Lumix G9 Firmware Update: Video Frame Rate
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Learn how to set up and use the new Variable Frame Rate feature in the Lumix G9. This is for Lumix Firmware 2.0 Update of November 2019.
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I have learned more from your videos than I learned in 4 years of High School. OK, maybe not, but your videos have really helped me. Thank You.
Great to hear this Cameron! I guess my teaching style works for you. Cheers!
@@ImageMaven It does work for me, and there was one day that I was really frustrated and your message got me to chill. I am starting to make some progress now. You're the best!
120 frames/second is a great new option because it is the highest frame rate you can have under AC lighting conditions without flickering. Keep up your great work :)
Yes, it's fun to experiment with frame rates. Thanks for checking out my video!
As others have said, you are the best G9 resource out there. You are truly a pillar of the community...Panasonic should be paying you!
Ha ha. I wish! Thank you so much. You've made my day. I'll definitely pass this comment along to my friends at Panasonic Canada.
You're back, it's a pleasure to see you again! Yes I made the update v2.0 is just fantastic. I like the way you say variable speed and any other new function.
Panasonic is great, it's Christmas before time.
Yes, it's quite a treat! I'm happy about it too, especially the variable frame rates!
The slow mo was so effective...I hurt when she fell! Excellent tutorial Marlene, thank you~!
I think she hurt a bit too!
The 2.0 firmware plus a great price are what tipped me over to the G9. It does everything I would want from the GH5 except for unlimited recording, and I saved hundreds of dollars in difference.
Great choice. The G9 is designed for photographers who shoot video, but are not necessarily professional videographers. I've never been limited by the 29'59" limit on my recordings. Enjoy!
@@ImageMaven Thanks! I trust you're staying healthy and safe. The only time I'll run into record limit issues is with long form interviews, which dont happen too often. And then I'll just use my GH4. I can't believe what a huge jump the G9 is in terms of AF speed and accuracy, plus lots of little improvements which make it a really solid camera. Stay well!
You stay well too. Thanks for stopping by to chat. 😀
Thanks for all you are doing for g9 users !
From france
Thanks for the information, I haven’t got into videoing yet, but I am glad I saw that, some great ideas. Also for the link to the updated PDF manual.
So glad you are doing videos about the new 2.0 firmware update! This was especially useful since I am not that adept using video. Hope you can keep these coming. You are my G9 sensei.
Thanks Steven 😀 I have a few more videos to go on this topic. I know there are more new video options to cover with this firmware update, but I need to do some research and testing first. Thanks for watching.
Love it! Thanks Marlene! I just bought my G9 and I am dying to test all these settings! I am new to Panasonic Lumix, so I will be checking your videos! Keep the good work!
I hope you love your G9 as much as I do. Don't get overwhelmed by everything. A new system takes a few months to get used to, that I know. If you feel there are any gaps or missing basic information in my G9 playlist, let me know. Not that I can answer every question, but I might be able to help. And it's always great to have new ideas for videos. I learn so much from people's comments and questions on these videos. Keeps me going, that's for sure! Cheers.
@@ImageMaven I will be looking forward to learning from you. As you certainly said, coming from another system with easy to use menus (Canon), makes a new one a harder task for months, but I will accept the challenge. Thanks again!
subbed. first clip I have seen so far without the vloger BS nonsense added to it. Looking forward to some more of your uploads!
Great to hear this. I'm definitely not a vlogger in the usual sense. And I try to keep the BS meter turned off. Thanks for the sub! Cheers!
i just have started to see your videos and all i want to say is "thank you so muchisimo!" i send you a kiss, please continue making your tutorials for Lumix G9 😎
Thank you Juan. I'm so happy to hear this. :)
Wow! Another Quality Video from Marlene, insightful, thank You. I have a ? . I have the 12-60 Leica and 25mm and the 45mm which do you recommend for youtube videos to get bokeh in the background of a normal size bedroom size. Thanks, Marlene. I believe we are all very grateful for the time and effort it takes to make there. Happy Thanks Giving Marlene
Thanks Neo :) If it's a talking head type, try the 25mm first. I typically use my 12-35mm around the 25-35mm focal length, and I shoot at about f/4.0 in my videos. I don't worry about bokeh though. I worry more about audio, lighting and most importantly, content. But if you want to test it out, open up your aperture all the way. Just be careful that you are in focus! If your lens is open to f/2.0 or so you may fall out of focus if you move around at all. Also if the background is close to you, it won't be very much out of focus. So make sure you're a good 3-4 feet away from your background if possible. You'll have to test for exact distances. FYI, in my RUclips videos I'm sitting about 4 feet in front of my camera, and less than a foot in front of my backdrop. Mostly because I have a very small space to work in. Notice in my close ups of the camera though, that I have really good bokeh? This is because I'm close to my subject. Because proximity to subject adds to bokeh effect. As does f/stop and focal length. Test it out with photos first. If you get bokeh in your photos, you'll get in in your videos too. Hope that helps. p.s. in Canada we have our turkey the second Monday of October. That way the weather is better ;) Enjoy your holiday weekend.
@@ImageMaven Knew there was something special about you. I have been to Montreal and Quebec in 1976 for the Olympic Games. Some of the nicest people on earth. Thanks for the info, I like the logic behind your statement, Test it out with photos first. If you get bokeh in your photos, you'll get in in your videos too. Smart, they are jpegs after all, right. Always a pleasure and Happy Holidays to you as well.
Marlene, I also wanted to ask you what you think of the 10-25 1.7 Leica lens at $1800. I did want it but fo me it is too BIG in size and price. It is massive from what I have seen. I may try to get the 15mm 1.7 Summilux instead for video, not sure yet need to do more research.
@@NeoDon1 Ya, that 10-25 is too big for me too, in both price and stature. I do love my 15mm, but it's a smidge too wide for talking head videos. If you look at my video about the Godox Flash from October you'll see what I mean. ruclips.net/video/LsquIVG421k/видео.html My head is slightly distorted. I think for a 2-shot in a tight space, it would be fine. It's super sharp though, and great for my indoor skateboarding pics due to the speed, which I normally use my 7-14mm, but it's only f/4, so an outdoor lens.
Go with your 25mm. I think it will be perfect. Also you won't get the bokeh in the 15mm, as bokeh diminishes with shorter focal lengths.
Thank you Marlene, excellent info
Great to hear it. Cheers.
'You are my favourite G9 resource'.. Ditto!
Thank you! 😀
Thank you for doing this, Marlene.
Ah, it needs to be in .mov, gotcha. I was wondering why I couldn't get it to work :)
I'll be experimenting with it at the weekend. You know, with this update, Panasonic has made a good camera even better. Amazing :)
Yes that got me at first too! Agreed, this camera is now top shelf.
Another great, informative video, you do a fantastic job, it’s greatly appreciated!
Great to hear this Marty. Thank you for letting me know. THAT is greatly appreciated!
Hi Marlene, thank you! thank you! wonderful explanation, I will wait for the next video :)
Great to hear this. Thanks so much!
Great video explanation of VFR. It's inspired me to start shooting some video with my G9 :)
It is quite fun to play with. Enjoy!
7:10 the best b-roll ever :o
I think so too! ;)
Thank you, but there is no frame rate between 2 and 30 ? Seem a big gap if I want to speed the clip about 500%
Very nice!
Great video on G9 a great help
Nice one Marlene! Take care.
Thanks Gosta!
Thanks for this video.
You're welcome Michael! :)
Thank you so much!! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
Thanks Amy. But I’m in Canada, and we celebrate Thanksgiving the second Monday in October. And it’s really low key by comparison. Are you in the USA?
Marlene Hielema oops. Sorry. Yes, I lived in Texas, USA. Thanksgiving is one of the major holiday for us. I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for replying. Have a great rest of your week.
Hi Marlene, thank you for your wonderful tips on using the G9. I am learning to use my G9 and would like to know how to seemlessly switch from normal speed to slow mo without using separate clips, do you do this in post or is there a way to do it whilst filming on the G9?
Hi Mike. That is definitely something you need to do in post. I'm not aware of any camera that can do this actually. At least not beyond what you can do with the slow motion option on a lot of cell phone cameras. Enjoy your G9. Cheers.
@@ImageMaven Thank you Marlene
Great video, thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thanks so much for stopping by.
Very informative! Thank you
Just received mine !! It comes with the update install already !! Big sticker on the box saying so !!
Yipee! Have fun with your new G9.
Great job! But I’m very confused. It’s not the teacher, it’s the student. Your instructions were clear.
If I want to slow down video I just do that in my video editor, so I don’t understand what additional benefit this feature is adding. Maybe it will become clear after I do some hands-on work with it.
True you can do slow and fast motion video in editing as well, but not everyone is a video editor, or uses software that can do that. And I believe there are some benefits to doing it in the camera. But I'll let you look that up and decide what's best for your workflow. Cheers!
In the normal modes the highest FPS you get is 60 in both 4K and 1080p, which can give you smooth slowmotion up to half speed on a 30 fps timeline. VFR gives you options for 120 and 180fps in 1080p. Which gives you even more headroom for slowmotion, up to 20% of real time. 👍 So, since you loose sound and it's manual focus only, VFR is mostly used for 1080p 120 and 180fps.
Jo Vaagan. Perfect! Thanks for that, Jo.
@@mediamannaman Enjoy your VFR 👍
Marlene, thank you for this, it is the most helpful thing I have seen in understanding the VFR video which I am just beginning to explore. I encountered a problem right away when shooting video on the G9. The MOV file won't play in Windows 10 Movie Maker...which is odd because MOV files from my Pentax DSLR work just fine. This was shooting regular video but I assume the same will apply to VFR video. I had to download VLC media player to convert the files before I could do anything with them. Can you advise, is there a simple solution here?
Sorry I'm a mac girl. Can't solve your problem. Try some windows experts to see if there's a software compatibility issue with those kinds of files.
@@ImageMaven Understood. Thanks for your reply.
Very good. Thank's for sharing.
Good video! Are you saying at 5:35 that with the exposure mode P, you can set the shutter angle for the appropriate shutter speed in the G9 for 180 degrees for the final framerate playback, and it will continue to be correct as you change framerates for shooting? The G9 will then only change f-stops automatically?
Yes the exposure is automatic. You can still use exposure compensation though. Try it out!
Thanks for the explanation. So the high speed video and the variable frame rate video at 180 fps are basically doing the same, right? Only the vfr offers more options. Am I right? Thanks.
VFR is "variable" the High Speed video option is just one speed. It can be 180fps at 1080p, or 60fps and 48fps if you're shooting in 4K. But yes VFR has more options.
What's the difference between using VFR and the traditional way of doing slomo viz. actually shooting at a higher frame rate then dropping it in to a timeline with a slower frame rate? Is the quality degraded when we do VFR? The channel hybrid shooter seemed to think so. I was wondering if the degradation is noticeable in real world usage
VFR works for my purposes but I’m just a photographer who makes RUclips videos. I’m not a pro videographer nor pro video editor. Everyone needs to test this for themselves. I never rely on what others say or do especially with camera tech.
Madam, First respect to you for valuable lesson, I not yet updates my G9 firmware; second yesterday I testing out on tripod frame rate 24 and 25 using double Shutter speed for good videos, but I got choppy video …. may be I disabled our enabled any function/option? or some thing other went wrong? don't know … when I watching these videos in camera LCD Screen than its ok as usual but in my laptop its choppy. When I watching previous G9 videos in my Laptop its all okey
Hmm, sounds like you're doing everything right. By choppy do you mean jumpy? Playing slow or un-even? Could be your computer. My videos play back slower when I'm viewing them in LightRoom. Let me know if you figure out what's wrong.
@@ImageMaven playing slow in laptop
I am not using any editing software. Just copying the videos and playing which slowing. I shots video on tripod
@@malikimtiaz4434 It's probably the laptop.
@@ImageMaven thanks
Thank you Marleen. I hope I can ask you something about filming with the G9.
In january I'm going to South Africa on a phototrip. I want also make films but I wonder if there is a kind of standerd for filming.
The standard has to do with how you are going to edit your video clips together, and also how you are going to watch them. Are you in Europe or North America?There are different electrical standards so that will determine what you set your camera on. I'm in Canada and I use MP4 or MOV and I use 1920 x 1080 60p for my RUclips videos. Some people like to use 4K for videos. I don't need such large files myself, but it's handy if you have to crop into your video frames. So it's hard for me to tell you what is right for you. You should do some research a bit closer to home and see what video editors say. Sorry I can't be more help or more specific on this topic, as everyone's workflow is a bit different.
@@ImageMaven thank you, this is clear to me. I'm living in the Netherlands and I'm going to try it before I go on my trip in MP4 and 1920x1080.
@@rietvandenberg1079 Yes, definitely test things out before you go. And maybe do a bit of editing too. That way you will learn a lot! And you can combine photos and videos together to make a nice hybrid show.
@@ImageMaven yes that is what I want to do.
Hi Marlene. Great video. Thanks for being so clear. I am really considering graduating to this camera. I really like shooting slow-mo, but it seems like a lot of steps to go from shooting at regular speed to the VFR mode. Do you know if it is possible to set one of the programmable function buttons to toggle VFR mode? Thanks!
It's really not that hard once you do your initial set up. As for the Fn buttons, you can assign one that allows you change the frame rate using the Fn button if the VFR is enabled in the menus. You also have to be shooting in dedicated video mode (on the Mode dial). So yes, you do save a bit of time using an Fn button.
@@ImageMaven that's great! Thank you!
@@ZitoVino I highly recommend this camera though!
Does it record audio at the higher framerates like 120p and 180p?
Nope. The audio is not recorded at any of the faster or slower framerates. To get the audio to slow down or speed up with the video, you would have to record a normal speed clip and slow it down or speed it up in video editing software. Thanks for the great question!
@@ImageMaven Thanks!
so i adjust the frame rate after the video clip has been recorded? asking for a friend.
No. You do it before. Set it up. Shoot. Playback. Voila.
This feature killed my capture of the local ballet. Im very annoyed, my G9 went automatically into a VFR sequence at 2FPS! Got back to it at the end and it's all destroyed. I only have telephoto of the b-roll now. Very annoyed with Lumix.
Sorry to hear this. You likely forgot to take it off VFR after testing it out. Or didn’t set it up the way you wanted before shooting the ballet. We all make mistakes and we learn from them.
Hi Marlene, i'm a beginner in video recording and i'd like to know what's the differences between g9's VFR and high speed mode, please. Good channel, I have subscribed
Hello Haddi. Welcome to my channel. The difference between high speed mode and VFR, is that the VFR has more choices, plus you can do slow motion and fast motion. High speed mode just has one setting. It produces a VERY Slow frame rate. I prefer the Variable Frame Rate options as sometimes I just want a little faster or a little slower. It's more fun to experiment with. I'm so happy they added it! I have a video all about the High Speed mode. Have you seen it? ruclips.net/video/RPPMFAo1VB8/видео.html
So in effect if you want 120fps you will need to use 60fps VFR and then slow that 60fps down in post to say 24fps or 30 whatever you like? I find the 150fps slow motion a little too slow for my liking.
Depends on your original video format and frame rate, whether 4K or 1080p. Cycle through the options and you'll see the relationship. But this is all done in the camera, not in post. All of my sample clips came straight out of the camera with no change of speed.
@@ImageMaven I think I will have to test it. It should work and mean the 120fps becomes more than just 50% slow mo. Will also have better image quality than the 180 and 150fps options if it works.
How do you alter the speed of a video already captured with VFR on?
You’d have to change the clip speed in your video editing software.
The resulting video (whether fast or slow motion) is done in the camera? If you placed it on your timeline, it will automatically reflect the speed difference?
Yes. The clips you see in my video have not been altered in editing.
Hello Marlene, I echo the last comment regarding the G9 and your channel. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the latest firmware update, regarding recording formats. Given that there are now four recording formats, which one would you recommend for me ? When doing videos, I only record steam train videos, which I load up to my youtube channel and watch on my 49" 4k TV. I currently record in MP4 4k at 30fps, however, the new firmware gives me more options, in particular, 4k 10bit in MOV. At the end of the day, do you think there will be any noticeable difference in viewing quality between these formats ? I do not do video editing/grading, just straight out of the camera. It would also be useful, to take a still shot from the videos, of which MOV suggests would be the best option. Many thanks, Peter.
Hi Peter, In your case, I'd definitely test out the three 4K modes available. If it was me I'd do a quick test first and see how the playback looks on your TV after uploading to RUclips. Then go from there. If you want to use VFR then choose one of those settings. It's likely you won't need the HLG settings as you are not editing the clips. To do the test pop your camera on a tripod, set it up outside somewhere and record your voice saying what format each clip is shot in, that way it's easier to remember. Keep in mind that RUclips adds compression. If you plug your camera directly into your TV via HDMI then you'd get the best results. But I assume you're sharing these files, so that's why you need them on RUclips. Hope that helps.
@@ImageMaven Many thanks Marlene, will try out.
I chose a frame rate that is marked as variable…the same as yours here… but variable frame rate remains greyed out. Are there any other items that need to be changed to choose VFR?
Hi Ambrozia, Likely you don't have it set to a .MOV format. Doesn't work with MP4. For more info consult Page F-20 of the pdf owner's manual (back part of the manual with the firmware updates). It's a bit tricky and easy to forget that mov part. Hopefully this solves your problem.
Just in case anyone has this problem, I had to search and search to find the issue. Make sure Filter Settings is set to OFF. Finally that change opened the ability to set the variable frame rate. Whew!
@@ambroziajewel Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm sure it will benefit others! I never use those filter settings so I'm glad you were able to figure things out!
@@ImageMaven I didn’t want a filter either. It must have checked itself 😂.
Do you have a link to your wrist strap? (assuming you are happy with it)
I'm super happy with my Gordy's wrist strap. This is the closest I could find on amazon.com amzn.to/2WbAEBs But it's available from The Camera Store so if you're in Canada, you can order online from them directly. Gordy's has a website too. www.thecamerastore.com/6939-Gordys-Wrist-Strap-Lug-Mount.aspx
Is the G9 still worth buying going into 2020 ?
At the price it's selling for right now, yes. Dropped $1000. I've had mine for nearly 2 years and I've no plans to replace it.
@@ImageMaven wow, amazing response speed and timing! I was just looking at it on B&H and the sales will end tonight, looks like i should not hesitate anymore! Thanks much!
@@kentcs5367 At these prices I'm even thinking of picking up a second one myself.
Can someone explain why we would want to shoot video with VFR? What's the point? Thanks.
As I said in the video, its great for b-roll, and adds a creative and emotional aspect to your clips. Plus it's fun to see things in slow motion. Great for social media sharing too, especially sports clips.
@@ImageMaven Thank you Marlene :)
You juggle too!
Haha 😂 Gotta keep things interesting Jack!
Does the G9 take better photos than G95/90?
Does a photographer take better photos on one camera over another.....?
@@ImageMaven I guess I will look elsewhere for an answer, since I'm in the market
@@droidzhunterz6861 It's hard to answer this question, as it also depends on the individual and what their needs are. But if you like a larger meatier camera that is top of line, get the G9. If you're looking for something slightly smaller and less expensive with less features, go for the G95. If you're a professional shooter, go for the G9. If you're a hobbyist the G95 might do just fine. I use an old small Lumix M4/3 GM5 and the Lumix G9, but honestly the GM5 is with me more than the big G9. Because it's for everyday use and if I'm on a holiday I'm going to take it because it's small and can hang around my neck like a piece of jewellery and I can still use both hands. Not the case with the G9. So which camera is best, yes the G9 of course, but that's my answer. Best camera I've ever owned.
Super Content. SOOOO helpful. Thanks very much!
You're very welcome. Happy to hear it resonates with you, Art.