotion...

@jamesgh2 re SH I don't know. Actually I don't use this mode. I only use 24h, HBR and FSH.

"Why did you lower in the new sanity the bitrates for FSH/SH mode from originally 44Mbits (old sanity) to 36Mbits "

44M crashed in FSH mode. 36M is stable.

May have INTRA 720p working before the end of the night... at last !

@driftwood Best of luck with that Nick. :)

@Ralph_B last week I was shooting a documentary, and had a few crashes, battery out, restart etc. shooting in HBR mode, I was using your settings which have been modified by I don't remember who for HBR. Did it happen to you? I use SanDisk Extreme 30Mbs and didn't have any problems until now. The shot when it crashed where not even long shots. Any ideas about it?

@Ralph_B thanks, I will try it right now, I am running the PAL version so it would be the 1080i50 settings GOP size=18, right? Do you think these settings would work on a GF2? Mine comes next week hopefully... cheers Edit: I changed the GOP and it looks fine. I remember the person who modified it was saying the 36Mps in HBR looks as good as the 66Mbs in 24H Cinema, do you agree? Did you ever put up the HBR to 66Mbps?

@gameb No, it's 1080i60 that should be GOP 18. I didn't realize you were running in PAL. I don't know yet what the correct setting should be for HBR in PAL. I'm still working on a proper port of Sanity for firmware 1.1.

Keep 1080i50 and 1080p24 GOP Size=12. Try lowering Video Bitrate FSH/SH to 32000000 and lower Video Bitrate FH/H to 24000000.

HBR works off the FSH/SH bitrate.

@Ralph_B

no problem at all...

Yes, I also feel it's in the cards. Settings that survive heavy torture tests in PAL mode on my SanDisk 30MB/s cards failed for users with other cards (though 30MB/s, too).

@Ralph_B

other manufacturers (Transcend if I remember correctly)

@Ralph_B. Have you tried to redo your settings using some of the new scaling and quantization matrices? You have one of the best settings for 1080i60 and 720p60 using GOP18 and GOP39. I am currently combining yours with Driftwood's 24p settings. Good job.

@Ralph_B. I used Sanity 3.1 with FSH/SH=44mb, FH/H=28mb and merged it with Driftwood's Sedna A Q20 matrix. There is a significant difference in quality and bitrate between Sanity settings using stock matrix vs. Sedna matrix. Sedna A Q20 is much sharper and generating higher resolution/bitrate. You may have already tried it. If not you should. You will be pleasantly surprised.