Hi, I'm using the pvdog patch on my gf2; for now seems very good! a question, which program you use for editing the gf2 hacked file and preserve the quality of the 44mbit file? thanks!

cake 2.3 is working great on the gf2, I wished the gh2 had also a higher and a lower HBR setting FSH/FH

We have our feature film shoot underway with GF2 running 40 mbits. Awesome footage - very happy. Shooting mostly in "magic hour" for the superb light. Patch is "PVDOG".

I use a monopod a lot - and find it important to keep auto stabilization on.

Patch from first message. (30MB/s) Color grading in Magic Bullet Looks.

@AlbertZ pancake 14mm with flycam nano and nikon 50mm 1.4

Great video, zinin. I watched it to the end. Very nice. Each shootage / cut isn't longer than about 3 seconds. Is that right? Seems to be a good way to keep the viewer interested.

Thanks for sharing.

@Ebacherville I use setb.ini from @stonebat from first message in this topic.
Settings on camera: (To preserve details in the shadows) Rec Mode -> My Color -> Cust: Color: -3 Saturation: -2 Contrast: -5 Manual Focusing and Aperture on 50mm lens. No more action in post-processing.

In next time I try to lock shutter to 1/60 in the menus under Flicker Reduction. And use polarization filter.

It may be worth in this topic to collect tips and successful settings for GF2, or links to similar tutorials?

@zinin thanks for your nice footage, I love the esthetics, works very well with these kids... I tried out your settings, but as always with these sometimes very confusing/caotic menus of panasonic and especially with the gf2, something is driving me crazy. May be someone can help: when I am in rec mode->my color and put on your settings, using panasonic 14mm, the aperture just stays still on 2.5, even if I hold the camera into bridest light, the shutter would flip up to 1000 but still with a 2.5?! gettin mad... read through the (wonderful!) gf2 manual... nothing. I checked if I somewhere locked the exposure at that value, but no. And like this its impossible to work with. Any ideas?

@Rambo that was very kind and helpful - I got it. Very weird anyway I think some of the GF2 stuff...

the gf2 and gf3 are very capable bodies if your in controlled settings.. and they even handle changes in lighting pretty well. I prefer the all intra patches , Sedna C or Mysteron at this point depending on what I'm going for , Mysteron seems more "framey" to me.. The Sanity 5 patch seems very interesting to me now with huge Iframes.. plan on testing this also.

But what we have proven is even the lowly GF2 and GF3 are very capable cameras even with their limitations at this point. I've seen stuff that really blows me away when I compair it to other "professional" footage.. were talking 20k cameras and 10k lenses.. Got some stuff of a 5d II the other day.... looked OK but the detail was on the level of a GF camera.. seriously these cameras are amazing for the price point once hacked.

Now by comparison to the GH2, they do lack a bit but for a low budget solution they are simply amazing cameras.

Really if your shooting scene by scene and less than 5 minutes each the Intra frame patches are really amazing on the GF bodies. And you can use cheap cards like transcend for that also... for low budget film making the GF bodies are amazing. Add on top of that very nice lens choices in legacy stuff for cheap you have a great combo.

Ebacherville (or anyone else with similar experience), it sounds as if you have some successful experience with the GH2 in shooting with all-intra patches. Of all those you've used, do you have any successful experience in shooting in 1080 60i FSH, where the shots have been up to 5 minutes or more, and where the scenes involved heavy detail and quick movement? I use SanDisc Extreme Pro 95 MB/s, 64 GB cards exclusively, but find that all the Driftwood (and others') programs I've tested, using I-Frames exclusively, crash or freeze up the camera either constantly or after a few seconds, when faced either with heavy detail and/or quick movement. By the way, you mentioned the Sanity 5 - no matter what I've thrown at it in 1080 60i FSH, its been rock solid, though the Sanity 4.1 provided very quick total freezes. I'd appreciate very much any successful experience you might have in stable shooting under demanding conditions!

Preetam:

Thanks so much for your inquiry and question of my post! No, unfortunately, I meant GH2, which is my camera - this thread came up in response to my inquiry of a search machine re hacks for the GH2, and I failed to spot my egregious error. My bad.