Date and Time stamp on Video

Former Member
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The menu on the Virb Elite and my Android Phone both have the Date and Time option for turning on and off but all my videos are without date and time. How can I get that information on my videos? :confused: This is very important since I use my VIRB for documenting rides.
  • One of the profiles has date and time. Look through prior posts in the VIRB Edit forum for the exact location of the .vet files that describe the templates. Right now you have to modify one of those files by hand to add in extra data. Look in particular in _Default_5.vet, which includes both date and time.
  • Former Member
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    I believe this is one for the developers, making a new gauge and put it in an overlay.
    Time and date are in the track and can be read from there.
    As the points of a track not always are precisely one second apart, it also needs some calculations.
    Looking at the bugs they have to fix to get VIRB Edit to work on all PC's and with all graphic cards, I expect this will not be high on their to-do list.

    Didn't know we already had such an overlay, will also have a look at that :D
  • Former Member
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    thanks, good to know, although I can't turn time and date off on my (non-VIRB) camera:D
  • I believe this is one for the developers, making a new gauge and put it in an overlay.
    Looking at the bugs they have to fix to get VIRB Edit to work on all PC's and with all graphic cards, I expect this will not be high on their to-do list.

    Well, the Mac developers may have time to do it, since they don't have those problems. :-)

    Didn't know we already had such an overlay, will also have a look at that :D


    Yeah, i added time to one of my cycling overlays, and it wasn't difficult.
  • Former Member
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    I hope so, but I'm afaid they're all on FALAGAR's team
  • Former Member
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    Well, the Mac developers may have time to do it, since they don't have those problems. :-)



    Yeah, i added time to one of my cycling overlays, and it wasn't difficult.


    Care to share, I can not find any way for adding date and time
  • Here it is. It's a modification of one of the cycling templates, with pace removed and time and gradient added to what was in there before. It still needs tweaking so far as the position of the various gauges.

    {
    "category": "Cycling",
    "thumbnailPath": "Thumbnails/16_CYCLE_3.png",
    "backgroundColor":
    {
    "r": 0,
    "g": 0,
    "b": 0,
    "a": 128
    },
    "accentColor":
    {
    "r": 17,
    "g": 169,
    "b": 237,
    "a": 255
    },

    "widgets":
    [
    {
    "filename": "LRG_Open_3Qtr.veg",
    "valueType": "heartRate",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": -20,
    "fromEdge": "min"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -370,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    }
    }
    },
    {
    "filename": "MED_Radial_Segment.veg",
    "valueType": "cadence",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": 80,
    "fromEdge": "min"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -271,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    }
    }
    },
    {
    "filename": "SML_Fill_AccelTerrace.veg",
    "valueType": "grade",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": 370,
    "fromEdge": "min"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -100,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    }
    }
    },
    {
    "filename": "SML_Fill_LongBar_2.veg",
    "valueType": "speed",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": 395,
    "fromEdge": "min"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -140,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    }
    }
    },
    {
    "filename": "SML_Fill_LongBar_3.veg",
    "valueType": "time",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": 400,
    "fromEdge": "min"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -180,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    }
    }
    },

    {
    "filename": "SML_Fill_LongBar_2.veg",
    "valueType": "elevation",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": 410,
    "fromEdge": "in"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -220,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    }
    }
    },
    {
    "filename": "LRG_TrackLine.veg",
    "origin":
    {
    "x":
    {
    "offset": -400,
    "fromEdge": "max"
    },
    "y":
    {
    "offset": -5,
    "fromEdge": "min"
    }
    }
    }


    ]
    }
  • Former Member
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    suppose it should look something like this:
    http://youtu.be/xv5qlV798AY
    If can you supply me with a file containing the data dat you want in the overlay, I can make a better example video.
    If you want some things to move please tell me.
    (in the "elevation" past you've lost a "m" of "min" => "fromEdge": "in" => "fromEdge": "min")
  • Former Member
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    Thanks for your effort however what I was to understand and still looking for is the imbedded time and date stamp that I have on my other Cameras and I'm thinking needs to be fixed by Garmin