Making a Cycling Video with Overlays - My GoPro and Garmin Settings

How to select and mount gear to make quality cycling videos. Then, how I overlay power, heart rate, cadence, speed and position data with a quick tutorial on Dashware and Garmin Virb Edit.

0:14 - GEAR and SETTINGS that I use (GoPro and Garmin)
2:33 - MOUNTING equipment and position (Barfly)
4:24 - OVERLAYS of power, heart rate, speed, position, etc...
4:50 - DASHWARE walk-through
11:53 - GARMIN VIRB EDIT walk-through

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[superpaulodonnell]

Thanks for the walkthrough Jeff. The real question is how do you get your watts to show 400 all the time? I'd love to have that for my overlay ;)

[trentwalters]

It’s been five years since you posted this. What is the 2024 iteration of this camera?

[karx]

this just gave my cycling videos much of professional look

[carlos_g]

dude this is amazing, been looking for this for dayssss, thank you!!

[mountainslopes]

Dashware is free now, it's great. Thanks for this video!

[ksodhi]

Interesting approach. I use Davinci Resolve to do all of my editing/colour correction of my clips and then feed the completed video through Virb to overlay the gauges. IMO, the Virb gauges look a little more polished.

[LuisLopez-whnp]

Great video, really informative. Trying to find out how to add the remaining distance gauge and the wind direction gauge. Thanks

[marcelloID]

Just got a GoPro Hero 9 and I already use a Garmin edge 530, will try and make my first cycling video later today, thanks for a great tutorial!

[Carlos-qzul]

Wonderful video. I'll watch it again, as the contents are so rich !

[Antonioprophoto]

This is what I was looking for lol finally it showed on my YouTube recommended lol thanks man! Updated more in depth video soon?

[jarrettttttt]

Awesome tutorial. How do you make the meters remaining gauge though?

[AfonsoRamosmtb]

The Sync thing you did, thats GOLD!!!! Nice videos, just get here now and alredy subscribed.

[TreyCoursey]

Jeff, I know alot of your recent videos have the distance to finish...I can't for the life of me figure out how to create such a gauge. The only thing I could think of is to setup a gauge that is distance in meters (it counts up) and then in final edit, reverse the clip...but some extra work. Can you share how you get the countdown in meters?

[Svdude]

Thanks very much for the video tutorial and tips... I shall be putting them into use come the racing season. 👍🏻

[malcolmmoore]

Quick question, I literally cannot seem to add the green screen, I've made the gauge and every time I try to add it nothing happens, any ideas? Otherwise I guess I could just export a long green video and use that as my background footage instead, yeah just thought of that, itll probably work just the same

[mmiqdad]

can we get an update on what equipment you use now in 2021?

[sgbryant]

Thank you for the tutorial. Great videos on Norcal

[Chokkan]

Thanks for this.


If you made a video that was just the chroma key green colour, like 30 minutes or something, would that save a bit of effort? You could just add more than one if your data was longer? I'm wondering how I could streamline the process. I've found this software to be quite bug-riddled :D However, making my own custom gauges has been so much fun.


Virb Edit is way more advanced and offers a lot more opportunity for customisation, but the gauge editor duplicated about 10 gauges in addition to the one I asked it to, so I think I'll just stick to Dashware for now. I hope they continue working on it, though.

[ajithrajesh]

A quick tip... instead of a dummy video use a lengthy green screen video...yes just a geeen SCREEN running 2 hrs or whatever time you want it to be

[nikkiesteban]

nice tips. If you want straight forward just get cycliq fly12 ce or garmin virb camera. Metrix are sync automatically.