Magic Bullet Denoiser II doesn't hold a candle to Neat Video. Used to use it, and it's nothing special as far as noise reduction goes. Neat Video can do miracles. ;)

Using "Moon Trial 3" on a commercial...first non-anamorphic I've shot since getting my first adapter, lol. Nikkor 35mm and ISO160.

Just got over to Maui and got a chance to view some dailies from the river ride the other day shot in MoonT5, pretty awesome projected at about 20' size...can't believe how sharp and rich the image is.

Did someone got the drewnet x to span on the 64gb 95mb/s sandisk card?

@johnnymossville Very cool. Like the colors. Would love to see the footage once edited.

Edit, my bad

Some screen grabs from random weekend footage with Moon Trial 5..Shot with Sigma 30mm 1.4 at one 1.4,can't remember which iso..I really like Moon,didn't have one hangup..Any noise issues clean up well with Neatvideo..Spanning not important for my type of shooting..A softening filter may come in handy because when I stopped the lens down to f2 & beyond the results where crazy sharp!!I mean at least on closeups of people with the Sigma..@driftwood great work once again.

Edit: on last grab I think that one had Neatvideo applied by mistake when I took the grab.

Real nice frame grabs @EYESOUL.

@driftwood Question sir, I just shot with Moon 5 using 720p60 and I'm getting bit rates down to 29mbps. I was under the impression that this setting was stabilized at 50mbps and higher. Should this be happening? I'm concerned for any grading I have to do in post at this point. I'm shooting tight shots, in bright sun with movement.

@EurekaENT Wow. When your facial features are in focus, it is so sharp! Do you think it result in a better 1080p (on youtube) than an actual 1080p version?

Thank you to @Bressonftw for talking to me about the iso bug that I didn't know about. After reading the corresponding topics in the forum, I learned to go down from the above third incremented iso setting (ex go first to 400 and then 320) to not have the bug (more grain and macro blocs).

I'm bringing this to this topic to see if it is my installation of DREWnet trial 7 that went wrong, if it is me not understanding the overcome of the bug, or if it is simply that the gh2's dynamic range doesn't allow to have blacks that dark.

So here is a video (boring as hell (less than 2 minutes) of 4 tests I have done. First, I went straight ahead for the problem. I started the camera at 160 and went up at 320. (it actually seemed better than the next tests) Secondly, I went to 400 and came back to 320. Thirdly, I actually selected the above iso (400) before coming back to iso 320 by pressing the iso button again. Fourthly, I cooled down the white balance in case the issue was the red channel. And finaly, I went to iso 160. And there was still black grain macro crap.

What do you guys think?

Thanks again for your feedback.

antoine27-> that's the way GH2 behaves:) it's no secret the camera is not a low-light monster. It needs decent illumination and when underexposed, without anything bright in frame, it outputs lots of noise, regardless of the patch you use. Well, it's my experience with it anyways :)

@Tifose Go with 'moon' Trial 5. :-)

@antoine27 Tryout DREWnet Trial 8 - it wont allow the bottom end (low detail scenes) to drop on the bitrate and may provide better shadow depth than Trial 7. Also keep an eye on lighting.

@vicharris Recording suns or very bright lights be careful of burnouts in the exposure. Expose correctly and shield the lens with Flags if you can. 720p60 moon is stabilised purely for iA modes. This has made it necessary to lower GOP Related settings to achieve stability. 720p60 should be tried out on Nebula as that is the latest version of 6 GOP 720p60, The next moon trial will probably integrate that setting into it but you can copy over the settings yourself.

@EYESOUL Looking good there mate :-)