GH2 Seaquake + Slow Motion Burst Patch for 95MB/s SDXC

I love the amount of community innovation with the GH2. This patch looks fantastic although my hobbiest/small production type budget can't warrant spending $500 on a SDXC 64GB Sandisk card. Can't wait till they come down in price (impatiently waiting).
 
seven pages of talk, no footage? and still no explanation as to why this patch is significantly better than all the others. isn't the argument that you can push the bitrate to however high you want, but it still doesn't matter since it's 8bit 4:2:0? furthermore, why are the pro card's a must? have you tried your patch against an extreme 30/MB?
 
Car3o said:
seven pages of talk, no footage? and still no explanation as to why this patch is significantly better than all the others. isn't the argument that you can push the bitrate to however high you want, but it still doesn't matter since it's 8bit 4:2:0? furthermore, why are the pro card's a must? have you tried your patch against an extreme 30/MB?
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I've shot some stuff with the GH2-X hack and a sandisk 30MB/s card and it recorded just fine. I was even able to get about 8 or 9 seconds of 720p60, but this was on a not very complex scene. However, the hack will not span in 1080p24. I believe that the 64GB cards are necessary to achieve spanning with this hack, and will be able to test when my cards arrive today. While, yes, you will be limited to 8 bit and 4:2:0 codec, the hack is intra frame and the more bits you can throw at the frames, the more detail it will hold. The GH2-X hack, and Driftwood's seaQuake is very close to uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:0 footage, and that's very exciting - especially to be able to capture it with such a small form factor and on SD cards.I'll try to do a test and post footages ASAP, but i leave tomorrow for San Francisco for a big shoot over the weekend where i'll be using the GH2-X extensively. I'll be able to post much more next week.
 
Car3o said:
seven pages of talk, no footage? and still no explanation as to why this patch is significantly better than all the others. isn't the argument that you can push the bitrate to however high you want, but it still doesn't matter since it's 8bit 4:2:0? furthermore, why are the pro card's a must? have you tried your patch against an extreme 30/MB?
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I'm using SandDisk Extreme 30mb/s Card as well, and can confirm that recording 1080/24 works just fine. However, I cannot do 720/60!

I might be doing something wrong. It also may be that I'm using ETC mode when trying to record 720/60
 
roei z said:
I'm all with you guys, but we still can't compare Red withThe Gh2 8-bit 4:2:0 limit... You must be aware of that..
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For sure I'm not saying on paper it competes with the image produced by the R1 (still haven't seen a single shot from the Epic-S... I mean Scarlet), however at one point you have to throw the numbers away and just look at the image. The IQ is IQ, and it's simply undeniable with the GH2. And this is coming from someone who really didn't want to shoot his next project on a stills camera, but here I am.

Great times to be an indy film maker :)
 
yep, this patch's 720 and 1080i modes do not like the Extreme 30MB cards. unfortunate.

and i have a thought. it would make more sense to get an extreme 8gig pro and use it just for the 720/1080i shots and stick with the extreme standard for everything else. the majority of the footage is going to be 24p, and the extreme standard work fine. 8gigs should get around 8 mins at its maximum bitrate. no need to spend a lot of money, and you get to utilize the patch's full potential.
 
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What is the best settings for 1080p 24 with support to EX Tele Conv using 32GB Sandisk 30mb/s?
Although it adds a bit of noise, I find using Ex Tele Conv feature all the time. Makes my lens two in one.
 
If you want to use the EX Tele mode, and/or the 80% variable speed mode, try Driftwood's Aquarius V2 on a Sandisk 30 Mb/s or 95 Mb/s.
 
Sage, do you know if anyone has compiled a list of users who are currently using the hack to shoot a feature? I wonder if anyone is actually... Would be cool to assemble a small list of people who are seriously in pre-production or in production using the GH2X as their primary camera. Then we could harass them for footage and updates : )
 
maybe some of you would like to know, the extrememory 32gb class 10 works flawlessly with driftwoods seaquake. and its a LOT cheaper. :) I posted a write-speed-chart over at personal-view.com if anyones interested. :)
 
fatpig said:
maybe some of you would like to know, the extrememory 32gb class 10 works flawlessly with driftwoods seaquake. and its a LOT cheaper. :) I posted a write-speed-chart over at personal-view.com if anyones interested. :)
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... don't know about that. It's about $5 cheaper than a Sandisk Extreme III 30/mbps, which is an amazingly solid card. I'd rather still have an actual Extreme III and twice the write speed for a couple extra dollars.

http://www.amazon.com/ExtreMemory-EXMESDHC32GC10-32gb-Class10-Extrememory/dp/B002L1NQVG

http://www.google.com/products/cata...a=X&ei=J0LZTrjQCpHciAKU-tm5CQ&ved=0CFkQ8wIwAQ
 
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