@driftwood Ok thats good to know I wasn't sure if the 720p mode automatically had a higher bitrate when your patch was loaded. I think I originally set shutterspeed to 1/50 sec so I'm assuming that the camera automatically kicks that back to 1/60 , would that be correct?

@Driftwood I tested your SeaQuake 24p patch with Panasonic 14-140mm and 100-300mm lenses using a Sandisk 32GB Extreme HD 30/mbs class 10 and Transcend 64GB SDXC class 10 cards shooting in normal, EXTC and variable frame rate modes. Everything worked fine with the exception of 80% slow motion that fails after a few seconds with card write error. May be this can be corrected with a frame limit or some other variable setting. Appreciate everything you, Vitaly and others are doing.

@RRRR Thanks for the response. I am aware of the Aquamotion 2 patch. Call me selfish but I am spoiled by the high bitrates of the SeaQuake. However, I recorded a soccer game pointing to the TV screen in 80% slo mo using SeaQuake averaging 100mb/s and it worked (the bitrate for Aquamotion 2). The one that failed was shooting a golf course during the day averaging 140mb/s.

I used his screen grab. Not my shot.

@Hallvalla I shot this in cinema mode which is better for lifting those shadows in post. This is a pretty good example where the boom op is pretty much invisible, a 10% shadow lift reveals him, but when you use curves you find a lot more detail in the shot. I double checked my frames on that footage and it did double the frames because I had the shutter speed set to 1/50 ( which sucks, this could have made nice slo-mo footage ) I'm uploading the original 536 .mts file if anyone wants to play with it. http://redantdc.com/dvx/00050.MTS

@FGCU "how did you pull that detail? or is it two shots. that amount of recovery is bordering RAW"

I was just thinking the same thing after a shoot I did yesterday. These codecs now are really like 4:2:0 RAW. Awesome stuff. I wouldn't take another camera over my GH2 now besides a Red Epic.

I'm getting better shadow recovery than even with the Canon XF's 4:2:2 50mb/s codec. Although, the XF's image is nothing to write home about in the first place... but still, this is impressive stuff.

Ok so some testing was done by me regarding spanmybitchup vs. auQAmotion and I have a few issues/questions:

(All testing done with a Class 10 16GB Transcend SDHC card)

With auQAmotion, it will span, but it stops every time at 19:08 seconds, leaving 3:51s left on the card. Looking at the AVCHD folder I see 3 4.67gb spanned files and one ~25mb 4 spanned file. Happens every time. So I'm wondering what's causing the video to stop recording at 19:08 when there is still space left.

Secondly, I decided to try out spanmybitchup for longer recording times, but I'm having issues with it, issues I don't have with the higher quality auQAmotion hack. The issues I get are as I shoot a few clips, I'll be able to review them, but once I've shot about 3-5 clips total, I'll get an unable to read file warning. When I leave playback and shoot again, sometimes I can, and sometimes I hit the record button and nothing happens. Once I get to this point I have to power off the camera. Once the camera has be turned off/on I can resume shooting again, but with the same issues happening eventually.

So long story short, auQAmotion works great, expect the 19:08s span limit, and spanmybitchup has read/lockup issues.

Thoughts?

@balazer as far as not playing back in camera, ok, but why would the higher quality aquamotion not have issues playing back but the lower quality spanmybitchup does?

About in camera playback... if a recording won't play, you can try turning the camera off and on then play the clip. This seems to work for me, 720p in seaquake often has this problem.

Gonna give it a try!

@Zaven13 @driftwood
Zaven, do you have streamparser info from this and/or sample vids. Pretty sure driftwood had looked at this already and there were some fundamental problems with putting one high bit rate patch on H and the other spanning patch on L (That said, if it really does work, I'm curious forsure).

I'm thinking of using the 30p from the Seaquake 1080i/60 psf. Is the image quality the same as the 1080p24 mode of the same patch?