Indiana Jones

loyola · Post by **loyola** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:25 am

I'm trying to make a line extend across a background of a map to show the path of a journey - a bit like in the Indiana Jones films. Unfortunately I'm a bit of a newcomer to this - can anyone suggest how to do this?

Should I take a sphere and try and stretch it into a line? What plug-in should I use? Can anyone help?

thanks very much.

pauley · Post by **pauley** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:53 am

I would say you are using the wrong tool. Go to Adobe and download the free 1 month version of after effects. Do a search on the web first for your effect (I've seen it mentioned hundreds of times, try key words 'map', 'stroke', 'after effects', and 'line'). It is an expensive program, so hopefully you'll only need it for a month - or you could decide it is worth the money and buy it, of course.

Pauley

phd · Post by **phd** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:52 pm

Someone on the old forum once described a quick and dirty way to achieve this effect.

Create a copy of the picture and draw the line on the map in your favorite graphics editing program. Save the pic.

Insert both pictures into the timeline in your favorite editing program. Map wiothout line first.

Use one of the wipe transitions for the direction you need to reveal the line (Say left to right. and set transition time.

As the transition wipes across the screen from left to right, more of the map line will be revealed achieving the effect of "drawing" the line.

rwernyei · Post by **rwernyei** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:37 am

Ulead Media Studio Pro's Video Paint module. One can manually paint frame by frame or set macro recording.

jday · Post by **jday** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:38 pm

As the above poster mentioned you can use the Video Paint module of MSP7, but Heroglyph version 2.0 (from ProDAD) includes this feature without having to do it manually frame by frame. They even have icons of airplanes and automobiles that you can add to the route.

loyola · Post by **loyola** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 3:54 pm

Thank for all your replies guys it's given me some ideas.

Merlin · Post by **Merlin** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:22 pm

A couple of months ago I was downloading and trialing several other video editing software packages other than Ulead. Anyway, to make a long story short I remember one having a utility or something to do exactly what you want. But unfortunately I don't remember what package it was. At the time I recall myself thinking "Why would I need this". But now I can see where I would, Like if I wanted to map out a trip I was on.

david reece · Post by **david reece** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:19 pm

the suggestion by PHD looks good!

I will this in VS8 i have done a similar thing so it looks like a good un to me!

loyola · Post by **loyola** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:37 am

I downloaded a trial of heroglyph v2 and after a bit of playing about, managed to get the effect I needed. I imported my map background and had the red line move over the top of it then export it all as an AVI. Had to sacrfice the panning effect of my map picture that I had added within ulead, but I think it was a net gain as a static map with the moving line was more impressive.

Cheers

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:38 am

Have a look at the Terry Stetler & Trevor Andrew Methods here:-
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... iana+jones

Fast, neat and simple but best of all it works!