VIRB Edit 2.1.1

Thank you for your feedback.

In 2.1 we re-size video/map in edit mode in such a way so that there is no letter-boxing of the video. I agree that on small screens there is not much room for the video. We'll look into that.

The About dialog (which contains the version information) can be accessed by left clicking on the top left of the application's title bar (next to the V of VIRB Edit) and then picking About... (or the equivalent in Dutch). In 2.2 the About dialog will be more obvious to access.

I forwarded the installer issue to the appropriate team.

Currently we do not plan to add UI for language selection, but that might change. You can manually change it by editing the config file. It's in C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Garmin\VirbEdit.exe_Url_{SOMELETTERSANDNUMBERS}\2.1.1.0\user.config.

Add the following:

<setting name="UserLanguage" serializeAs="String"><value>en</value></setting> after the <Virb.Properties.Settings> tag.

I had some trouble getting it to work...
Changed the config and started BaseCamp it still was in Dutch ! :mad:
Tried some things and nothing happened, until I realised I was starting the wrong program.
So if I just started VIRB it had worked the first time.

Hehe. I am glad you got it work. It's definitely not the most convenient way to pick the language.

VIRB Edit 2.1.1 is total crap - please scrap it!

I have just wasted 4 hours of my life trying to get your sub standard rubbish software to do a simple video generation with speed, G-force and altitude displayed. :(

After numerous installs, uninstalls, re-import of videos - I give up - it only shews G-force - whereas in preview mode of video - it shews everything.

This was THE PRIMARY REASON I bought your camera - and now I find it does not work. :mad:

SERIOUS SUGGESTION - go look at Open Shot - it is amazing - I develop dozens of videos with it monthly - and it runs across platform - and is an open source project.

All you have to do is develop a plug-in for Open Shot that will generate a transparent video track for the Dashboard sensors data, GPS and FIT data overlayed - done.

Open Shot can happily merge the video with that dashboard track.

Save you millions of dollars in software development costs.

Open Shot will take it from there - and allow people to complete their videos to a professional standard. :cool:

I have just wasted 4 hours of my life trying to get your sub standard rubbish software to do a simple video generation with speed, G-force and altitude displayed. :(

After numerous installs, uninstalls, re-import of videos - I give up - it only shews G-force - whereas in preview mode of video - it shews everything.

This was THE PRIMARY REASON I bought your camera - and now I find it does not work. :mad:

SERIOUS SUGGESTION - go look at Open Shot - it is amazing - I develop dozens of videos with it monthly - and it runs across platform - and is an open source project.

All you have to do is develop a plug-in for Open Shot that will generate a transparent video track for the Dashboard sensors data, GPS and FIT data overlayed - done.

Open Shot can happily merge the video with that dashboard track.

Save you millions of dollars in software development costs.

Open Shot will take it from there - and allow people to complete their videos to a professional standard. :cool:

I am very sorry to hear that. So you can see the overlays in playback but when you export only gForce is visible?

We are making some serious changes in VIRB Edit 2.2, one of them is that we will use the same overlay rendering engine for playback and export, so they should look identical. We are also adding a bunch of kick-ass overlays which I hope people will like.

I apologize for the trouble. Please stick in there, 2.2 should be out within a month. Give it a spin and let us know how it goes.

If you continue to experience issues, please don't hesitate to get back to us. We are determined to get this fixed.

VIRB Edit 2.1.1 is total crap - please scrap it!

I am very sorry to hear that. So you can see the overlays in playback but when you export only gForce is visible?

We are making some serious changes in VIRB Edit 2.2, one of them is that we will use the same overlay rendering engine for playback and export, so they should look identical. We are also adding a bunch of kick-ass overlays which I hope people will like.

I apologize for the trouble. Please stick in there, 2.2 should be out within a month. Give it a spin and let us know how it goes.

If you continue to experience issues, please don't hesitate to get back to us. We are determined to get this fixed.

Sheesh - well at least you are honest ;)

This things needs some work for sure. I called tech support today - yet to hear back. Found that Basecamp helps - you can combine all GPS tracks into one - for some reason VIRB Edit then does better with track overlays.

Also found a litany of other bugs / errors. Basically VIRB Edit does not seem to handle more than a couple of videos together.

I'm now resorting to the slow long road - individually loading the 22 video segments I recorded on my VIRB device - one at a time - and exporting each with track overlay added. This is sloooowwwww - each one taking around an hour to render export from VIRB Edit.

Then I will load these into OpenShot and create my one video.

You will be able to see the result, with maps, with fades, with titles, etc - and OpenShot is blazing fast. You REALLY need to look at generating just the overlay as separate green screen thread (will generate really fast) in SVG - then use OpenShot to do the video generate. Its cross platform (I'm running on Ubuntu; way faster than Windows 7) - available in ton of languages - and on and on. Built by video experts.

Nuff said.

VIRB Edit 2.1.1 is total crap - please scrap it!

I am very sorry to hear that. So you can see the overlays in playback but when you export only gForce is visible?

We are making some serious changes in VIRB Edit 2.2, one of them is that we will use the same overlay rendering engine for playback and export, so they should look identical. We are also adding a bunch of kick-ass overlays which I hope people will like.

I apologize for the trouble. Please stick in there, 2.2 should be out within a month. Give it a spin and let us know how it goes.

If you continue to experience issues, please don't hesitate to get back to us. We are determined to get this fixed.

Oh dear - I've just discovered a show stopper - the VIRB Edit trashes the video quality when it adds the overlay. The original from the camera has zero pixelation - but when you view the modified export - lots of nasty pixelation - and - Yes - I picked the full HD output mode.

Dear me, dear me, I'm back to my original idea - lets scrap this - and generate a green screen overlay - that people can then use their favourite high quality video editor to do the final production with.

Sigh. :(

I did had serious pixellation, mostly on the sides.
I had set the output to be a diffrent size that my original was.
You can try if that makes things better.

VIRB Edit 2.1.1 is total crap - please scrap it!

I did had serious pixellation, mostly on the sides.
I had set the output to be a diffrent size that my original was.
You can try if that makes things better.

No - I'm recording in full HD on the VIRB - that is amazing quality - and hardware video stabilization is excellent - love the immersive feel to the resulting video - like you are sat on the bike.

In VIRB Edit I'm selecting the same HD output for export format. Problem is for biking the roadway is being washed out in export - looks fine in the original off the camera - everything is sharp.

I have decided - just wait a month until they release version 2.2 here - because the play back engine is just fine - its the export software that is the big issue clearly.

If they use the play back engine to actually write the video - then I think will be excellent (and of course that is using the GPU rendering so output speed is near real time).

Every cloud has a silver lining ;)