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GoPro Race Day DJI

The Race Ninja app is open. Your phone carries the footage, we do the thinking

The Race Ninja app for iPhone, iPad and Apple silicon Macs is open to everyone through TestFlight. It shrinks your footage in the paddock, sends it up, and your analysis comes back in about a minute a lap.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Race Ninja telemetry overlay on GoPro karting footage
Product Updates GoPro

GoPro Cloud links are importing again, chapters and all

GoPro Cloud share link imports have been broken since early August. They work again from today, and long sessions that split into chapters now come across as one analysis.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Race Ninja engine performance summary showing an apex-to-peak pull from camera GPS with Alfano RPM on the same lap
Product Updates Karting Telemetry

The engine wasn't giving him the kick

Roman was driving well. The engine wasn't. We borrowed one and broke into the 39s. Engine insights now sit on the same lap as the camera so you can see a drop-off instead of guessing.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
Onboard kart video at Daytona Milton Keynes with a Race Ninja watermark and HUD overlay gauges: speed donuts, LED ladders, G-force bars and speed bars
Karting Telemetry GoPro

Pick a HUD look. Then burn it onto the lap

The Video Editor now has extra looks for the HUD you burn onto a lap. Donut gauges, LED ladders and speed overlays, with font, colour, background and size you set yourself from the GPS your camera already logged.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
Race Ninja desktop uploader showing two large DJI recording files grouped as Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and linked together automatically before upload
DJI GoPro Karting

Your whole DJI session now counts, every chapter

DJI splits long recordings into chapters, and until now only the first one kept its telemetry. Now the whole session uploads, chapters linked automatically and every lap timed.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
Race Ninja Video Editor preview of a kart onboard clip with speed, track map, air temperature and wind overlays placed on the footage
Product Updates Video Editor Weather

Your overlay just got weather!

The Video Editor now puts gauges where you placed them. You can also drop air temp, wind and track temp from that lap onto the clip.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
A GoPro Cloud share page showing only a Share button, with no download option
GoPro Tips & Guides

GoPro's share links have lost their download button

GoPro share links still have no Download button, and links that worked in July lost it too. Here is what happened, why it was never your settings, and why Race Ninja link imports work again anyway.

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Antony Vickery
· · 4 min
Race Ninja engine table showing max, average and minimum RPM plus temperatures for each lap of a kart session, with the fastest lap highlighted
Karting Telemetry GoPro

Your Alfano knows your RPM. Your GoPro video can too

Upload your Alfano session next to your GoPro footage and Race Ninja puts engine RPM and temperatures against every lap you drove. No cables, no desktop software, nothing to line up by hand.

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
GoPro Hero 11 GPS data turned into lap times and a racing line for karting
GoPro Tips & Guides Telemetry

GoPro Hero 11 GPS for racing: the value pick for telemetry

If you want one camera for racing telemetry without spending a lot, the GoPro Hero 11 Black is hard to beat. It has GPS, the data it records is genuinely good, and now that it's a couple of models old you can find it cheap. What GPS the Hero 11 has The Hero 11 introduced a newer...

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min
GoPro Hero 12 shown without GPS telemetry, with the Hero 11 and 13 as alternatives
GoPro Tips & Guides Telemetry

GoPro Hero 12 GPS: No, and What to Use Instead

The Hero 12 dropped GPS. Hero 11 and 13 kept it. Here is how to still get lap times, sectors and coaching from your footage.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
GoPro Hero 13 GPS data turned into a lap time and racing line on a kart circuit
GoPro Tips & Guides Telemetry

Yes, the GoPro Hero 13 has GPS (and you can time laps with it)

Yes. Hero 13 Black has built-in GPS. Hero 12 does not. How 10Hz logging works, which Heros to buy, and how to get free lap times from your footage.

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Antony Vickery
· · 3 min
Race Ninja lap analysis and racing line next to a plain telemetry video overlay
Telemetry GoPro Tips & Guides

Telemetry Overlay alternative for racers: when you want analysis, not just a HUD

If you've been using Telemetry Overlay, or you're weighing it up, here's an honest take on when it's the right tool and when it isn't. Telemetry Overlay is genuinely good at what it does. It reads GPS and sensor data off a GoPro, DJI, Insta360 or dozens of other devices and burns...

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Antony Vickery
· · 2 min