Best app to plot RCP data into a Video. Any suggestion?

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FHB-PERFORMANCE
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Best app to plot RCP data into a Video. Any suggestion?

Post by FHB-PERFORMANCE »

Hi guys,

I already have Harry´s LapTimer and it seems I can use it to get the RCP Mk2 data (Time, speed and CAN data) and show them in a video. However, it seems I can´t use the acceleration data from RCP (Accel sensors). Actually it gets the accel data from the tablet/phone accel sensor (which I don´t like and it is the reason why I bought my RCP).

I saw a video in this forum where it was made using Race Render. Is it good and friendly enough? Any other suggestion?

Thanks again,

Felipe
Felipe

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Post by jpf11 »

Personally I find Race Render easy to use, enough so that I paid for the full software package. I can't say I've mastered it but it's worked alright so far. Here's a video where I added a lot of the RCP data to my video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwaJmYB7b8

It's been years since I tried anything else and can't even remember the other software alternatives, but I remember trying a number of them and RR was the quickest at mapping the data.

I didn't do any videos last year due to a catastrophic failure with my car (tire blew up) so it's been a bit of time since I went through the RR process and I might be misremembering... but I think the one thing that makes RR easiest to use with RCP is to use the GEMS data conversion script I wrote (the thread for it is stickied on this forum) first, which gets the RCP data in arguably a more RR friendly format.

I THINK that's true... but maybe I'm wrong! I think after my next race in a month I'll write up a wiki page on how to easily use RR with RCP (I promised Brent I would do that last year but all my good video was corrupted when the car wiring harness was shredded by the tire and so I never went through the workflow again).

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Post by Bryan@UnderbiteRacing »

I'll second Race Render as the easiest way to add data to video. I'll be interested to see the draft wiki page in case there's something I'm doing differently.

https://youtu.be/h3K4GecyPkw

Cheers,
Bryan

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Post by FHB-PERFORMANCE »

Great!

Thank you guys! I will try it!
Felipe

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