Tested these settings today but they are not stable @ 24p!
Used class Sandisc SDHC extreme 10 card but had a couple of reading errors and one freeze (waving leaves)
720 GOP 30 is really great for my slider and steadycam! Thanks a lot!
One thing what i wanted to share is how the hack influences the depth of the video.
For me it is not only about details, sharpness and colours. The colours of my Pentax K-5 look better anyway but resolution sucks! I have it for stills and steadicamshots with the Sigma 8-16mm because of it's weight.
With 62/65 mbs 1080 there is a subtle change in the depht and cleanliness of the footage compared to stock.

shot a full 16GB Class 6 Transcend using only the suggested bitrate high and low numbers (42 and 35 . . . add the zeros??) Only 2 minor hiccups, and I was shooting outside handheld on a hot day, along with inside with the ISO maxed out. Edited short-film to come ;)

Elecard Streameye Studio - Initial Buffers at startup comparison over 4 different bitrates;-
24mbps (stock GH2), 32mbps Hacked, 42 hacked, 65 hacked. Make what you will of the buffers being initialised. 24mbps and 42mpbs are exact match! See attached

I appreciate all the hard work and testing that everyone is doing; but it seems that the title of this topic is misleading. There seems to be more discussion about what doesn't work than what does.

Maybe this one could be changed to "Almost stable" and then one could be started for ones that have been confirmed to be stable under all conditions.

who cares about the garbage in the beginning of the file?
Just cut it later.

@cbrandin thanks for this valueble info!

@swen24
@tomaso

I am trying out your settings. I find something very strange with how GH2 calculates the capacity (time remaining) of SD cards in MPEG (HD) mode. It does not matter whether I put in an 8gb, 16gb, or 32gb card. GH2 gives me only 8 minutes and 20 seconds of recording. I have not tried to actually record pass 8m20s to see if the recording stops or not. But it is strange. I believe these settings have something to do with the incorrect calculation of the remaining time for MPEG mode:

1080p24 Low Top Setting=31178
1080p24 Low Bottom Setting=21824
720p Top Setting=31878
720p Bottom Setting=22314
1080i60 Top Setting=31598
1080i60 Bottom Setting=22118

The remaining time calculations for AVCHD are correct for all the modes. Does anybody have a problem like what I have described above or it's just me?


@Vitaliy_Kiselev

I do not know whether my finding has any value to you that the above setting affects the time remaining calculation in MPEG (HD) mode. Thank you very much for such a wonderful work.

@mpgxsvcd


Thanks for a quick response.

>MJPEG time limit is based solely on file size. If I remember correctly it is a 2 gigabyte limit.

Are you saying that time remaining for MJPEG mode only indicates time for a single MJPEG clip?


>The higher the bit rate for MJPEG the lower that time limit will show because it will reach the 2 gigabyte limit faster.

Should I not get a different time limit for 8gb, 16gb, and 32gb? But what I see for the time limit for all the cards is 8m20s. Did I mis-understand you on this?

@mpgxsvcd

Thanks for the clarification. Just went back to the manual and found the confirmation.

"Motion picture recorded continuously in [MOTION JPEG] is up to 2 GB. Only the maximum
recordable time for 2 GB is displayed on the screen."

@Dusty42 that config doesn't work on my g2..Doesn't allow me to shoot anything..

44Mbit 6GOP 24P, 44Mbit 60P, Stable Settings for Slower Class 6 Cards
I use these with my EU version GH2 with Transcend 16 Gig Class 6 card, works great!

@Braamokiev I used PTool 3.62

A frame grab of an underexposed (then set levels in PS) 24P video: http://hares.fi/videoframe.png with the settings, shot with the 14-42 kit lens. Quite happy with the results :)

You just download the link, it is the latest build. When you launch it you will say 3.62.