What in the world is my problem? Deinterlacing and other quality issues!!

[Keith Greenfield]

They have said it all. One small thing, has anybody tried using the HDMI out from the GH2 to a DVR? Rumour has it that the field order is getting trashed. For example, record to a Ninja in ProRes 422. Shame if it is. 4:2:2 ProRes right off the GH2 chip ..hmmm nice.

Now slightly of post:
My pennyworth(rant): AVCHD, XDCAM EX et al are all what an old fogy like me calls a ‘delivery codec’. Then at that momentous year at NAB, alongs come …h264. And everybody ends with a cpu intensive non I frame codec. to record with and edit.
Everything now has to be ‘wrapped’ then ‘unwrapped’ then transcoded again into something resembling true I frame video.
In the ‘old days’ this is the decision we had to make. Analog video out and convert to digital, MJPEG was the first of the few. Then came DV, albeit linear digital it was transferred via ieee 1492 cable (Sony iLink) bit for bit onto your waiting DV timeline to edit…natively …no render bars. All those years ago.
And now here we are, doing the same damn thing. Transcoding into something we can work, ‘natively’ with. Bit for bit, digit for digit.
ProRes has become the new MJPG. All seems so familiar.
Anyhoo, rant over. Get to ProRes soon as, get out of any longop codec quickly.
Look at it this way, shoot with the GH2, thats either h264 or MJPG, unwrap using Clipwrap, edit then transcode yet again into mpeg2 for SD dvd or mpg2/h264 for HD Bluray. So many burning hoops to jump through, each time taking a bit of skin with it.
That rant did’nt stop did it sorry.

BTW, you tried outputting your HD footage as h264 putting it onto a USB thumb drive and playing via BluRay deck that has a usb slot?
Or, with short clips, less than 30 minutes, using Toast 10 with the HD pluggin to author and burn a BlUray fomat onto a DVD disk.?