Hi Vitaly! Just made a contrib... (you really need to add another option- after 7) We 'pros' have had enough time to settle down from FCPX, and now we want DMC-GHX! Seriously fantastic job! Just a question Vitaly... what sort of workflow will we need when working with the HDMI output... (just simple de-interlacing-or something more exotic)... I'm ordering the Ninja for this baby!

By the way Vitaly, if in any way replying to this post stops you from working on code- just don't do it, although, I have worked with professional coders- and you guys need to blow off steam now and again,... :-) (just don't hijack heavy machinery and race it down the road).

(btw: thinking of getting you a t-shirt)

Dear me I am not usually like this... mmm... HDMI... not F$%ked up by Panny, mmm...

@KrisCanonizado

No one can tell you that to do. :-)

@Frank

No, I don't have any ideas.

@leoj

I think better place for this info is in Zacuto EVF topic.

Hello.
Thanks again Vitaly for all your work (specially for the european standart...).
Just added a few $$, always glad to help people to break the rules!

I totally agree with VMEE! if you could fix the HDMI output to to 29.97 and/or 24p, that would be awesome! Right now, it outputs at 60i which isn't recognizable by WebEx. If you could correct that, I would happily be willing to pay you $200 for the solution. It would change my life!

Hi Vitaly,

Thank you for your continuing work on the GH2 hack. From what you've seen so far, how difficult will it be to correct the disturbed cadence of the HDMI output so we can get clean 24p out?

Do you feel the HDMI out fix is something we could expect in the first GH2 Hack release?

Thanks again.

I see that you've changed your last message Svart. But in general, I think the missing features when using HDMI, and also the lack of focus tracking during video, are much more likely to be processing power limitations.

> During my last shoot we even only had a HDMI cable with bad contact, everytime after pulling it out to check focus (in some scenes that was for every single take) we had to tweak the cable for many endless seconds to get it back to work

The manual is kind of unclear to me (might just be me).

Pg84 (USA): The MF Assist is disabled whe using the Digital Zoom or recording motion pictures.

Nothing about HDMI disabling MF Assist that I could find.

I don't know if this will work - and it's certainly not an ideal workaround - but what if you adjusted the program knob to one of the photo options (maybe C3) to check focus? I'm not sure if the focus will hold when you flip the knob back to film, but if it does, then at least you wouldn't have to remove the HDMI. Just an idea...

normal that my goal is to have 14-140 zoom giving
sometimes very few internal noises like a
click??

After using the GH2 on a real movie shoot over the last week, I'd say that the one thing that seems more useful than pretty much anything else is the ability to use the touch-zoom focus assist while an HDMI output is happening. I can't tell you how many times I pulled the HDMI cable out so I could use that feature, only to have to wait for a while for the HDMI to sync back up.

I didn't really even notice codec problems and we shot primarily in gardens and woodlands.

Can't wait. Any chance your hack could add IR based auto focus? Just kidding. :)

>Any news when the first patch is due

What do you mean?
Testing of the first patches is in the past, actually.

>What else can we expect in this release other than language patch?

I'll hope to tell this after weekend.

> Any body know a way to reduce the number of days in June
> so July will get here faster?

Perhaps, INcreasing the hack GOP will have a similar effect. GOP = Group of people, working on the hack.

Any body know a way to reduce the number of days in June so July will get here faster? Just kidding. Keep up the great work Vitaliy!