[Several Feature Requests]

OK Pretty much first contact with the software.

--> elements of G-metrix in the overlay aside of being movable should have handlers to scale them.

--> track in the G-metrix, the gps track I mean, should allow for a zoomed version, iv the track is very long a lot of detail is lots, its oke to have like a complete track somewhere but a detailed zoomed map area (like in games) should be doable.

---> right click--> export g-metrix---> ok now what... allow to export to stuff like KML or more regular human friendly format like gpx or other stuff in order to import the track into other software such as google earth or even a CAD or 3D software.

-->allow for zoom in in the timeline!!! K mon!! seriously!?!? even the crapiest video editor does that.

--> some glitch is not recording geotag data correctly in timelapse images an all are taged equally. To my surprise I found that there is g-metrix data of that track saved correctly , while doing timelapse. So, in the weird case that the timelapse is supossed to have all geotaged equally by default, allow to import the other g-metrix to the timelapse to export the timelapse images geotaged.

--> snapshot button in the video editor does not make an snapshot using the source video but its a cropped screenshot!! What the hell!!.

--> for this one I made an specific post.
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?369468-Feature-Request-Export-image-sequence-from-video

--> Edit: I forgot this one. Lens distortion removal!! Yes it is an in camera option but I might want to have both versions. Source + able to remove distortion.!!

Thats it for now.

for now. I would be happy user if I could have geotaged timelapses and video frame sequence exports with geotag info.

I just burn 400€ and not really happy...

0 Pauleras over 8 years ago

"The timeline actually can be zoomed in (...)
LOL, that option is perfectly camoed. As the mouse wheel does not do anything I would go directly with mosewheel to zoom in/out the timeline. Like in Vegas. Or may be ctrl + mousewheel. Monitors are quite wide nowadays and having to surf all the screen to zoom in out the timlines is a crazy thing, further for the ones that use superwide monitors. You might leave the scrollbarr but make it directly accesible from mouse. Kind of MUST.

The clip cut option witch works fine, should also have a keyboard shortcut IMO.

"Scaling G-metrix gauges: This is on our short list of new features. You should expect to see that one in the not too distant future." --> OK

"Exporting G-Metrix: When you export a video, it should produce a .gpx file in the same location as the output video that has all the data from your video. ie. if you trimmed your video, the GPX will only contain data for the parts of the video you kept."

I see, so you actually need to render the video to get the specific .gpx file of that part of the video. Still there is a thing that is not working as I understand it should and that is related to this.
In the clip library if you right click a video there is an option to export g-metrix. If you do so, it will not export the .fit data related to the time this video lasts.

This is the first video I ever made, I attached to an scooter and made a 30meters run or so, I stopped cause it was vibrating a lot.
https://mega.nz/#!phMkESoL!ICKqLW5JopkrAWVKS3Mw7_tkwX4w_PtomozI5-c5d6U
So, in Virb Edit the track is correctly shown.
But if you export the g-metrix doing this:
https://mega.nz/#!w8sySKxA!E6ndSifLj-bgYwRgNTU_gw-HWOkqZ4NQUBoOgc90QpA
This is the data exported:
https://mega.nz/#!o4U0XI5S!15kVAQIS1VDY0czIGzeP3OEgBRkvVH5nt6cZI0_t8_I
This is much more thata than in the video, is the complete .fit since the cam started login. Full sesion.

If exporting full track can be somewhat interesting for someone at least have the option to export the data trimed to fit that specific clip.

"export .fit data to a csv: This is also a feature we intend to support in the near future"
--> I managed to do so by using Garmin Basecamp. --> Made a tutorial: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?369712-TUTORIAL-EXPORT-FIT-to-G-E-KML-or-CSV-etc

"Snapshot button: Sounds like this feature is not working as intended". Can you post the image that VirbEdit produces, and screen shot of from the original video? What resolution is the video you are taking a snapshot from?"
-->This is as it gets out of the Virb Edit.
https://mega.nz/#!Mss0CBxQ!h17blB3LN7syAoWfunrS8T-EZ0568sWWWQ1Rm4DTiys
Source is 4k

"Export image sequence from video: This is a cool idea and very doable, but I haven't heard a lot of demand for it. In the past, we've added or changed features based on feedback we've gotten on the forums. If we hear enough people request it, we (engineers) can make the case that it would be worth spending some time doing. Out of curiosity, what would you use this feature for?"
-->This is for getting a timelapse on steroids option. not 12MP but at least 8MP at much higher frequency available can balance the lack of resolution.
The purpose is to make 3d reconstructions.
The issue I've now is that I lose track when there are lighting variations. With gps data I hope to keep track.
https://mega.nz/#!o8kzRC7R!G-SmbvNwIKY1WQFNEfvL-vxEBnMwTZCR9pOYMXg3abA
https://mega.nz/#!Q0kwSKiB!Ki_w5f-THJ64WTlglj2FI1pxlbKJOwF5cJFKhqPiVL8
Without being able to make a reconstruction atm I can not aquire more cameras. Still as it is now the geodata - image mergin I wonder if I shouldn´t have aquired a pari of Yi4k and a GNSS RAW GPS logger...

What I would love to see is to export entiere or a portion of the video, exported each frame or each n frame, or even take advantage of the GPS data to export each N meters. A Distancelapse done in postproduction. Export to JPG or less lossy formats such PNG or TIFF. With the correct time so that later can be geotaged in case they're not exported already geotaged (ideally).

Atm I could export the frames in VEGAS and apply the recently discovered workflow of geotag with the .fit data using Garmin Basecamp. The BIG issue doing so is that for some reason heading is not added to the EXIF! WHY!!! ALMOST! :\

"Track in the G-metrix: When we draw your track, we zoom in as far as we can without cutting off any part of your track. Are you asking that it be bigger? Maybe example screen shots showing what you are seeing and what you want to be different would help me understand this one"
--> This is what software does now.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0MQHWrc5Crc/maxresdefault.jpg
This option to have a closer following of the area would be nice. So the path can be seen with greater detail.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xfUtDUtH7aY/maxresdefault.jpg
Not really an issue, just a suggestion/idea for future.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

@SuperDunner
Our application internally treats the Garmin watermark the same as as any other gauge. There is literally no difference between it and the other gauges you can add to, or remove from, your video. You should be able to click on it to select it, and hit the delete key to remove it. Is selection or deletion not working correctly for you?

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Here's what I've discovered with the Garmin watermark in most of their overlays.

Today I did a short test video and I used my Android tablet with the Garmin VIRB App and went thru their selection of overlay templets. I selected several -- One at a time and tried to delete the watermark on each -- To no avail. As the App is so easy to create a video overlay -- This is how I process an overlay video.

Next I used my PC and using the Garmin VIRB software I imported the same test video clip. I selected several overlays -- One at a time and then by clicking on the watermark -- It does give me the option to remove.

Simple answer to my question is -- Use the PC software and the watermark can be removed. When using the Andriod App -- Select one of the templets that does not have a watermark as the ones that do have it -- It can't be removed.

Now that I fully understand -- I have an option that I can live with.

Thank You.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

@uberdude76
Actually I'd love to hear the things you think our software doesn't include that it should. What would you like to see changed about adding music to your video?

OK, I'll try and throw a few ideas in here - forgive me if they do exist but trying to find what I'm looking for appears impossible if it does exist and can be implemented as it currently stands.

1. Titles - I would have expected the opportunity to have a 'blank' title page for the text, then it can progress to your video if that's what you want.
2. Automatic gauge alignment when selecting individual ones on to the same screen.
3. Regarding the soundtracks in particular, I can't seem to just dump a track in at any given point, it always starts at the beginning and any soundtracks added after that simply follow on, so, for example, you can't have some speach for say the first minute direct from the video, then straight into a chosen soundtrack. The only way around this seemed to be by adding a soundtrack and taking the volume to zero, then bringing it back in where possible - a very impractical way of doing it, especially on longer videos.

I'm sure there are plenty of other small features that would benefit, but I'm not a user of anything other than windows movie maker, which is good, and easy and fast. I'd simply expected the garmin software to be a minimum of this plus a whole load of other features I would look forward to playing with but it really is very very basic..

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

@uberdude76
For 1, there is nothing built in, but there is an easy way for you to do it yourself. VirbEdit lets you put any image into your video for any amount of time you want, so you can open MS Paint or a similar program, and create an image with similar dimensions to your video, color it all black and import it into your VirbEdit library as a "photo". Then just drop it into your video, set the duration to whatever you want it to be and put some titles on it.

For 2, If you mean that you are struggling to get gauges to line up with each other just right, I have a suggestion. Once you have a gauge pretty close to where you want it, you can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move your selected gauge by a single pixel at a time in any direction. This allows for much more precision in movement. Trying to get things just right with the mouse can be frustrating. If this doesn't address your question, can you explain in more detail what you would like to see?

I completely agree on #3, it is one of the pretty glaring oversights in VirbEdit that you would expect any video editing software to have. We have so many things competing for our attention that it's easy to just let things like this continue to exist. I'll poke a few of the appropriate people and see if we can get this moved into our priority feature list.

0 mdholland over 8 years ago

From the original post in this thread

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Pauleras posted

--> snapshot button in the video editor does not make an snapshot using the source video but its a cropped screenshot!! What the hell!!.

Purdington responded with

Snapshot button: Sounds like this feature is not working as intended. Can you post the image that VirbEdit produces, and screen shot of from the original video? What resolution is the video you are taking a snapshot from?

I posted

The snapshot button used to work. I have been in contact with Garmin Support regarding this issue the details of the support ticket are "Image capture quality <Q#:1000114> << Reference ID: 9108922K0 >>"

Pauleras has now come back with

"Snapshot button: Sounds like this feature is not working as intended". Can you post the image that VirbEdit produces, and screen shot of from the original video? What resolution is the video you are taking a snapshot from?"
-->This is as it gets out of the Virb Edit.
https://mega.nz/#!Mss0CBxQ!h17blB3LN...sWWWQ1Rm4DTiys
Source is 4k

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Can you follow up on support call "Image capture quality <Q#:1000114> << Reference ID: 9108922K0 >>"

As this had all supporting evidence of when it used to work and what it does now. It was supposedly forwarded for further investigation.

Thanks

0 w00ha. over 8 years ago

Basic edit...OK

Soft is very basic, but it would be nice if you include controls like:
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Saturation

Now I have to do the overlay in Virb edit and do the above corections again in Vegas.
Takes twice the (render) time needed.

(I have some basic Foscam IPcams that have all these options.)

0 Pauleras over 8 years ago

CALLE municipio

Soft is very basic, but it would be nice if you include controls like:
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Saturation

Now I have to do the overlay in Virb edit and do the above corections again in Vegas.
Takes twice the (render) time needed.

(I have some basic Foscam IPcams that have all these options.)

Exporting the overlay without the need to render the video would also help.