Has anyone produced a travel map?

[Trevor Andrew]

Sorry Ken
but I am unable to produce a movie of VS 9 showing the Editing process used to create the moving line.

But if you copy the two sample images, place them in the timeline, then apply the Transition Wipe / Slide, you will be able to play the project to see the effect.
Use 10 seconds for the images and transition.

Hope this Helps

Trevor

[jcmmarin]

Hi,
You can have a look to this page:
http://declic.video.free.fr/trucs/funyo ... eraire.htm
Good luck

[Ken Berry]

Merci bien! I have followed the further link in the one you provided, and it looks as though it will do what I want -- though I note that the guy who made the program says (in French) that he made it to work with Premiere. I could see nothing about it working in other programs, but I guess that if the final format of the map produced by this program is AVI (as it seems to be), then there should be no problem using it in other programs... And in any case, I have Premiere. Thanks again!

[Terry Stetler]

To do a moving map using the Slide-Wipe transition you first start with a pair of maps, one without the path drawn and one with...something like these;





When you create the VideoStudio timeline you put them on in order, without first and with second with a transition between them;



then you drag the transition to be several seconds long and apply the Slide-Wipe (actually the Slide transition located in the Wipe folder);



To control the direction of the paths travel you set either the right or left pointing arrows in the transition properties dialog;

The right pointing arrow;



gives you a path drawn west to east (left to right);

http://digitalvideo.8m.net/vsmaps/mapw2e.wmv (abt. 180k)

while the left pointing arrow;



gives you a path drawn east to west (right to left);

http://digitalvideo.8m.net/vsmaps/mape2w.wmv (abt. 180k)

Other transiton directions can be used as needed, depending on the direction of travel. The only real limitation of this technique is that it isn't any good when a loop or backbrack is in the path. Then you need something more powreful like MSPro's Video Paint.

Simple, yes?

[Ken Berry]

I certainly understand how to do it with the slide-wipe. but in effect that only gives a static image-transition-static image (but longer line) effect. What I was after was more in the nature of a proper animation with the line growing longer as you look at it and not using transitions. And it appears that the program jcmmarin directed me to may do that.

[daniel]

Again Ken, what we're all trying to tell you is that the wipe/slide transition WILL give you a growing line, not a replacemt of one image with the other.
The wipe will replace each image pixel with another one and you will see the line grow, in the direction of the wipe. If you chain the sections properly using main+overlay you will get apparent continuous movement .
Just try it with two pictures to get the hang of it.

[Ken Berry]

Daniel: I _DO_ understand, believe me! But what I was after was a total animation, not 1/16th of an inch, wipe/slide, another 1/16th of an inch, wipe/slide, another 1/16th of an inch etc ad infinitum. What I am after is: start at Point A, a line growing as you watch with NO wipe/slide or other transition, and then Point B; next video then back to map with red line to Point B and a new line growing out to Point C etc. But let us drop this now as it has strayed sufficiently away from VS.