I'm finding Moon T5 to be a bit too sharp. Anyone else finding this? My profile is Smooth -2,-2,-2,-2 Mostly using Nikon Ais primes and zooms and Tokina zooms.

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In my testing, I did find some quality improvements between Apocalypse Now DREWnet (my former patch) and Moon Trial 5 (my current).

@smsjr @brudney I hope upcoming Moon v7 is will be even sharper, showing as much details as it is possible.

Moon T5 is still a bit too soft. I hope T7 will be sharper.

Soft?!.. You gotta be kidding. I've actually applied a 1 or 2% gaussian blur to track mattes (if not the whole area) in parts if my edits to soften the look and feel. (No... I don't by any means think moon T5 is too sharp. It's absolutely perfect in my humble opinion.) I cant even imagine a sharper T5. To quote another PV member, "I feel like I've taken crazy pills here!" But yes, to each his own.

@brudney @haarec @botha I may roll back to Moon Trial 3 or another hack. Although the detail is great on certain shots, on others such as wider shots with trees and even a crocodile I was filming in a closeup, there seemed to be some ringing of edges. I had to soften those shots. Keep in mind I am looking at these shots via HD-SDI to a higher end broadcast monitor that has been professionally calibrated. Computer monitors or TVs may be showing different results. On some shots T5 seems really great though.

@htf go with sandisk 64G/95MB/s. I have found that this provides the most flexibility when experimenting with hacks. It's the one area I always advise to not cheap out on and that goes for any camera. With RED a 64GB SSD will run you $725 but it does work reliably. So this Sandisk card at $100 seems like a bargain for reliability it offers. The Sandisk 16GB/30MB/s cards were solid as well although certain hacks had issues with those too.

@htf in addition to reliability, I prefer 64G/95MBs due to fast file transfer time. On most of my PCs and Macs transferring 64GB from 95MBs card takes only about 10 minutes, where as 30MBs takes more than 30 minutes.

Has anyone had problems with writing speed with Moon T5? I have two cards a Sansdisk Extreme 45MB/s and a Patriot EP SDXC card. I am able to run it in 24L without issue, but not 24H. Actually, when it works in 24H it works well. Even plays back in cam. Getting it to run consistently is a problem. It will sometimes just stop mid recording on 24H citing write speed.

Background: No problems with Flowmotion 2.02 in either 24p mode.

Is there a way to lower the bit rate ceiling?

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@tuananhsym what capacity did you use? 32? 64?

To all the others: thanks for your replies! Think I'm gonna go for the 45mb ones first, if they don't work properly with moon t5 I'll use Flowmotion instead. Just can't afford 95mb/s atm.

Hello everyone, I am really enjoying moon t5, getting some very cool images on 24H, but can make 720 work, even on my extreme pro cards. I keep getting stop for writing speed of the card. I need to shoot some stuff for a theater play that needs to look like TV, which patch you think will be the most suitable for that? I am planing to use T5 for other parts of the videos for this play...thank you in advance.

@xavieramelio Just did a test: 720p 60 SH, 64GB 95Mb/s Card, Moon T5

I don't get the "writing speed" error but my files do stop recording right at 15 Minutes. 15:00:95 on one and 15:01:00 on the other. So no spanning. Both files are also right at 3GBs

I wonder how detailed your scenes were when you get the writing speed error. Low light, less detail scenes write at a lower bit rate. At least that's my experience.