Animated Map? (Indiana Jones Style)
Just to further pick the brains of people on this forum. I'm trying to create a kind of Road Trip movie. And (predictably) I wanted to include an animated map, with some motion (panning) on the actual map, and a marker, indicating the route so far.
One of my ideas, which I've yet to try out, was to have the animation of the map (showing the route) and cut to the next scene by way of a zoom out, which would then become a page of a road atlas (this is un-related to my previous post, but does carry similar principals), which is being read by the subject of the scene. Because of this scene integration, I thought it would be good to copy the pages of the actual Road Atlas used in the video, and animate that, which would then create a more consistant image when zooming out into the integrated scene (hope this makes sense).
I attempted last night to use the images I've scanned in FCE 4.0 (these are jpegs, scanned at A3 paper size, 4680x6614 massively different to my project resolution). From a little reading, I realise that FCE 4.0 doesn't like/doesn't do a very good job of scaling down imagaes to fit your project resolution. Which is a shame, as the motion/panning and scaling worked perfectly, it all just ended up a little blurred.
It's a shame I can't seem to get the Jpegs to work (unless someone knows a way)as they are scans of the entire map page, and would work great for what I need.
If the jpegs wont work, then I have thought about maybe getting some static shots of the maps with the DV camera, or maybe photo's of the pages, which would then have to be matted together during the motion process (which should be possible, I think).
As far as the animation of the route is concerned, originally I wanted to create the trail of the journey (Indiana Jones style) but as I only have FCE 4.0 and no other image editing software, I figure all I can hope for through FCE is to create a shape with a generator and animate that along the map route.
What do people think, I'm sure this has been done before (and I know there is a feature in IMovie '09, but I don't have that) just wondering if people have a better way of doing things, perhaps I can make the Jpegs work, maybe I am better of using DV footage for the maps, as they will be the same resolution as the end project. Not sure.
Anyway, thanks again for reading, hopefully someone will have some pointers.
Thanks in advance.
One of my ideas, which I've yet to try out, was to have the animation of the map (showing the route) and cut to the next scene by way of a zoom out, which would then become a page of a road atlas (this is un-related to my previous post, but does carry similar principals), which is being read by the subject of the scene. Because of this scene integration, I thought it would be good to copy the pages of the actual Road Atlas used in the video, and animate that, which would then create a more consistant image when zooming out into the integrated scene (hope this makes sense).
I attempted last night to use the images I've scanned in FCE 4.0 (these are jpegs, scanned at A3 paper size, 4680x6614 massively different to my project resolution). From a little reading, I realise that FCE 4.0 doesn't like/doesn't do a very good job of scaling down imagaes to fit your project resolution. Which is a shame, as the motion/panning and scaling worked perfectly, it all just ended up a little blurred.
It's a shame I can't seem to get the Jpegs to work (unless someone knows a way)as they are scans of the entire map page, and would work great for what I need.
If the jpegs wont work, then I have thought about maybe getting some static shots of the maps with the DV camera, or maybe photo's of the pages, which would then have to be matted together during the motion process (which should be possible, I think).
As far as the animation of the route is concerned, originally I wanted to create the trail of the journey (Indiana Jones style) but as I only have FCE 4.0 and no other image editing software, I figure all I can hope for through FCE is to create a shape with a generator and animate that along the map route.
What do people think, I'm sure this has been done before (and I know there is a feature in IMovie '09, but I don't have that) just wondering if people have a better way of doing things, perhaps I can make the Jpegs work, maybe I am better of using DV footage for the maps, as they will be the same resolution as the end project. Not sure.
Anyway, thanks again for reading, hopefully someone will have some pointers.
Thanks in advance.
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