PTool settings sharing thread

actionfilming said:
Im planning on buying a gf1 and hacking it to film action sports in sunny conditions at the highest quality possible (hopefully), can anybody recomend some ptools settings that i should take advantage of?
links to footage of settings would be great too. Thanks
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LPOWELL answered that for me in my messages - here is his comment

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread...=1#post2039780

From your description, it sounds like you may find my Fast Action 3-Frame GOP Patch useful, if 720p30 video mode meets your requirements.

LPowell[/I]
 
thanks, your link redirects to homepage though
im planing on shooting in 24p and 60p for the slowmotion shots but i have no clue about bitrates and whatnot
 
GOP 2 at 54 mBS

GOP 2 at 54 mBS

After a lot of experimentation, I seem to be getting fairly stable 24pn at GOP 2 and 54 mBS.
I have not tested the 720p only the 1080p.
It will crash if you are recording very dark almost black scenes or cap on. If there is any kind of bright area, even a small one in the frame is seems to keep recording. I have not had a crash other than recording black and the famous chart of doom which it will record for more than 10 seconds before it crashes. I have let it record for over ten minutes at a time on busy high detail scenes and had no crashes. I hardly ever do longer takes than ten minutes so I have not tested longer. I see no strobe effect and the resolution is very high with the GOP 2. I tried to up the over all rate to better handle bursts of high data rate. I also tried to keep all the numbers multiples of 9000.
I just shot a green screen for a TV spot and it keyed perfectly.

Here are my settings.



Ptool v3.50d

GH1__133.bin

Prevent version compare Check

Battery Third party Check

Interface all languages Check



AVC

Wrapper Native 24p Check

AVC compression
FHD 54000000
H 45000000
L 45000000
Overall bit rate 99000000

AVC GOP
720 60P 3
1080 24P 2

Patches for Testers:


AVC HD Movie Mode:
Preset bitrate 9000
Preset bitrate 2 9000
Overall bitrate 108000000
 
Thank you for sharing. I've just copied your settings in my GH1. I just have a question. Why Final Cut Pro, when log and transfer process to ProRes, interprets the footage as interlaced (upper)?
 
Quick newbie question.

Quick newbie question.

My GH1 serial is we0f ( which i think is june 2010 ish)
anyway thought id give it a go tried to load ipowells reliable settings.

Camera says its updating firmware, then when it gets to the end switches back to normal vf mode. Is that it ?

If it was a later model with unhackable firmware would it still do all this and lull me into a false sense of security ? ( or am i lucky)

Cheers

Steve
 
Thats it.
Check your firmware version in the menu setup page 4 on the camera and it should read Ver.0.0
 
before I start the whole download, install the patch bussiness .. I just want to make sure if the "Reliable In-Camera Playback Patch" is the settings I'm after :
Can record and use the 24p native,, no need to de interlace, pulldown removal ??
does it work in 1080 and other different capture modes?
shoudn't be any issues with these settings and a Patriot class 10 right?

looks like the "In Camera Playback Patch" only records in 720 .... Im really confused now
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?215511-PTool-settings-sharing-thread&p=2039780#post2039780
 
zhaoyun said:
To me, this setting (average bitrate can higher than 40mb) seems stable for carrying daily shooting and playback-able on camera. It suitable for both PAL and NTSC for matching latest ptool with system interchangable. the file named "50FHD-36H-27L-54OB-45OB2-540PB2.zip".
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Thank you for posting.

I'm using your 50FHD-36H-27L-54OB-45OB2-540PB2 settings and I find that Final Cut Pro (log and transfer, Apple ProRes, either remove pull down checked/unchecked) is interpreting the footage as interlaced... And VLC player shows a rate of 50 fps (which confirms the interlaced fields).

Do you get the same results?

Thank you!
 
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I bought mine second hand, serial WEOA(...), and firmware version on camera reads 1.D. Does this mean the firmwares I'm applying are not effective?
 
rigs said:
Thats it.
Check your firmware version in the menu setup page 4 on the camera and it should read Ver.0.0
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I just checked it should say Ver 0.0 as long as you ticked "Prevent version compare". I guess that is useful to update firmware even with smaller version numbers...
 
Hi to everyone,
I'm not sure if I didn't read carefully, so:
Is it possible to change the frame rate from 30 to 25 (60 to 50) of GF1 video mode with the firmware hack?
I mean the camera shoots video at 30fps NTSC, so can it be changed to 25fps (PAL) with the hack?
Thank you!
 
producer said:
Is it possible to change the frame rate from 30 to 25 (60 to 50) of GF1 video mode with the firmware hack?
I mean the camera shoots video at 30fps NTSC, so can it be changed to 25fps (PAL) with the hack?
Thank you!
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Yes, once you tick the NTSC>PAL or PAL>NTSC option in Ptool. After that, to choose either of those recording systems, just select the one you want in the "Video output" menu. That is the actual menu to select recording system. Note that you won't be able to record PAL and NTSC footage on the same card.
 
Shooting a feature

Shooting a feature

Hey, I'm new to this, just ordered my GH1. I'm about to shoot a feature film with it in a couple of weeks and wanted to check in and see if there's any patch recommendations? Of course I need 1080/24, would like it to be stable but want a really nice image. I guess that's the dream, right? What would you guys suggest?

Lot of night-time shooting as well as bright sunshiny days.
 
Love the thread. I've been using cbrandin's 44M spanning patch forever with a few minor modifications (iso limit removed, audio bumped to 320kb). Can anyone recommend an updated patch to use with the GH2, with class 6+ cards? I don't need crazy 100M+ settings, just reasonable 32M+ patch that will do great under 1080/24p/25p, and OCCASIONALLY 720/60p/50p.

Can someone tell me why we still have 'interlacing' on a modern camera? A holdover from old cathode ray tech, and people are still using it in a digital workflow? Baffles me! And to think folks are debating 2k vs 4k vs 3d, next format, so forth... If they allow someone to encode 4k INTERLACED I will have a heart attack.
 
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