Another successful race.. with minor glitches
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:31 pm
We just had our 2013 pinewood derby.. the RaceReplay addition, this year, was excellent! highly recommend that. I just used a Logitech HD web cam via USB.. put my computer table at the very end of the track, and the video camera sat a few inches off the floor, under the corner of the table..
But now for a quick list of "issues" I had with the software.. hopefully we can get these cleaned up in the next versions.. I was doing everything on a single computer with a network communication between race replay and gprm.
In no particular order:
1) race replay would just "hang" occasionally.. It happened maybe 3-4 times in the 76 Heats we ran..
2) Race Replay wouldn't pop up on top of the race window on the second monitor if I happened to hit any sound effect buttons in the Race control panel after readying the timer.. so I could only hit the sound fx when the timer wasn't ready..
3) and if I hit a sound fx during a replay, it would bring the race window over top of the replay.. bummer..
4) I couldn't figure out how to remove a car out of the rest of the heat schedule if it had a fatal accident.
5) if a car didn't finish in a lane, it didn't seem to time out after 9.99 seconds (which is the max time it would record in the setup).. I expected it to.. I had to go wave my hand under the finish lane laser.
6) I was wishing there was a way to manually alter the schedule after it calculated it for me... we had some sport events taking people in and out periodically.. I would have liked to move their heats around.. without exporting the schedule and reimporting.. ideally, we could do this mid-race, if something POPS up on us, for example. If there is a way to do that already, let me know.
7) race replay always re-opened with the control panel docked.. I'd like it to remember which way it was before (even if it crashed) and then open that way next time.. ideally it would recall the control panel on screen 1, and the replay window on screen 2.. and open the replay window "minimized" over on the second screen.. obviously this isn't as big of a deal; if it didn't hang periodically..
That's all I can remember at the moment..
But now for a quick list of "issues" I had with the software.. hopefully we can get these cleaned up in the next versions.. I was doing everything on a single computer with a network communication between race replay and gprm.
In no particular order:
1) race replay would just "hang" occasionally.. It happened maybe 3-4 times in the 76 Heats we ran..
2) Race Replay wouldn't pop up on top of the race window on the second monitor if I happened to hit any sound effect buttons in the Race control panel after readying the timer.. so I could only hit the sound fx when the timer wasn't ready..
3) and if I hit a sound fx during a replay, it would bring the race window over top of the replay.. bummer..
4) I couldn't figure out how to remove a car out of the rest of the heat schedule if it had a fatal accident.
5) if a car didn't finish in a lane, it didn't seem to time out after 9.99 seconds (which is the max time it would record in the setup).. I expected it to.. I had to go wave my hand under the finish lane laser.
6) I was wishing there was a way to manually alter the schedule after it calculated it for me... we had some sport events taking people in and out periodically.. I would have liked to move their heats around.. without exporting the schedule and reimporting.. ideally, we could do this mid-race, if something POPS up on us, for example. If there is a way to do that already, let me know.
7) race replay always re-opened with the control panel docked.. I'd like it to remember which way it was before (even if it crashed) and then open that way next time.. ideally it would recall the control panel on screen 1, and the replay window on screen 2.. and open the replay window "minimized" over on the second screen.. obviously this isn't as big of a deal; if it didn't hang periodically..
That's all I can remember at the moment..