Harry's GPS Suite Forum

When I last linked some laps to the video from my Gopro camera associated with them, I was ultimately able to play the video, with the full suite of data from Laptimer displaying in the corner, when I opened the video from within the Photo app on my ipad mini. This allowed the video to play on the full screen of the ipad. But when I did this most recently, only the video plays when I open it within the photo app. When I play the video from within the lap in Laptimer, the data is displayed, but the video only covers about 2/3 of the screen. So, I'm wondering what I could have done differently between the two instances.

This most recent time, I copied the video directly to the ipad using my Lexar micro SD card-to-lightning reader, but I don't see why that would make a difference. I copied the video to the camera roll using the reader, and selected the video from the camera roll when I went through the re-link procedure in Laptimer. Any idea what I may have done incorrectly? Thanks.

I tried this again yesterday on a lap I ran on the "track" I created in my neighborhood for testing purposes. I reported on this in another thread. Everything worked fine, but still, when I select the video stored in the Photo app, it plays it on the full ipad mini screen, but only plays the video, without the data recorded during the lap. I tried both transferring the video directly from my gopro to the ipad via my Lexar Micro SD card-to-lightning reader/connector, and through iTunes on my desktop computer, but got the same result.

What are the steps to transfer the linked video (with data and information recorded in Laptimer) to the Photo app? Thanks.

Frankly, you would do yourself a big favor by reading the Video Documentation like proposed several times. Once the basic concepts like "raw video", "adding an overlay to a raw video", and an "overlaid video" are clear, it is a lot easier to understand which transfers and which steps yield which results.

I do not want to duplicate everything documentated in the paper, but transferring a raw video from an action cam to iOS's Photos app will still leave you with a raw video. The only instance capable of adding overlaid data is LapTimer. So a video which has never been processed in LapTimer will not have an overlay. So following your approach transferring a raw video from action cam to iPad / Photos, you have two options:

1 transfer raw video to Photo app / Camera Roll
2 link laps in LapTimer with this raw video sitting in Camera Roll
3 watch the overlaid video in LapTimer by pressing the Play button in the lap's details dialog

Instead of watching the an overlaid video in LapTimer instantly, you can replace step 3 by:

3 instead of pressing Play, press Export and follow overlaying configuration instructions
4 after processing the overlay, LapTimer will store the result as an additional overlaid video in Photo app / Camera Roll

This means after step4 you will find two videos in Photo app / Camera Roll - the original full session length video without overlay, and a second video generated by LapTimer during export covering the laps selected for overlay and including overlaid gauges.

- Harry