@shian, any other way beside paypal I can send you the money to get on this deal?

@stonebat Any news on Creative Suite 6 release date from Adobe? 3Q of 2012?

@MarkV, @Stonebat:

I believe v6 will be at least announced and demoed at NAB. They have a 0.5 upg plan each year for NAB last i heard. I think we'll see the pricing and everything in April. I'm looking forward to Speedgrade and other features. I really like what Shian is doing for the GH2 and his support/education makes it a no-brainer.

Thanks, Johnny. It's the first time i didn't edit to music, just slapped something on at the end that happened to work really well.

No reason CGT shouldn't work with CS6, most of the GHears were built in CS3, they've evolved over the years, but have always worked going forward. If not, I'll just make new ones.

CGT tutorials will expand to cover SpeedGrade when it is released, and we'll have to see just how Adobe's release is configured, but if they leave it alone for the most part, there will be a whole new toolkit for SpeedGrade almost as it's released, if not...soon after. Also development has begun on versions for Resolve, and FCPX - no ETA on completion... it will be a while, but work has begun. FCPX version doesn't look very promising, but I'm just now getting into it. At the very least there will be tutorials on how to get the most out of it - grading-wise.

And then of course there's the Film School, which I'm hard at work creating content for and shooting Tutorials, no ETA on it's release either. (being a one stop shop is time consuming...lol) but thank you for your continued support.

Cool. Do you use a mouse at all? Or are you a trackpad person?

I was watching iPen for iPad.

Maybe later this year... PhotoShop/AfterEffects masking using pressure sensitive tablet or stylus :)

Looks really good Shian. Especially the lowlight. Those Nikkor lenses are incredible. I am starting to get used to using the GHears. Still have a ways to go but i reallly like them so far. CineGHamma and Spectral effects are great. Will share later. It already looks better then my previous grading.

GHrain Killer tutorial will hopefully be done next week. I'm in the middle of shooting yet another short. (Still frame below) Using Quantum v9b, graded with CGT using Shadow Lift, CineGhamma, and ColorFist.

Oops forgot to include settings:

Pancake 20mm @ f.2.5, ISO200, Shutter 1/50th, Smooth -2,0,0,-2

The actor is Robert Joy (CSI:NY, Land of the Dead, AVP-R) Who was also in my award winning film "Singularity". He is teh awesome!

@RJH He is indeed. Bob is one of the coolest guys I know. I love working with him.

@atticusd I've never seen any horizontal banding on my camera... ever. You might have a bad sensor. It happens. I got an email the other day from someone who had to send their camera back twice till they got one without that defect. It is not to my knowledge an acceptable part of owning a GH2, but a defect in manufacturing that needs to be addressed by sending the camera in for warranty work.

Of course I've never shot anything but 24p.

OK, that explains it. I never shoot 1600 unless I absolutely have to, and NEVER shoot above 1600, not even on the RED M-X which is a native ISO800 camera. EVER. In any narrative film, one with a script and a story, If I HAVE to shoot above 1600 ISO, then I have done something seriously wrong.

Now none of what follows is intended to be condescending or demeaning in anyway. We are all here to learn. (I learn something new here everyday.)

If I were to gather every member of both the ASC and the BSC together in a room, and say, "You are the people responsible for filming nearly every film we've seen in theaters in the past 40 years. How many of you have ever shot on 3200 speed color film?" I'm sure nearly every one of them would raise their hands. If I followed that question with: "Now, how many of you have ever shot 3200 speed color film on a deliverable project?" (A feature film, music video, or commercial) Not only would no one raise their hand, I would likely receive the comment, "We'd like to keep our careers."

The ISO removal feature is a nice thing to have, but just because one can do a thing, doesn't mean one must do a thing. I used the ISO removal feature once to shoot a B&W documentary style piece for a friend's band playing in a nightclub and I needed to have a zoom lens, and so I took the kit lens which is a lowly 3.5-5.6, and was shot at 12800, using the first B&W setting. The footage was grainy, but it was a nice grain, but reminded me of some of the old documentary footage I have seen over the years. No noticeable banding. Probably because it was B&W.

But that is an extreme condition. Most of us that are working DPs, only work in extreme conditions rarely. And that is why most documentaries that need to be shot in nightclubs or comedy clubs are shot in B&W, because like the rods in our our eyes, B&W works better in the dark. There is a reason News Cameras have lights mounted on them, as do documentary film cameras. If shooting in the dark is your chosen canvas, get one, and learn to love B&W.

The GH2 is not the camera to smash boundaries with its ability to see in the dark, but it is a fantastic camera for those who will be lighting their scenes for narrative features or shorts.

Now, that being said, I will look into finding a fix for the issue. but it doesn't look promising, considering the nature of the issue.

@shian I completely agree with everything you've said there. It's just that the camera performs incredibly good at high ISO for its price range. It's a trick in the hat that's just nice to know you have in case an extreme situation comes up but with the band issue we can't rely on it. In any case, thanks a lot for taking the time to answer and for trying to fix it. Have a great weekend!

@RJH Not as of yet. It's still being invited to screen at festivals worldwide. I figured I'd give it till the requests slow down, or till someone finally decides to make the feature version. But since it is relevant to ColorGHear, as it was the probably the project that solidified most of what is in CGT I may as well share so peeps know to what you are referring:

Shot with Panasonic HVX200, redrock adapter, and the same lenses I use now on my GH2, sans the Panasonic Lenses as they were not invented yet, and graded using a primitive version of CGT.