jonpais

@skiphunt have you tried downloading Andrew's or anyone else's 4K files yet? that should give you a good indication if your computer is up to snuff. I'm guessing if you don't plan on using Neat Video or Film Convert on a daily basis, you should be alright. And you can always make proxies. Checking out Resolve Lite, which is pretty processor intensive on my Macbook Pro, I found a bunch of ways to reduce the load while editing: changing the timeline resolution, turning off "enable video field...", reducing bit depth to 8, checking "optimized display", and "use bilinear filter" - all in the project settings. You can also turn off the scopes and audio when you aren't using them. It would appear that the highest res Resolve Lite handles is 3840 though, as best as I can tell. Not that it matters: I plan to downscale everything to 1080p anyhow.

Personally, I'm more interested in how the camera performs in actual use, not test charts. I'd especially like to see some shots with colored gels and perhaps some more intentional flaring (a small Mag Lite pointed directly into the lens would do nicely).

Footage from the GH1 was gradable. It wouldn't be any great surprise if 5 years on, Panasonic had learned a few tricks.

@Andrew have you tried free lensing with the GH4 yet?

@Andrew Could you shoot some footage with vaseline smeared on the front element of your Cooke and put a cracked filter on the front? :)

@johhnymossville Nice Job!

@core_38 Juan Melara is awesome, so wonderful of great colorists to be so generous sharing their techniques with us. Matthew Scott as well. And Frank Glencairn. Learned so much from them.

I can't agree with you, MattH. I've seen tremendous work done by people grading others' footage online and sometimes learned a lot. BTW, are the punctuation keys on your laptop busted?

this grade looks lemon-licious! but the background looks posterized or solarized, whatever.

@Andrew Thanks for the info about editing on a Mac. I went ahead and ordered the 27" iMac over the weekend. At least when I receive it in 8 weeks, I'll know what to expect. And thanks also for providing shorter clips in Copy, so I don't have to wait 24 hours to download the entire clip from Vimeo! Anyhow, at the moment, I'm just chugging along trying to get through the tedious 750 page Resolve manual :(

woa! arri overrated... now that's interesting.

@jlev23 I wouldn't be so quick to speak for everyone. Of course, slo-mo is a feature we all look forward to, but it's not a deal breaker for me. As for a flat gradable picture style, why don't you hold off a bit? Andrew said he's going to continue reporting daily on the camera for the rest of the week. I'm sure he'll post results of the cinelike options in due time.

I started out with the TM900, which is pretty much the same camera as far as I know, and it's an excellent consumer camcorder. Obviously it's not going to give you the flexibility of something like a GH3, but for recording family events or vacations it's more than acceptable. And then I've seen some shorts shot with the camera as well which looked pretty amazing when I first saw them. The last time I checked, SlashCam rated that line of Panasonic camcorders fairly highly.

@Leo Panasonic doesn't shoot 4K RAW. Maybe you mean 10 bit 422? or perhaps time-lapse photography?

@Tim Naylor I'm not sure who you were directing your rant against, since nobody's 'lionizing' anything anywhere in this thread as far as I can tell. If you're referring to Andrew Reid, I don't see anywhere in his article "Canon 4K Refresh" any reference to the GH4 being preferable to the Alexa. I don't know how you managed to rip out the mount of the GH3 body, it's the first time I've heard that one. It must take brute force to do something like that. Also, you say the choice of lenses with u43 mount is limited, whereas in fact, the choice of glass is virtually limitless and growing every few months (thank you, Rokinon!). As for the sensor size, it hasn't limited the imagination of many talented filmmakers. Finally, if you are accusing anyone (still not sure who you're addressing) of catering to Panasonic, I'm not sure you know what you are talking about. BTW, what is 'cinematic DOF'? Everything has to be blurry to resemble film? What about Fellini? Orson Welles? Kalatozov?

Alternatively, you could always teach in Vietnam, buy a GH4 every two months on your salary without ever even doing a gig! :)

As for myself, I've decided to pick up a 27" iMac with 16GB RAM and probably a 1TB fusion drive for a cool $2,600. Specs: 3.5GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz 16GB (two 8GB) memory 1TB hard drive1 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M with 2GB video memory

Is it just me, or is anyone else reading these comments confused as hell? Just as an example, a poster shared a video shot with a Leica and a GoPro, saying rolling shutter could be hidden with scratches and dust specks, but I didn't see any of that in the video, which was very well done by the way. In fact, I didn't see any disturbing rolling shutter in the video at all. But it wasn't even shot with a Sony. The rest of the comments just went in every direction, talking about $40,000 cameras and so on. Has logic just gone out the window?

Looks good to me... someone else will have to answer about RAID. Just one thing, though. Don't get HDD, get SSD.

No, it's not overkill. You'll definitely want quad-core + i7. I'm working with a Macbook Pro Retina 15" with only 8GB RAM and regretting it. Be sure to get at least 16GB RAM whatever system you get, and yeah, a Nvidia graphics card or something like that. And of course, you'll want to get Resolve Lite for your grading. David Vickers has started making some outstanding free tutorials for Resolve, as has Matthew Scott. For learning the ins and outs of FC, Lynda.com is excellent.

Where is the video located? Vimeo? YouTube?

Here's a short tutorial I created for those having trouble importing XML files into Resolve from FCPX http://jonpais.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/how-to-import-xml-files-into-resolve-without-crashes/

Here are some extraordinary concert pics shot with the mighty GM1 http://blog.mingthein.com/2014/03/21/photoessay-avril-lavigne-live-in-kuala-lumpur/#more-8395

well, yeah... some of the members here sound just like those over at POV... so the entire video was shiite and you'd never purchase the camera because of some moire on the fellow's shirt, and it probably wasn't even shot with the GH4... Absolutely ridiculous! We've already seen over a dozen videos of what this camera can do and it looks pretty awesome to me... there isn't a single camera out there at this price point with the features the GH4 camera offers, but it's not good enough; oh, and not a single person who's shot with it knows how to shoot video... Rokinon announces four new lenses for MFT, and already dozens of readers are complaining that they lack autofocus, or that they're too heavy... I'm tired of the mentality in the forums sometimes. If the GH4 is good enough for Andrew, Nick Driftwood and the guys over at the Camera Store in Canada, it's good enough for me. And if filmmakers as talented as Matthew Scott or Frank Glencairn recommend the Rokinons, and back it up with video, I listen. All the rest is hot air.