Has anyone produced a travel map?

[alanball]

Hi Guy's,

I'm in the process of capturing some old travel video's of mine and was thinking of putting in maps to show the route taken around the various countries. I was wondering if anyone had come up with a neat idea to indicate land, sea and flight routes.

I'm using VS8 at present.


Thanks

[heinz-oz]

You will need more than just VS for that. PI from Ulead would allow you to have the map image and progressively trace the route taken to a series of images, animated in GifAnimator. You can put the resultant file on an overlay track and adjust transparency to show some travel footage at the same time.

[bop]

I did a search for map and found this thread http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic. ... hlight=map

Brian

[alanball]

Thanks heinz-oz I'll look into PI and thanks Brian for the thread you found it sure has given me food for thought.

Thanks guy's

[sjj1805]

I do this all the time with my holiday videos.
I usually go on a cruise or tour bus so I like to plot the journey at the start of each days footage.

I obtain a copy of the map of the area either from autoroute
Microsoft world atlas, hunting the web or using a scanner.

Having obtained the still, I then make any alterations I might need with photoshop.

I then use ProShow Gold (Free Trial Version at)
http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/

This software will animate the picture, zooming in/out and moving across the picture. (its called the Ken Burns effect)
Proshow Gold will then create a MPG file which I can then import into Video Studio.

Theres plenty of other similar software that will do the same job. Just type "Ken Burns effect" into your favourite search engine.

[kebrinton]

Also, last time this was discussed (earlier 2005), somebody pointed to a German product which would create the Indiana Jones-type map with moving route line.

I downloaded their free trial version but didn't have enough experience to create anything useful with it.

The price was very high -- was it $600? Somewhere up there.

[alanball]

Thanks Kebrinton but $600 is out of my range as well, I'll look at Proshop Gold, thanks for that sjj185. The thread that Bop gave was very helpfull and lead me to this site:

http://people.freenet.de/Santarossa/video/db95.html

Which gives a good work around with VS and looks as though it should work out OK.


Thanks again guy's for your input.

[sjj1805]

I am at work at the moment so away from my machine to try this out but I think it should work using only VS9 and Photoshop or equivalant.

1. Create a map by one of several methods, scanning, downloading etc.

Save the map as "pic 1"
draw in a bit of the line and save as "pic 2"
draw a bit more of the line and save as "pic 3"
Continue doing this until you get to the end of the journey.

Now add these pics to VS9 in sequence and adjust the delay between each still to a small time period (can it do half a second - I am at work so cannot remember)

On playback if this works you will get an Indianna Jones Style moving line.

[Terry Stetler]

Using a slide transition is much easier....

http://digitalvideo.8m.net/goeast/goeast.wmv

and reversing the transtion goes the other way;

http://digitalvideo.8m.net/goeast/gowest.wmv

You just need two images; one with and one without the path. Because it's a transition you have total control over the duration of the draw while working on the timeline, meaning not having to go back to a graphics or special f/x program to re-do it if if's too short or too long.

Limitation: no "loops" or direction reversals in the path.

[Ken Berry]

Terry -- I may be totally thick this morning, but could you explain exactly how you achieved that 'slide transition'. Your links show the final effect, but with no explanation of the steps... thanks in advance.

[shoalhaven]

Terry --

Ditto to Ken's request.

[rwernyei]

On the subject of "Ken Burns Effect", you don't need Pro Show Gold. You can do this in Video Studio using Pan&Zoom or Cropping filters.

Here's a tutorial:
http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?link=428

[daniel]

[quote="Ken Berry"]Terry -- I may be totally thick this morning, but could you explain exactly how you achieved that 'slide transition'. Your links show the final effect, but with no explanation of the steps... thanks in advance.[/quote]

Hi Ken,

I think Terry may be using the same system I use, and wanted to say Wipe/Side effect instead of slide. If you start from the same image with different line lengths, wiping of the images will be invisible and you will have the line to seem to be extending.
Since you could choose all eight wipe directions, you could adjust for the legs going east, west, north south, even 45 degrees.
Make a new picture for every direction change, and make the effect (wipe) long as half the slide's duration. IE if you display the pictures for 4 seconds, have a 2 seconds effect and each one will exactly follow the previous.
Of course you'll still have a hiatus while the picture 'catches up' to the line end position. It lets the viewer decode what's happening.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi Ken

The moving road is quite easy to make, but you need a photo editing suite to set up your images.

Have a read at :-

http://uk.geocities.com/trevor.andrew@b ... vs/all.htm Map

http://uk.geocities.com/trevor.andrew@b ... ap/map.htm

If you want to try just copy the sample images, not brilliant quality as I have tried to keep the file size down.

Trevor

[Ken Berry]

But if I am reading your site correctly, you don't in effect have an animated moving line -- simply a 'now you don't see it - [slide transition] - now you do' effect.