It's time to get out of your comfort zone. :P I'm not going to make custom settings just for you.

If you want 24p time lapse settings in the Cake style, compare Cake 2.3 timelapser 2 and Cake 2.3, and see all of the changes that I made to HBR 30p mode, and make proportional changes to 24H mode. If you want to use a shutter speed of 1/2 s, set the GOP length to a multiple of 13.

Another approach would be to take Aquamotion V1, change the GOP length to 13, and copy those settings for 24H mode into Cake.

Or you can take duartix's Timebuster 2.0, which is meant to be merged with settings like Cake. Duartix has written a lot of documentation.

Alright, thanks guys.

@ldbonilla That was very cool. Could you explain your settings a little pls. Shutter/framerate and picture style? I know its graded. Plus is there any reason your not using 2.3?

Hello, im having quite big problem. Im trying to shoot with GH2, but i cant get nice smooth motion with it. Here is sample of yesterday shooting.

Any ideas? PLS...i dont want to use just STILL images.

M.

Cake v2.3 is stable. You might have been thinking about what I said about 2.3 beta. In any case, 2.2 and 2.3 are the same for 720p.

I certainly don't recommend Cake if you're using a slow Patriot card that locks up the camera. If you really don't have time to mess around in the field, well, time is money. There are much better, inexpensive memory cards available.

@balazer , why 1080i50 mode shows interlaced in playback ?

Balazer I understand that, but ive seen posted videos from others with same setting and i have a feeling that their motion was better (smoother). Fast camera movements make buildings (objects) very jumpy. I was working with videocamera (Sony PMW EX3), so im new with GH2. Im little disappointed with this jumpy outcome while panning (dont know if PANning its right word-sry for my english) . I dont know how to shoot dynamic scenes, like running kids ect without that jumpy objects.. Stills are very nice..andy ideas? Or am I just an idiot. . :)

@balazer , I mean this is not the case in stock FW and not the case with FlowMotion, I want to be able to use Cake 2.3 as most stable settings also on 1080i 50. What i mean is it shows visible (interlaced) lines on playback ...

@Majlo Unless I've missed you saying, what shutter speed were you using? The only way of getting very smooth motion is to use perhaps 1/25. But of course then you lose detail in anything that's moving. I mean, your clip looks OK to me - no major juddering at least. I think there's a rule somewhere that you should allow more than 7 seconds for an object to go from one side of frame to another, so you could slow down the pans. But 24p/25p will look different from interlaced video shot at PAL framerates. For many people, that's the attraction of the GH2 - it looks less like "video".

If you are talking about something more than just the regular, frame-to-frame flickering as you pan over your scene in your video, then maybe your video looks different to you than it does to me - for example, maybe it's an issue with your player not handling the high bitrate? As I say, it doesn't look particularly bad to me.

EDIT: I was looking at the video on my iPod as I didn't have the computer fired up. Just looked at the original YouTube, full-screen. Yes, I see what you mean. You also mention there that you use 1/50. So you could try lowering the shutter speed to 1/25 (at least, for this sort of shot). Some people say you should use 1/50 but personally I prefer the look of 1/25 for the stuff I do. And Cake is a great patch - it's the one I use all the time (thanks, @balazer)!

Also, the youtube video does sometimes pause for a fraction of a second - probably a YouTube thing rather than anything you've done.

@Majlo I think you're probably right - I would see if it works better with another card. You never really know how good cards are without trying them (unless you get one of the ones recommended on this forum). I have two 16GB cards, one marked class 6 and one class 10. The class 6 one is better, and hardly ever fails with Cake 2.3 The class 10 one is less reliable. Let us know how your experiment goes with shooting at 1/25!

@feha - Id like to :D but i dont want to buy some shitty filter, so im trying to save money for it :)

@Mark - 16Gb 6 class on full HD clips? I thought its low class. Ive seen one pretty Panasonic SD, quite expensive 32GB but class 6. So i thought its low class and not enough for HDR recording. And Mark, hardly ever fail means never fail or it failed you? :)))

@gameb Thanks man, ill try ;) Ive ordered it now, so will c what happens :P