@driftwood Hi Nick, about Crossfire ver.2 shouldn't be the other way around? I mean reducing the green and have more blue and red infos? Unless I didn't get it right. I mean, doesn't the gh2 record too much of green and low red, and that's one of the reason of banding (I know the main is the 8bit) and, sometimes, weird skin tones?

this is shot with cluster 4

only with 2 different CCTV 25mm 1.4 / 1.2 and slrmagic 12mm 1.6

I wanted something very dirt - 800 ISO to have the right noise and 1/100 of course

CC: just some raw curves correction and maybe a contrast mask

overall satisfied, thanks @VK, thanks @driftwood

@driftwood - "Increasing the quantisation entries (thereby reducing the entries down from 255) of Cr and Cb in the scaling tables can help take out more of the green chrominance."

While this would certainly increase the quantization precision of Cr and Cb luma components, it won't have any effect on the relative balance of green versus red and blue components. Color balance is determined by Film Mode settings, the Quantization Matrix affects only the precision with which color components are encoded.

@terry2 Aside from Nostalgic, which has a warm-to-yellowish look, all GH2 Film Modes have a greenish tint. In Smooth Film Mode, I use the White Balance adjustment to add an M-3 correction in-camera.

Hello to everyone and to @thepalalias, how is it all going? I dont know if anyone gotten my previous comment but I was just surprised to see how much has moved on and how much I missed.

Picking up where I left off quite awhile ago here:

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/57689#Comment_57689

I have finally gotten around to applying Sedna Q20 C, BUT the recordings still keep halting after a few seconds on the Manual Movie Modes (1080i50)! And yes, I have been using my Sandisk 16GB 95Mb/s card :(

Now, I saw the Quantum 9b Updated and I thought I would give that a go, and interstingly enough in Manual Movie Mode, it actually was going on for abit longer than i thought compared to Sedna Q20 alone, still it did stop but after a few minutes, althought this was more positive results, it was not what I was looking for.

You also mentioned in your comment there that it was all down to programming on the Manual Movie Mode which was designed to work at lower bitrates than 24H, has there by ay chance managed to resolve this by now? If not, what would have to be done exactly? Cant someone take the Cinema Mode but for it to capture at 50i instead? :D

I hope all understands what I mean, because of this, a couple of my assignments had to be recorded in 24p inorder to get long recordings, but I dont like the fact I am using 1/50th of a shutter speed with it, it really looks odd.

Crossfire variation 2 'Green Screen matrix' Featuring a tighter quantisation in the Chroma Red and Chroma Blue plus work on the Luma settings. Its a Q20 VBR setting, all buffers perfectly constant, with High Intra settings on 24p and HBR modes. Detail will use bitrate accordingly. Good for Green Screen, I prefer ISO 320 or 160 along with Standard picture profile on the camera. Give it a test and report back as usual.

@fegato Nice job!

On my way to London to The Revenge of the Great Zacuto Camera Shootout 2012 4pm screening - anyone else going?

@driftwood & @LPowell I just tested Crossfire variation 2 'Green Screen matrix' set to 24h. It looks good but it shows up as 24fps in after effects not 23.98

HD format (.mov) is recording at 2 fps in crossfire patch this is bad. Can anyone please confirm this?

@banaphsh, @paglez. If you go to ptools and bring up the Crossfire settings, the last line shows as 720p30->720pXfps=2. Change the 2 to 30 and you should be OK. It was changed to 2 to give you timelapse recording.

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Attended the London screening of Zacuto's Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout 2012 today at Soho Screening Rooms and it was great to meet fellow GH2 users down there. Without being told which camera was which we were asked to pick our fav 5 shots produced between the Iphone, 7D, Sony F65, Arri Alexa, Sony F3, Canon cs300, Red Epic, Sony FS100 and the good old GH2. I chose the GH2 (using Quantum 9B) as my second favourite ranked shot - choosing the Arri as the overall best looking image - but like other reports was completely taken aback by how suprisingly good even the iphone was. It just goes to show with the right lighting, setup, lens, grade and care you can make the minnows match the big boys.

Having a chat later on with the team I got an indication as to which top Hollywood film director preferred the look of the GH2 over all the rest - he's made some of the most inspiring films of the last 40 odd years... but I promised the guys I wouldn't reveal his name as the first of the web series of documents comes out tomorrow... they'll hopefully reveal all tomorrow... Gotta say it made me smile though! :-)