i have the same problem

Same problem with the no adverse effects patch... recording on nostalgic FSH...

same problem here, PAL, sedna HBR / noadverseeffects HBR / eoshd unified 88. I always use an hdmi device connected, you too ?

download sd formatter here - https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

run an overwrite format. this is going to take a long while. my sandisk cards became somewhat error-free after doing this. make sure to format it again in your camera.

I too have used the SD association formatter utility and recommend it. It should be used for all NEW cards before first use. It can be used if you are having problems with your card. And periodically to tune it up (how often depends on how much you use the card). And as kapemuna said, after using the utility, format again in the camera before using it.

Its simply the GH2 stream running out of steam - whilst a better card can improve longer writes in certain conditions - defragging, reformatting too etc... like all forms of memory devices - once a certain limit is met problems begin to occur. High detail or High ISO introduce more information to the encoder which has to work extra hard to keep up. This is often the cause of an automatically stopped recording. However, the file is normally written with a final GOP up until its crash point and should be fine to view and edit.

The computations of the GH2 as it encodes into AVCHD are fairly complex, taking into consideration bandwidth/ total allocated bitrate amongst the myriad of settings we input into ptools to push it further - therefore its pretty hard to predict exactly when its going to fail or to stop recording. We try to test on death charts, bushes of death etc... but settings which pass these can meet their match.

In other cases the camera just hangs with the usual message and a battery pull is the only solution to reset the device - subsequently a 0 (zero) size file is written to the card.

The best card out there at the moment is indeed the 64GB Extreme Pro 95MB/s SDXC 1 card. This card alone gives much more success but cannot guarantee to work 100% with settings. Some settings push the quality envelope, others push the reliability envenlope and now in recent months work has been achieved on a number of settings that try to bring both together.

Aight, I started figuring out that changing batteries or in my case using external batteries helped with this problem. The cam now runs with the (still newest? think its version 5) Sanity patch (which looks awesome and has pretty low bitrate at 38mbit)... The external batterie I use is the DC Station from Sinoele... at 9volts. The normal battery runs at 8,4volts as far as I remember. Changing batteries to that one again and problems start again. It's not a fine solution but may be worth a try! Careful with external batts. Higher voltages than 9,4V cause main damage on the cam!!! Read the guide/main posts in this forum about that! There are voltage stabilizers out there wich you should use!

I hope that helped a little...

@thomasklosinsky

You may be onto something here! I used Timebuster on one occasion with the internal battery and it stopped after a few minutes. Normally I use an external battery for longer shooting and it never happened with that one.

@headstate +1 on cake for reliability / quality. Cake is my go-to hack. I bought a new card the other day (cheap-ish class 10 - just about - and 32GB capacity) and on cake, on a part-used battery it recorded (and spanned) a scene with lots of movement without a hitch for just over an hour until the card ran out.

@thomasklosinsky If you want to know what causes card lockups, it's usual high ISOs (ie noisy images) and subject or camera motion, particularly at high shutter speeds (low speeds smear the image, and that doesn't stress the codec as much as high speeds). So what @driftwood says, basically.

If you don't think that's what's causing the lockups in your shots, then here are some other questions:

Are you using genuine batteries (apologies if you've said you are and I missed it) because obviously the camera needs to know it is running low so it can shut down gracefully, rather than just stop. If not, that could be an issue.

If you are having random stop issues on all patches (sorry, "settings") then I'm assuming (but worth a mention anyway) that you've checked that the card / camera card slot contacts are free of any dirt or debris (vacuum cleaner can remove any small bits of plastic etc from inside the camera slot) and are thus making good contact. It's very easy for little bits of plastic (such as around the edge of the card, near the write-protect switch or between the contacts) to break off the card after a while, and of course they live happily in your card slot where they cause random problems.

And once you have verified that there is no debris in the slot, clean the contacts by inserting and removing the card a few times. That will do the job of cleaning the contacts in both card slot and the card itself.

If none of that works, I don't know!

My finding is this- Someone please tell me if I'm wrong. All patches I've tried cut out when the clip reaches 4GBs on my PAL HBR GH2. The duration of the clips varies obviously with the patch and how much motion is in the shot. Flow Motion seems to keep recording without stopping. In fact it's actually just creating a series of 4GB clips. 32 minutes of footage with Flow Motion equals approx. 4 x 4GB clips.

Hello. I'm new in this group and also in using GH2. I've put the Sanity 4.1 PAL Hack in my firmware and now I've got a 1080i bitrate of 36Mbit/s. Very nice. But the camera stops usually after about 15 minutes. I'm using a Sony SDXC 64 GB Class 10 card. I also tried to format with SD-Formatter as suggested but camera stops at 15 min. I also tried other hacks like driftwood with the same result. Why doesy GH2 stops at 15 min.?

try flowmotion