@puttydivision only one at once. What you call hack is actually manipulated firmware, there can be only one loaded. Camera understands it as firmware update and loads it.

@Axier, I think you are saying you have had no card fails, and are just asking if the camera can handle the ammount of info. If that is your question, then the answer is yes, your camera can handle it. Some patches have exceeded 170 MB/s and so long as the card can keep up so does the camera. There are limits for the camera which are not much higher, but I am not sure what the limit is.

@mee and @Axier
guys, just read more careful: Mbit/s is not same as MB/s. 1MB=8Mbit

@DFuture, your best bet if you worried about space is to use 5d2rgb or clip wrap to transcode to proves HQ, then edit down your selects (you should be able to throw 50 - 75 percent of your footage), and then export as source (eg as prores hq) and trash the original. mts files. This of course isn't the best option -- we use the gh2s on a multi-million dollar doc project (as b cam with Reds), and we transcode to a low bit edit-friendly format, backup the mts files to tape or raid arrays, and then relink in resolve during online.

The added benefit though of the first approach, especially if you are not shooting commercially, is that it will allow you do engage with your footage, see what you are doing well and what you are not, and refine your approach, prior to shooting more. Not enough people spend enough time seriously looking at their footage, and when you're forced to choose what you keep and what you throw out, you start to behave more like a professional, and less like a tourist with a handycam. Its important to shoot as much as possible, but if you are not reviewing what you shoot regularly, you're missing a big opportunity.

@DFuture, yes, srry, should have said, the benefit of clipwrap / 5d2rgb is not compression, but rather that it gives you a new edit friendly master and avoid the FCP7 gamma shift issues (see eoshd for thorough discussion), and general issues with fcp log-and-transfer/avid import and hacked mts files. Just chop down a rough cut from that and turn it into your new master.

MAYDAY. I was updating my firmware, like i have done a few times before, and somehow my battery went down. Camera doesn't show any image on the screen now. Well it powers up but no image on screen just a weird vague sound inside the camera almost like one clock ticking seconds or like a bad hard drive. I have tried all four batteries here and same thing. Camera is off warranty, what should I do? HELP, please. Really stuck here.

I have a general question about the sharpness settings that regards probably all DSLRs. All DSLRs that i have used, had just one setting to change - the value of the sharping, not the radius size. I mean the radius changing, in same way as it is in Photoshop sharpness filter. That can be usefull for more precision moire adjustments. For new GH3 for example. =) Is it possible in the future to obtain the sharpness radius setting with alternative firmware?

Well, since you're French... You can name the firmware image file as GH2__V11.bin (two underscores) and place it in the root of the memory card, and your camera should recognize it. If you were able to flash your camera with the image, then it did work. If GH2__V11.bin doesn't work, try GH2__V12.bin which I'm certain works.

@jahmannnn balazer just answered you, if you meant with "already put" that you've flashed successfully the new firmware, obviously it worked perfectly well.

Your camera is a computer. The firmware is the programming that the computer runs. Updating the firmware means putting new programming in the device. Hacking means changing the programming in a way that the manufacturer didn't envision. A patch is an individual change made to the firmware image. Panasonic can do whatever they want.

OK, I thought things went a bit too smoothly for me the other day when I downloaded new firmware 1.1 and then the Quantum x "spanmybitchup" v2 hack. This mornig I tried 720p in manual mode and discovered the following.

seem to have lost control over the live view, as it shows up being over exposed on the LCD and LVF, and of course records underexposed.

big exposure variations when viewed in recording and playback, with dark corners disloving in and out.

screen flashes when recording is finished.

menu screen darkens when covered by cap, then brightens when uncovered.

Have taken out battery and card and restarted etc. present card in camera is sandisk 16g, 30MB.

24p Cinema mode seems ok at this stage.

Any help with what I've done wrong would be very much appreciated.

Is it necessary to install Version 1.1 GH2 Update and replace my Version 1.0 firmware?