Possible 5MF video? Embedding drone data into video.
Not specific to Dronelink but would people have any interest in knowing how to overlay the data captured from their drone onto video as a possible Five Minute Friday? Here's an example - not the most exciting flight but it does show what I mean since it includes time, speed, altitude, a map of the flight, etc.
Let me know what you think.
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Barry Houldsworth, what did you use, this was done using telemetry overlay
https://youtu.be/Fls3Lhrc-Rw
Martin Reading
I can't see your video (I think you sent your link and not the public link - I do that all the time LOL)
If you look at that video it is 5 years old. For that, I used a thing called Dashware, which still seems to work but has not evolved since I recorded that - it's still the same software version!
I was looking at Telemetry Overlay. That has the nice feature that you can use logs from Airdata, which means you don't have to have the subtitle feature turned on and can use it on any thing you have flown before. It's not cheap though :)
Barry Houldsworth, this should be the correct link
Yup - that one worked. Looks like it's improved in the last 5 years :)
Did you use Airdata to provide the data for the flight?
Yea I use the csv from airdata to power the gauges, and yeah its really come on, and any problems Juan is always on the other end of an email, I also use it for cycling videos in conjunction with my insta360 one X2
Sounds interesting. Years ago we installed a system in the belly of our our Cessna that had 5 ports each with a GoPro camera. It came with software that let you display a road map with the flight track and click on the map at any point to load that video.
Yes. Someone else was asking about a feature like that where you could click on the map and go there. Nice to have but it would need to be incorporated into the video display software.
Videogeotagger might be an option for that - I've added it to the list of things to investigate.
Not to get too far off topic, but...
Other than the software we used to use for aerial flights (company long since gone) another software program with similar functionality that I really like is Dashcam Viewer. I just point to a folder with all the videos taken during a trip and DashcamViewer lets you view and skip through the videos while displaying a map in another window showing just where the video you're looking at was captured. A number of other programs offer similar features but I much prefer this app.
However, I'm not sure that kind of functionality would be all that useful in the drone video world. The photo missions we used to do with the Cessna could cover hundreds of miles and the dash cam video is apt to be many hours long. Drone flights of course are much more "constrained".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZgAYCpL9TA&ab_channel=DashcamViewer
Anything Barry Houldsworth does for FMF would be useful :-)
I asked about map integration for videos on the FB posts, and then did some research over the last few days. Videogeotagger will allow you to create georeferenced videos, but not really display them easily on a map - and it's not free or cheap for their other solutions...
I did find several racing and dashcam related options that could possibly be used, and Dashcam Viewer is one - and RaceRender also looking promising for overlays.
But I'm really excited to explore MapChannels.com's TeamMaps more - they seem to have a solution to do synced video with multiple geo feeds including Google Maps, Satellite and StreetView, and also has a Leaflet api. I started playing around and it seems useful - here's a tutorial that describes how to sync video and gpx using their TeamMaps product: https://www.mapchannels.com/TeamMapsTutorial4.aspx.
Using this, with any drone specific overlays in the videos itself would make for a really unique presentation format.
Wow. Heinrich you seems to have really looked into this. Some great info there.
Maybe you should do a guest 5MF :)
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