Simultaneous Video and Photo. Tech Tip Tuesday #01

Spot X Blog Tech Tip 01

This mode is great for getting high quality stills of something you might see on your video, without having to take a messy frame grab from the video file. The quality images you'll capture more than makes up for the slight increase in card space required. You can even customise the photo capture interval (ie take a photo every 1, 2, 5 seconds etc).

GoPro 3 and 3+ users: select this mode from the "Capture Settings" menu.
GoPro 4 users: select this mode using the side settings button whilst in Video mode.
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GPS Overlay Using GoPro and Dashware

GPS Overlay Using GoPro and Dashware

GPS overlay solutions generally fall in one of two options; they are either cheap and only work with low resolution video; or they work with HD video but are prohibitively expensive. In an attempt to offer an alternative to our customers we've been getting familiar with Dashware video overlay software. Here's a tutorial to quickly get you up and running with this software to create immersive, data rich videos.