Picture in Picture

Just started to play with multi camera operation. Both my VIRB Elites get turned on within seconds of each other and are located within inches of each other - one faces forward and one to the rear.

In trying to use the multi cam feature of VIRB Edit 4.2.3 it outputs 2 streams. A stream is nominally the forward camera and B stream is nominally the rear camera. I would have expected both A and B streams to cover the entirety of the video being edited - but that is not what I am seeing. Steam A seems contiguous beginning to end, however stream B doesn't begin until about 12 minutes into the 30 or so minute video. WTF?

I haven't had the courage to update to VIRB 5.1 - it doesn't Export on my desktop machine without crashing and I am not anxious to perform the update on my laptop only to have to go back to 4.2.3.

0 PubBike over 8 years ago

I couldn't figure how to do picture in picture for forward (VIRB Elite) and non-Garmin rear cameras (Fly6) but it worked fine in iMovie :) I then imported into VIRB Edit and synchronized with the .fit file from the fenix 3.

0 mmi16 over 8 years ago

I couldn't figure how to do picture in picture for forward (VIRB Elite) and non-Garmin rear cameras (Fly6) but it worked fine in iMovie :) I then imported into VIRB Edit and synchronized with the .fit file from the fenix 3.

I don't have an Apple. Just Windows computers.

0 aramezan over 8 years ago

mmi16 do you turn on both elites and let them pick up gps before recording? Or do you just flip the switch when they are off to start recording? If the latter, it may be because one of the elites are taking longer to pick up gps. I've been doing pip for a while using both 4.2.3 and 5.1.1. I always turn both elites on and make sure they pick up gps before I start. Sometimes for whatever reason, one elite immediately picks up gps, while the other takes 5 minutes. I actually manually flip both switches to start recording instead of using the remote option to save battery. Hope that helps.

0 mmi16 over 8 years ago

mmi16 do you turn on both elites and let them pick up gps before recording? Or do you just flip the switch when they are off to start recording? If the latter, it may be because one of the elites are taking longer to pick up gps. I've been doing pip for a while using both 4.2.3 and 5.1.1. I always turn both elites on and make sure they pick up gps before I start. Sometimes for whatever reason, one elite immediately picks up gps, while the other takes 5 minutes. I actually manually flip both switches to start recording instead of using the remote option to save battery. Hope that helps.

I am belted in my race car. At the 5 minute warning, I reach over my head to manually turn both cameras on. I then proceed to tighten my safety belts and put on my Nomex driving gloves. Normally there is a 3 minute warning I will fire up the cars engine and await the signal to move toward the track and begin competition. So the VIRB Elites have the approximation of 5 minutes to secure their satellites and set the starting position before they have any movement applied to them.

As an aside, I have a old NUVI 1300 automobile GPS unit, it takes a good half mile of movement to acquire satellites and being tracking. I also have a newer NUVI 57, it begins tracking within several hundred feet of starting to move.

0 aramezan over 8 years ago

Wow! You are in a race car. I now see that it would be hard for you to tell if they have gps or not. I don't know why, but with my elites sometimes it takes one of them longer to acquire gps and it isn't always the same unit. And there have been some times that it has taken longer than 5 minutes to acquire satellite. I think you may be able to create a new video just to test, then add the first video file from your front camera and put a distance gauge on the video. Then move through the video and see where the distance starts counting. If it starts from the beginning, that means it had gps at start. Then try the same with the rear and see if its distance begins at the start.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Here's an example of a string video with data overlay and PiP:

www.youtube.com/watch

0 mmi16 over 8 years ago

Here's an example of a string video with data overlay and PiP:

Glad it works that way for you. For me View A was moving for almost 2 minutes before View B started to move. Using the G-metrix Synchronization button says the G-metrix ARE already in sync.

I have no idea what kind of algorithm VIRB Edit uses to determine synchronization - whatever it is in my case it doesn't work.