Example Video For Overlays

Wow, that must have been a lot of work. Nicely done.

Now I feel bad for introducing new stuff in 2.3 and rendering this somewhat obsolete. :)

Kept me busy today :D.
Source video's for the troubled overlays are in your mailbox.

Now I feel bad for introducing new stuff in 2.3 and rendering this somewhat obsolete. :)

so the obligatory question: when will 2.3 be released? :rolleyes:
is there any possibility to become beta tester?

There is so much going on, alterations, added features, bugfixes and so on.
As all the things are implemented as soon as they can.
And with every month a new release, in a way, were all beta testers :cool:.

2.3 should be out later this month, barring any unforeseen complications.

There is currently no Beta program for VIRB Edit.

Just for inspiration, have a look at this video I did some time ago:

www.youtube.com/watch

I would like Virb Edit to make our life easy to do such videos, with easy customizable dashboards :-)

First I think with those big gauges and logos there is very little space for the actual video, but that's a matter of taste and of what you want to do with the video.
Technically speaking, it could be done, as shown in your video, but....
VIRB Edit is still a free program.
I think the main goal right now is to have VIRB Edit run on every machine (without bugs).
I've read that the overlays are going to be more flexible and more easy to edit.
Also they are looking in to making a video having a long track, but only a few bits of video, still showing the whole track.
After that they might see to more complicated thinks.
I don't expect Garmin wants us to have a program with the features only expensive programs have just for free.
But lets see how far they are willing to go.
For editing video's I'm using PowerDirectorPro 11.0 as it has the capebility of masking/PiP, effects, transitions, titles, subtitles and so on.
I don't expect VIRB Edit to have those soon.

First I think with those big gauges and logos there is very little space for the actual video, but that's a matter of taste and of what you want to do with the video.
Technically speaking, it could be done, as shown in your video, but....
VIRB Edit is still a free program.
I think the main goal right now is to have VIRB Edit run on every machine (without bugs).
I've read that the overlays are going to be more flexible and more easy to edit.
Also they are looking in to making a video having a long track, but only a few bits of video, still showing the whole track.
After that they might see to more complicated thinks.
I don't expect Garmin wants us to have a program with the features only expensive programs have just for free.
But lets see how far they are willing to go.
For editing video's I'm using PowerDirectorPro 11.0 as it has the capebility of masking/PiP, effects, transitions, titles, subtitles and so on.
I don't expect VIRB Edit to have those soon.

Hello PA3FBO,
as I said, I posted that video for inspiration, to show one example of something that could be done overlaying a dashboard to a video (or two videos). Let me provide more details.

The reason why I made the gauges so big was that the resolution provided by YouTube is typically poor, a smaller gauge would have been difficult to read. With HD or FullHD resolution I would have made the gauges significantly smaller, let's say about half the size. Same for the logos, it was a choice of readability, and actually I expect most of the video that people like us would develop to be without any logo.

To make that video I used DashWare, which is not a professional software, I think i have paid less than $50 for it. I expect Virb Edit, one day, to have all the functionalities of DashWare and, yes, be a free software. It will boost Virb cameras sales. Garmin could consider to have a Virb logo in all videos developed by Virb Edit if the video files don't come from a Virb camera, if that is technically feasible. Those would be my decisions if I was Garmin Marketing Director. Maybe Garmin should consider to buy DashWare, but that's another story.

Agree with you that in the priority list the first things to do are to solve bugs and only then to develop new features. Nothing new there.

Just to explain a bit the dashboard of the video I posted, which obviously makes sense only for road biking, in the big gauge on the left you have cadence (color of the bar changing depending on the value), power (analog and digital), average power over the last 30 sec, speed (analog and digital) and heart rate (analog and digital, the analog gauge has color changing depending on the value). In the bottom left you have the time from start (digital). In the center you have the track, red dot representing the actual position; in this case, if you trim a portion of the video, still the entire track is shown. The two colored bars in the bottom represent Heart Rate in percentage of FTHR (Functional Threshold Heart Rate) and power in percentage of FTP (Functional Threshold Power), both bars separated in the standard zones (for more explanation about those zones you may refer to the book "Training and Racing with a Power Meter" by Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan PhD, which is considered the "bible" related to the subject).

I expect Virb Edit to provide an open platform, an easy customizable way, to develop such dashboards. It will be the user base, you and me, that will develop and share with the Garmin community nice dashboards. I develop a nice idea (dashboard) and share with you, you build on it. That's the concept.

Oh, and in case Virb Edit would not provide initially features like nice transitions, text editing etc., it's not a showstopper, I use iMovie and I am very happy with that (I did the picture-in-picture of the linked video with iMovie). I suppose that most of the Virb Edit users have access to some basic video editing software, but they don't have access to dashboard manipulating software. If I could dictate the agenda of Garmin software engineers, I would say, after debugging, focus on (easy) custom dashboard development. And provide a platform for all users to share their dashboards.

My five cents.

I hope they will add the features that you've put in your video.
Suppying every one with a free video editing tool would be great, but it only partly boosts theirs sales.
In fact, I don't own a VIRB (yet) and still use VIRB Edit.
So it is likely that if VIRB Edit gets to a stage that it's better than pay-ware, a lot of people owning other brands switch to using VIRB Edit without switching camera brand (due to size, cost, picture/video quality or whatever).
Some people find $50 too much, they think they ought to have the best things for no cost at all.
In an earlier version we had a Garmin Logo, but that has been removed.
Adding a logo when no Garmin device is in the chain looks like a good way, unless another logo is placed over it in post-editing.
The program could look if the video is from a VIRB, but when you pre-edit the video in another program, that won't work.
It could want to have a VIRB or another Garmin device attached to the PC while editing.
It could also look if you have installed (and unlocked) maps from Garmin on your PC to get rid of the logo.
So I think it can be done, having a free program for Garmin users and have the logo added for non-Garmin users.
Ofcourse there are other ways to convince users, like the nag-screen and function-limitation.

I do agree with Rikicarra even if I'm writing to the Windows version both platform Win & Mac we do have our software to do our Videos. In Apple world we are using iMovie a great semipro free tool which comes with every Mac. With additional 50 Euro we can get Motion 5 a professional tool coming from hollywood studios once more by Apple for advance titles, animation or what ever you can imagine and if you are so pro there is always the option to move to Final Cut or Adobe premiere and lots of third party plugin's.

So the question is how Garmin Edit fit within our post processing workflow. From my view point I will never expect to come to the level of iMovie or PowerDirector (On Windows platform) but where I see the value are the overlays, basic editing, image stabilization (Which is missing today), and I do need it within Garmin Edit due to the fact that if you try to stabilize a movie with overlays to iMovie, YouTube etc you will notice that the overlays are moving within the screen. Also a nice idea is to provide content like nice soundtracks, or intro clips that will say we are using Garmin Virb (I will never have a problem to use such promotional material on my clips because it will be a win - win case for both users and Garmin).

Also to create an ecosystem in which we can upload our videos or at least gather our videos which will help to boost camera sales.