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10-25-2018 01:21 PM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
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01-14-2019 02:01 AM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
[ New ]I'd like to know how people are handling this as well. I understand why it's split into 17 minute files, but why can't the software handle that gracefully? Surely it's just a matter of storing some metadata somewhere to track what files are part of a continus stream, then present it as such in the desktop environment? Give users the options to render out the single whole viedo with overlays?
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01-17-2019 10:41 AM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
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Hi @camerone60
Were you able to try the steps listed by fishycomics?
You may also try using RaceRender or Dahsware.
Thanks!
Ej
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01-18-2019 03:10 PM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
[ New ]Nope... I've tried Dashware, and it gives me an error "Data extraction/merge failed." when I first open the files for merging. It then manages to merge all the files into a single video, but loses all the GPS data. I can see there's CSV files extracts with this data, but even adding it in doesn't produce any data to be used in the overlays.
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01-18-2019 10:18 PM - edited 01-18-2019 10:18 PM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
[ New ]I'm in the same boat, we need an option to record as a single file, my card is already formatted as exfat, I don't care about data corruption, either let us record as a single video or enable Quik to combine video files.
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01-19-2019 06:20 AM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
[ New ]It does the job almost perfectly! Combining all parts of the video and overlaying GPS data)
One thing is that it can't combine data from several videos (e.g. if you stopped and resumed recording again).
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01-19-2019 05:13 PM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
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I had the same problem recently, it's a massive PITA. The data is in the files but each file is self contained, so the full map and times aren't persisted across the files. (rather each file contains its own map segment and own start/end times from zero).
I ended up writing a quick and dirty app to combine the Dashware CSV files into one data file, to be used with the merged video. You can't just append the files, you need to keep accumulating the numbers for time and distance so that it represents a single start-end run for the length of the combined video.
The app is nasty but it works. I've put it here if anyone wants it. It will work with the 6 black and 7 black, nothing else.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6y7qgich0ue4vij/GoPro%20CSV%20Merger.rar?dl=0
Basically:
1) (prerequisite) Put the hero 6 and 7 GPMF.XML profiles from the quick install into C:\Program Files\DashWare\DataTool\DataProfiles
2) Use dashware to merge the video files. It will complain about data extract / merge failed, but it will produce a merged video and it will extract the individual CSVs containing the telemetry data to the same folder
3) Use my app to merge the CSVs
4) Use the merged CSV as the data file for the merged video
You can then either export the merged video with telemetry gauges from dashware, or use dashware to make a green screen overlay of just the gagues.
I'm stunned at how crap the GoPro experience is. The file naming confention is idiotic, the telemetry is a mess and every time I think I'm turning the camera off I'm just switching it to photo mode. The hardware is pretty good though, I'll give it that.
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01-21-2019 01:17 AM
Re: Combine Several video captures and retain GPS data
[ New ]Hi,
thanks a lot for the programm, I'll try it this week and let you know.
Regards,
Julien