I just discovered that Garmin VIRB Edit is available for non-VIRB video. I’ve been looking for a way to overlay data from my GPS onto the video and this might do the trick. I would like to see the same stuff on the movie that I’m looking at during the race, like speed, heart rate, distance and time. I downloaded it last night and did some playing around. It’s pretty rough edged – it’s even worse than iMovie in terms of getting into states that I have no idea how to get out of.
The biggest rough edge is that it won’t touch videos that have a name that ends with .mov, but if you rename them to .mp4 they load just fine. The second biggest is that if your camera breaks a recording session up into a bunch of different files, it will only apply the GPS data to one of them. So what I did last night was I
- Appended all my movie clips into one big one in Quicktime
- Exported that big one.
- Renamed it from big.mov to big.mp4
- Imported that into VIRB Edit
- Exported my GPS data from Garmin Connect as a .GPX file
- Imported that into VIRB Edit
- Tried to sync the video file and the GPX data
- Exported that file from VIRB Edit
- Imported that file into iMovie and started editing
Unfortunately when I looked at it in iMovie, I realized the GPX data wasn’t synced exactly right. So I went back to VIRB Edit, and found that when I tried to fix the sync it instead just lost its mind and decided that I was going 0 mph with 0 heart beats for the entire movie. So I don’t know what to do about that except maybe throw the whole thing away and start again.