

Since the standard software wasn’t going to work I thought I’d have a go at trying to build some scripts to do this with Linux. While it is possible to get things like this to work with a VM it is a lot of work and requires the machine your using to have 2 graphics cards 1. This is the bit of Windows that handles all the multimedia stuff and for video tends to need access to a GPU to accelerate things. This was going well until I tried to view one of the videos I’d just imported and it complained about not having DirectX 10 support. No problem I thought, I’ll just throw it in the same Windows 7 VM I use for Garmin Express, the app I use to upload my workouts. Garmin provide some software called Virb Edit which will do all this, unfortunately it only runs on Windows or OSx. Having got some video I wanted to overlay some of the stats from my Garmin 810 cycling computer like location, speed, elevation, gradient and heart rate.

I finally managed to get out on my bike at the weekend and remembered to hook the camera up so it was hung under the handle bars.
#Garmin virb edit map overlay 1080p
The camera will shoot in full 1080p HD and has a super wide angle lens to grab loads of what’s going on.

I got myself a Garmin Virb Elite in the post Christmas sales, the plan was to use it while riding my bike and when snowboarding.
