RS800 Video Library

Yi Lite Action Camera. Shooting in 1080p and 60fps. Picture quality is lots better than the go-pro, but it's loads newer. It has some electronic stabilisation, but I don't use it as it gives the video a jelly look. I find 60 fps is pretty good as it gives you the option for slomo in edit. Ideally you'd shoot in 30fps to get a smoother image for real time playback, but it doesn't give you any slomo option. 

Davinci Resolve 15, just the free version. Playback in the timeline is slow which is frustrating, mostly down to my slow laptop. But I quite like playing around with the colour which it's amazing at. The other downside is I often get glitches in my editing which are hard to detect in the stuttering playback in the software, so it's only after rendering for hours that you realise!

Garmin VIRB Edit. It' rubbish editing software, but it's free and you can use any MP4 file coupled with any GPX or FIT file. You have to Sync up the footage manually, which can be pain, as the Yi has ten minute clip lengths, so if you want to sync the whole sail you have to do it ten times! 

The first video I brought raw footage into VIRB and synced it, then rendered the whole load. The plus side of this was that you had your whole video overlaid which you could then bring in to Resolve to edit. The downside is the time in take to bring in sync and export all that footage, much of which gets edited out anyway! 

The second video I did the edit and colour in resolve, exported to MP4, then overlaid in VIRB. This is less rendering time, but the downside is all your edits need to be locked in, and you can't do any slomo before. You can have the map overlay underneath the GPS track though, which I really like. 

I'll probably end up with some hybrid workflow where I do some prelim editing in resolve, overlay in VIRB, then add some final speed ramping and cuts in resolve after. It'll be a lot of rendering though and might lose some image quality through compression with each render. 

Unfortunately our launch line broke, meaning 3 minutes of frustratingly tying it back in the bow whilst two sailing down wind! Still a perfect course and breeze for skiffs and really run race!