@Zaven13 How long did you record for in HBR? Did you record 25p or 30p?

@tinbeo.. thanks I must have missed that post by Driftwood. I remember one where he suggested lowering the setting down 1000 at a time. I lowered the SH and H down to 60,000 and 50,000 and it worked but didn't look good with weired stuff going on with highlights. I'll try the B settings and see how that goes. I really need a decent 720 p to work because sometimes I have fast moving subjects.

I'm using a SD Ex 45mbs.

Well no 720p in S or SH on the B or C Sedna. Write error on SD Ex 45mbs. Any suggestions? I suppose I'll go back to what was working with Orion and wait for a fix or something that works.

@Zaven13 Thanks. Let me know if you get a chance to try a longer record time. 12min is the highest I've got.

@islanders66. Sedna_B, AQ1, HBR & 720p (50) SH recorded no problem & played back in camera. Average: 60 Mbps. Sandisk 45mbs card. I consistently find HBR too 'wobbly' & choppy, 720p motion just fine but pics softer than HBR. Subjectively, I'd say that v4d Orion (v2) looked sharper yet more filmic. Early days though.

Hey @driftwood. What's the difference in terms of visuals between Sedna A AQ1 and Q20? Thx, mate. Loading up A Q20 now.

shot an outdoor thingy with sedna q20 c it held out very good under heavy grading conditions, i'm rendering and uploading as we speak. shot in smooth all -2 hbr with the leica 25mm

Thank you, @driftwood and all others involved in the hard work that result to this patch. I will be doing lots of testing tonight. I hope to use Sedna for a music video shoot tomorrow Saturday.

@driftwood, Thanks for the reply. Any idea why the Panasonic AVCAM importer plugin crashes Quicktime when I use the Sedna A profile? It's fine with B & C. Weird ??? When I view A & B in VLC I really do prefer A. Thanks so much for adding the audio patch.

Probably can't handle it. Its above AVC Intra for a start! ;-) I'll be running some tests on importing into NLE's etc... for the wiki. You're copying first the entire volume PRIVATE from SDcard to hard disk then importing I hope?

Test1: No problems so far with HBR footage at 25p straight into FCPX, colour correct and export media to h264 or Pro Res HQ File sizes at Mbps: Original mts file was around 70Mbps, Pro Res HQ 159Mbps, h264, 12Mbps

@driftwood, Yep, copying card to disk before any other work.

To those that asked for my analysis of the relative strengths of the patches, please understand that shooting and testing certain (very specific) points, cataloging and uploading all of that (the last test was 12 cards) while also trying to work has not left me with enough time to be useful in that area yet.

I think the @OnionBrain and @Driftwood comments about the improvements regarding noise in the red channel (and green in the gray) are worth looking out for, as a starting point and I`ve provided a fair amount of raw footage to test for yourself and hope to do more soon.

What I will say, is that I've found it useful to test the patches by throwing the MTS files into grading software, lifting the shadows and increasing the contrats (to make the linits of the noise patterns more obvious) or lowering the exposure to emphasize the highlights. I've also been looking first at the whole images and then at a 640X360 crop (which I then view fullscreen) to home in on the difference areas. In some cases, I`ve done the same at 320x180 to really home in on a specific noise patch.

I would add that the best way to compare the patches (for me) tends to be by starting with their "weaknesses" rather than their strongest points. In the sample files I uploaded, there is less difference in the more properly exposed colored part of the magazines lower right corner than there is in the darkened white page at the extremity of that corner. And there`s a fair bit to be gleaned by looking at the gradient, highlight and noise pattern toward the left edge of the highlight on the left third of the screen.

The difference between Factory Defaults and Cluster in that last area is just huge when blown up and that the difference between Cluster vs Orion, Dark Matter and Sedna is equally huge. I honestly would be very disappointed if I had to use a non-intra patch on a dark shoot on this camera at this point.

But in terms of Sedna, there are too many variables and has been to little testing for me to say what the best things to look for are specifically. I`ve only spent one night shooting with with betas for 2 of the 6 patches and a few minutes shooting with the final versions of each of the final versions each so far. :)