GH2 Driftwood's latest is Exceptional

Your welcome, it's present when you remove the iso limit with the new ptool, Vitaliy is aware of it and I'm sure working to fix it.
 
I'm getting a repeatable 19:08s, with 3:51s remaining on card. Recorded two sessions, both stopped at that time, with that 3:51 remaining. Can't figure out what's going on. Makes 3 4.6gb span files with a small 24mb 4th span file. Recorded using a Transcend Calass 10 16GB card.

Any suggestions?
 
Sage said:
I think it will be about 50 on AQuamotion v2, and 32 on Sea.



It is a compelling choice (aqua). It is intra, so each frame can be independently accessed by your nle, and more bitrate is distributed to capturing an accurate noise print per frame. It is stable and reliable without quirks. On the other hand, you may manage better overall image quality w/ my old fail safe, which is based on an AQ of 3, and allows significantly higher rates on average complexity frames for both 1080 and 720. That said, SeAQuake is the very best you will ever manage from the gh2, and apparently there is now a card that will support spanning with seaquake...
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Write+Transfer+Speed_95+MB%2fsec&ci=1097&N=4270508873+4164498299

So.. if you don't need 80% vari speed but do need spanning, Seaquake + 95MB/s is the way to go by far. The quality is jaw dropping.
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thanks Sage, so is seaquake running at 176mbps as well? you mentioned 95MB/s , is that from the same patch? last question, when a patch is , say, 176mbps, is it variable through out recording or is it constant at that number? :)
 
qwerty123 said:
DPreview has tests on all of this stuff. Smooth has I think about 2/3 EV more dynamic range than cinema. I personally prefer the color rendering of cinema to smooth and I'm willing to trade-off a little dynamic range for more attention to the midtones. Cinema also seems to have slightly less noise than smooth. Once you accurately know what each mode does, it's a matter of preference.
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Smooth doesn’t actually have more dynamic range than the other modes. It has digital gain added to both the shadows and the highlights. The total dynamic range hasn’t changed and the shadow details have been artificially increased.

You will definitely get more noise with the Smooth setting. For one it under exposes the RAW image 1/3 of a stop lower than any of the other modes. Then it adds in additional gain to bring the shadows and highlights up to even exposure levels.

All of this can be done more affectively in post processing because you can add the gain where it is needed instead of adding it to both the shadows and the highlights. The Cinema mode was specifically designed to come as close to the RAW image as possible so that it could be more precisely edited in post processing.

That is not to say that the Cinema mode produces a RAW image. It still has been processed. However, it has been processed a lot less than any of the other modes.

Give Cinema a try and you will see that it is in fact the GH2’s best kept secret.
 
I get the rest of the specs for AQuamotion v2 but I don't understand what the 80% is. Please, if you don't mind, explaining this? Thanks!!
 
thehaz said:
I get the rest of the specs for AQuamotion v2 but I don't understand what the 80% is. Please, if you don't mind, explaining this? Thanks!!
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80% refers to the slight overcranked slo mo mode, which is designed to shoot at 1080p 30fps, then played back at 24fps for 80% slow motion. You can conform the footage in your NLE to 29.97fps and get real time 30p playback, however you won't have any on camera audio with this option. I have a Sandisk Extreme 32gb 30mb card, and this mode does work with it....however, it doesn't seem to span.

DevonH said:
So does Av2 span on the Sandisk Extreme 30Mb cards?
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I assume you mean Aquamotion V2? If so, then yes it does. That's what I'm running right now, with that card. Spans fine. It doesn't seem to span with the above mentioned 80% mode, though.
 
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