Multiple clips - show overlays just for each clip / segment ?

A brief perusal of the forum here will show a common theme - most people seem to want the exact opposite of your suggestion.

During normal use, a Virb (I have the Elite) will record multiple clips over a single ride. Depending on the settings, the Virb Elite will start recording a new clip each time you stop moving; each time the file size gets to about 4Gb; and (of course) each time you manually stop / start recording. When trying to process one big movie of the entire ride (as most people seem to do), it is necessary for Virb Edit to join all of these small clips together, and add all the GPS, HR, cadence and other data to the overlay so that it matches the entire movie, from start to finish.

One of the biggest complaints here has always been that Virb Edit 1) would not export 1 large movie file (depending on your OS), and 2) would not sync the data to the entire video. Virb Edit has always been bugged in this regard.

If you want to export each clip by itself, either manually do this in Virb Edit - or just download one of the earlier bugged versions; it does this already. Most people here seem to want to export large files with synchronised data for the entire duration.

It depends on use really. A road cyclist is likely to be the majority of users out of cyclists and likely to use as you describe. Mountain biking varies. Some are about the ride as a whole, especially cross country rides or races. Some are more about the individual trails.

It's not much of a problem. Only thing is I don't actually want to export clips individually, I want a whole video covering the ride with all clips but each clip contains just the data for that segment. But the solution seems to be to export them all individually, then stitch those together into a video.

What I'm aiming for is a highlights video. Mountain bike PoV videos can be tediously boring, but trim it down to the highlights and cut different angles, some shots from the side and so on, and it becomes more interesting. Just the novelty of the VIRB is using the data overlays so nice to add those in, especially the course map, but as areas I ride aren't one big course but trails dotted around some large woodland hills, the map is more relevant focused on the one trail. Think Strava segments.

Anyway, it's not a moan as I can see a work around. Just a nice to have. Understandable the majority are having issues the other way round. Although I've found it seems to be to get the data to apply to each clip you just have to click on the data symbol on the clip and import the g-metrix stuff for that clip. I can see that's annoying though if it's identical to the last. That's what I've been doing and actually would be great if optionally it would apply that to just that clip, but instead I'm finding the overlays show course etc for all the applied g-metrix data merged together.

Thanks for the suggestion and feedback.

@deadkenny - I tend to have the same use case as you when I'm shooting and editing video, personally. Your workaround is the best way to accomplish this right now.

We've been talking a lot here about ways to support either use case a little better. As you can probably imagine, there's some complexity involved when offering the power to do exactly what you want to do with your video, while keeping the software simple and approachable for casual or novice users. Look for incremental but important improvements to gauge display in the next handful of releases.

combined view whole ride segment focus

Though thinking about it, it might be nice to have a combination. Things like course and altitude showing focused on that clip, but also general ones for the whole ride, all in the same video. Assuming VIRB Edit doesn't support overlays focused just on that clip as an option then that's a suggestion as a nice to have, with the option to have other overlays take the default approach of showing data for the whole ride.

In theory one can do this, if you have 2 template sets for your gauges overlay one for total overview and one for focus on segment, you can export overview video with overlays. In the next step you laod template for focus on segments, export a second time for each segment as transparent *.png series. Use an external video editing program to combine the exported overview with the transparant *.png series.
Might take some efforts to get timing aligned in external program but it should be possible.