Virb Edit 2.5.0 time & distance workaround ?

I have continuously recorded a bike ride run, totaling just over an hour and 13 miles travelled. These were recorded at 1080P, Wide NTSC 30fps. This produced 4 video clips, VIRB035.MP4 - VIRB038.MP4, the first 3 clips 00:23:56 and the 4th 00:06:40 minutes long. If I combine them, on the timeline, using Virb edit 2.5.0 it correctly gives me the total time and distance travelled.

I would like to export the video without any resolution loss and I know at the moment that Virb edit isn't able to do this due to the fat filesize limitation. (Windows 7 PC).

My workaround was to try exporting the individual clips, with overlays added, and to combine the clips with Boilsoft Video Joiner that transcodes the streams really quickly without any loss in quality. The problem is that each clips start position reverts to 0 miles distance traveled and a total time of 0.

If I do the same procedure using Dashware it correctly starts each clip with the previous clips time and distance summed. I use the same FIT file for both methods.

Am I missing something in the settings to allow me to do this with Virb Edit, or does anyone know a better work around ?

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I have done the following.
Create a bit of video only containing one colour and copied it several times.
Make a movie with the clip you want to export (you may need to shorten it) and add the overlay.
Than and add one of the one-colour-clips.
Add the whole track to the one-colour-clip and adjust it (length and gps) so that it's the length of the rest of your trip.
Speedup this clip to the maximum (8x) and hide the overlay.
Now export the movie.
The trick here is that a one-colour-clip does produce far less data as a normal clip. It produces even less data without an overlay and when it's speeded up.
With my 1080p 30fps, I could have about 20 min of video for a 4 hour ride.

Another option might be, if you're using a VIRB Elite, is having a slice of the beginning of your trip at the beginning of your movie, a slice on the end, and your clip in between. If your VIRB produced a complete FIT file, VIRB Edit will give you the whole track.
After creating these movies, you can trim the slices off in another program and put the movies together to become one movie.

Maybe you can use these idears https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?86733-Work-around-for-the-3-5GB-Limit-Food-for-thought!&p=300002#post300002

0 mick.t2 over 11 years ago

I have done the following.
Create a bit of video only containing one colour and copied it several times.
Make a movie with the clip you want to export (you may need to shorten it) and add the overlay.
Than and add one of the one-colour-clips.
Add the whole track to the one-colour-clip and adjust it (length and gps) so that it's the length of the rest of your trip.
Speedup this clip to the maximum (8x) and hide the overlay.
Now export the movie.
The trick here is that a one-colour-clip does produce far less data as a normal clip. It produces even less data without an overlay and when it's speeded up.
With my 1080p 30fps, I could have about 20 min of video for a 4 hour ride.

Another option might be, if you're using a VIRB Elite, is having a slice of the beginning of your trip at the beginning of your movie, a slice on the end, and your clip in between. If your VIRB produced a complete FIT file, VIRB Edit will give you the whole track.
After creating these movies, you can trim the slices off in another program and put the movies together to become one movie.

Maybe you can use these idears https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?86733-Work-around-for-the-3-5GB-Limit-Food-for-thought!&p=300002#post300002

Thanks for taking to time to reply and for giving a comprehensive response. Reading back my question I haven't properly explained. The distance and elapsed time is taken from the GPS, If I assemble the 4 clips, with Virb edit, when for example to second clip plays the elapsed time and distance is continued from the first clip. If I export the 4 clips and play the second clip then the elapsed time and distance are reset to zero.

I am using Dashware with the 4 clips and that correctly uses the GPS data from the FIT file so the second clip shows the correct elapsed time and distance from the beginning of the ride, not reset to zero.

Regards

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

What I understand is that when you export the 4 clips none of them contains the whole trip (and track).
By putting a tiny bit of the beginning of the first clip in front of your clips and a tiny bit of the end of the last clip behind your clip, you might trick VE in thinking it needs to do the timing of the whole trip.
I did this once to have a whole track with a few clips before VE could do it by itself. Now it connects the clips but if you want track before your first or after your last you need to do it again.
But the experts (developers) might have a more easy solution.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

You can tell VIRB Edit to start counting distance and duration at the beginning of the track (instead of the beginning of the first clip, which is the default).

To do that, create a video with the clip in it, click on the clip (to go to the edit tab), hit GPS Log 'Adjust', pick the 'Distance/Duration' tab and then select where you'd like distance and duration to start counting.

0 mick.t2 over 11 years ago

You can tell VIRB Edit to start counting distance and duration at the beginning of the track (instead of the beginning of the first clip, which is the default).

To do that, create a video with the clip in it, click on the clip (to go to the edit tab), hit GPS Log 'Adjust', pick the 'Distance/Duration' tab and then select where you'd like distance and duration to start counting.

That is exactly what I wanted FALAGAR, many thanks for that, it works a treat.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

You can tell VIRB Edit to start counting distance and duration at the beginning of the track (instead of the beginning of the first clip, which is the default).

To do that, create a video with the clip in it, click on the clip (to go to the edit tab), hit GPS Log 'Adjust', pick the 'Distance/Duration' tab and then select where you'd like distance and duration to start counting.

How can I do in Virb Edit 3.2.0 ?

0 cvarley over 9 years ago

In version 3.x, select the G-Metrix tab and press the Activity Start Time button.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

In version 3.x, select the G-Metrix tab and press the Activity Start Time button.

It does not work.

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

Can you elaborate what exactly doesn't work for you?