GH2 Panasonic says GH2 can give clean 4:4:2 8 biy HDMI

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I got on Facebook with Panny and tweeted. They said they would get an answer from engineering and get back. Just now they did.

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@PanasonicDirect Need 4:4:2 live HDMI out on GH2. Can do?

@mojohand43 Hello, the GH2 can do 4:2:2 8 bit processing.

So there it is folks. Gonna need another Ninja...:cheesy:
 
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Panny didn't say it IS doing clean 4:2:2. Engineering says it can so maybe V can find it or maybe we'll get it officially in an update.
 
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I heard on another board that HDMI does 4:2:2, but it does it from the compressed 4:2:0 signal, so there's no benefit to recording the HDMI. The 4:2:2 is interpolated, so you're not getting any better data than gets recorded to the SDHC card. This is different from the AF100, which puts out pre-compression 4:2:2 and has an HD-SDI out for recording. IMHO, the Stalin hack will do more for your GH2 material than an Atomos Ninja will.
 
PopcornFlix said:
I heard on another board that HDMI does 4:2:2, but it does it from the compressed 4:2:0 signal, so there's no benefit to recording the HDMI. The 4:2:2 is interpolated, so you're not getting any better data than gets recorded to the SDHC card. This is different from the AF100, which puts out pre-compression 4:2:2 and has an HD-SDI out for recording. IMHO, the Stalin hack will do more for your GH2 material than an Atomos Ninja will.
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I'm pretty sure it would be the equivelent to converting to 422 in cineform. So the ninja is really not all that necessary. I remember reading something from Barry on this subject, will have to search a bit.
 
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