@dado023 Tried that a while back. Camera advised wrong format so I chickened out & reformatted in camera. Your experience any different or did you ignore warning and record to card?

@callan
everything went fine, no such warning, i always form sdcard in my GH2, and GH2 automatically formats my sdcard in exFAT.....i think sdcard has rom or something that instructions host device how to handle the card......anyhow my sdcard in formated in exFAT, that is why i am puzzled with "spanning" since it doesn't make any sense on exFAT system when it supports files larger than 4GB

Shot this with Moon T6 a few days ago. My footage seems to be at 160 mbts. I didn't think it would get higher than 100. And I needed a wider angle so I ended up using the stock 14-42 lens.

Something is wrong here...

@driftwood Hi! I've been using IV2 setting for a while now, because of the "444 style" color encoding it provides for grading. So, does this new GOP1 "moon" candidate (updated 20/05/2013) provide advantage over IV2 as "top grading" quality setting? what are the key differences between those two settings?

I think I need to redo my latest round of testing. I started the process using Moon 5, and then switched to Moon 6a half way through so I'd be able to perform a direct comparison. I think something went wrong, though. The footage was incredibly noisy, far more than I'd expect for 200 ISO. I went back into some other Moon 5 footage at low ISO and didn't see anywhere near this amount of noise. I just don't have a clue what would have caused the problem. The camera was powered up at ISO 200 and stayed there for the testing, so the ISO bug seems an unlikely candidate. I'd upload a sample, but my preferred file sharing site isn't working at the moment.

The other issue I noticed was a purple fringing around some leaves. This happened in only one series of shots later in the test using Trial 6. I don't know if this is just a fluke with Trial 6, or possibly some chromatic aberration in the lens. I've circled the artifacts in this PNG frame grab (right side). They become much more noticeable at higher than 100% magnification.

@GravitateMediaGroup t6 looking nice!

@danielortegajan nice dof and colors!

@maddog15 72 intra on gh3 is not the best. Try 50 Mb/s ipb instead.

UPDATE NEWS: Cluster X REDshift updated to 1b

Cluster X 'REDshift'Version 1b (Released 29/05/2013)

A classic 12/15 Long GOP combination designed for longer recording times and lower bitrates whilst offering superior quantisation over stock settings and for most pictures. Passes death charts needs checking for spanning. Should work on most cards. Version 1 has been adjusted slightly for a Q16 rate control and 720p modes tweaked: now footage should playback in-camera for all modes. The result is v1b.

Spanning should work fine on the Low settings. The High settings may not. REDshift v2 (coming soon) aims to get spanning working reliably on the High settings.

Drawn from its big brother DREWnet, REDshift offers;-

• 1080p24 50Mbps sustained on detailed shots

• 1080i60/HBR30p = 38-40Mbps sustained on most shots.

• 1080i50/HBR25p = 40Mbps sustained on most shots.

• 720p50/60 = 40-45Mbps sustained on most detail shots.

The update is available on page 1 under the REDshift comment.

@driftwood

one quick question regarding video quality with RedShift.

In version redshift 1 says:
All QP10 plus iA modes appear to work

In version redshift 1b says:
All QP16 with incam playback plus iA modes appear to work

So the only difference i see here is QP10 vs QP16, right?, well isn't it much better to go with QP10 setting, and forget 1b version, ....i am not sure what exactly is the distinctive point here...maybe dynamic vs static scene? or something else?

tnx in advance