Video Overlay Software for PC?

[Keith Carter]

Does anyone know of a way (preferably free) to overlay one video in a frame on top of another video? I'd like to overlay rear facing video footage in a frame on top of front facing video footage.

[mikey]

I tried to be cheap for a long time. Eventually bought Adobe Premier Elements and made life easy.

[BeerBudgetRacing]

http://www.dashware.net/ does if it works for you. Its selective about video cards.

[mikey]

http://www.dashware.net/ does if it works for you. Its selective about video cards.

Really? I have dashware and have never found a way to overlay two videos. How?

[DanW]

Does anyone know of a way (preferably free) to overlay one video in a frame on top of another video? I'd like to overlay rear facing video footage in a frame on top of front facing video footage.

I believe RaceRender will do that for you.
http://racerender.com/Products/index.html

[Keith Carter]

I've used Dashware for a few years now to overlay data onto gauges. Never knew that it would allow me to overlay a video frame on top of a video. Are you sure about that feature?

[BeerBudgetRacing]

Can't find a feature list but this sample video does it.....

http://www.dashware.net/videos/mt-pa...lub-roaf-trip/

and this one too

http://www.dashware.net/videos/sport...c-racing-team/

and this one

http://www.dashware.net/videos/nc-racing-brazil/

but then again I can't get it to run on any of my machines - startup errors....

[BeerBudgetRacing]

nevermind. they didn't say they did pip before using dashware...

https://www.thumpertalk.com/forums/t...frontrear-gps/

[TimH]

Last time I used RaceRender it let me toggle from front to rear views but I didn't see how to do PIP.

[924RACR]

I've been using RaceRender for a long time, love it... they have standard PIP setups you can select when you start the program, like rearview mirror layout...

Figuring out how to lay up multiple segments took a little more investigation, but not that bad...

[toolo4sno]

Does anyone know of a way (preferably free) to overlay one video in a frame on top of another video? I'd like to overlay rear facing video footage in a frame on top of front facing video footage.

I believe you are entering non linear editing software at that point. It's possible that the Windows Movie Maker does that. If you are serious about good video (and audio) for your open wheeler then you probably should pick up a $50-75 NLE like Vegas Platinum.

When I did HPDEs in my Audi I used Harry's Lap timer for telemetry. Mulitiple Go Pros handled the video and a 4 channel audio recorder did audio. Dashware would overlay that data (exported to excel csv) on the main camera view for the whole file. Then I use Vegas to fade in between the gauges version and non gauges version while overlaying flags, rear camera view and driver cam. The audio was mixed in stereo.

https://youtu.be/ei8Z2KGYF1Y

[DJ Stewart]

I've been using RaceRender for a long time, love it... they have standard PIP setups you can select when you start the program, like rearview mirror layout...

Figuring out how to lay up multiple segments took a little more investigation, but not that bad...

what camera are you using? Data is from Aim? How donyoubalign the start of the video with the startbof the data?

[924RACR]

I'm using two Contour HD cameras, stitched together in RaceRender. The data is from a Race Technologies DL1.

RaceRender has a pretty clean set of tools to line things up, even some assist, but I do it manually; pretty easy to line up the roll-off on the grid, then fine-tune a bit more with accel left/right until it's good enough. I no longer worry about having it closer than 0.5s, it's good enough for watching.