GH3 Quick GH3 Question; best quality video setting is 72mbps ALL-I codec? or 50mbs?

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Quick GH3 Question; best quality video setting is 72mbps ALL-I codec? or 50mbps?

I like using 1080p 60fps but you cannot use 72mbps ALL-I codec. Would I be losing much quality sticking to 50mbps ?

Thanks - still a newb but working on it lol.
 
The 50mbps codec on the GH3 is very good. Some people have been having issues with the 72mbps. The Intra-frame codec stores the information for each frame individually and depending on the complexity of your image the 72mbps may not be enough to successfully store the image without any artifacts. On the other hand the 50mbps codec is much more efficient at storing the data (due to it's inter-frame compression) which then results in a cleaner image. Obviously it would be great to have a higher bit rate codec as is the case with the hacked GH2, but the 50mbps has proven to give very good results.
 
Right now the ALL-I CODEC is bandwidth limited, so the 50 Mbps .H264 CODEC beats it for almost all types of shots.

If the GH3 ever gets hacked so that the ALL-I bandwidth is doubled (or tripled), then things might be different.
 
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