Driftwood Quantum X Settings, Series 1: v3b Rocket - v4b Orion - v5 β Pictoris

Athiril

Mostly worked fine yesterday, except late at night in the city (HBR 25p) where on ISO 5000 it froze up at 1m 39s and lost the clip. Where as Seaquake, Q7, Q9b.. never had that prob on 24H.

Don't have time to upload right now, will have to wait till tonight.

jide

can't find the right thread to ask this question, so i'll do it here, since this is the hack i've been using:

is there a way to recover the recordings that "disappear" when the camera freezes and a "battery-pull" is required or when the third party batteries suddenly die? or are these shots lost forever? the mts-files are on the card but have only 0kb, although in some cases i had been recording for several minutes.

thanks j

rockroadpix

Nick Nick Nick!! You gotta slow down! I can't keep up. I literally just uploaded my Q v9b +4 test from the weekend! Love the work tho!

password; nickisdabomb

ignatius

@blackspot

This also happens to me when I view back in vlc directly off the gh2. Once files have been written to internal hard drive on my computer playback is fine, and also everything is fine transcoding to DNxHD/5dtoRGB etc

eyefi

@driftwood, Just tested QuantumX_v1 against QuantumX_v2 in the following modes: 24H, 24Hext, 25HBR, 25HBRext, 720p50, 720p50ext, and QuantumX_v2 also in MJPEG and MJPEGext. It all looks fine, i'll post soon the results. But: in QuantumX_v2 at 25HBR, it dropped frames. confirmed after export with 5dtorgb. details soon. Amazing quality by the way. thank you so much.

JPB1138

@blackspot

Same thing happened to me regarding Grey Frames/files... Once I injested them using 5dtoRGB they played back fine. So if you are converting, give it a try and see how that works!

blackspot

@driftwood Hi! I had a realworld test shoot (Rocket v2) today at a snowy winter scenery. Now I was checking the footage and there are gray/corrupted frames on some of the files (24H). I am posting a link to .mts file soon, if you need to analyze it. If you are familiar with this problem, then nevermind, but I havent seen it before(and it wasnt even cold -+0 temp. tested camera with severe -25c temp and working fine before.) So this might be a glitch in a patch, or my SD card. (SanDisk Extreme HD Video, 30mb/s class 10). I dont care about random freezes at the start of the record, but this worries me a little bit, if it corrupts files. :/ what do you think? Quality is phenomenal, though! 8)

Edit 6.45: Thank you, @JPB1138 and @ignatius! 8) PROBLEM SOLVED! All is good! ;) Corrupted frames occur only in VLC Player.

Heres a little clip, using (v2 Rocket) :)

davidhjlindberg

Great patch! I was only shooting in 1080 24p. The bitrates of these scenes was usually 60mbps, but one of the scenes went up to 99mbps.

This is just a very quick test. No grading or sharpening.

Password: driftwood

kodakmoment

@towi

I will give sanity another go tonight or tomorrow and post some screen shots. Thanks for the suggestion!

edgenumbers

This is all looking very promising for us 25p users. I really do appreciate your hard work. Thanks

But.... at the moment I can't do anything with the HBR footage. It won't wrap in clip wrap and I can't get a prores file that plays properly. I can get it to play in VLC and it looks amazing just can't work with it in my conventional work flows. Previously I have used 'Quantum100' **** (The AVC INTRA-100/50 rip patch) with great success and just conformed the files to 25p. Amazing GV's!!! Looking forward to updates and more testing.

Mark_the_Harp

How about "Orion, Span my Cake up"?

soundgh2

lol Nick you going to run out of version names soon ;p

mozes

Hell yhea, i just changed the settings 4 times today.
Just 2 more times to check, why not, batterie is full ;-)....
//edit, Its not full, just filling it now.
And to make sure that i have all the latest soft/firmware.
I downloaded the v1.1 form pana again, and the latest ptools.
And DELETED all off the "old" stuf what i did have on my Harddisk....so i dont get confused
Lets start a new and clean period off testing,

Kihlian

@driftwood WOW! keep us in suspense for days as is always xmas!

driftwood

NEW: *** UPDATE TO ROCKET - v3 and v4 (Orion) ABOUT TO BE RELEASED *** See Top of Page 1 shortly.

mozes

I am sorry forgot to tell that i was testing in 720p with tele2. in SH-mode
I use tele2 more then i want, its just most off the time i need it.
so the iso go's up, and most off the time the shutter is 1/320 or more..

i will do some more testing, i like the image that i get with Xv2

heyjoesilver

Thank you for the helpful advice, @driftwood, as well as for your work testing various different settings and sharing your results with all of us. I will try the hack with a different SD card. Incidentally, I am indeed using the most recent version of PTool.

mozes

Thank you @driftwood, that did the trick
// edit - update
Just for a few seconds, then comes the write limmitation error

driftwood

@mozes see above post - check you are running ptools 3.64d with 200212 along the top - this was released as a quick fix for B frames two days after the 18th Feb initial release.

driftwood

@heyjoesilver There's nothing wrong with your post, its just that some cards are graded differently despite them being the same Type 10. For example there's a lot of cheap cards which express themselves in the advertising as being Type 10 when they only measure up to type 6 or lower. Also some are just plain simple fakes. Like a lot of things in life, there is reason to why some products are guaranteed or live up to their high prices. But not all the time. Anyway, back to your problem. If the card doesnt work, try borrowing another (in shop demo cards) if you can and quickly test it. If it works... buy it. If you believe your current card is rock solid, check over the installation process - redownload v1.1 from panny, redownload ptools (which was updated again on the 20th - check the top of your ptools - if it says 1802 then its the previous implementation - it should say 200212 along the top of ptools. I hope you get sorted.

mozes

@Driftwood, last night all went without probs.
Today it was totally wrong. completely freeze the screen, the batterie have to be removed
The work around it is (just as you mention somewhere here on the site), when set the gh2 on, first shooting something in HBR.
After that i can switch to 720 without problems.
But i must do this, every time i switch the gh2 on.
Is it because of its 720p B frames?

I have switched the Encoder setting 1; 720 to 2
And it works again without any problem.

miza

What bitrate should I use on this hack to get resonable size of the files and still have some better quality than original? I film on 1080 25p and 720 50p. Tnx

heyjoesilver

"@heyjoe [sic]...Go to beginner section with this kind of issue....Get a sandisk 30mb sec card...There's just no way you should be running the hack with a topram card- too slow, too unreliable. Even for the low bitrate hacks."

@chauncy: Thanks...I guess. :/ What "kind of issue" would you consider this to be? I genuinely thought the developer would be interested to know that his hack completely fails to work on my camera and SD card. Is it documented somewhere that the hack only works with SanDisk brand 30mb/second cards? If not, I'd suggest that this be added prominently to the documentation.

I didn't know that there was a "beginner section" here. I'll look for it. At what point does one graduate from the "beginner" area to being qualified to post with the grownups? I would have thought that my previous successes with installing earlier hacks would have qualified me for "non-beginner" status.

troyjason

towi brings up a VERY important point. Individuals testing these hacks should try them on a variety of players/editors before jumping to conclusions about various picture quality glitches. Different video players render picture quality differently (same goes for graphics cards/settings). At the very least, compare clips to previous patches (9b) to check for differences. Happy hacking!

Alex

@troyjason thanks for the tip! As for Mac, the best playback experience so far I got from mPlayerX, available for free in the app store. Hardware acceleration used by Splash sounds big though!

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