[Carlos E. martinez]

Fred,

As I haven’t yet used the AMA, please do forgive my probably stupid questions.

How is that that install the AMA and then do not use it and import directly?

Why then do I need the AMA and what for?

[Carlos E. martinez]

Hi Fred,

Your suggestions sounds very logical and practical. Now I would like to get a hacked GH2 file to process and see how it works out.

Can anyone send me one or two minutes of a hacked GH2 file for me to test?

[Carlos E. martinez]

What about this other option?

https://articles.pubarticles.com/best-gh2-avchd-mts-to-avid-dnxhd-mov-converting-software-without-rendering-on-mac-1300092059,115784.html

[Carlos E. martinez]

CLipWrap2 is a PC program?

Perhaps I forgot to say that I am using Avid MC in PC version, not Mac’s.

It’s interesting to note that the “default” answer for editing answers, if the person answering is from the US, is always based on Macs. 😉

[Carlos E. martinez]

Sorry, Jordan. I’m really not willing to move to Premiere.

Nowadays I think Avid has become the best editing soft around, at least for PC. But it’s a fact that Pana’s AVCHD are a problem to deal with using MC.

Guy, you suggest using Sony’s to import the stuff, not edit, right?

How do I import it from Avid then?

[Carlos E. martinez]

Sorry, Guy, I run a PC, which I specified on my first thread.

So any solution involving a Mac or FCP is out of the question for me.

[Carlos E. martinez]

So it looks as if I have to find a hack that has been proven works with Avid MC.

How can I do that?

[Carlos E. martinez]

What about card types and GH2 hacks?

How do they affect record time limit and/or other issues?

[Carlos E. martinez]

Thanks, Fred.

I also felt this was betting too specific and not Avid related. And was already thinking of going to the DVX GH2 forum. If there’s one at Cow’s it’s even better.

Pity motion Jpeg is not a real option, as a few minutes doesn’t serve me.

Thanks again.

[Carlos E. martinez]

< How many minutes will depend on your bitrate. >

OK, how I set that bitrate on the GH2? Let’s say 100mB/s, like the motion jpeg in your test. How many minutes would I have on that larger card the camera + hack will allow?

<- Any compressed codec degrades, to more or less proportions.
If you want the datas intacts the solution is called RAW.>

The GH2 does allow RAW, but can it be used for video? That I know the Blackmagic does allow.

Yes, my knowledge about codecs is certainly limited, or I wouldn’t be making these questions here. What I’m looking for now is some advice on what path to choose. I want a format that will not degrade in post.

Apparently there are different AVCHD versions, because the Sony FS100 also records in HD MPEG-4 AVCHD, which should be the same as the GH2, and I never heard of “degrading dangers”.

I need to know my limitations to work around them. That’s something I did learn in my 16mm years, as the idea was to shoot 16 to blow up to 35. But there’s limitations and limitations.

Resolution should be the best possible, and that is something the GH2 seems to have plenty of. Many sources comment that and also wonder why.

I will have to color correct, that’s quite likely, and maybe re-framed, so I need to know which would be the best way for that, both in codec from originals and in post. That is, can or should the original be converted to something less degradable?

Yes, it may be so. But it’s still in pre-order and investment would be higher. I prefer something I can buy right away. If possible something I might intermix with the BM or the FS100, or any other, in the future.

Knowing my compromises is what I’m trying to do now.

Of course, but I get the shakes when I look at some stuff I wrongly recorded in DV, when I should have in HDV. Or HDV shootings I did trusting the Z1 “optimistic” screen, and ended up too contrasty. Now I never shoot without using my portable DVD 10″ screen, as I did on many of my shootings that ended quite nicely. I will have to seriously process those “mistakes” because the content is very good.

So I would like a better, more controllable image to start with. A friend of mine says the AVCHD might be a step up from HDV, which sort of supports trying the GH2.

My “quality preoccupations” are very much related to DOF control, which I have none on the Z1. Having a subject that is in the same focus as the background is distracting.

Isn’t the Epic a garbage camera by definition?

I think I already did that comparison, and I’m past that. Now I need to know what I’m getting into, so I won’t blame myself on what did I do.

Sorry for the very long text.