cool, unfortunately I cant go windows :/ but does 5dtoRGB work with mac?

@Perrywilson yep http://rarevision.com/5dtorgb/ dunno if it works with GOP1 now, or if the problem was related to the rogue P-Frame thats gone now. Anyone ?

@PerryWilson Go get'em, let me know when you post samples.. Not sure if GOP1 works with 5dtoRGB yet gonna check for you alright..

LOL, I did a shot of trees a couple days ago with 44mb. I really want to try this new Intra. Is there one location we can find all the info and instructions? Thanks guys!

@sohus Very cool. Thanks for testing.

@bkmcwd Yeah, in lowlight at AQ2 it is perfect as it is. The shot my SD cards couldn't handle was a bit extreme, the wind was gusting here at about 40 mph today so the trees were moving a lot. I would have liked to try a few more normal and less stressful outdoor tests but I couldn't as I had to go out and shoot something else so I had to take a solid patch with me that I know well. You know people say the extreme pro sandisks have a write speed of only 15-20mbps on the GH2 ? The camera doesn't apparently work well with UHS-I cards (maybe this will change with Panasonics promised firmware update, but I doubt it as the stock settings don't need a higher bitrate). I don't actually have any of the older Extreme III cards that the camera can apparently write to at 20Mbps+. We really need someone with that kind of card to give the patch a test that hits similar rates and frame size. But saying that, they're really hard to get hold of cards now, I don't think Sandisk still make them.

I need to dig out my older 16GB Sandisk Extreme III 30MB/s SDHC card. I forgot I still had this card. I used it in my EX1 camera where I used a PCI to SDHC adapter.
Why the heck diid Sandisk discontinue this great card?

Hello driftwood, you are doing a great work really! I tried your last settings (720p50 GOP1 V2) they looks very good for me but they aren't really stable.
Thanx for all your great efforts!

Thanks Nick.
Man, I'm waiting to see where you go with high bitrate 3GOP. Of course, like yourself (and MANY others), I'm a fan of intraframe. There's something about long gop that adds that additional smoothing that bothers me.

Based on many here, my goal (and yours I'm sure! ,lol) is to find the lowest GOP (ideally GOP1), that can hit the top limits of i-frame ~1.1MB and have the largest i-frames under the same repeatable low light condition.

@bardamu Sandisk extreme 30mbs?

Did you try to film with these settings in real life?

@bardamu yes of course! However, Im using 45mbs cards. But Im still trying to improve 720/50p for 30mbs