anyone have the first release of the v1.1 PAL firmware with the 30 min limit removed and confirmed? if so could you please upload..

Also can i ask as i am new to this, I mainly use my GH2 camera for pictures not video. does the hack benifit that at all or just video? and if i was to shoot video i doubt i would need it for HD movies, if anything possibly an advert or documentry or just backgrounds for green screen. so would i need to use the hack or just leave it standard firmware?

cheers.

RickD

Many thanks for your reply, its helped a lot. thanks

no - with 1.1 you are back to the original way the camera worked. But when the hack for 1.1 comes out, it will allow you to shoot in PAL with 1.1.

yes. i forget exactly how to set to PAL because i have not done it, but it appears in one of the menus. i know you should reformat your card before or after doing it to clear NTSC footage. AFAIK VK's plan is to make everything available in the 1.1 hack that was in the 1.0 hack.

The PAL / NTSC switch does not only affect video output, but also the general mode the cam is running. (50 or 60 FPS). If you switch PAL/NTSC the option in Ptools on you can decide which mode you want to use. Just make sure that you reformat the card before recording. The you can use a cam that was bought as PAL in NTSC modes and visa versa. (Somehow got the feeling that you knew that and we have some misunderstandings here.. wrote it anyway so new people do not get confused.)

@Meierhans its the manual who says that, i just repeating it. by that i mean the unhacked camera
when i set the gh2 with ntsc, and then format my card to ntsc, it still only wants to record 50p, there just that error message, even when setting all things correct in ptools, i have put that question in http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/443/basic-and-beginner-questions i get that error with the 1.0 hacked as the 1.1 firmware
@valdi99, setting video out to pal or ntsc is just for streaming from the gh2 to a pal or ntsc tv, so says the manual
http://tda.panasonic-europe-service.com/docs/2z4f227b39z3z2fb23z656ez706466z23za1967c0db1f16ace82bc58d9f3d18b622a615fb2/tsn2/data/ALL/DMCGH2HEB/OI/846855/vqt3a48.pdf

Yes there was a misunderstanding here because i loaded the firmware 1.1 and found out that PAL/NTSC(50i/60i) can't be switched without hack. So i went back and loaded quantum50 and now i can switch again. Now i just hope that 50i is stable with quantum50 and i can't wait like every other pal users that's doesn't own a pal camera to have 25p!

If i am correct, de video out sets the hdmi out to 50hz or 60 for ntsc.
i have a cheap qmedia cam here it shoot in 720p 60fps. there is a option for ntsc or pal, even when choosing pal, it keeps recording in 60fps, so i think for the gh2 its exactly the same, for sofar i can understand it all, i am still talking abouth the UNhacked gh2 v1.0 or 1.1

@Meierhans - I've been using Firmware 1.1 because it gives me 25p - in the mean time, patiently waiting for Vitaly's new hack.

@mozes

Interpolating does more to degrade the footage than the hack could ever help. If your eyes saw the v1.1 footage "its not the same anymore ...".

I have a feeling that the new V1.1 Ptool will be the most significant improvement we have seen for the GH2 in a long tim. I can't wait to use it.

Not rushing VK though. I know he is working hard on it and we all appreciate his efforts.

There aint that much more that VK can squeeze out of this camera. reality check.