I know that it take a long time. I don't work in the same field but I know what meticulous and time consuming work is... I really bless you for bringing such unbelievable quality on GH2. Discussing with people from Panasonic France I know that are far from realizing the exact value of your researches. When I was ask to directed GH2 first French Shoutout in San Francisco I was a bit sad that GH2 image was not as good a my GH13 image :) GH2 is now brought to the next level.

Thanks Vitaliy, I have deleted the forbidden word from my post :)

I'm not sure Andrew makes pat*h to have more clicks on his site, he always respectfully refers to you :) I think he wants to bring some help for end users or cinematographers that are not familiar with technical issues. I'll try to find the Setting Vault topic... Thank you for answering me anyways.

I have just installed the latest unified 88 EOSHD firmware on GH2. (From EOSHD Firmwares Vault) (in order to enjoy European "HBR" 1080/25p mode) I have just purchased a Sandisk SDHC 8 Go "Extreme" Class 10 card. (30 Mo/sec) It seems GH2 is unable to play the files on camera LCD ("unable to read movie..." displayed on screen)

Each time I reboot the camera the files can be played on LCD... pretty weird. I wonder if I should buy an "Extreme [Pro]" Class 10 card wich transfer speed is 95 Mo/sec (higher than the one I have) 95 Mo/sec speed may be help to record and play 88 Mbs Intra AVCHD Excuse my naive question... if someone can help Best

@davidk while using the HDMI out, the GH2 will only record in 24p or 60i modes with V1.0 and hacks. With V1.1 and hacks it's possible to record in 24p, 25/30p, or 60i. 720 50/60p isn't possible while using HDMI. With V1.1 the unusable settings are greyed out, in V1.0 it's possible to select an unusable setting and the camera will automatically revert to 60i mode.

Says everyone: (Banding = Structure of sensor + defective product) Well, why clean photos? I suspect that the GH1 orginal software! What do you think this suspect?

(My English is not good, i’m sorry.)

There have been various reports of the GH2 recording trash, or nothing to the card when a monitor is connected to the hdmi out. Can anyone specify under what specific conditions this happens, as it seems others have been able to use an external monitor? Thanks

@superset, short answer: for most things, Flow Motion will be more efficient, and Driftwood's will have more consistent frame-to-frame quality. But you might not notice the differences. You need to test for yourself.

Oh and I mentioned the hx9v for a reason...but I forgot to state it...I am mounting my hx9v to a hotshoe, with a 32gb class 6 card, and letting it run the entire time in 1080p 60p I film with the gh2...gives me good slow motion capabilities, though its not as good as the gh2, it is superb with twixtor!

@bullet2 I would like to keep the same functionality/stability I have now with the unhacked GH2, but at a much higher data rate, something in the 66-100mbps range. That means, that it needs to span. Picture quality is my number one priority but reliability is my number 2. What I've seen on vimeo and youtube so far, anything under 66mbps doesn't have the Wow! factor, and anything above 100mbps is a waste of storage and kind of tricky when it comes to memory cards. I know that people say not to judge the picture quality by the compressed online video but ultimately that's where my videos are going to be distributed mostly.

@mjfeliciano I understand your confusion...I just hacked mine yesterday with orion v4(or whatever version was newest as of last night). I did breakdown and buy new class 10 cards (sd extreme hd video as per the recommendation). I opted for highest quality I could ascertain (orion) and will back it down from there if/as problems arise. I'd rather have quality than spanning, which it seems like the choice I have to make considering I use 1080 24p. I'm shooting a trailer for my novel, with some greenscreening and set extensions. I read a review of the hacked gh2 that said it wasnt hot for greenscreen, I hope that is just because they keyer they were using (adobe ultra) is not a good one!

@driftwood Thanks Driftwood... I'm new here (have been reading quietly for a while though), but one thing I learned early is who the leaders are on this community. I know that Vitaliy (Hacker13) is the mastermind that created PTool, the software hack that started the "revolution"; and you, cbrandin, LPowell and others, are the codec and patch masters (half techs/half artists). Without you guys this powerful technology would have been available to many, but only used by a few. You guys are doing for the GH2 and the PTool what Steve Job did for the personal computer, making it user friendly. I've been a GH2 owner for 10 months now, but was a little bit intimidated by the techno-jargon and all the different patches and levels of SD card compatibility. Now I'm getting ready to hack my GH2 for the first time (a little overwhelmed by all the information available at this site); trying to catchup and learn as much as I can. Thank you again for your dedication and continuing work.

@mjfeliciano Its difficult keeping uptodate especially for new users I know. But you have to appreciate settings have names and versions, there's been a lot of settings over the last 6 months, A certain setting attributed to a certain tester together with the title of the setting and its version number is not so bad to follow and understand. Its generally dated anyway. Settings are optimised for different user requirements like top quality, spanning quality, etc... You'll either have to read the threads and keep uptodate or ask someone whats the best setting for your requirement. In my settings, Quantum X is for ptools 3.64d, Rocket is a VBR style setting, Orion is a CBR style setting, and other names are given to settings with lower bitrates for spanning etc... Each of the settings as they progress in time will go from version (v1) to higher like v3 or v3b if its a very minor change to the previous setting of that name.

That probably won't help you !!!

@mjfeliciano no