Trackaroo Trackmaster

Any chance of an AVI Overlay? or even making the outputted data compatible with RaceChrono2AVI @ http://www.racechrono.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=120&page=1#Item_0

It can produce awesome footage like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0wUTyzGxJI

Awesome. Looking forward to this!

Giving this a bump as I'd love this feature too. Personally I use external helmet cams so wouldn't want the video to be captured by the camera, but would love to be able to export a layer that I could import into Vegas and apply atop of the helmet cam footage.

I do have an alpha version of Trackmaster with video capture running. The plan is to provide playback on the phone with a data overlay. Android does not currently provide any video editing capability, so you would not be be able to save/export the video with the data overlay. A big concern is CPU and memory utilization while running data logging and video capture at the same time. Some of the lower end phones will probably have issues. I'll put out a test version in a few weeks if anyone is interested in playing with it.

Jeff

I would love to test it out as well. I have a moto droid and autocross a civic hatch. I have an event coming up on the 22nd and am really looking forward to putting trackmaster to good use!

Hi everyone,

Awesome app! I got it up and running this weekend for a club sprint. I just keep finding more and more features.

Just wanted to add my vote for an AVI overlay. I figured out how to get the excel data into trackvision but they wany $200 for that software.

I found this thread and took a closer look at the racechron2avi program. I managed to manipulate the trackmaster excel output to the point I could make stuff happen.

Really needs someone smarter than me to write up an excel translation macro. I fudged it all manually and came up with this.

Test reel 1

The little animated map thingy is the hardest. you have to converted latitude and longitude to 2 dimensional x-y offset co-ordinates.

Most of the stuff just pastes between the trakmaster sheets and the racechron sheet.

Any excel experts wanna take my clumsy cludges up a notch?

Pete

And another with a different overlay. Much easier to work with the speed and time only.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW0N09dPJNE

Pete

You wouldn't let someone with an overclocked Droid test your alpha version with video capture would you . No? Okay.

Seriously, i can't wait to have video datalogging built into trackmaster! As it stands I am going to see if Daily Roads Voyager will run in the background while using trackmaster in the foreground.

I am researching background logging. As you can imagine, this is a pretty big task and needs to go through a lot of testing. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. One potential issue, is that background processes (technically a service) have less priority than a foreground process in Android. What this means is that if the video capture in the foreground starts to consume a lot of resources, Android can choose to kill background processes like the logging in order to free up more resources.

Jeff

If you're talking about the video capture, I'm still working on this. But since a lot of Trackmaster users are still on older, less powerful phones (Android 1.6), I don't have this at a high priority. There are some other higher priority features coming.

Jeff

Jeff, in the meantime, could you make trackmaster looking like a system application for android, this way i think the camear app would not close it.
The users could test what resulotion is still ok for their phones with background logging, and you could have more info about the phone performances