@treibholtz

I just watched your Rosidonia Oceanica. What a great documentary! Super good job! Everybody should see this.

Sakura of the last day bloom in Yokohama

hack Sanity5.1 set change 66M auto iris SS 50 smooth -2 +1 +1 -2 Lens 14-140 All handy shooting

i love its Sanity THX you Ralph_B ^^)

@chuyenpham

You've got a good eye. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for the dream quality of Sanity 5.1.

I just hacked my GH2 for the very first time using Sanity 5.1 on a Sandisk Extreme UHS-1 45MB/s 16GB and 32GB. It works flawlessly. I still have to play with it to unleash it's full potential.

Question: The bitrate by default for 24H is at 38(?)mbits, but the suggested is 42mbits; should I modify the hack to that mbit to really benefit from the hack or will the default bitrate be fine? Right now, I can already tell the default Sanity 5.1 quality has improved from the stock firmware.

Thank you again, @Ralph_B!

Hi Ralph,

Can you show me the up to date sanity hack for my GH2 for PAL. Also do you have a list of the options once hacked ie which selection gives me:

1. 25p
2. 50i etc etc

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks Rosco

@Ralph_B

Thank you again for this manageable hack! I took it during a camping trip with my friends. This is my first ever hacked GH2 video, mixed with some iPhone 5 and GoPro Hero 1 shots:

@rosco

Here is a link to download Sanity 5.1.

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/uploads/FileUpload/19/eb64fb10b3643c004f3651a4d02fcb.zip

As for instructions on how to install the hack, here's a link to an external site with a very good tutorial:

http://www.sam-mallery.com/2011/11/an-ez-guide-to-hacking-the-panasonic-gh2/

Enjoy!

Just installed your hack and running the camera in 24H <80% seems it be working on Sandisk 30mbs 16gb cards. Going to let the card fill up. Can you recommend a good card for me. Thanks Ross

Here's the deal with cards - Sanity 5.1 and Sanity X work fine with good quality class 10 cards, like the Sandisk 30M. The only limitation is spanning will not work in certain modes. (read the patch notes for details) If you use a faster card, spanning will work in all modes.

So, if spanning is important to you, get a faster card. If not, the Sandisk 30M is fine.

The patch notes are in the ini file that you downloaded. To view them, open ptools and load the bin file (which is Panasonic's original firmware). Across the bottom of the window are a row of circles labeled A - J. Shift-Click on any green circle and you'll see the patch notes in the top field. Click in that field to get a blinking cursor, then use the up & down arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll through the text. Press "Cancel operation" to exit.

Report that I had shot totally 4 days of ballet comptition in the past month with Sanity 5.1 without any problem. Two GH2 shot over 10 hours each day with 1080 60i FH mode and six 64Gb Toshiba green cards. I edited multicams by Premiere Pro CC and converted to 720 59.94P. Finally the video is denoise by Neat video and both the quality and motion are great.

Ta sir Sanity used for 90 hours of footage shot and taken by major terrestrial UK prod company for broadcast on terrestrial UK TV with stock 14-42 lens and 100-300 with view for selling series into US etc territory & resales. Looks great and without Vitaly et al help wouldn't have been possible to shoot so stealthily with GH2 and squeeze it past the QC ;p. Shooting next terrestrial pitch and prob broadcast purchase again next week with ... GH2 it aint broke don't fix it - BBC ITV Channel 4 and 5 SKY and Discovery quite happy with what was shot on the first doc - even had a bit of bidding war - content>gear sorry Valdermort - oh and did MUSE's live Rome DVD in 4k and was a fkin right old palaver so not trying to reinvent the wheel - been there done it nowt new. Viva Gh2 lol love it.