@driftwood , big thank you for the Cluster v5, this is going to stay on my GH2 :-)

Anyone try Cluster v5 on GF2 or GF3, I have both bodies and would be more than willing to try it on them if someone has not.. I'll be putting Cluster v5 on my personal GH2

Also, I have been shooting on cluster v4 at work on the GH2s, but I'm in the middle of a project right now and will wait till that is finished till I upgrade those. But very very happy with Cluster v4 on the GH2s at work, superb quality and flawless long shoot performance!

@driftwood First of all thank you very much for developing long gop patch as is cluster. I really like it. short test of Cluster 5 Pal 25p test, no CC and with CC - actually Im learning CC now, so criticism more when welcome.

not nice feedbacks: 1. 25p does not span on sandisk 30mbs 2. 25p Stop recording "motion..speed... error"-ones 3. 720p50 freeze image after few minutes of recording, battery out- 1.5gb size

thanks again

@konjow Can you send me the stop recording mts? I wanna see this. Cheers mate. :-) Also please report that you definitely stayed within the confines of 25/50/100 shutter speed. This is important. So many new users reporting lately. Keep reporting any errors until we get this totally perfect.

Yes, it does.

Even at -2 sharpening is not completely off (at least with Panny lenses). Don't think that -2 is anything like anti-sharpening ;-)

The only value you should set higher than -2 is saturation, according to your taste. If your scene is very low contrast, you can up contrast a bit too. But don't use sharpness or noise reduction at all, there are better tools in post if it's needed at all.

@konjow Cluster v5 spans for me on a quick test without problems.

Spanning Cluster 720p50: Ive just setup my razor sharpe OM 50mm 1.2 Macro lens at f5.6 on Cluster v5 with loads of detail - not maximum- but as good as I could find at this time of night - and then proceeded to shake the fuck out of it - yet it still spanned over two files without problem (to 20 minutes before I got bored and stopped the recording). As Ive mentioned in the past, if you use strange or incorrect shutter speeds with the frame rate you are likely to suffer such problems. The 720p50 20 minute files recorded at a bitrate of 43M creating two files one at 4,192,486 (4Gb) and one spanned file 2,025,432 before I manually stopped it.

There is of course a bitrate stopping point on the GH2 where it runs out of memory fuel but its highly unlikely as its a well matched to bitrate setting. My guess is you chose an irregular shutter speed causing an upset in the odd B frames. Of course, I need to check your file.

ok. I will test spaning again tomorrow both 25p and 50p. I will make sure shutter is 100

@rajamalik thanks for the input!

@herbycamer Thanks for the PAL testing pal. Can you be a little bit more clearer. Are you talking 24p freezing past 2 mins or HBR/720p or ALL rec modes with Panny lenses? I'll do a comparison test of Cluster 3 v 5 on HBR/FSH PAL tomoz. Also confirm you had this problem on correct shutter ratios (25/50/100 etc... and not 30, 60, 120 etc... Good stuff, let me know.

Also messing with some new matrices for Cluster v5. Mission to pull back smooth chrominance and give it more bite.

Hi. @Driftwood. Yes Nick, i'm using only HBR 25p and FSH 50i. Shutter speed 1/50. ND Fader. Cluster 3. Sandisk 30Mb/s & 45Mb/s. Thanks

here is the video from GF2,

@driftwood Thanks always, Nick! Of course, you can also do. :-)

Nick, you are pushing the envelope so much I am afraid unless Panasonic hires you and Vitaliy the GH3 might not be as capable.