HOW THIS IS MADE

A route, exactly as it happened.

Maps tell you where a route goes. They do not tell you what it feels like. Sportourix films the whole thing in one take and publishes it next to the GPS track recorded at the same moment.

What a route is

before you go
A map tells you

where it goes, how long, how much climbing

A route here tells you

what it actually looks like, second by second

Video
one continuous take
Map
the exact spot, right now
  • Scrub the video — the dot walks the map with it.
  • Drag the dot — the video jumps to that spot.
  • Read as you go — speed, heart rate, height, distance covered.

How a route is made

three steps
01

Filming

One continuous take from start to finish. The camera splits a long ride into several files on its own, sometimes with real gaps between them.

02

The track

A watch records position, elevation, heart rate and speed once per second — independently of the camera, with its own clock.

03

Sync

Clips are joined without re-encoding. Each one keeps the wall-clock time it started at, and that timestamp is what ties every frame to a point on the map.

Two recorders run side by side. The watch never stops; the camera does — it fills a file, starts another, and sometimes it is simply switched off. A shared clock is what puts the two back together.
Watch
one reading per second, start to finish
Camera
clips, with real breaks between them
camera off — the track keeps running one shared wall clock
  1. Every clip remembers when it started. The camera stamps the file; that stamp is carried into the merged video as a chapter.
  2. The stamp is the only link needed. Any moment on screen maps to a moment on the watch, and any point on the map maps back to a frame.
  3. Breaks stay breaks. Where nothing was filmed, the map keeps moving and the player steps aside — nothing is stretched to cover the hole.

Kit

what records what
Camera

DJI Osmo Action 6

  • 3840 × 2160
  • 59.94 fps
  • HEVC Main 10
Track

Amazfit T-Rex 3

  • 1 Hz GPS
  • Barometric elevation
  • Heart rate

What a route page gives you

Gaps are kept, not smoothed

When the camera was off, the map says so. A pause in filming stays a pause instead of quietly drifting the position out of step with the video. The breaks are carried through from the source files and written into the merged video as chapters, so the sync survives even if the page is thrown away and the file is opened somewhere else.

About the numbers

Distance, elevation and heart rate come from the watch, untouched. Ascent is smoothed over a short window before it is summed — a barometer left raw inflates the total by counting its own noise. Average speed is computed over moving time only, because standing still would otherwise drag it toward zero.

The camera clock is the single assumption in the chain: it is read from the file names and taken to be local time. Every route page exposes a time-zone field and an offset, so a clock that was set wrong can be corrected without rebuilding anything.

Elsewhere

Full rides and short clips are published on YouTube.

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