@denbur, which version of the hack would you recommend?

The hack "Simple30" worked ok in the deathcharts video in HBR and in SH with kit lens with all features in manual mode and ois disabled.

This hack "Simple30" is best suited for situations like fiction where you can repeat the scene in case the camera crashes. It is not suitable for events such as weddings where you cannot repeat the scene.

The main tip is: if you are in a quiet scene without movements you can use all automatic features and also ois lens stabilization. When you are in a situation with lots of camera movements or lots of movements inside the scene action then use all features in manual mode and try ois stabilization on or off.

The main goal of the "Simple30" hack is to get the best possible HBR 30p so the camera operator needs to deal with the automatic/manual features to avoid camera freeze, this way this hack can keep a great quality using 36Mbps.

When the camera freezes I just remove the battery and insert it again and the file is corrupted. But the files recorded before and after the corrupted file in the same card are usable in my tests.

A second version called "Simple30L" (L=low) was developed to use ois lens stabilization in HBR 30p. It is 24H, HBR, FSH, SH = 32Mbps/24L, FH, H = 28Mbps. It works ok in the deathchart video in HBR 30p with OIS enabled and other features in manual mode.

I will keep the "Simple30L" in my GH2 because HBR 30p quality is pretty good and it is stable enough. Also MJPEG 30p is good. SH 720p 60p is good enough for slow motion. TheEndNR4 is better for 24p and 60p but I will go with 30p, so 24p is not important now, and "Simple30L" is good enough in 60p.

@jhamiis you just need to go to this post http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/239147#Comment_239147 (GH2 Bundle 08-27-2017) and after download the patch load the setj in ptools

I did a try to increase the datarate of HBR but the câmera freeze in some situations. I compared the footage in 49mbps and 61mbps but both havê less details in shadow compared to 24p and mjpeg. It seems that the encoding does some kind of noise reduction in HBR because in ISO 2000 it does not show noise. The bad is less details, the good is a clean imagem. Só It does not worth the effort to increase the datarate because it does not change the look.

Panasonic GH2 30p

GH2 TheEndNR4 Stable Hack
30p four methods compared
No Grading

1 - SH 720p60 inside 30p timeline
upscaled to FHD with GPUResize plugin (Kaiser + StairStep)
Good results without significant aliasing using GPUresize
less resolution compared to the other methods

2 - MJPEG 30p hacked to Full HD
Great results without significant aliasing
More resolution compared to SH
A little less resolution compared to VMM 80%, 24p and HBR
Can intercut pretty good with 720p60 upscaled when using SH for slow motion

3 - Variable Movie Mode (VMM) 80% conformed to 30p
Excelent fine resolution
same quality as 24p, 24H or 24L
A little more aliasing compared to MJPEG
No sound, need to use sound sync with external recording

4 - HBR 30p High Bit Rate
Same resolution as VMM and 24p, 24H and 24L
Same aliasing as VMM and 24p, 24H and 24L
A little less details in shadow areas compared to VMM 80%, 24p and MJPEG
Need to interpret as progressive before put in progressive timeline to avoid aliasing increase
Some people say HBR is full of heavy and ugly aliasing, but after conform to progressive the problem is solved

NeatVideo4 DeNoise Presets and Profiles for GH2 MJPEG 30p FullHD Recording Mode (Hacked) iso 5000 and above up to 12800

@MrZz waiting to read about your conclusions using The End NR4. Thanks.

NeatVideo denoise presets and profiles for Extended Tele Conversion mode, 1080p and 720p:

@apefos Thanks for a great collection.

These two patches in this post are special made for PAL. A version with higher datarate gop3 for 25p, and a version with lower datarate gop6 for 25p. Everything is the same as Stable and Intra-MS versions, only changes the gop for 25p.

The GH2 uses the same gop for 24p and 25p. So when we want 24p to be intra, the 25p become intra also, but it is not desirable because the datarate in 25p is lower than 24p and not enough for intraframe. When we want 24p to be gop3, the 25p become gop3 also, but it is not desirable because the datarate in 25p is lower than 24p and not enough for gop3. So these two patches changes the gop for 25p in an attempt to get a better PAL HBR quality, but the drawback is: 24p gop is not ideal, so use these two patches only if you need 25p HBR.

In both versions 720p50 is gop5.

I did not test these patches in the GH2, I just changed the gop, so do your own tests.

(In The End NR4 topic there is a gop2 pal version, it can be a good sweet spot for 24p and pal in same patch.)

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/194073#Comment_194073

http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/194204#Comment_194204

I agree. When we are developing we think there is nothing else to do, but suddenly a new idea comes to the mind. This way we could call these patches as Never Ending instead of The End. But now I realy feel there is nothing else to do. So I will keep the name The End.

It is good to see someone are willing to test. Other patches are full of tests, feedbacks and footage, but here, each time I post something new, there are about 300 views, but no feedbacks...

This is a better 30p hbr, stable version, only changes the 30p and 60i for gop6.

This is the version I am using in my GH2.