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DISCLAIMER
Dashcameras participated in this side by side test were using firmware you see below.
NB! By the time you are reading this thread and watching video used here, developers of those dashcameras may have released a new improved firmwares.
Please refer to each developer sub-forum or website in order to see newer firmware release and their performance.
Top - Cowon AW1, FW: v2.6.0
Bottom - Panorama II, FW: v1.12.02
Each video clip overlap length
Cowon AW1 each video clip verlap is 0.466 sec
Panorama 2 overlap set to 0 ( zero )
The biggest issue in Cowon AW1 is variable frame rate and "unusual" video clips overlap ( 0.466 sec )
When I am making final cut ( putting together ) many different video clips from one source, I am using a Registrator Viewer, - this is the best and quickest software out there to "glue" together multiple video clips from one dashcamera.
Till now Registrator Viewer was able to cope with ALL dashcam videos that had fixed frame-rate and had "common" 1 sec ( or 0 sec ) overlap option.
Due to Cowon AW1 has "unusual" overlap and variable frame-rate video recording, - Registrator Viewer can not cope with "gluing" together correctly multiple Cowon AW1 video clips the way they would correspond and could be used to synchronize with other dashcameras video clips.
The only way to synchronize Cowon AW1 video clips with other dashcameras video clips is via pain-stake manual process, which takes hours using AVS Video Editor to correctly synchronizevideo clip of Cowon AW1 vs other clips. I have to go "almost trough every" frame, to cut "unwanted" ones in order to keep up with synchronization, and so on. This is not any easy job and for sure not practical !
There was no audio codec issue with Cowon AW1 after putting together video clips in Registrator Viewer.
Individual videos of each tested device
Download original / raw video files for all videos used in this test.
Technical and tag information about video and audio files from MediaInfo
Dashcameras participated in this side by side test were using firmware you see below.
NB! By the time you are reading this thread and watching video used here, developers of those dashcameras may have released a new improved firmwares.
Please refer to each developer sub-forum or website in order to see newer firmware release and their performance.
Top - Cowon AW1, FW: v2.6.0
Bottom - Panorama II, FW: v1.12.02
Each video clip overlap length
Cowon AW1 each video clip verlap is 0.466 sec
Panorama 2 overlap set to 0 ( zero )
The biggest issue in Cowon AW1 is variable frame rate and "unusual" video clips overlap ( 0.466 sec )
When I am making final cut ( putting together ) many different video clips from one source, I am using a Registrator Viewer, - this is the best and quickest software out there to "glue" together multiple video clips from one dashcamera.
Till now Registrator Viewer was able to cope with ALL dashcam videos that had fixed frame-rate and had "common" 1 sec ( or 0 sec ) overlap option.
Due to Cowon AW1 has "unusual" overlap and variable frame-rate video recording, - Registrator Viewer can not cope with "gluing" together correctly multiple Cowon AW1 video clips the way they would correspond and could be used to synchronize with other dashcameras video clips.
The only way to synchronize Cowon AW1 video clips with other dashcameras video clips is via pain-stake manual process, which takes hours using AVS Video Editor to correctly synchronizevideo clip of Cowon AW1 vs other clips. I have to go "almost trough every" frame, to cut "unwanted" ones in order to keep up with synchronization, and so on. This is not any easy job and for sure not practical !
There was no audio codec issue with Cowon AW1 after putting together video clips in Registrator Viewer.
Individual videos of each tested device
Download original / raw video files for all videos used in this test.
Technical and tag information about video and audio files from MediaInfo
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