Telemetry Overlay
Customizable Telemetry Gauges for Many Camera Models | Review by Erik Vlietinck
Telemetry Overlay is a new tool for creating telemetry visualizations on action
camera and drone videos. It’s a user-friendly tool that focuses on the design and
video output, supporting GoPro, DJI, Insta360, Garmin, and others. It also supports
Garmin watches and trackers, and GPX files with valid tracks.
Telemetry Overlay uses a video’s GPS metadata to help you create a number
of overlays, such as speed, altitude, trajectory, bearing, etc. With my HERO9 test
unit, I had access to the Speedometer; the GPS Path, which has plenty of map and
satellite options; an Accelerometer that shows forces and vibrations by axis or total
magnitude; an Altitude gauge; a Distance gauge; and a Bearing gauge.
The focus of Telemetry Overlay lies on the design and output of a project. The
app therefore allows you to change the gauges in almost every conceivable way,
and lets you set In/Out points for some. It supports multiple video clips while still
being responsive when using it.
Responsiveness is taken care of when you load clips into Telemetry Overlay;
the app will first optimize the clips so they’ll play fast and without stuttering as
you go on customizing the different representations of the metadata overlaid on
the video. One nice feature is that you can save a project to come back to it on
a later date.
There are three options in the export screen: a transparent MOV file with only
the gauges reacting to the telemetry data, which can then be overlaid on the
footage in your NLE; the complete footage with gauges included; and transparent
frames containing only the overlay in PNG format. n
Company: Prototyping Barcelona
Price: $99
Hot: Huge number of gauges;
customization capabilities;
flexibility
Not: Exporting to ProRes overlay
took a long time
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