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  • What about 'Bush 2: The Return of the Wind' ? Classic film.

  • Mind you - I wouldn't mind some more "looking upwards into a tree with leaves waving slowly"... or the old classic "water dribbling over a rock"...

  • @mo7ies @BigBadFun Nothing beats "Watch the grass I should have cut, blow in the wind".

  • Heeeeey! I was just about to post 'Watch my paint dry" video made with Cluster v4....

  • @davidhjlindberg - Awesome work mate! Hopefully this puts an end to the endless "GH2 Hack test of my dog sitting by the television" and "GH2 hack test of a plant by my window" drivel! :)

  • @mo7ies, if you knew how much software crap tries to access your SD card via USB you would kak your pants, both mac and pc. The chance for corruption is indeed high, lock that bugger every time.

  • Yeah, lesson learned. Will lock the card right away before trying to Read it from now on. I guess then there should be very little chance to lose its file system.

  • @thepalalias today's shoot went well... lets see,..give me some time

  • Actually, I meant how are Orionv4b settings mapped to these menu items?

  • @disneytoy. Download the GH2 User's Guide PDF. It explains all features.

  • Quick question: Haven't done much hacking since GH-1. So I just loaded Orionv4b on my GH-2, i.Dynamic off. I'm set to MANUAL. Under Creative Movie (menu), how do the different settings effect shooting?

    Manual Movie Mode High Bite Rate 24p Cinema Variable Movie Mode

    Under recording mode

    EX 24H or 24L?

    How do I set it for 1080p24p and 720p60p?

    Thanks.

    I wish ptools could change these menu titles to what the actually do.

    I'm going out today with a 300mm lens to shoot surfers!!!

  • I came across this video in YouTube showing the test of GH2 EX-Tele mode overcrancked. This was done over a year ago which means it was the stock firmware prior to hacks coming out. Nice job.

  • @mo7ies I was using Twixtor, and those scenes were shot in 720p 60fps. @disneytoy I don't really have a rig, just my GH2 set on a tripod. On the handheld shots I was just holding the legs of the tripod.

    Thanks everybody for such a nice appreciation!

  • Thanks! I used the 14-140 for the outside day shots along with a mix of 25mm Voigt and the 12mm Olympus

    Tripod and slider and that was it!

  • @thepalalias thanks for your answer. I have definitely rushed on the play button :) I'll try to wait a few seconds to see if the hurry causes the glitch.

  • @nomad Same here. No viewing or reviewing, straight in the reader and I back up to NAS (RAID 1), and copy to computer for edit.

  • @jhero Thats bloody good. Well done - some really nice framing indeed. Looks good at night :-)

    @mo7ies Sorry to hear about your card corruption. Have you tried any of the Panasonic SDcard Recovery tools just in case?

  • I would never write anything to my originals!

    – The first thing I do when I get the card out of the cam is protecting it.

    – The second step is backing it up.

    I even refuse to let anyone check images on the card – maybe I'm paranoid, but I never lost a single file that way.

    I rate my work and that of all other participants in a shoot more valuable than having a few extra cards at hand.

    Nevertheless, I feel sorry for your loss.

  • I needed OS to write to the card as I was renaming files there. I routinely rename files on card before transfer, for years, and nothing of the sorts ever happened. Suspicious mostly of the USB3 card reader I have - it probably glitched, disconnected the card during renaming, and voila - it was equal to pulling the card out without dismounting it properly, so the file system was lost!

  • @mo7ies >And also slide the write lock on the SD card so nothing can write to it while transferring. Simple thing but should become a habit.

  • I just lost half-day worth of video on my SDXC card. First time such thing happened, so far, in a couple of years using all kinds of devices/SD cards...

    Video was shot on GH2 with Cluster v4. (at this point I don't think the hack has anything to do with the problem, though...)

    I then used a card reader to transfer files from some CF card. Reader has SDXC/SDHC slot, so while CF files were transferring, I put my SDXC 64GB 95MB/s card in it as well, and it opened fine. I then tried to rename a dozen video files (by teh way guys, Cluster v4 seems to span just fine in 24H mode.)

    While file rename operation was in progress, it took longer than it should and ended in Win 7 error message, something about wrong drive inserted.

    Sure enough, SDXC card disconnected.

    Subsequent attempts to read it (in a number of different readers) revealed that the entire file structure is gone, and Win wanted to Format the card because it only saw "RAW" data on it.

    My attempts to recover the data (I have Recuva app, it works OK most of the time) were unsuccessful.

    So looks like the entire bunch of videos on this card is lost.

    I think, most likely, either the reader hardware, or Win OS glitched and bricked the card's file system.

    So I suppose, when it's time to transfer footage to your computer, don't try to operate on more than ONE card at a time...

  • @jhero very nice for "something fun"! Love the framing, music etc.... very cool. Share your gears for this short?

  • @GhostLayer This happens periodically with several of the hacked settings, not just with Cluster. Normally I workaround it by turning the camera off and again like you did. As to when it happens, it seems to be related to how you review and shoot your footage. I seem to remember that if I switched modes too quickly it could sometimes do that, or if I rushed the camera after I finished recording.... but it was never enough of a nuisance for me to try to properly debug it. That would have meant taking time away from all the other testing. :)

  • Hey guys,

    So we went to NYC couple weeks back for vimeo awards but we got inspired by the city to do something fun! We used the revamped Quantum 9b for this

    Enjoy!

  • David! Amazing work. Panasonic should buy it from you to promote the Gh-2. Can you share any pics of your rig. I have a dance related video to shoot.

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