tiedtothe90s Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Does the Unified 88 Patch have a record limit? I tried checking and unchecking the box for the 30 min limit, but I still only can record 12 minutes 30 seconds. I tried two different brand cards (transcend/sandisk class 10), 24H,24L and HBR modes. I'm using the ptools 3 with firmware 1.1. VANILLA works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Andrew Reid Posted March 28, 2012 Administrators Share Posted March 28, 2012 The higher quality patches are limited because of the size of the card and how much more image data they put on it. It is the trade off - performance or clip length? I recommend Vanilla if you are doing continuous takes longer than 20 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiedtothe90s Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 Thanks for the quick response! Good to know moving forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcuswolschon Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Strange thing here too. GH2 with the unaltered unified patch applied to a 1.1 firmware. a) The patch says 90Mbps for video. The resulting 14 second file has 39'896 kBit/s for it's video stream. A resulting 59 second file has 65'308 KBit/s for it's video stream. It should have been 90000000Bit/s=87890KBit/s (Identified with Windows Explorer, file-details.) b) The description of the patch says it uses I-Frames. But the settings.ini sets a GOP of 1. c) The camera says I have a recording limit of 48 minutes and 10 seconds on a newly formated 64GB card. A 14 second clip is 72,4MB in length => 310MB/min. So extrapolating from that I should have 3.43 hours at maximum bitrate on a newly formated 64GB card. With 59s of recorded video, the card contains 468MB of data. =>64G = 134min Both way more then 48min. So the file size is not what is causing this limit. Bitrate vs. reported limit on 64GB (actually there is space for about 3x that much video) 90000000 => 0h48m10s => resulting bitrate 39'896 to 65'308 KBit/s 80000000 => 0h54m6s 70000000 => 1h01m 60000000 => 1h11m 45000000 => 1h35m => resulting bitrate 22483kBit/s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckenzgd Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'm not the worlds most technical person but I followed the instructions for installing Unified 88 and I getting an average bit rate of 18 - 22 at HBR and its the same at 24p. Just for the hell of it I did a little more research and when you install the patch with ptools my understand is you literally have to tick the box in the drop down menu " patched for end users" to select high bit rate!. this was not explained in this link instructions http://www.eoshd.com/gh2-patch-vault call me stupid but if you dont select any options when you install the patch you dont make any changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vijayvis Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 I realize that this isn't about time limit. I installed the unified 88 on my GH2. No issues. I shot two videos and checked for bit rate. one was ~66Mbits/s and the other was ~77. Do you not get a constant 88Mbits/sec with the hack? I am a lay person when it comes to shooting video and the technical aspects of it, so pardon me if this sounds like a dumb question. Thanks in advance for your answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vijayvis Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 just realized that it is variable bitrate. So my question now is what circumstances would you get the highest bit rate, scenes with a lot of detail? is shooting at 720 60p also variable like 1080 24p? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.