Ok, you should be asking how can I get that flight info to embed on the video, right? Then my friend Bruno told me to replace the airplane icon for the Mavic icon, ok!Īnd the final result of this gauge on the video, looks gorgeous: The drone part: The good part about RaceRender is, as I said above, totally customizable, I got a Cessna Compass, loaded into Photoshop and created the compass gauge in RaceRender, rotating the aircraft according to the drone’s heading. What I ended up doing was edit the video in FCPX, export it and use RaceRender then, using its tools to sync the data file with my edited video file - no chroma key :( Initially I created a solid green video on FinalCut Pro to be used as a Chroma Key channel, and used that video as a background to embed the gauges in RaceRender, then export the video of the gauges with the green background and use my original drone video behind and activate the Chroma Channel with the green color, but some gauges had some transparency and I didn’t want to give up transparency, that transparency could mess up with my Chroma Key layer because the gauges had green content injected on them, so I gave up the Chroma Key idea. Yesterday I spent like 6 hours doing the layout of my gauges and indicators to display on the video, they have different colors, shapes and they change colors according to their value. The software is one of those Java software with kinda ugly GUI - not beautiful, it’s for professional usage, looks like Final Cut Pro before Apple refactored the UI (actually I read somewhere that lots of TV channels and pro guys use this software to embed telemetry into their videos as well) and this software allows 100% customization on the gauges and gives you access to their source code if you want to do something more specific (the source code is in C-style) - totally formidable for me. I was decided, with the results above I purchased RaceRender ($50) and started the gauge development. The idea of this video was just to check the power of RaceRender, the gauges are not that beautiful, to see the final result after some extra hours of work, continue reading. Because when you work on the video editing software, sometimes the render results may be different, and RaceRender passed the test. I found that very stable and the gauges were hi-def and the framerate was good and I felt I was good to continue. I was very excited and I didn’t want to start the gauge design development yet before testing if the software was stable or crazy like Dashware. So I discovered a new software called RaceRender, I saw some YouTube videos from guys who made telemetry using it, I wrote them, added them on Facebook and we exchanged experience - one of them is a math teacher named Robert who helped me a lot on my gauges journey because he shared his template with me, which is a lovely one with lots of information, but I still thought I could do a template from the scratch.Īs a first test, I ended up with something like this below, a Hoboken flight. Well, after spending 8 hours with Dashware and trying to make it work on my Windows machine, I gave up and spent some days researching if there were other ways to embed the god damn telemetry into the video files - it shouldn’t be hard. So the Dashware support stopped some time ago and currently the software seems bugged in a way you have to remove some DLLs, mess up with codecs and do some black magic in order to work, the downside of Dashware is that it only supports 1080p and the software crashes A LOT, there was one day that it was about 2 AM, I spent 2 hours doing the gauges and with an unsaved project the software crashed when I tried to render, reminding my 1990’s memories where hours of work would be thrown in the garbage due to software crashing. But GoPro guys (the company) bought Dashware and I think they hired the developers to do something for their Drone - the GoPro Karma. Not a problem: I partitioned my personal Mac with BootCamp, installed Windows 10 and installed the software. I joined Mavic Pilots and saw some telemetry posts and saw that guys use a Windows application called Dashware, which unfortunately works only for Windows. They created a software that gets metadata about their cameras’ files and embeds automatically in the video, and this is a thing that I always wanted to do because watching the video with these gauges and info allows me to discover what are the impacts of my flight controls in the final result (it’s like watching yourself presenting something), and work in these aspects to make a smoother footage. It took me approximately 18 working hours from zero knowledge about telemetry to this state: I was very very curious to know how to do that after seeing a Garmin (the GPS guys) video. Flight videos with Telemetry data - Rafael LopesĬlique para versão em Português.
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