Introduction - Racelogic VBOX LITE Hardware & Software Manual

VIDEO VBOX LITE MANUAL

Introduction

The Video VBOX LITE combines a powerful GPS data logger with a high quality solid-state video recorder, which takes
multiple cameras and combines them with a graphical overlay, with the resulting video streamed onto an SD card as a
DVD quality MPEG4 file. The Video VBOX LITE records the following parameters as standard along with the video file:
satellites, time, latitude, longitude, velocity, heading, height, vertical velocity, and avisynctime.
The VBOX Tools Software provided with the unit allows you to view the recorded video and analyse all of the
parameters which have been logged, allowing you to see how fast you were going at any time, your maximum g-force,
where you went using Google Earth and many other useful parameters.
The logging rate of the Video VBOX LITE is 10 samples per second, which is good for capturing fast events like a sports
car on a circuit, a downhill skier or even a mountain biker.
As an example, an 8 Gigabyte High Capacity SD card logging video on the highest quality setting will be able to log
approximately 160 minutes of video.
NB: This is an approximation as the size of the recorded video will depend on what is being recorded.
The movement, colour, and complexity of the subject matter will affect the size of the video file created.
This guide enables you as a new Video VBOX LITE user to quickly get started and introduces you to key features of the
hardware and software.
It describes how to use the Video VBOX LITE and the Video VBOX LITE set up software. It describes the layout of the
software and how it is used to configure the graphical overlay used when recording the video. The overlay Elements
can be set up to display any of the channels logged by the Video VBOX LITE and the resultant video and VBOX data file
are time synchronised to allow linked analysis of the data and video in the VBOX Tools software.
Throughout this guide we will be referring to the following:
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Elements
These are graphical representations of the VBOX channel data such as a
speedometer gauge, a track map, or static graphics such as text labels or images.
Elements make up the Scene which the Video VBOX LITE overlays onto the video.
NB: An Element is exported out of the software with a .ELM extension.
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Scenes
A Scene is the graphical overlay file created using the Video VBOX LITE setup
software. The Scene is made up of Elements. When the Video VBOX LITE creates
the video files, the Scene file determines how the final video is visualized.
NB: A Scene is exported out of the software with a .SCN extension.
NB: Please note that the instructions given in this manual relate specifically to the Video VBOX LITE.
This product ships with a default graphical scene. To get more scenes free of charge please
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register your unit here: www.videovbox.co.uk/register
22 December 2009