#Racerender sync tool software#

There are other ways of doing this, but that's my favorite.While RaceChrono cannot connect to the GoPro’s GPS while “live recording”, you can import the data embedded in to the video files afterwards. Once you've rendered it, review it to make sure its good, if not fix it and try again. It'll give you a lot of options video quality, for showing on the web I find 576 lines and 3,000kb/s make a reasonable tradeoff between size and quality. Next you render the video, I think that's the 'Create Video' button. It might take a little practice, render the video and see if you think the data is following the action. Synhronisation is the one tricky part to all this. I've also used when the steering wheel is straight up synced to zero lateral g transitions, or the revs on screen passing a number, like 2k and then syncing that to 2k revs in the data. Then use the sync tool to see the gear indicator change. You can listen for it on the soundtrack and stop the video at that point. Once you have rough sync with the lap start, you could try refining it with some other event in the data. If you're using start finish as your sync point, you can move it until the lap counter just clicks over to the right lap number. This lets you move the data around until its synchronized with the video. Now you use the synchronization tool button. The trim button is a good start, it may require counting laps to find the right start point, then find the end point a lap later. Advance the video until its at that point, then go find the data. Crossing start finish on your lap is a happy rough sync point. You need to find a handy synchronization point you can recognize in both the video and the data. You can preview the video and the data won't look right. You now have the video and the data composited, but not synchronized. It'll also ask you which fields to use, it should have a large set checked, if it doesn't you may have pointed it to the wrong file. It'll ask you which template you want to use, find one you like, there are a lot of pre made ones. Add the video you made in your editor, and then add the unzipped data file. In RaceRender tell it to start with a blank project. When you have the lap as you want, export it in the highest resolution your can. My setup also brings in other camera angles which i composite. The GoPro splits up its video into convenient (for it) chunks, so you may need to add a couple of chunks together.

#Racerender sync tool software#

Its at this point I use my video editing software to extract the bits of GoPro video I want, usually only a lap plus the previous corner and a little more past the end. The data is the one you want, its sent compressed so you need to unzip it. It comes as two files, a spreadsheet file with lap information and a spreadsheet file with the data. Once the mail arrives grab the attachment so that RaceRender can find it. This forwards the data as an attachment to mail, you then send this to yourself. In Harry's find the lap list and hit the export button and then the 'Export Lap Data' button that pops up.Select 'Text (.csv)' as the export method and a suitable time frame, I do a whole day at a time, then hit the 'Mail' button. You mentioned RaceRender, that's the way I do it.