I'm a big fan of S5.1 and used it many times without any issues. Thought I'd try SX for a specialist shoot- and started getting camera freezes and complaints about card speed (Sandisk 32gb 45mb/s). Fortunately it was only testing, not the actual client shoot. We were filming under special lighting conditions that allow changing light frequencies across the whole RGB spectrum. Could this have been a factor? Have tried to jam the camera running sx filming normal exteriors and interiors but it seems ok. We will continue testing under the lab conditions with s5.1 and sx but was interested in your opinion. I know the San 32/45 card has had issues in past but they've always been fine for us - until now. So is it sx, is it the card or is it the extreme lighting conditions? I'll let you know if we find anything conclusive.

@Ralph_B Hy, I had download sanity X in my GH2. Last with Sanity 3 I had 4 hours left, now with Sanity X (+ Pasadena) I have 6 hours. Is it OK?

thank you for your reply ralph. is sanity x better than cake 2.3 in your humble opinion. does it look better in 720p. not trying to start a war with you mad scientists lol but tell me is it better?

Hi Ralph. Im comparing your sanity x patch to cake 2.3. Im getting higher bit rates with sanity x but Im also getting more record time with it as well. Using gh2 720p sh. using same scenes with both patches. any insight?

Hi,

I have to film a theater show. I want to use my GH2 in one long shot, in program "P", Iso 2000, in autofocus, with a sd card 64go 90MB and in HBR. Do you think that it will span well? If not, wich hack do you advise me? Thanks

Here's some documentation shot in Sanity X 24H mode. I compiled the shots in a rush, no post-processing whatsoever has been done. Lots of shadows/darks, gradients and blown highlights for you to check.

Projectors are DLP's, hence the color banding and flickering.

Lens is PanaLeica 25mm.

I thought I had faith in Sandisk, but there you have it. You can't assume anything in this business.

@matthieusan

Try a different card. I know that sounds heartless, but it's the only practical thing to do. People don't understand that the performance of SD cards is not always what it seems. Here's an example of a Sandisk 64GB 80M card.

Wow! That's scary, huh? Look at those momentary dips. If you happened to hit a valley like that while recording, you could very well get a write error.

Sanity X is stable. SD cards are not.

@RobShaver

The best place to look is the official website: http://perlichtman.com/pasdenapulse/wordpress/2012/03/14/panasonic-gh2-audio-settings-file-pasadena-pulse-audio-v2-beta-2/

@Axier

If Sanity X DOESN'T have Pasadena (@Ralph_B is this true?) then yes, I would recommend Pasadena. I use Pasadena because without it the steps between the audio level settings are too great. One is too quiet, the other is too loud. Pasadena evens it out a bit.

Cheers,

@dtr

Fantastic! That's a serious torture test. ETC mode is much more taxing on the codec than normal mode.

@cblok thanks for the procedure to combine both Sanity and Pasadena. I've found Sanity 5.1 and Sanity X but Pasadena eludes me. Can you or someone tell me where to find the Pasadena ini file?

Thanks.

Thanks cblok. Acemans method earlier in thread works too. Open the the Sanity ini in notepad and paste the Pasedena where Aceman said

I'm excited to give your new patch a try @Ralph_B Thank you very much!