I've sticked to CM Night since it came out cause i found it to be the best setting so far. It produces incredible quality in low light and is also great in daylight. Only thing is it crashes often after 2-3 min even if the scene is not highly detailed and i know @driftwood said that it will crash so i expected that.I guess i can't have it all..lol I've read all the different patches descriptions and i wonder if the descriptions also apply to HBR 25p? Like for example CM Night is the best for low light in 24p but is it also the best for low light in HBR 25p? Day the best for daylight in 25p also and so on... I love the fine grain of CM NIGHT and i wonder if CM Day produces the same grain? I've laso tried the last Flow motion real quick but the grain is not as fine as CM Night.. Also I know that 25p will never be as good as 24p but which setting is the best in 25p? and what are these Crossfire settings made for? Fine grain is a must for me!

I know that's a lot of questions at once but thanks in advance for responding.

@paglez I edit in 4k anamorphic timeline, do color correction at 4k and a few other things, and export a 4k mp4.

Some Canis Majoris Night footage anamorphic up to f1.4. Watch in original which is 4k. This is a combo of the Bolex Anamorphot 8/19/1,5 and the Olympus 50mm 1.4. Nothing else comes close. There are no cropped shots, the anamorphot is capable of resolving well over 4k, but you still get a nice soft flaring from not having Multicoating.

@driftwood...Amen. I just got my first GH2 last month, big thanks to all you guys you're brilliant. It's an amazing tool, especially with the patches. Im using V6 Nebular and I love it. Wish I can show you guys what I shot but I'm on an older iMac (07) the playback is just horrendous. The good news is the SD extreme pro 32GB card is flawless. Wish I can say the same for the Mac, however I'm building a new system (pc) in the very near future. I'll be happy to share my footage and if may say, I was very happy to donate here too. Money well spent, I'm learning so much, it's a fantastic community...Thanks again

@jshzr @wigginjs You may well experience problems such as non spanning on high static detail or in-camera playback when the bitrate surges up because of the neccessity to decode to target Q. Try the DREWnet version of Cluster v6 if you really need in-camera playback to work more consistently and spanning as its using standard GOPs.

Can I repeat this one last time. STUTTERING PLAYBACK IN CAMERA/ or on a Panasonic TV, or on a computer with incorrect codecs (or just simply a slow computer) IS NOT telling you the mts files are bad. On the NLE and a decent pute they will come over and edit/play fine.

I am not prepared to drop the level of quality any lower just because a decoder can't keep up with the data rate - or you may as well use stock.

@onionbrain That is brilliant. Reminds me of my time in Loudon County, Hot, humid, fire flies, Goose Creek and a few beers.

@proaudio4 Yes Vimeo compression makes comparisons silly, but see the link he included below the embed. Not original .mts, but appears to have substantially less compression.

@gib beautiful! best sunrise I've seen posted in this thread so far.

@pvjames thanks for sharing that. The big benefit that's obvious here is macroblocking, especially in the first ocean shots. Sedna has some macroblocking, but nothing like the muddy mess that is stock!

First-time comparing Sedna AQ1 and unhacked.

Download or go here for best viewing

http://photos.jamesthorpe.com/Other/GH2-Hack-Tests/24254013_2v4HGJ#!i=1988022359&k=bS5MRhK

Thanks @Tifose!

@MattRobertson7 Bro i love this Guy work, Great Job friend Bless.

This is my experience with Sedna A patch last month. If somebody works like me on Avid Mediacomposer 5.5, there is absolutly no problem for import MTS files in Avid ( by DNxHD or AVC INTRA option codec ...)