A Guide To Setting Your GH1/GH2 Up For Video

[ryangschultz]

Excellent sticky! Just picked up a GH2 to use as a b-cam to my af100. Hacked it and loving the quality. This sticky pointed me in the right direction being new to DSLR video. Thanks!

[rawfa]

Great stuff. I´ve JUST got a GH2 and this saves me a lot of time.

[lmeneghim]

Does the I.Dynamic when in low light if its set to high does it create more noise?

[Ben_B]

I will be adding the GH3 to this just as soon as I get mine and we get some more input from the community on the best way to set it up.

[Ben_B]

I just received my GH3. Will be updating this as soon as I get the chance.

[Numbir9]

I dont know if the GH3 mounts up the same way as the GH2 (I don't have a GH3 just yet.)
But for gearing up a rig to shoot video on my Driftwood Hacked GH2, the SYSTEM ZERO Follow Focus Standard Panasonic GH2 from IDC is pretty damn awesome and very easy to change midshoot.
I spoke to a guy from IDC at CES and he told me they were running a special on it too.
$100 Off right now.
(I paid full price for it about a year ago!)
http://www.idcphotovideo.com/store/s...-panasonic-gh2
I highly recommend it, especially for impromptu shoots where you don't have a lot of assistance.
I lot of the work on my website was done with this rig.
www.numbir9films.com

[Ianscreations]

I just received my GH3. Will be updating this as soon as I get the chance.

Any updates? Waiting on a good recommendation list for settings.

[Spartacus]

Any updates? Waiting on a good recommendation list for settings.

Yes, a GH3 sticky would be great!

[Kit_L]

Hello all; new owner of unhacked GH2 here, US model, firmware 1.1.

Following Ben's setup directions (and needing to shoot only 720p) I cannot see how to select between the various frame rate options: these do not show anywhere I can see.

Present approach to setup:

Mode dial: movie camera + M (between "SCN" and "C3)

Pressing Menu/set button brings up CREATIVE MOVIE; options here are Manual Movie Mode (MMM), HBR, Cinema, and Variable movie mode.

Select MMM

Use four-way to select next item down from CREATIVE MOVIE; this looks like a movie camera

Move right, then down) past FILM MODE (get to that later) to REC MODE

Three options here: AVCHD 1080i, AVCHD 720p and MOTION JPEG; select AVCHD 720p

Then down to REC QUALITY; two options: SH and H; assume these refer to the 17Mbs and 13Mbs the manual refers to; select SH

Move down to EXPOSURE MODE; select M

But where's frame rate selected??

Or, after reading the manual, would my choices be only between 720p50 and 720p24, and this by making the selections between MMM (720p50) and 24P CINEMA on the CREATIVE MOVIE line of the menu; but 24P on this menu looks like 1080 only.

If 720p50 (at the two qualities) is the only option would the best way be to shoot at this rate all the time and conform to 24p on the FCS (FCP 7) timeline using Cinema tools?

Or, I suppose I could hack the camera!

TIA, KL

[Ben_B]

Any updates? Waiting on a good recommendation list for settings.

Been very busy lately. Will update this soon.