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I'm brand new here and live in South Africa. I bought a GH4 from a dealer that had to import the camera as Panasonic seems not to supply it to South Africa currently. So, I'm rather alone in trying to sort things out. After doing about 300 short movie clips with it, I kind of know the camera by now. My problem comes after shooting a clip. I use Premiere CS6 and Vegas 13 to do my rendering and all the clips are shot in CinelikeD CK4 24p profile. When I import the clip from the camera's Sandisk 280Mbps U3 Ultra Fast Card into Premiere, I render the clip before exporting in 1080p. The rendered product does not play back smoothly. It has numerous "judders / jitters) and makes the footages useless. We use the PAL system here and I have wondered if the problem could be a sync issue between the 24p and the PAL system (which is 25p). I use a i5 PC with Windows Professional 64bit, 8Gb Ram and a 7200 rpm drive (2Tb). I also installed a quality 4Gb Asus graphics card. Last week I took my footage to a media house working with top end Apple PCs, asked them to render the file and got about the same "poor" result. I must say they said it was the first time they worked with 4K. What am I doing wrong? I'm by now at then of the rope and frustrated. Any suggestions / help will be highly appreciated. Regards

I've decided to buy a GH4. I think I should possibly buy it today, so I really need some advice. I have an insanely full month ahead - we're buying our first house next week and moving in the week after. Then it's my son's 2nd birthday the weekend after that, then the weekend after that we're getting married followed by a short honeymoon! My girlfriend has a promotion interview sometime in June too, and my family and the in-laws will be staying for the birthday and wedding. I know, I should probably scrap the GH4 idea and spend the money on drugs to help me cope. Once the dust has settled in July, I've decided to make a serious attempt at setting myself up professionally as a videographer (I've already done some paid work for community groups and private commissions over the past year or two). Plus I'd like to document my momentous month ahead as best I can (my G6 isn't my favourite stills camera, and my D5300 is impossible to use for stills with my manual glass). So I need to buy the GH4 very soon (I'll be too busy in a matter of days I think) Here's my situation: If I order the camera here in the UK before Monday (2nd June) I'll get a free battery and grip with it - not essential but I'm stretching myself to afford the camera so this would be quite handy. The big question for me is, should I do that or should I wait for a 'world camera' (i.e. no time limit and NTSC/PAL switchable) from B&H to arrive from the US. Again, this is not an essential but the GH4 seems relatively future proof and I see it fulfilling my needs for several years so I'd like it to be as versatile as possible. More seriously, it seems that there is a big difference in what can be recorded via HDMI to a Ninja in PAL vs NTSC. Anyone know more about this? The option of 10bit in the future is important to me. Anyone have any opinions on all of this? Andrew, I know you bought the US camera - I'd really appreciate your advice if you read this? By the way, I'm going to list my G6 and D5300 (with Z-Finder Jr) on ebay UK tomorrow night (Sun 1st) and possibly my Roland R26 audio recorder and Rode NTG2 mic, which I hardly ever use. I want to streamline my workflow, and using just one superb and easy to use camera with onboard sound (Rode VMP/Rode Lav) is just far too attractive to me right now. I may also sell my MonoCam CF pro (awesome Glidecam style stabiliser) as i don't use it often enough to justify keeping it. It's all in great condition. Let me know you're interested. Thanks guys :)