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SANITY 4 and 5.1
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  • AKEDAKED

    I can second that. I had Sanity 4 and moved to Sanity 5 when it cam out and never had any problems. Though I am filming in 720 p only.

  • kendallozkendalloz

    I can answer questions 2 and 3. I have used Sanity 5 for several months. I have tried several "old" slower SD cards and they all worked. You should have no problems with a 95MBPS card. Have also shot a lot on the 14mm pancake with no issues. That is what I often use as the A camera to make sure I get the scene (use other lenses for tighter/special shots) or for run and gun situations where there will not be time to set up a shot. It is an easy lens to use on the GH2. Never had a crash or freeze or any problems with Sanity 5! Great work by Ralph!

  • PVIPVI

    Ralph, judging by this very long thread, Sanity 5 clearly has some of the best reviews around. Great work! I am new to GH2 hacks and would therefor very much appreciate a quick answer to the following questions: (1) is patch is best suited for 24L and should not be used for 24H or higher fps modes. Correct? (2) does the patch work with a 32GB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC-UHS-1 95MBPS? (3) does the patch work with a Panasonic 14mm Pancake lens? I am planning to use it for aerial footage via drone. Many thanks

  • Ralph_BRalph_B

    In my testing I found that spanning ocassionally worked in 24H, but usually it did not. So, yeah, you might get lucky once in a while with 24H, but you can't and shouldn't rely on it to span.

  • arvidtparvidtp

    Yep. I was run-n-gun shooting a friend's often very dark walk-about music/dance/multimedia project last weekend with that very same lens and auto-ISO. The 2nd show i accidentally left it on 24H (also forgetting Ralph's advice) and i got two spanning successes and two spanning failures - probably having to do with what ISO the camera was using at the time, or if i was panning around at the wrong moment. (Thankfully, though, i noticed the failures right away and was also capturing 2nd system audio.) The first show I used 24L, with the same wildly varying lighting situation and almost the same camera settings, and all spanning worked just fine.

  • MarcioKMarcioK

    @Ralph_B

    My bad, I forgot about that. But after that, I've tried again and it worked, even in 24H - four spannings straight.

    Looking for hints about it I saw in another thread that the amount of data (i.e. the complexity of the scene) in the moment of the spanning is related to the success of it - and, yes, the camera were static when the spannings were successfull. Just saying to not put the blame in the card.

    But I will stay in 24L for stability. And thanks for the great work, Sanity is looking great in my tests.

  • Ralph_BRalph_B

    @haribabis

    You got to read those notes carefully. It's only in HBR mode that spanning won't work with Panasonic lenses. In the other modes where spanning works, Panasonic lenses are fine.

  • haribabisharibabis

    Ι recently try a test, because i also thought the spanning restrictions. I had three set camera so i left the GH2 recording just for curiosity, with the 20mm f1.7 lens in manual focus and in autofocus mode and voila! Span is there!!! i can not say that i will do it again if i want to be 100% sure for recording, but in SANITY 5 "how-to-use" post it was written that it is not spanning with pany lens!!! Weird ?!!! Card Sandisk Extreme 32Gb - 45Mps

  • Ralph_BRalph_B

    @MarcioK

    Please read the patch notes! Spanning only works in 24L. But fear not, the picture quality of 24L is almost indistinguishable from 24H.

  • MarcioKMarcioK

    Hi, everyone

    I've just applied Sanity 5 in my GH2 (stunning image improvement), but spanning failed in 24H mode (I did not tested another modes) - when the file reached 4Gb, the camera stoped the recording.

    The card is a brand new SanDisk Extreme 32Gb, 45MB/s, bought from Amazon. Any reports of inconpatibilty with these cards?

  • darkdookdarkdook

    here's a video (probably girls will enjoy more) that we shot with GH2 sanity 5 (t2i was 2nd camera on tripod for 2nd half makeup tutorial...see if you can find it!)

    the one thing I feel like I experience indoors a lot is color-banding on even tones on the wall and in shallow DOF areas.

  • peternappeternap

    I was more of a Budweiser type student...but it beats senility as an excuse !

  • Ralph_BRalph_B

    Must be too many drugs in the 60's, Peter.

  • peternappeternap

    @Ralpg_B Did I imagine it Ralph...or are you working on some changes?

  • Ralph_BRalph_B

    @arvidtp

    Fantastic!

  • arvidtparvidtp

    what Ralph said

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  • Ralph_BRalph_B

    HBR will never be as sharp as 24H/24L :(

    Indeed. It's just the way it is, and it has nothing to do with Sanity or any other patch.

    @klmo 1984 - Sanity 5's Video Bitrate FSH/SH=44000000 - not 20M or 66M. I get concerned when people start changing things because all the parameters work as a unit. Change one thing and you can throw the whole enchilada out of balance.

  • arvidtparvidtp

    @kmlo1984 - Re: HBR, see this post i wrote in this thread: http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/86412#Comment_86412 . HBR will never be as sharp as 24H/24L :(

  • kmlo1984kmlo1984

    Hello, I just found out that the HBR setting pictures is less sharper than 24L and 24H, I m not sure why and it seems the bit rate is lower, but i did download the sanity 5 zip and reinstalled and increase FSH ans SH 20Mbit to 66Mbit but HBR is still not sharp as 24L. anyone has idea how to set as sharp as 24L or 24H in HBR? I m not sure how to set the bitrate at HBR?

    thanks K.M.LO

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  • paulopaulo

    Thanks Peternap!

  • peternappeternap

    @kendalloz You are out of your mind. I got dunked while videoing in Tappahannock. It was 42 degrees, steady rain and about a 3o mph breeze and I near froze the rest of the day.

  • kendallozkendalloz

    oops more like 32 seconds..

  • kendallozkendalloz

    We had Hurricane Sandy in our neighborhood today. We took a few clips mostly from the Go Pro with ProTune but look how nice the Sanity 5 clip looks. It is at around 22 seconds into the video the 3 kids on a paddleboard shot on the sanity hacked GH2 with a Nikon 60mm.

  • RszantoRszanto

    Here's a film look grade applied to some hacked footage. The Vimeo compressed version is a bit whack, so check out the .m2v file for best viewing.

    Hope you like it!

  • peternappeternap

    @paulo The reason for keeping the settings back is that the in camera functions, especially sharpening and noise reduction, are much less efficient than done in post. There is some justification in moving in camera sharpening up a tick or so with softer legacy lenses in some settings.

    While a lot of us, and I'm guilty too, default everything to -2, moving saturation up a notch helps with some settings. I've found this to be true with Sanity 5.

    A lot of it depends on how much you plan to do in post and what you're trying to accomplish. Do a search for an excellent post by CBrandin about this.

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