am using ipowell 40mbps reliability patch with a transcend 8gig class 10 card....but I am still getting as low as 11mbps and a high of 26mbps. am I doing something wrong? I use a contax G 28mm prime lens and FD 50mm 1.4
i use mediainfo to check the bitrate from my mts clips
You're doing it right. As has been explained here before, AVCHD is a variable bit rate codec. So it will cruise at a conservatively low bit rate most of the time, only spiking to or near max if the scene requires more data. The Tester13 hack is designed to give these cameras more bitrate when the scene calls for it, not raise the bitrate across the board for "better everything". If you shoot a minute of video of your coffee mug at your desk, it will probably look the same as before, with the same bitrate. Unless you are shooting a special test pattern designed to tax codecs, you will not see a sustained max bit rate in your footage. But when you do shoot a scene with lots of movement and detail, you will see a significant decrease in artifacts.
