GH2 looking for super stable 720p 60fps hack with no crashes

J Davis

J Davis

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I have to be honest - the hack scares. When you're paying crew hourly, equipment is rented, people waiting or a client watching there is no room for equipment failure so I'm usually in risk assessment mode. Because of my wariness, the only thing I've done is change the avchd video bitrate for 24H to 42000000. 24p quality is improved and hopefully my risks are none, but what if I want something for slowmo 720p 60 fps ? Can any hacker guru point in the right direction?
 
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I'm slammed with an editing and rendering job and have had no time to test ... so maybe I spoke to soon?

Berylium's PM suggested I look at Aquamotion v2 so I google searched within dvxuser and found this post by Sage

Sage said:
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...
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I also read another post somewhere (which I now cannot find) that says the seaquake patch will work on type 10 cards with longer record times

I've copied and pasted the comments embedded within Aquamotion v2 and SeaQuake

[Information]
Comment=Driftwood GOP1 AQ2 all round 'AQUAMOTION' ver 2 <br>Decent recording times with sustained good quality inc slow <br>motion across the board whilst EX TELE mode and/or 80% <br>in 24p mode is employed.<br>Now makes use of better encoder settings.<br><br>NOTE: THIS IS NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR 'seAQuake' <br>WHOSE QUALITY IS VERY GOOD. The absolute minimum <br>INTRA patch, SPANmyBITCHup, gives longer recording <br>times than AQUAMOTION.
SD_Card=Type 10 Most
Camera=GH2 v1.0E Driftwood

[Information]
Comment=Driftwood GOP1 AQ3 166M 'SeAQuake'. <br>1080p24 INTRA, 720p50 INTRA & 1080i50 PsF, 720p60 <br>GOP3, 1080i60 PsF. <br>NOTE: Tested on a host of death charts, Driftwood brings <br>you the latest version of the Driftwood INTRA patch - <br>'SeAQuake'. We've been digging under the seabed of the <br>codec to enhance the QP and macroblocks - and there <br>improved with massaging of the Encoder. Everything is <br>INTRA bar 720p60 which is GOP3. But it looks the best yet. <br>Have fun :-)
SD_Card=Minimum: Good Type 10 SD card
Camera=GH2 v1.0E Driftwood
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If anyone else can point to reliable and steady 720p 60fps patches where stability takes priority over bitrate then by all means post in this thread
 
check out the sanity v2 patch, its specifically for 720 60p, theres a thread about it on the second page. i have been shooting with it extensively for the last 3 days on class 6 cards and its been as solid as can be with great quality.
 
Ben Totman said:
check out the sanity v2 patch, its specifically for 720 60p, theres a thread about it on the second page. i have been shooting with it extensively for the last 3 days on class 6 cards and its been as solid as can be with great quality.
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Thanks for your feedback.
Here's the link to the Sanity thread.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?268039-Introducing-SANITY-the-Do-It-All-patch-for-GH2

I hope more people try it, because it's reliable and produces a super picture in all shooting modes (except 1080 50i).
 
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