thanks Rafael and Jason. I shot some quick stuff with the driftwood v7 hack which I thought was @150mbit but the files are coming in @80mbit and they do seem sharper then the 24mbit. Btw the hack was easy from these directions https://is.gd/auB26Z and you can switch back easily.
So far my 2010 macbook pro is playing them fine in this quick test even from the internal drive and not my usual fw800.
A few more questions: I can’t find any inspector info on bitrate within fcpx…the only way I could see the bit rate was to use clip wrap and then use quicktime inspector…is there another way?
I also thought h.264 was not good for editing especially if you will be compositing/grading…I thought prorez is better for that??? You just fly with a straight import?
I’m also very interested in and gh2 settings for video but I will post that in the dslr forum.
thank you