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Owen Harv

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Hello.

I brought a used GH2. Had it for a month now, and love it.

My question is. It is hacked, but I don't know which hack it is. Is there a way of telling which hack it has. I'm guessing it's going to be between Driftwood or Flowmotion.

Also if I am doing wedding, and things which I need to film over a perdiod of time, which one is more stable.

Thank you
Owen
 
There's no way to tell which hack is loaded. You can only guestimate by looking at your files' bitrates.

For long events and spanning have a look at Sanity, Cake or one of Driftwood's long gop hacks.
 
If you have the correct cards, the flow motion will span and look good.

What features do you want? Easy enough to hack it yourself, but I could probably get you the bin file if you need one.
 
I love the Slow Mo, but most importantly, I need to be able to leave the camera recording with the knoledge it will still be recording 10/15/20 mins later.
 
I love the Slow Mo, but most importantly, I need to be able to leave the camera recording with the knoledge it will still be recording 10/15/20 mins later.

I have lloked into it, and think I will try cake 2.3 but I cant register with personal-view to beable to download it.
 
SanityX will ensure that it spans and stays recording, but I think Flowmotion2.2 will also do this with the Sandisk 64gb 95MBps cards. Not sure about the registration at Personal View.
 
First of all, the GH2 stock will already get you some very good images, only truly "breaking down" in very detailed shots (ie water and foliage and the like.) Personally, I use moderate hacks (Sanity or Flowmotion) because the enhancement in perceptible detail in *most scenes is *negligible (*Of course, this is all subjective, some would probably say there's a huge increase in quality with higher bitrates, but I don't see huge gains. Just very moderate ones, but we're after the best image we can get, right?) So, the primary reason I use the hacks is just to make sure I don't hit that breaking point where the image is just too detailed for the codec to keep up, where it completely breaks down and looks terrible.

So, that said, I usually go back and forth bewtween Flowmotion (by Lpowell) and Sanity X. Flowmotion is great, I do think it has slightly better motion cadence, but I usually keep Sanity X loaded because you can put the camera in the 24H setting and get that little bit of extra detail at higher bitrates, or just keep it in 24L (which I do a lot of the time) and it will give a fantastic image at a reasonable bitrate, and never (in my experience) break down.
 
If it's Flow Motion, it will record in 24H or HBR video modes at around 50-100Mbps. In addition, you can use MediaInfo to examine an HBR video's GOP length, which will be Format Settings, GOP: N=3. I still use my GH2 for fast action handheld shooting, and greatly value its high-bitrate freedom from moire and compression artifacts.
 
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I used Driftwood's Moon Trail 7 for weddings right up until I bought the GH4. (And I actually thought the GH2 looked better.)

Do use nothing but SanDisk Extreme cards. (The 64 and 128 GB cards both work fine with that hack.)
 
Thank you for all your replies. They are very useful.

But I still can't get onto Personal-view, so I gues it is all for nothing.

thanks
Owen
 
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