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| ====== Adding Telemetry Gauges to GoPro Video ====== | ====== Adding Telemetry Gauges to GoPro Video ====== | ||
| - | (one boater's comments in late 2020 - see latest updates/comments at end of this article) | + | (All comments regarding "Quik for desktops" are based on the Windows version. No experience with the Apple desktop version) |
| - | I have a GoPro Hero 7. If you have GPS turned on with your GoPro - your GoPro will store its gps data in your video files. The GoPro app (now called "legacy app" by GoPro probably because they don't intend to support it) that allows you to show various displays and gauges for data in the videos is **Quik**. In general you need to turn on any data display/gauge you are interested in before you do any other editing of the original GoPro videos, because editing will often discard the GPS data attached to the GoPro video files. (Editors that import video don't typically edit the originals so you won't lose the data that way - it's only editing the original mp4 files that will lose the data). I have only used the desktop version of Quik because among other things video editing/mods with a phone seems absurd to me. I guess some kind of canned modifications with a phone for output to social media might be reasonable but that's not my interest. (//**Editor's note 4/2022 **- using the GoPro mobile app may be the only up-to-date way that GoPro currently provides for adding gauges - Quik reportedly doesn't work for Hero 8 and even though GoPro considers Quik for desktops to be "legacy" software they have not provided anything newer for non-mobile editing - which personally seems almost bizarre to me, although as a programmer I am somewhat familiar with how hardware companies under budget or neglect software support//). | + | (one boater's comments in late 2020 - **see latest updates/comments at [[:gopro_gauges#telemetry_overlay|end of this article]] **our bottom line now is just use **Telemetry Overlay**) |
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| + | I have a GoPro Hero 7. If you have GPS turned on with your GoPro - your GoPro will store its gps data in your video files. The GoPro desktop app (now called "legacy app" by GoPro probably because they don't intend to support it) that allows you to show various displays and gauges for data in the videos is **Quik**. In general you need to turn on any data display/gauge you are interested in before you do any other editing of the original GoPro videos, because editing will often discard the GPS data attached to the GoPro video files. (Editors that import video don't typically edit the originals so you won't lose the data that way - it's only editing the original mp4 files that will lose the data). I have only used the desktop version of Quik because among other things video editing/mods with a phone seems absurd to me. I guess some kind of canned modifications with a phone for output to social media might be reasonable but that's not my interest. (//**Editor's note 4/2022 **- using the GoPro mobile app may be the only up-to-date way that GoPro currently provides for adding gauges - Quik for desktops reportedly doesn't work for Hero 8 and even though GoPro considers Quik for desktops to be "legacy" software they have not provided anything newer for non-mobile editing - which personally seems almost bizarre to me, although as a programmer I am somewhat familiar with how hardware companies under budget or neglect software support//). | ||
| You can still download Quik for desktops from GoPro. Unfortunately there have been all kinds of problems with the Hero 8 and gauge enabling. | You can still download Quik for desktops from GoPro. Unfortunately there have been all kinds of problems with the Hero 8 and gauge enabling. | ||
| - | [[https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Desktop/Unable-to-add-gauges-in-Quik-using-Hero-8-Black-video-file/td-p/412750|https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Desktop/Unable-to-add-gauges-in-Quik-using-Hero-8-Black-video-file/td-p/412750]] | + | <del>[[https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Desktop/Unable-to-add-gauges-in-Quik-using-Hero-8-Black-video-file/td-p/412750|https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Desktop/Unable-to-add-gauges-in-Quik-using-Hero-8-Black-video-file/td-p/412750]] </del> //You could still download **Quik from GoPro** when this article was originally written, **but no longer** now. If there are third party download sites we cannot vouch for their safety.// |
| - | There are 3rd party programs that can be used to enable gauges (that probably also work with the Hero 8) - I have gone down this route before, in part because Quik is lousy software with all kinds of bugs, but the alternatives I have used are not a piece of cake to use (//exception //see Telemetry Overlay comment below) either (making copies of the original videos is a good precaution if you wind up experimenting with all of this). If you have a Hero 8 we can talk about what you might do to enable gauges. If you have a previous Hero model and want to use Quik - I have a few suggestions about how to avoid some of its annoyances. | + | There are 3rd party programs that can be used to enable gauges (that probably also work with the Hero 8) - I have gone down this route before, in part because Quik for desktop is lousy software with all kinds of bugs, but the alternatives I have used are not a piece of cake to use (//exception //see [[:gopro_gauges#telemetry_overlay|Telemetry Overlay comment below]]) either (making copies of the original videos is a good precaution if you wind up experimenting with all of this). If you have a Hero 8 we can talk about what you might do to enable gauges. If you have a previous Hero model and want to use Quik for desktops - I have a few suggestions about how to avoid some of its annoyances. |
| To elaborate a little further - what Quik does is to take the GPS data attached to a GoPro video file (if GPS was turned on) and reprocesses the video adding a video overlay that displays the data via a gauge or graph in sync with the visual display. I suspect that most other consumer cameras do something similar if they can (tack on data to video files). It would not make much sense to require most affordable video cameras to do extra processing in real time to add such gauges to their videos as they are being recorded. Adding gauges really should be a post recording process. Maybe when we have even more affordable, faster processors in video cameras that will change, but the increase in processing power will have to come faster than their increase in resolution, etc. | To elaborate a little further - what Quik does is to take the GPS data attached to a GoPro video file (if GPS was turned on) and reprocesses the video adding a video overlay that displays the data via a gauge or graph in sync with the visual display. I suspect that most other consumer cameras do something similar if they can (tack on data to video files). It would not make much sense to require most affordable video cameras to do extra processing in real time to add such gauges to their videos as they are being recorded. Adding gauges really should be a post recording process. Maybe when we have even more affordable, faster processors in video cameras that will change, but the increase in processing power will have to come faster than their increase in resolution, etc. | ||
| - | Okay - when you get around to trying Quik don't be surprised if it sucks somewhat. | + | Okay - when you get around to trying Quik for desktops don't be surprised if it sucks somewhat. |
| Basic procedure once you have found and opened the video in question for viewing within Quik (Quik can also perform firmware updates for older GoPros I believe): | Basic procedure once you have found and opened the video in question for viewing within Quik (Quik can also perform firmware updates for older GoPros I believe): | ||
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