Garmin VIRB Edit App Reviews

Garmin VIRB Edit saved my time and money. **Pros - It’s an awesome app with lots of video editing options such as adding unlimited number of texts, trimming and joining videos, adding audio tracks, and many more… - Believe me.. It’s FREE and best **Cons - accepts videos that are in .mp4 format - gives basic video editing tools

I got this to try it out hoping it would work, i turn it on and wont let me import one of the most common types of video files

Just mangles video clips. Split a clip, delete one of the split portions, and it just moves the video onto a subsequent clip. Makes no sense. Export a video and it doesn’t even export the video as it’s been edited. It’s as if it finds hidden portions and restores them into the mp4 file. Just updated the app in case the contained some bug fixes, and now the app won’t even load. Went to the VIRB Edit help site via the app store. The help link doesn’t work. Could you make this any harder? Several hours of this customer’s time wasted. Lot’s of work to do on this Garmin.

keeps giving me error messages. Very frustrating.

The Good: Video editing is basic, but functional. GPS and data overlays are innovative and very cool. Comprehensive set of dashboard gauges. The Bad: You must decide before recording whether or not you want audio since there is no option to adjust or mute recorded audio during edit. Application crashes when adding every other background music track. Speed controls lack granularity (100% is too slow, 200% is too fast). There is absolutely no help or manual built into the application that I could find. Some buttons are not obvious as to their functionality (a help system would be… er helpful for this) :) The Undecided: Since I could not get consistent data from my cadence or HR monitors (also tied to my GPS), I wanted to import this data but could not figure out how. When connecting my VIRB camera it tells me that I need updates followed by text that states, “(0) updates are available” Not sure what that means. Actions are “Update”, “Cancel” and “VIRB Elite” Not obvious what the VIRB Elite button does at all. Looking forward to this application once it is polished, but will continue to enjoy it, quirks and all until that time.

This version is total garbage. When creating a movie gauges fail to display any info! Some think if you trim a little bit it will be a work around but it only works for a few mins of the video and then the gauges go blank. Why did they totally mess this latest version up?! Stay with any version you have that is not 2.60

The overlay guages work when just watching the clip, but when you import the clip in to a video the overlay guages don’t work anymore. Like they can’t access the data. Tried version 2.7 (available on the garmin website), same problem.

this version no longer generates the accompanying GPX track file when export video to hard drive. What a bummer…….