@Driftwood and all....

I think there are HDMI problems with the Sedna settings and was wondering if anyone else experienced them.

This was my first attempt at hacking the camera. I wanted to wait until it seemed stable with the new firmware. I did several Sedna 720p tests last weekend getting ready for an industrial video Wednesday through Friday. We wanted to do a lot of slowmo, which I hadn't done on the GH2. In my tests the footage was completely amazing. I was blown away. I looked at streamparser and verified I was getting what I should have been, plus did some slow motion tests in Premiere CS5.5.

I was pumpped and we went and shot all day Wednesday excited about what we were going to get. When we had a chance to review the footage Thursday however, we noticed that it was all 1080i!

I checked my settings over and over, and went through everything, and realized that even if I have all my settings correct, when I plug in my Zacuto EVF to the HDMI port, the camera seems to switch from my 720p setting to this 1080i crap. That is the only factor I didn't test the weekend before (my EVF). I've used the EVF with 1080p24 many many times, and haven't experienced any sort of switch like this. I had no idea this could happen and was caught completely off guard.

It is extra disappointing because I was shooting at 125 shutter for the 60p slow mo, so not only is it interlaced 1080i60, but the footage has that gladiator sharp-motion feel to it.

Has anyone else has experienced this switch when using an EVF or other kind of monitor plugged into the HDMI port. More importantly, since we've got more to shoot Monday, does anyone have a work-around?

@Tristan Until now, there was no success in hacking the HDMI port. This annoying behavior (switching to 1080i) is present in the original firmware too.

@Tristan @Lumixuser @Nomad Trying to clarify this. The HDMI port will output 1080i but the internal codec will still output the selected settings to the SD card - or has someone had a different experience on this point?

@Tristan Were you recording to the SD card as usual, just with different monitoring during filming? Did you confirm that you were in SH mode before you started filming each time? I am not saying you did not but want to make sure the issue is as clear as possible.

@herbycamer Everything is shot in 24p. I did try the HBR 25p mode but 24p is much cleaner.

Afaik there is no workaround. Plug in external monitor = loose 720p.

That's interesting... uploaded a test to Vimeo, straight from the card just like I've done dozens of times and got: Uh oh!

There was a problem loading this video. There was a problem making the HD version of this video! Please review our compression guidelines.

Granted Vimeo is buggy as a rotten stump...but this is a first!

I had to import and export the test clip of mysteron. Not too bad!

Noise test for mysteron.

@driftwood thank you so much sir,...today i took mysteron out for a long indoor test in a shopping mall,....amazing results,...mysteron wins everything especially in post production exposure and other adjustments,...i got a bunch of super sensitive video now,...very very sensitive in post production,...so useful and i set my magic bullet looks exposure to +90 stops ....still it works and spreaded the light evenly well and good without any highlighted patch,...what did u do to mysteron sir?? i tried from quantum 9 to sedna almost all high bitrate patches,...but none responded this way,...the name mysteron matches this patch we can also call this patch as the "magicia" sincere thanks and credits to @Vitality and @driftwood ( i started uploading my video will take another 9 hours)

@lumixuser @bannedindv @nomad @rafa

Thanks for the info. sad i didn't realize that before the shoot.

I knew about the Ex Tele mode and focus assist not working with the HDMI plugged in. Those are pretty obvious because when you try them they just don't work. Recording to the SD card is really different, there is no indication that the camera isn't doing what it's set to be doing.

So far I've been super happy with this camera, but that's just maddening to the point of absurdity. There's even a setting to select either 1080i or 720p or auto for going OUT the HDMI monitor. I had it set on auto originally, and tried 720p later, but still when recording to the card it was 1080i footage. And why 1080i? why not at least 1080p?

For our shoot, we have had the camera on a jib, and it would be incredibly difficult to shoot without having a monitor at the other end. If anyone knows a solution for this, I would LOVE to hear it.

@thepalalias this happens when I'm recording to the SD card and plug in a viewfinder into the HDMI port.

@sandzadez the camera does NOT indicate a switch from SH/H to FSH/FH, it just says SH/H the whole time, whether HDMI is plugged in or not.

@davidhjlindberg

How did you get your footage into Resolve? Easy enough on the Mac with ProRes, but I think you were asking not long ago how do it on Windows(?) Did you find a way?

@jrd, @davidhjlindberg, would converting to uncompressed YUV 10bit from mts on premiere, preserve the video in the YCbCr format? and would grading in Resolve be done in YUV instead of converting to RGB if you ingest the Uncompressed YUV 10bit file?