BI and Analytics on your action cam video (GoPro, TomTom Bandit, etc)

In this post I will show some tips and tricks to add BI to your action cam video, specifically the TomTom Bandit, on Windows 10 with Dashware.

The result looks like this:

To start with the really tricky part, getting Dashware to work on Windows 10.

I also tried to use Racerender, but Dashware proved to be the tool of choice for me. Unfortunately, the latest version does not work on windows 10. I did get it to work with version 1.7. Which can be downloaded here: http://dashware.software.informer.com/1.7/

In order to get it working you first need to remove MFPLat.dll and then run the executable from the program folder:

Since I am using the TomTom Bandit, I will also extract the GPX information from the video. This can be done from TomTom Bandit Studio:

Right click the video to export the GPS data.

Then we start a new project in Dashware, remember to start the application by running the exe from the program folder. Select 'None'  as project template.

Click the plus to add a video:

We choose not to extract the GPS data:

Then we add the data file:

Select to synch the GPS file:

Now the fun part, we add our BI components:

And start customizing!

Enjoy!