@sebben, In VLC it interprets footage correctly (as in the images above), and in premiere5.5 it shows as progressive. I guess both 5dtorgb or clipwrap exports to prores need to be placed in a progressive timeline in final cut. And because they can't play in VLC (prores) in quicktime it will always be interpreted as interlaced. Hence why it shows as it does. I'm nor sure about this. specially if they would be flagged correctly when placed in final cut.

Dropframes is another issue. it shows in all this modes, VLC, prores in quicktime, and the original mts in premiere, going frame by frame, it suddenly repeats twice a frame from 10 previous frames, it goes like 1...10, 1, 12, 1, 14, 15.... I can't use streamparser, but i could upload an mts if someone would run it.

That's the first thing that I thought of cosimo!

does anyone know if quantum 100v4 is out yet? it is supposed to be optimized for etc 24h and etc 80%? Or is that patch the quantum v4 orion?

What bit rates are you guys/gals seeing in your videos?

@videohq Thats because v2 Rocket is ADAPTIVE bitrate! Read the top page. In simple terms it assigns bits to the quality of the image.

Did some quick testing of v2 Rocket yesterday. I am looking for high quality 30p so only tested a few settings. Used a Sandisk 16GB 30MB/S card. Lens used was a 14-140mm with IS on and auto focus on. Shutter was 60 and iso 160. The shots were close up of some sunlit palm trees on a windy day. Streamparser was used to check bitrates.

HBR recorded fine with an average bitrate of 93mbps. HBR with ETC on twice caused a hard lockup and battery had to be removed. 24H recorded ok with no problems at an average 143mbps. 24H 80% stopped after about 4-5 sec with a card write speed error. The file that was recorded had a bitrate of 144mbps. 24H 80% ETC stopped after about 3-4seconds with a card write speed error. The file had an average bitrate of 121mbps.

24L 80% recorded fine with an average of 46mbps and 24L 80% ETC recorded fine at 48mbps.

Thanks Nick and Vitaly for all the hard work.

I did some Quantum X v2 tests with my GH2, my 14-140mm kit lens, 24H, 1/50, 1600 ISO and ISO 400 on a Sandisk Extreme 32GB HD 30mb/s.

It looks and records great as long as the camera doesn't move a lot. However, the moment I try to do a fast, short pan left or right, the video gets choppy - as if there were hiccups when writing to the card. In most tests I see here on this site, the camera rarely moves much.

Quantum 100 v3 does not have this fast pan hiccup problem with my setup, which of course could be due to the less demanding bitrate.

But since a lot of other people were using the 30mb/s Sandisk Extreme with Quantum X v2, I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this behavior with fast pans?

My camera crashes (so I have to remove the battery) using this patch in 720p 25FPS on a Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB 95 MB/S

Did a test in dark conditions with a Nokton in full manual, bombed out almost immediately.

@badie the visual result is even worse for me on 24I/S and noticed I have same results as you @THX1965 when doing fast pans using Sandisk Extreme HD 32gb/30Mbs and 16gb/30Mbs. The results for 720 are opposite and look so smooth and great for same fast move tests

@Tifose I think if anyone deserves that, it's him

Not all cards, even from the same family/model are the same. The memory is "binned" according to testing at the factory and the lowest sustainable data rate is what the manufacturer stamps on the chips. The SD card manufacturer buys these ICs based on availability, price and performance. So they might buy a ton of a certain date-code due to availability, price and performance. The IC manufacturer during that week might have had a real good yield of fast parts, so many that they even branded them as slower parts to meet production numbers. When the SD card manufacturer buys these, they will perform better than their labels might say. On the other hand, if the IC manufacturer has a poor yield and the ICs barely meet the speed rating, they will still brand them as the same speed as the faster batch. When the SD card manufacturer makes their cards with these ICs, they will still meed the minimum speed but not be equal to the "faster" cards with the same speed rating.

For instance, I have a Patriot LX card that never fails in any condition, up to 175mbps. The other 3 I have barely do 80mb without crashing. They both meet the Class 10 speed rating and they are both the same model of card.

Got the frame drop/freeze last night shooting with 16gb 30mb/s cards, didn't notice until I looked at the footage. Happened on a fast camera shift from bright to dark.

Non Panasonic glass.

@THX1965 @badie it seems I solved my problem by putting the I.dynamic to 'none'. it's getting smoother then. Let me know if this works for you too.