gopro-overlay 0.63.0

Overlay graphics dashboards onto GoPro footage

Create video overlays from GoPro Videos or any GPX file

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• Overlaying exciting graphics onto GoPro videos with super-exact synchronization
• NEW & EXPERIMENTAL Create videos from any GPX file - no GoPro required
• Support multiple resolutions, most GoPro models, normal, timelapse & timewarp modes
• Convert GoPro movie metadata to GPX or CSV files
• Cut sections from GoPro movies (including metadata)

Examples

Map Styles

Almost 30 different map styles are supported! - See map styles for more

Example

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Requirements

• Python3.8
• ffmpeg (you'll need the ffmpeg program installed)
• Unixy machine (probably, untested on Windows)

How to use

• Install with pip

python -m venv venv
venv/bin/pip install gopro-overlay

• The Roboto font needs to be installed on your system. You could install it with one of the following commands maybe.

pacman -S ttf-roboto
apt install truetype-roboto
apt install fonts-roboto

Overlaying a dashboard

venv/bin/gopro-dashboard.py

The GPS track in Hero 9 (at least) seems to be very poor. If you supply a GPX file from a Garmin or whatever, the program will use this instead for the GPS.

Privacy allows you to set a privacy zone. Various widgets will not draw points within that zone.

The data recorded in the GoPro video will uses GPS time, which (broadly) is UTC. The renderer will use your local timezone to interpret this, and use the local timezone. This may produce strange results if you go on holiday somewhere, but then render the files when you get back home! On linux you can use the TZ variable to change the timezone that's used.

Example

For full instructions on all command lines see docs/bin

venv/bin/gopro-dashboard.py --gpx ~/Downloads/Morning_Ride.gpx --privacy 52.000,-0.40000,0.50 ~/gopro/GH020073.MP4 GH020073-dashboard.MP4

Format of the Dashboard Configuration file

Several dashboards are built-in to the software, but the dashboard layout is highly configurable, controlled by an XML file.

For more information on the (extensive) configurability of the layout please see docs/xml and lots of examples

FFMPEG Control & GPUs

Experimental

FFMPEG has a lot of options! This program comes with some mostly sensible defaults, but to use GPUs and control the output much more carefully, including framerates and bitrates, you can use a JSON file containing a number of 'profiles' and select the profile you want when running the program.

For more details on how to select these, and an example of Nvidia GPU, please see docs/bin

Please also see PERFORMANCE.md

Converting to GPX files

venv/bin/gopro-to-gpx.py <input-file> [output-file]

Joining a sequence of MP4 files together

Use the gopro-join.py command. Given a single file from the sequence, it will find and join together all the files. If you have any problems with this, please do raise an issue - I don't have that much test data.

The joined file almost certainly won't work in the GoPro tools! - But it should work with gopro-dashboard.py - I will look into the additional technical stuff required to make it work in the GoPro tools.

This will require a lot of disk space!

venv/bin/gopro-join.py /media/sdcard/DCIM/100GOPRO/GH030170.MP4 /data/gopro/nice-ride.MP4

Cutting a section from a GoPro file

You can cut a section of the gopro file, with metadata.

Related Software

• https://github.com/julesgraus/interactiveGoProDashboardTool - An interactive helper to build the command line for the dashboard program

Known Bugs / Issues

• Only tested on a GoPro Hero 9, that's all I have. Sample files for other devices are welcomed.

Icons

Icon files in icons are not covered by the MIT licence

Map Data

Data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Some Maps © Thunderforest

References

https://github.com/juanmcasillas/gopro2gpx

https://github.com/JuanIrache/gopro-telemetry

https://github.com/gopro/gpmf-parser

https://coderunner.io/how-to-compress-gopro-movies-and-keep-metadata/

Other Related Software

https://github.com/progweb/gpx2video

https://github.com/JuanIrache/gopro-telemetry

Latest Changes

If you find any issues with new releases, please discuss in GitHub Discussions

• 0.63.0 Bump version only - no changes
• 0.62.0 Bump version only - no changes
• 0.61.0 Update to Pillow version - should make the program run faster due to improvements in font rendering performance
• 0.60.0 Possible fix for error using --gpx-only in timezones that are ahead of UTC
• 0.59.0 EXPERIMENTAL support for creating dashboards without a GoPro file! - Just uses GPX. use --gpx-only - See examples in docs/bin
  • Huge thanks to @ptanov for code and others for suggestions!
• 0.58.0 Chart component now has configurable colours and size - see docs/xml/examples/07-chart
• 0.57.0 Experimental support for non-real-time (timelapse/timewarp) videos
  • Thanks to @ptanov
• 0.56.0 Remove possible divide by zero error - only likely in timewarp/timelapse videos - I think
  • Minor changes to ffmpeg code, should have no visible effect
• 0.55.0 Huge improvement to View performance - used in chart - now charts with short windows are useable.
• 0.54.0 Fix #60 h/t @remintz
  • Some (older?) camera's don't have ORIN in ACCL and GYRO streams, so use a default
• 0.53.0 New feature for a frame - fade out to edge - see docs - thanks @ptanov
  • Fix to GPX file loading - also, thanks @ptanov
• 0.52.0 Update gopro-to-gpx.py to allow smaller GPX files (see help)

Older changes are in CHANGELOG.md