Producing Basic videos

A Basic video contains a colored trace of the path of the aircraft. No additional geometry is drawn.

Here is an example:

To produce a Basic video, follow these steps:

1. Record a Stunt flight using a video camera. For guidelines on how to position the camera in the field, see Placing the Camera. Save the video file to your computer.

2. Start the VideoF2B application. The main window looks like this when the application starts:

   

   Fig. 6 Main window of VideoF2B.

3. Choose File ‣ Load in the main menu.

4. Click the Browse for file button of the Video source box:

   

   Fig. 7 The “Load a Flight” dialog window. Just choose your video file from here.

5. Choose the desired video on your computer and click the Open button.

   

   Fig. 8 File browsing dialog. This may look different on your computer.

6. Click the Load button or just press the Enter key. The video will begin processing in the main window.

7. The trace behind the aircraft grows up to 15 seconds long. During processing, you can clear the trace at any time by pressing the Space bar.

8. If you wish to stop processing the video for any reason before VideoF2B finishes tracing it, press the Esc key on the keyboard. This will stop the tracing, and the result will be a partially processed video.

9. When finished, you will find the traced video file in the same location as the original video. The traced video will have the same name as the original, but with a _out suffix. For example, if your original video is named Flight 1.mp4, the traced video will be named Flight 1_out.mp4.