any news on VY Canis Majoris 'VYCM Etc' mode? It was announced on the original Canis thread

Shot with CM night and a 50mm FD 1.8 lens, at 1.8 or 2ish (I made it stepless, so it's hard to know). This is not my finest work, but I was really impressed with the color after adjusting the K balance to 4200. This was as per the advice of a forum member (sorry not sure who). The settings were Cinema -2 -2 -2 -2. This was the bands first live performance and conditions were less than ideal. Brave girls.

@david_d Yes, that's right. But only if the bitrate is not more than 100 megabits. If it will be more flash drive can not write that down, stop recording, or the photocamera is hung. Stable recording 24p, 75 - 80 megabits if the file is written to a fragmented space on the flash drive, a 100 megabit it may stop the USB flash drive must be completely clean program SDFormatter, that there were no surprises. I know that the hack will be developed, will be setting all intra, 144 megabit, maybe even more, and you will want to use it, so I suggest you still buy sandisk 64 - 95 Mb / sec.

I tried the new Transcend 32gb Class 10 85mb/s. No improvement over older Transcend cards in the GH2. No spanning and Apocalypse Now still only records 1 minute on my motion death chart.

I have decided to stick with Sandisk 64gb 95mb/s as it is the only 100% reliable card out there.

@Shon thank you. But, just approximatively... how many minutes can i shoot for a 32GB (for example for an interview inside)? How much for the same with a 64GB?

Thank you so much

@Shon Tahnk you so much. So Scandisk is better and safer. How many minutes can I shoot with a 32 GB and with 64 GB ?

Thank you again!

hello everyone,

I wanna try Apocalypse. What kind of cards I have to buy ?

Transcend 64 GB Class 10 SDXC Ultra Speed 25MB/S Flash Memory Card TS64GSDXC10 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004XIB9T6/

Or SanDisk Extreme Pro 64 GB SDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Flash Memory Card 95MB/s SDSDXPA-064G-X46 http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-UHS-1-Memory-SDSDXPA-064G-X46/dp/B005LFT3UW/

Thank you so much.

First thing to check u r using the right firmware and latest version of ptools.

@RBD Such a small world. :) My youngest brother just started at UCSB and I lived in SB for the majority of 1989-2002 (a few years abroad along the way).

@RBD As far as shooting mode - the best resolution and compression is achieved by shooting in 24H mode, whether you are in Cinema or VMM mode. 80% VMM mode gives you 30 FPS at the highest detail a given hacked setting can offer (but with no sound and played back at 24 fps for a slight slow-mo result), while Cinema gives you 24 FPS at the highest detail, with sound and played back in real-time. 80% mode is also very demanding and may not work with as many cards and settings as 24H Cinema.

HBR, FSH and SH (1080 30P in a 60i wrapper, 1080 60i and 720 60P respectively). Some people prefer to shoot high motion footage at 60 fields or frames per second or higher - normally I only do so for handheld footage I plan on stabilizing or in the case of slow-motion.

As far as your Picture/Color/Film Mode: Standard is the default, and Smooth is usually used if a greater dynamic range is required. Those that prefer a lot of saturation can use Vibrant - it has less dynamic range than the other two.

A lot of people customize their shooting settings by starting with -2, -2, -2, -2 (for contrast, sharpness, saturation, noise reduction) and then increasing parameters if they need more in any of these areas. General practice is to increase contrast and/or saturation if you either are shooting a low contrast/low saturation subject or if you don't plan on doing much color work in post. Sharpness can be customized to taste - I can't remember the last time I wanted my footage settings to look sharper for anything other than testing, though. :)

Cluster v5

Hi all, I couldt read some footage (1080p24 best quality CLUSTER v6 'DREWnet' )on the GH2 display... Is it normal? thx.