Virb Elite Sensor Data / GPS Data ?

I recently tried using my Virb elite on a bike ride with pretty much every sensor enabled. GPS data, heart rate, speed/cadence and power.

Everything was paired up and ready (so I thought) and proceeded to do a nice long ride on the IMTX bike course.

This was my first time using it on the bike and I was excited about playing around with all the data.

I got back and uploaded the video to the Mac VIRB Edit software and immediately noticed something strange. It was asking for a GPS file to associate with the video.

I say this was strange because the one other time I played with this camera was in the car with the GPS. When I uploaded the video the GPS /track data was automatically associated with the video and I thought that was just the coolest thing and one of the reasons I was sold on the Virb Elite.

Even though I had only done this once before using GPS data I know I did nothing but import the video and that GPS data from the camera was right there with it.

I am confused why the GPS data was not apparently associated with the video from the bike ride. I couldn't help but assume this is somehow due to all the other sensor data as well but I'm just not sure. I had my Garmin Fenix 3 on also so I was able to associate the data from it to the video but still would like to understand more about the GPS and sensor data the Virb should have been recording, where that data might be and why it wouldn't have been automatically associated to the file?

Any thoughts or suggestions to educate me on this would be appreciated.

0 schinder over 9 years ago

The VIRB Elite records in separate files in two different formats. It creates a single FIT file from whenever you power it on to whenever you power it off; those you can find in the NO_NAME volume mounted on your Desktop in NO_NAME/Garmin/Activity. It creates GPX files for each video file recorded; those are in NO_NAME/Garmin/GPX. Your video files are in NO_NAME/DCIM/100_VIRB. So you should be able to use the Finder to look and verify that all of those files are there and have reasonable sizes. The last video I recorded was 2 hours long at 720@60 fps, so for my 5 video files 4 are 3.67 GB and the corresponding GPX track files are 1.3 Mb (the 5th files of both are smaller). FIT files are much smaller, and the two hour FIT file is only 208 kB.

VIRB Edit should have found everything automatically. It's been almost a year since I had any problems of that sort with my VIRB Elite, but as I recall, if the video recording fails for some reason and video recording wasn't ended properly and the camera wasn't powered down normally, it's possible to lose your track data even though the video is there. That's because the track files aren't written out until video recording is switched off (I always use the big switch to start/stop it, never a remote). Did your session end abnormally for some reason?