@driftwood How will Cluster V9 Boom differ from Apoc Now Boom. I'm using AN Boom v1 and love it, so I'm curious to what the goal for Cluster V9 Boom will be. (BTW AN Boom v1 has been perfect over 100's of shots. No errors ever. I use 24P. I once got an error "file limit number exceeded", but I think that was because I was using the Sandisk 64GB/95 Mbps SD card and failed to record a short clip before shutting down.) Thanks for your great work.

@matt_gh2. I believe Cluster series are longer GOPs (6, 12/15) as opposed to Intra GOP1 with AN Boom1.

@griplimited. would be interested in your opinion about IV and how it stacks up against FM? In terms of quality as well as size.

@aashay you might also want to try the valkyrie settings by bkmcwd, they are excellent and gop3 aswell, like FM. I like Intra Venus 1 a lot and use it a lot these days. Its not as reliable though as FM or Valkyrie. For wider high detail shots or lots of action and panning you get to change the Qs in pttools though or use another setting. If i was just able to use one setting i would probably choose valkyrie, due to its stability and nice characteristics. If its close to medium shots, IntraVenus is maybe the best there is...have not tried lowrider though...

Valkyrie hasn't changed much in recent versions regarding 24p, bkmcwd has just made the settings for higher frame rates more conservative to improve reliability there.

@aashay: go for the latest version. bkmcwd provides us with constant updates, so its always best to go for the latest one.

@onionbrain Andrew, Ive just been out and got Cluster X 24p using Dynamic (the other profiles seemed to pass fine) to fail on a dense park: trees/bushes/ very busy scene. So I am aware I may trim back the frame limit ever so slightly (as its quite high) :-) Apart from that most pictures code at Q16 throughout the whole picture - better than anything before it. Its coming along but I need your feedback.

UPDATE: Updated 1080p24 Frame Limit to 8808080 in the battle against freezes - see new sete.ini attached. Pic below has been set to new frame limit and seems fine.

Warning: This is HIGH bitrate Long GOP which translates to Intra equivalent at around 250+Mbps.

@driftwood

I just got back and just saw the update. I'll make those changes and take it back out on the test range tomorrow morning.

My initial reaction is extremely positive. Extremely positive.

I've got a few random notes I'll send by PM.

I'm new to the forums, and new to hacking in general, and my first hack was the Driftwood Cluster V6. By chance I tried out the .mov settings and was shocked to get 100 Mbps 2K video. Wow.

But the audio is 16-bit 16k? Is this reported (by QuickTime Player) properly? It also does not span. It stops at around 2 minutes/ 1.8 GB on the card. Is this a limitation of .mov and there's no hope of getting longer videos in this 2k mode?

I'm especially jazzed about 2k as it allows me to use non-stabilized primes and other creative lenses, stabilize in post, then zoom in to the image to hide the edges- and still have a full HD image.

But I need the in-camera audio to be a lot better.

@Zaven13 Early days :-) Try not zooming and just get a picture and tell me what you think.

@driftwood. Image quality is very good in all modes. Streamparser numbers are good too for frame rates. Comparable to CL7 Nebula in 24P but not as high for non-24P.

Yea, MJPEG. It looks nice to me (I'm not really pixel peeping). But more importantly, it plays a lot nicer with my older edit machine than AVCHD does. Even when it has to be resized to 94% to fit in the frame, I can scrub it easily on my Core 2 Duo machine. Saves me from having to spend a several grand on a new i7, with a new nVidia card, new CS6 suite, big power supply, etc, etc. just to edit AVCHD as nicely as MJPEG, or HDV for that matter.

But the audio quality sucks eggs.