VIRB Wish List

OK, good. I thought it would, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks!

Just wish the VIRB had a reliable record lock..... how many times has the VIRB switched itself on in a pocket/rucksack recorded 2 hours of nothing only for me to go and use it and find the battery dead!!

I wish Garmin would improve the Loop Mode.

There's no way of overriding the Loop Mode settings so if you have it set to 2 or 5 minute loop mode, and something happens which is longer than that, essentially you can't save any longer than you have it set for so the rest is wiped.

Also, you can't cancel the loop recording - say you don't want to save the previous minutes - there's nothing you can do to stop it saving that short of pulling the battery out which I don't recommend.

I hope Garmin improves the Loop Mode soon.

SCHINDER: It'll work; they'll just have separate tracks. That means that the new distance/duration fields would reset between the two videos in that scenario.

You could fix distance/duration by joining the recorded GPS logs together in another application and manually replacing the track on both recorded videos. Distance/duration numbers would be a bit made up then as there would be no GPS data recorded between clips.

OK, I ran into exactly this problem today, and it'd be nice if VIRB Edit had a built in solution. I went on a 2:40 MTB ride. I carried my spare battery with me since I knew I'd be pushing it if I tried to do it all on a single battery. (Sure enough, I got a low battery warning about 2 hours in). At the two rest stops, I turned video recording off. After the first stop, after I switched the recording on again, it froze, and I had to remove the battery to get it working. At the second, after the low battery warning, I put in the spare battery. So I had 9 clips in all, 1 zero length when it froze. After discarding that one, I put the clips together. They were all contiguous (I didn't go anywhere during the rest stops). But, of course, distance and duration weren't continuous. Strangely enough, the distance counter started from zero at the second clip, even though nothing happened there (the first rest stop wasn't until 1 hour in).

So it'd be nice if we could 1) manually tell VIRB Edit what distance and duration it should start the counters with at the beginning of each clip, or even better, 2) VIRB Edit would automatically pick up the distance/duration from the last frame of the previous clip. I'll have to try putting the tracks together like you suggested, but I think it'd be simpler if we had the ability to just calibrate the distance/duration at the beginning of each clip when necessary.

I wish I could see the level information from a remote (iPhone, Zumo, Edge, whatever). It would make mounting on things like a helmet so much easier. In particular, helmets seem to sit on my head a bit tilted to the right, so positioning a camera is pretty darn hard.

I wish that i could smoothe out the g-force data. The tinniest bump makes the gforce overlay jump around like the virb was in a tumbledryer, not useful at all especially when mounted on my gokart or mtb. It would be much better if the user somehow could choose to remove the short jumps in gforce, as they are caused by vibration...unless you crash:-) A consistent change in gforce over a longer period (lets say +1 sec) would be much more interesting to watch

My wishlist for Virb Elite

User:
Compass to not spin randomly
Accelerometers to have some filtering so they dont jump around

Dev /API:
a command (maybe MediaList) to list media
Video Thumbnails to work
inbuilt webserver could support Partial downloads

As the accelerationmeters calculations of roll and pitch don't work at speed (motorcycles, airoplanes) where the resulting forces point down to your seat (Resultant load), I would like to shut down these fake roll and pitch.


I would like a gyro that can be connected to the camera to record real roll and pitch.

ANT+ spped sensor

In the setting menu i can select the wheel circumference BUT even with fw 4.00 i cannot select the ANT+ speed sensor (the new garmin magnetless will be OK!) + need the Vector power balance and AVG power 3", 10", 30" overlay, is it coming in the new Virb Elite firmware?