five files seperately. what do you mean by spanned files? when i record more than 30minutes they will be spanned or what? i thought there is no limit now? :)

@brudney try the same manouevre on stock settings and report. Thanks.

@testor the ISO display bug is well documented in the new PTools- disregard- it has no impact. The other issues could be caused by a slow card?? What card are you using? We should all really be aiming for the Sandisk 32 gig HD Video. (The current benchmark SD Card)

Gorgeous settings Driftwood! Thank you! I'm using SeAQuake a lot (sandisk 16gb 30mb/s) and all is great until I start doing quick pans, the bitrate drops significantly, which results in a grey frame...:/

edit: OK, I get it, it happens in highly over-exposed situations. Stand next to a window, boost iso or open wide so that it's seriously blown out, and start turning around. When I do that, everytime I pass the window I get a dropout and the bitrate goes down.
The grey frame is a VLC's thing, it inserts such a frame when the dropout occurs, while WMP just holds the previous one.

@driftwood
About your "thousands of tests", if the number of frame limits is seen, imagination can be done simply. ;-)
Although I have also done thousands of tests, I cannot do putting finely like you.

BTW,I stick my newest economical patch "with Driftwood Tune".

UPDATE:
http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/30743#Comment_30743

Samples are here

@balazer With 3 hacked GH2s I do thousands of tests... testing: Specific numbers - moving small increments at a time, they are close to as possible as I can get without producing buffer underuns/overruns. Go ahead and round them up if you like but dont push it too far or you will get instability (believe me). Spreadsheet your tests, and dont lose track - it saves time.
You have to keep the L close to the H Ive found. The H settings just give that more headroom for safety reasons. Again, one test at a time. Go ahead and see what happens when you start making greater 'distances'. AQ4 will fail at 6100808. Try it.
Experimenting with the encoder settings gives us INTRA & largely improved QP - Ive gone down from the defaults a stage at a time - many of the encoder settings will disable recordings (try it ;-)) so BE CAREFUL.
24p vid buffer at 3600000 is rock solid on Elecard buffer analysis. Frame buffer 2 incresase the margins for the frame sizes.
There's a certain ceiling for 60fps which no matter what you do refuses to go higher on 720p at low GOPs without a fail.

Wow, a life times work has just been passed on in seconds!!!!! Happy testing mate.

PS If youre thinking of testing yourself, search thru the history of the LOW GOP threads. Search for frame buffers, Encoder settings (though theres edits to be made & more to be filled in because we've come along way since then) etc... etc.. ;-) etc... etc... Just remember this, this is a VBR codec, the way it handles bitrates means there really is no set pattern or multipliers - but it can get you close.

@driftwood, would you care to share with us your reasons for setting the various patch parameters the way you have? Or if there are explanations somewhere else, please let me know. In particular:

Why do you choose such specific numbers for the frame limits, like 6100808 instead of round numbers?

Why do you set the low bit rate just above the frame limit * frame rate, and then set the high bit rate another 15 or so Mbps above that? From my testing, if the frame limit * frame rate is somewhat close to the bit rate setting, the bit rate setting doesn't even matter - H and L end up recording at the same rate.

How do you decide what bit rate is too high for AQ3, and why wouldn't you use AQ4?

What are the meanings of encoder settings 2-4? Do you think these need to be changed for different bit rates?

Why did you stop using Video buffer? How did you decide to set the 24p video buffer? What's FB2?


Thanks again for your hard work and excellent contributions.

AQuamotion v2 and SPANmyBITCHup were left max iso off - here's the same patches with it switched on. :-)

Here's all three with MAX ISO = ON

Nick

@proaudio4 make sure you share your filming of this weekends rogerings!

:-P

Thanks driftwood for your patches!!! The higher iso settings are greyed out beyond 3200 in SeAQuake. Any idea how to use the higher iso's ?

@TrackZillas enjoy seaquake - its very nice. AQuamotion v2 and SPANmyBITCHup are for the span fans - seaquake is for best quality FILMic recording.
AQuamotion v2 & spanmybitchup will also give you EX Tele mode and 80% slowdown recordings whilst spanning.

@driftwood you don't stop uuh!!! great work mate gonna be trying out your new SeAquake tonight cheers..