@darkman1983

That is very sharp, look at the resolution of that image.. And colors are nice too. I like "moon" for wide shots.

@johnnymossville no, in the middle where the song changes there's a cut...

I planed to shoot with two cams, one from above and one on the ground...but got no second mate who could operate the other camera. That's why there is no real cut and it is a little bit boring at all.

But hey, this is my first oder second video i posted here. I'm still in the progress of getting more Skills :-)

@mee For a minute when you mentioned Sakura video in your post above I thought instantly of this guy's music - Susumu Yokota - his 'Sakura' ambient album is outstanding.. Good work :-)

@matt_gh2 various! 50mm 1.8 wide open and a 17mm f3.5 wide open or slightly stopped down.

Some of its a lower iso obviously and you can really see how brilliant the quality out the camera is, I just like the grain on 12800 and the fact I can shoot stuff at 1am off the cuff. Really chuffed with the latitude on this setting.

@kkorr Excellent use of DREWnet v8. And the community look like they're having a wonderful holiday. :-)

@rrsduncan Like it. Thats not bad at all considering the ISO used.

@darkman1983 Looks terrific to me. Moon 5 motion is the biz! :-)

@Butt Looks great mate. What do you think of the grading with Slipstream3 now that youve tried it?

@sakattaq76 720p Slipstream 2 lookin goooood :-)

@jebsly Nice skin tones - glad youre liking DREWnet trial 8.

@omnidecay What you must remember is that Intravenus & Sedna settings will quickly run out of bitrate for target quantisation across the whole picture when a highly detailed/hi motion scene is filmed - the top half will be given better Q than the bottom half [as thats the way it works].

moon averages out better (and will consume more bitrate > than 9.5 MB/s at hi detail) but generally always offers better overall picture quantisation for all ranges of scenes).

However, at tight/mid shots Intravenus / Boom settings are unbeatable - almost to a point where perhaps grading is rendered pointless!

By the way: Thanks Nick

Thanks Nick - I think you have provided us with great patches - Slipstream 3 is very good - a great IntraGOP patch, even with the "normal" class 10 cards- my settings: Natural, -2, -1, -2, -2 - sorry for my bad english

Good test @ghostlayer Of course the sensor in the GH3 is superior (less noisy) but I can detect a lot more smoothing of the picture performed by the encoder of the GH3 with its adaptive 8x8 transform for most of the picture. But where ISO's are low the detail provided by the hack quantisation of the GH2's 4x4 transform, is always going to be a tad tighter - it just uses a helluva lot more bitrate to process these smaller sub blocks.

EDIT: I corrected the aperture. It's shot at f/8.0, not f/4.0. EDIT 2: I had neglected to mention that this was shot in EX 24H mode. I added that.

Here is an example of what happens to the lower right corner in a high detail scene when it is enlarged.

@driftwood @omnidecay This is taken from a clip where Moon 5 yielded a slightly higher bitrate than IntraVenus V1.

The 1280x720 clip is made from a 480x270 crop of the bottom right corner. You can see the difference, even with DivX encoding.

Stock Settings 1.1 http://perlichtman.com/media/video/Sedna%20Tests%202012-03-15/2013-03-28_StaticShotTests/Enlarge-BottomRightCorner-DivX/DivX%20Fact1.1%2000000.avi

IntraVenus V1 http://perlichtman.com/media/video/Sedna%20Tests%202012-03-15/2013-03-28_StaticShotTests/Enlarge-BottomRightCorner-DivX/DivX%20IV%201%2000001.avi

Moon 5 http://perlichtman.com/media/video/Sedna%20Tests%202012-03-15/2013-03-28_StaticShotTests/Enlarge-BottomRightCorner-DivX/DivX%20Moon%205%2000003.avi

You can get a better feel for the noise differences by watching the video, but there are PNGs (no DivX re-compression) below of enlargments from both the top left corner (the orange ones) and the bottom right.

Notice how much more similar the top left corner is than the bottom right. For the bottom right corner, pay special attention to the brown area near the lower right.

Anyway here are the shooting settings.

EX 24H Shutter 1/50 f/8.0 ISO 1600 Standard: contrast -2, sharpness -2, saturation +2, NR -2 Lens: Tokina 28 mm f/2.8 MD mount

Based on my first wave of testing over the last few days, I may start using Moon 5 instead of Sedna on my music video shoots. Still lots more testing left to do.

@omnidecay My current testing suggests that yes, Moon 5 would function well as an all-rounder. I`ll let you know if that changes.

The image you are looking at (high ISO, narrow aperture, high detail) is an example of the type of image that @driftwood designed Moon to be balanced to handle well. In my testing so far, it has been yielding a superior noise grain and slightly more detail than IntraVenus V1 444 and IntraVenus V2 Smooth Cinema when shooting high detail subjects. This seems to be consistent whether I use my Tokina vintage lens or the Panasonic 20mm f/1.7 as well as whether I use sharpness -2 or sharpness +2 in my picture profile.

I have not conducted low ISO testing on the same subject yet.

Sorry if I missed it, but is the Pasadena audio hack included in Moon Trial 5?

If not, is it possible to be added?

@danielvy I haven't tested it to make sure, but if @driftwood says the 24P settings are the same, then spanning would normally be unchanged (assuming that, that includes all the related settings like frame limits, quantizer, etc.).

@producer Yes, it's included. The audio settings have been included in almost every major setting released for a long time - with one notable exception being Ralph_B's Sanity 5.1. But every recent release by bkmwcd, lpowell and driftwood that I am aware of includes it.