@nic2011

"That is a real dumb answer"

Really? Stick to your high GOP and 32mb/s then. No one is trying to sell or convince you of anything. It takes roughly 2 minutes to set settings in ptools, save the firmware and load it into the GH2. Load whatever settings you're curious about and SHOOT footage - LOOK at it, TEST it, do whatever you want to it and find out what works for you.

@Kae or anyone using his latest settings.

Could you post an entire stream parser frame mode bar chart for the 60 mb/sec GOP=3 while filming something completely static(No camera movement and no subject movement)? I would like to see the entire graph for a 10-20 second clip. If you could just zoom out until the whole clip is visible in the chart.

What I want to see is if the cadence of the codec is affected by the GOP. I just did some testing with the 32 mb/sec and 25 mb/sec settings and anything below a GOP of 12 will cause an irregular cadence. Now this irregular cadence is not necessarily bad. However, I would like to find out if the higher bit rate settings show the same thing.

@Vitaliy

Sorry I didn't see that one. Do you want to move my post over there or should I?

@mpgxsvcd "Have you guys ever considered that all the low GOP setting could be doing is making the codec less efficient?"

A less efficient codec could also mean that it isn't compressing as much as it usually does. Wouldn't that make for a better picture?

@Kae

"I do not think so! not have a picture quality difference between 32, 42, 50, 60, 65 MBit can recognize"

"Maybe not 60 to 65 but 32 to 65???? Dude, you need an eye exam."

Prove that with a scientific 1 to 1 comparison and I will believe it. Otherwise I haven't seen any indication that extreme bit rates are producing a visual difference.

@jokami nice. Sky banding a bit.... whats the original like?

I found an easy way to test the max bitrate on the GH2vk. There is no need to shoot death charts or go outside. All you will need a dark environment. Using Kae's 24p 3gop 65mbps setting, I first go to the 24p mode change shooting mode to shutter priority, click the wheel to dial up the EV to +3, and shoot.

Butt,
if you copy paste from the google translated page everything will turn up in German here

@driftwood\

I tried 1, 2, 4 and 5 GOP settings. The 1 wasn't stable at all as you found out. The 2, 4 and 5 would record but would playback weird on the desktop. That's how I settled at 3 a day after 3.61d came out. I had been shooting at 3 GOp for a long time with the GH1. GOP1 didn't look that much better for all the hassle it created with instability.

@Butt are you a robot?

> +1. 65Mbps ist ein bisschen extrem für den Moment. 65Mbps Patch nicht produzieren gelegentlichen Spitzen bis 70Mbps in eigentliche Footage. Dann muss die Kamera neu starten, um den Clip ansehen und Vimeo nicht verarbeiten kann die Raw-Datei. 60 ... oder 50 hat mehr Spielraum für bitrate Spikes.<
thank you!!!

@Butt

"I do not think so! not have a picture quality difference between 32, 42, 50, 60, 65 MBit can recognize"

Maybe not 60 to 65 but 32 to 65???? Dude, you need an eye exam.

Butt,

Is there a stable GOP3 above 32MB/s that doesn't have the first second(s) glitches, will work work in all other resolutions and fps and will span? If not which 32 MB/s will?