RaceRender

RaceRender is a video editor and overlay processor for Microsoft Windows, developed by RaceRender LLC. It specializes in the ability to process multiple video inputs (picture-in-picture, split-screen, etc.), as well as generate data visualizations using input from a datalogger file. Users are able to visually create layouts and dashboard overlays for their videos, and share those with others as templates or individual object styles. RaceRender also includes timeline functionality, thereby enabling the use of camera switching, text captions, and many other dynamic effects. Although it targets the motorsports market, RaceRender includes a wide variety of features that can be useful for many video processing or editing tasks.
RaceRender 2 offers a Free Edition, Deluxe Edition, and Ultimate Edition. The Free Edition allows users to create videos using a somewhat limited number of input files and display objects, and export it into a video file of up to three minutes in length. The Deluxe Edition removes these limitations and provides the additional functionality intended for most users, but without the ability to fully customize the data visualizations. The Ultimate Edition includes all of the features of the Deluxe Edition, plus all of the data visualization features and customizations. All RaceRender 2 editions have the ability to export object styles and templates that can be used by any edition level.
History
RaceRender originally began development in 2007, under the working title of "QuickPIP". It was intended to be a simple and efficient tool to create videos with picture-in-picture overlays and camera switching, specifically for motorsports uses. Shortly thereafter, a need for inexpensive datalogger visualizations became apparent, and a simple data overlay capability was added. It was used privately for producing amateur racing videos, and development continued with occasional private releases, over the following year. In January of 2009, RaceRender LLC released version 0.80 to the public, as shareware with a Free Edition and a Deluxe Edition. Frequent updates followed, with substantial improvements in media format compatibility, datalogger compatibility, and data visualization features.
As the demand for affordable datalogger video overlays continued to drive RaceRender's user-base growth and product development, many new features and options were added up through version 1.7. However, the data visualization capability was inherently limited by its design as a multi-input video processor, necessitating a major overhaul and restructuring. In February of 2011, a functional preview of RaceRender 2 was released with vastly improved capabilities and a new Ultimate Edition option.
Immediately obvious in RaceRender 2 was a completely redesigned user interface, high-quality data visualization objects that could be configured and positioned independently, and the ability to intuitively click & drag to place video windows and create data overlay dashboards. Subsequent releases added a new timeline system, project and dashboard templates, a wide variety of feature improvements, and many new data visualization capabilities, including vastly expanded support for datalogger file compatibility.
Features
* Ability to use up to 100 video, audio, image, and data input files
* Multi-input video processing: Picture-in-Picture, split-screen, camera switching
* Data visualizations: mapping, gauges, bar graphs, time graphs, G-force, text readouts, image manipulation
* High degree of customization
* Project and datalogger dashboard templates can be created and shared with other users
* Input file trimming and synchronization tools
* Timeline functionality to dynamically make changes at specific times
* Image and text overlays
* Audio mixing with volume and left/right balance adjustments
* Picture adjustments: brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, rotation
* Picture cropping & digital zoom
* Watermarking and transparencies
* Integrated YouTube uploader

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