Beginners: Basic hacks questions, series 2

eddietemple

Thanks for your response. I've looked at the footage from the other hacks you mentioned but they just don't handle the motion (moving the camera, not people/items moving within the frame) the way I want. A GOP3 is the exact thing I'm going for. I was able to get EOSHD's Vanilla 44mbs to work, but it wasn't what I wanted.

As for the footage I shot, I didn't have problems with it (noise, etc), it just didn't look any better (or give me a higher bitrate) than non-hacked footage. As far as the specs: Lens is a Canon FD 50mm f1.4 set at f2.0, ISO was at 160 and 200, profile was Smooth (all -2), shooting at 1080p 24H NTSC.

I have a two shorts and feature to shoot that I bought this camera for. I feel like I'm running in circles.

ahbleza

Hi @eddietemple

Regarding your now-closed post here: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3734/gh2-hacks-almost-working-help-needed

I'm not familiar with Kae's patches, but I've tried Driftwood's, the Flow Motion, and Cake, and each of them produce excellent results. Have you tried one of them? I think a good compromise settings is Flow Motion 2.2, which seems to have a nice balance between quality and useablity with high bit rates.

What sort of issues do you see with the footage you shot? What lens, ISO, camera profiles, are you shooting at 24 fps, NTSC or PAL? There is an ISO bug which can cause excessive noise.

I'm also a beginner, but I'm very happy with the results I'm getting post-hack.

driftwood

Yeah I know what you mean - I still use the free one but on my other Mac the paid for one hasnt been too bad. Good that youve been in touch with the developer. That proggie can only get better.

rsquires

@driftwood The paid for Movist app available in the app store isn't as good as the old free version. It stutters on playback. I spoke to the developer and he acknowledged the problem. It's being worked on. For now though I use the old free version of Movist version 0.6.9. It also shows bitrate for the file which new version doesn't. It's a great player for the GH2

driftwood

As far as players go, Movist for OSX and Windows Media Player with the freely download K-Lite codec pack for Windows computers is all you need to check/playback files. These two resolve the best - error free playback prior to NLE ingest.

DeShonDixon

@Bressonftw If VLC doesn't work this always works great for me. http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

Bressonftw

Any good player to playback high bitrate files? VLC doesn't seem to handle Sedna AQ1 well (after transcoding to ProRes with 5DtoRGB the files play well though).

DeShonDixon

@forum177 just click change my picture on your profile

forum177

@DeShonDixon I think so, I couldn't find the icons either, damn monocle!

DeShonDixon

@forum177 ohh haha you wanna change your avatar?

forum177

@DeShonDixon on my right eye.

DeShonDixon

@forum177 huh?

forum177

Damn, this monocle ain't working too great.

DeShonDixon

@forum177 http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/3454/driftwood-quantum-x-settings-series-5-cluster-v5-mysteron-crossfire-quantum-9b-sedna-etc.../p1

Vitaliy_Kiselev

@forum177
http://www.personal-view.com/talks/categories/hacks and your eyes.

forum177

Could some one point me to cluster v5, I wasn't able to find it. Do you have to hunt them down in the individual threads, or can they be found in one place? I'm aware of the this tread http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/953/gh2-patch-vault, but it doesn't have all of them. Anyone have a smart technique for finding the patches?

forum177

ok thanks

DeShonDixon

@forum177 no

DeShonDixon

@inqb8tr nope im pretty sure its all fine

forum177

Is it possible to see which hack is running from inside the camera?

inqb8tr

Hi, if I buy NTSC 1.1 body, and hack it, and then switch it to PAL - there is no difference to the original Pal body hacked? Just to make sure.

DeShonDixon

@raichu No im pretty sure you don't I never have too

raichu

when i apply a new hack (after having already hacked it) do I have to change anything with the increment number to like "02" or "03" every new time? or do i always leave/put it as "01"?

Thanks!

DeShonDixon

@raichu Watch this tutorial it should solve your problems

raichu

Hi guys,

I tried hacking my GH2 but it doesn't seem to be working. It recognizes a patch, updates to "1.1" again, but after it's done, after i've shut it down and re-formatted the card, when I use it/take video, it looks exactly the same, is the same bitrate, and the filesizes are the same. What's going on?

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