One of the things that I don't like about all this FPV

[Clipper99]

Gotcha with that title didn't I? :)

I like all things FPV. ..especially the videos.

BUT

Any video with OSD data is inevitably in SD. Now, over the last 7 or 8 years I've become somewhat of an HD snob. If you ask me, SD should stand for "slum-def©"!

So while I sit here waiting for my Skylark OSD to be delivered (thanks Sentry!) I'm thinking of ways to get the HD footage taken with my GoPro (I'm using the GoPro as my FPV camera via live video out) and the OSD data merged together. I'll be recording the video at the ground station with the just ordered GDV-101SD (thanks Thefokker!) but that will be crappy SD!!!! :mad:;)

So in my head I'm thinking that somehow with Adobe Premiere Pro I should be able to lift the OSD display data from the SD footage via some kind of chroma-keying and overlay it right on top of the crisp HD Gopro footage to create a better looking FPV video.

What do you think? I'm sure it can be done. Maybe it already has. Anyone have any footage of it? :)

[Kevinv033]

Not sure how you'd pull that off unless you somehow were able to split the osd to a "blank" channel also so you could key out a solid color...otherwise, i think it might be way too much effort to pull that data from a ground recording.

what would be sweet is if an OSD could log the data and you could somehow retrieve that and then make an AE expression to replicate it back over top - it would of course have to be styled like iron man hud. ;)

[sublime.f]

You'd loose your 'visual' FPV but you could put a green LED in front of a CCD camera with no lens on it (sealed off of course) and then you would have a green screen to key with.

If you fed your GoPro to your VTX you would have your FPV back but no OSD display.
You could also put some cake in your plane and eat it after landing :rolleyes:

But with most OSD putting data into the video stream you should be able to re-superimpose that data over the live feed on a decent groundstation setup.

If that was possible then you could just as well record the generated GS OSD data overlay.

I detect a chicken and egg loop

Ren