Tutorial how to add Gauges/Overlays to your videos

[drew12345]

I've had a couple people request this so starting a thread. It's also very difficult to tell how fast someone is going and especially the grade of hill when looking at video. These videos will allow you add these type of metrics to your videos.

This is part 1 video of series to show how to add gauges/overlays to your videos. In this video, I add speed, grade, and map from GPS data from my Garmin Edge 305. There are many GPS devices and apps out there but I found the Garmin device to most accurate. But you can use gps data from many other devices. You need 3 items to make this work: Video, GPS data, and Race Render application. The website to buy RaceRender is below.

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This is part 2 video of series to show how to add gauges/overlays to your videos. It builds off the first video. This video shows how to add gauges that contain data from Cycle Analogger which logs data from Cycle Analyst. You can add to your video things like Voltage, Amps, Amp Hours, Temperature, etc. You need 3 items to make this work: Video, Cycle Analogger, and Race Render application. Links below.

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Links to Products
http://racerender.com/RR3/Features.html
http://www.ebikes.ca/shop/ebike-parts/ca-accessories/analoggers.html

Next video will be using multiple input files from gps and cycle analogger.

You can look at my videos below for example of gauges
https://www.youtube.com/user/ebikeVids

 

[John Bozi]

cool thanks, I'll have to watch it again with audio (baby sleeping)... Looks interesting and informative..

 

[drew12345]

Added part 2 to first post. This video shows how to add gauges that contain data from Cycle Analogger which logs data from Cycle Analyst. You can add to your video things like Voltage, Amps, Amp Hours, Temperature, etc.

 

[John Bozi]

Finally watched most of both the videos and thanks so much for such a detailed and easy to follow explanation.

How the hell you worked all this out? Looks very laborious and makes me appreciate your videos more.


Well done but I think it will be too much for me to deal with each video. You would need to sync for each time the gopro cut a video into a shorter one. So on an hour ride thats a lot of files to deal with. To render the whole video out instead of just taking a minute of the middle of the video and sync that only.

How long does it take to render out?

 

[drew12345]

Great points John!

- Racerender has a cool feature that if GoPro automatically splits your videos because of 2gb limit, RaceRender will automatically detect this and provide option to stich those videos together for you. Just import the first video, and you will get popup explaining this.
- However, if you manually stop and start another video, that's a different story. This can get complicated. This is why I suggest you get all your metric stuff you want in video up front and don't disconnect or stop anything until done with it. There is a way around this but you basically have to sync again at the point in video where you stopped or disconnect the power.

On average, it takes me 20 - 45 minutes to do the synchronizing and gauges. 45 minutes is if I'm adding multiple devices (gps, cycle analogger, 2 cameras, etc). For someone just starting out, it probably take at least one hour. The rendering from RaceRender takes a long time. Can take up to 8 hours for 1 hour video but you can just let that run overnight.

I suggest just using something that records gps along with your videos. There are some free apps out there for your phone.

It's really not that laborious if just adding gps info to your videos (1st video). I think it's really cool and very gratifying to see that stuff but that's just me. I'm happy to answer any other questions.

 

[Mammalian04]

Thanks for this Drew.

 

[drew12345]

You're welcome. It's funny because I forgot how to do this and had to come back and watch my own video.