These leading logger vendors have added TrackVision integration to their flagship data analysis applications. TrackVision is seamlessly integrated with Racepak’s IQ3 & G2X and Datalink II, and with MoTeC’s ADL2 and i2Pro.
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TrackVision Version 2.0
Track Vision V2.0 introduces a completely new video processing engine, a rich suite of video codecs, and many new features that make TrackVision faster and easier to use. This summary introduces the key points for new users, and for users upgrading from TrackVision V1.2.
New aspects of TrackVision V2.0 are described here in four groups:
We will begin with the heart of the machine - the new TrackVision video engine.
Video Engine
The new V2.0 video engine is built around an advanced suite of Main Concept video codecs for MPEG2, MPEG4, and H.264 video formats. Main Concept codecs are used by many of the biggest companies in broadcast, film, consumer electronics and software, and have recently been licensed by Adobe as the basis for the next generation of their Flash movie products.
TrackVision is now completely independent of Windows codec support for these formats, and relies on Windows codec support for Digital Video [.avi] and Windows Media Video formats only. The new video engine delivers higher performance and a raft of new features that make it easy to work in the native video formats produced by today's video recorders, and to save your TrackVision video with the outstanding clarity and small file size of H.264 or one of two MPEG formats. Here are some of the new video features in V2.0:
- Extended Aspect Ratio support: The aspect ratio of the input video is now preserved throughout TrackVision. The Project window, Show Movie and Save Movie are formatted to the aspect ratio of the original video.
- DVD Safe Area - Frame Margin: When DVDs are shown on analog television, the full frame is often cropped vertically and horizontally. This results in part of the TrackVision dashboard being cut off, usually in the lower left of the screen. You can now set frame margins in Show and Save Movie Options. TrackVision will scale the dashboard to fit within these margins so that it will be fully visible in the DVD image.
- Expanded Movie Options features: The Movie Options dialog reflects the advances in TrackVision's video format support and now incorporates an interactive screen preview feature. Save Movie Settings now provides independent selections for Format, Frame Size, and Resolution. You can now select the exact combination of settings you want, rather than the specific combinations of settings provided in Version 1.2
- Interactive Screen Preview: The Screen Preview feature provides an interactive preview of the video frame defined by your settings:
- The selected dashboard is displayed in the frame
- The Frame Margin is shown as it is adjusted, and the selected dashboard is scaled to fit in the margins
- The Transparency setting is shown as it is adjusted
- The Event Title is shown as it is entered, exactly as it will appear on the selected dashboard
- DVD Safe Area - Frame Margin: When DVDs are shown on analog television, the full frame is often cropped vertically and horizontally. This results in part of the TrackVision dashboard being cut off, usually in the lower left of the screen. You can now set frame margins in Show and Save Movie Options. TrackVision will scale the dashboard to fit within these margins so that it will be fully visible in the DVD image.
- Video file overwrite warning: When a Save Movie action will overwrite an existing video file, TrackVision now issues a warning and seeks confirmation to overwrite the file. If overwrite is OK, no further warnings will be issued from the current project. If overwrite is rejected, TrackVision will continue to warn on overwrite attempts within the project.
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Data Logger Group
TrackVision V2.0 consolidates the new logger support that has been added over the life of TrackVision V1.2. The current and the previous version of support are provided for each logger
supported in V2.0. For example, Racepak support is provided for the current Datalink II V2.8, and for the previous Datalink II V2.7.
TrackVision now supports data formats for an even broader range of loggers, including:
- Expanded Logger Support: TrackVision now supports data formats for an even broader range of loggers, including:
- Racepak G2Xtreme via DataLink II
- TrackSystems Traqmate GPS logger via Traqview
- MaxQData all models
- Advantage Motorsports all models
- RaceLogic VBox, PerformanceBox, DriftBox
- GTech Pro RR via PASS software
- Garmin Forerunner via G7ToWin software
- AiM All models via AiM Race Studio
- MoTeC fully integrated with i2 Pro
- MoTeC All models via MoTeC Interpreter
- Stack All models via Stack DataPro
- Race Technology DL Series via RTAnalysis
- A range of lightweight & handheld GPS loggers
TrackVision support for each logger is updated as new releases become available from each vendor. Always check TrackVision's Logger forum for the latest support for your logger.
- GPS Latitude and Longitude Supported: TrackVision now supports GPS position data as the basis for the track map and vehicle position in both Northern and Southern Hemisphere locations. This support includes tolerance for zero or null [blank] values that can arise when satellite acquisition is lost.
- Logger Files in .xls format are included in Logger Data Input list: V1.2 Logger Data Input was filtered to exclude all file types except .csv. In V2.0, .xls format is included as a valid file type.
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Display Group
The new V2.0 video engine is built around an advanced suite of Main Concept video codecs for MPEG2, MPEG4, and H.264 video formats. Main Concept codecs are used by many of the biggest companies in broadcast, film, consumer electronics and software, and have recently been licensed by Adobe as the basis for the next generation of their Flash movie products.
TrackVision is now completely independent of Windows codec support for these formats, and relies on Windows codec support for Digital Video [.avi] and Windows Media Video formats only. The new video engine delivers higher performance and a raft of new features that make it easy to work in the native video formats produced by today's video recorders, and to save your TrackVision video with the outstanding clarity and small file size of H.264 or one of two MPEG formats. Here are some of the new video features in V2.0:
- Hold Last Completed LapTime: The Lap Time display now holds the last completed lap time for five seconds into the next lap.
- New Dash Variables - Last Lap & Last Lap Time: These new display features show the last completed lap time as a separate display element. In cases where the 5 second freeze of Lap Time at the end of a lap is not sufficient, this separate display will show the last completed lap time until the next lap is completed.
- Expanded Movie Options features: The Movie Options dialog reflects the advances in TrackVision's video format support and now incorporates an interactive screen preview feature. Save Movie Settings now provides independent selections for Format, Frame Size, and Resolution. You can now select the exact combination of settings you want, rather than the specific combinations of settings provided in Version 1.2
- New SuperSlider display element: Many users have asked for a vertical slider, and many others have had problems using the original slider widget for decimal data values, and
for zero to 100 type displays like throttle position, brake pressure and more. Slider2 solves all of these problems:
- It can be configured as a vertical or a horizontal slider
- It accepts decimal value ranges, such as <1.5, -1.5>, <0,1.5>
- It stays precisely within the defined pixel position in all cases
- A horizontal and a vertical slider can cross at any point to create a composite element.
- Enhanced Gauge Element: The Gauge display element now supports data ranges in several forms:
- 0 to +x [the only form supported in V1.2]
- -x to 0 or +x to 0
- 0 to +x or 0 to -x
- +x to 0 to -x or -x to 0 to +x
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Windows Installation Group
TrackVision V2.0 is installed in compliance with all Vista conventions. Users will see two major changes when the product is installed.
- Windows Authenticode: Vista requires that product be fully compliant, and authenticated by a digital certificate. TrackVision is fully accredited and signed, and will install without warnings.
- New Folder and File locations: The folders for Projects, Logger Files, Video Files, loggers and displays were located in C://Programs Files/Apex
Visualizations/TrackVision.
Vista requires that these folders be located separately from the Program Files path, so they are now installed in the appropriate Applications Data paths in both XP and Vista installations:
- Vista Installations C:/Program Data/Apex Visualizations/TrackVision/
- XP installations C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Apex Visualizations/TrackVision/
TrackVision's log files are also stored in this /TrackVision folder.
- Menu Bar access to log files: TrackVision writes detailed log files which are very helpful when analyzing problems. The Trackvision.log and TVMerge.log files can now be
viewed directly from the main menu bar, under Help.
- Window size retention: When first installed, TrackVision opens in a fully expanded window. If the window size is reset, TrackVision saves the new window size and uses that size when restarted.
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TrackVision Pro... logo free at last!
Videos created with TrackVision carry a partially transparent TrackVision logo watermark in the top left corner, which you can see below.
Some of the sample videos and images you see on this site have a different version of the logo, because they were generated by very early pre-release versions of TrackVision. The first generally available version and the current version have the logo you see above. We will soon remove all of the older videos and images from this site, despite their great historical and sentimental value.
When setting the price for TrackVision, we had a choice between a price which would cover the high cost of advertising, or a much lower price with the logo which would help to spread the word between users. We chose the lower price, and not one of our users raised the logo as an issue for more than a year after the product was first released.
A few users have now asked if the logo can be removed from Saved videos. This has been discussed at length in a thread on the TrackVision forum.
TrackVision Pro is identical in all respects to TrackVision, but does not write the TrackVision logo on saved videos. Users may add their own logo in its place, or may save video with no logo/ TrackVision Pro is now released and available for purchase.