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and x never, ever marks the spot.
Hey everyone, Kelsey here and welcome back to GAL!
Today I am reviewing four different map animation templates
that you can use to punch up your video animations
or to use inside of documentaries or any other video work
that you are working on. Before we get into the templates i'm actually going to
skype in Boone from Boone Loves Video who's
become a big map expert. He has a whole playlist
called monday maps but before we skype in boone i want to
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that i'm going to be showing you how to use and review
later on in this video are from envato elements
but let's say you want to just create a free animation
or you want some more elaborate animations that are not available
in Envato elements, let's skype in Boone and let's see what he has to say
So Boone, you have a ton of videos on map animations it's almost become sort
of like a specialty of yours and for people that maybe don't have an
element subscription or they want to just get some sort of
template to use or if they want to be able to make a map
animation for free or what would you recommend them to do if they're like oh
i can't afford this but i just want to be able to make a really quick map
animation between two points for free. What i found is one of the most popular
tools that's really a lot of fun is google earth studio i've done a couple
of videos on that it works exactly like google earth if
you've ever used google earth it's the same
it just allows you to basically do animations
and the really cool thing is that you can export those animations you can set
track points and then you can bring all that
information into adobe after effects as an image sequence and then uh
basically insert graphics and edit around those which is really
amazing but what about if somebody wants
something more elaborate what are some templates that you
recommend? [Boone] Well my two favorite um on envato marketplace are created by the
same creator i think it's an italian guy named marco and he created
3d earth connections and map route generator and they kind of work the same
way and the ui is really nice, the panel
setup it's it's super easy to use so 3d earth connection actually uses
video copilot's orb plug-in so you know you're required to
plug that and that's a free plug-in and obviously it's amazing because it's
from andrew kramer so it uses that plug-in
and then creates all the animations around that and you really don't have to
do much other than plug in your locations you can plug in
cities or countries and then you can immediately connect all
those and you can connect multiple and you can control the animations of
how fast you want them to animate or how fast you want the earth to turn and then
map route generator is a very similar tool but you do it in 3d
but it's with a 2d layer and then it kind of moves around
and you can control how your little after effects cam is going to fly around
you can have it follow and turn or you can have it zoom
out and again what i like so much about
those tools is their usability they're extremely
easy to use yeah i think that there's a lot of
options out there so we'll put links to boone's videos down below but is there
anything else for us map nerds out there that we
should know uh no i'm just gonna i'm i'm trying to
put out a lot more map content like i said i created a playlist called monday
maps so if anybody wants to check that out it's kind of
ranges the spectrum of like whether you're a new user that just wants
elements or whether you want like a super
advanced template that's going to do data driven
like population animations um so yeah if you're interested in that
kind of stuff you know come check it out thanks bone for joining the gal channel
yeah thank you thank you very much so now that we know the free options and
some more elaborate options from envato market
let's go ahead and go over to envato elements and see what
2d and 3d animation templates that we have
i'll be showing how to use them and give them a rating
let's start with flight map. Flight Maps is one of my favorite templates
for after effects from elements it's really easy to create simple 2d
animations between two cities fast first it has some built-in regional
pre-animated maps to choose from so let's say we wanted to choose
asia you can just select that box and it will change the default map
to the asia region you can also select reverse direction
if you want to reverse the direction of travel between the two cities
and you can always go back to another map just by reselecting it
it also has six different map themes you can select
one of the themes from the template dashboard and from the effect controls
you can turn on the theme to see how they look
there's flat dark tech white lush green gradients dots
and watercolor you can then customize that theme from the effect controls
panel i'm going to leave the water here as
white but i'll change the color of the land to a light green color
just by clicking this box and i'll keep the objects as red
and i'll change the country and state lines to a black color
there's also some cool extra features such as turning on clouds that will add
a bit more depth to the map as well as some dirt textures on top of
the map which i think really adds more dynamism to the map and
from the template dashboard composition you can click on the icon layer to
choose different options such as a sailboat or a car i'll go with a car
and you can also customize the pin in the route line style if you like
if you want it to be a solid line just change the dash slider to
100 and the gap to zero next we can add some cool animation in
the opening select the transition style layer then
from effect controls you can turn on one of these transitions i'll choose the
burn and let's play it back to preview how it
looks and i think this transition looks really cool it adds a
nice little touch to start off the animation
now onto the important part let's change the location of our points
all you need to do is double click on the composition frame here
and it will open up the map for customization
first we need to change the camera to be in the correct
starting locations let's say we're traveling from madrid spain to warsaw
poland let's go to the camera position hit p
and select the first keyframe now press c on your keyboard multiple times until
you get the camera position icon and from here you can click and move the
map to be over the spain country next let's go to the
second key frame and do the same and use the camera xy position tool just
like we did before to move it over poland next we can just
click on the city titles and move them into the correct location
and then you can double click on the title comps
and just edit the text to be the correct cities and then we'll open up the second
title comp and let's update it to warsaw now that
that's done it's time to move on to changing the route
path from the route layer just expand it out to open it
and then open up the content and go to path one
select it and then you will be able to use the selection tool to actually move
the first path point to your first location
and then for the second point you can use the hand tool to move around
and then select v to go back to the selection tool and move the second point
over warsaw and then you can use the path handles
to reshape the path into a nice curved form you can see that it looks really
cool but the airplane also needs to fly in the right path
to make the airplane follow the path you're gonna go
to the main route path layer and then you're going to click the stopwatch
next to path then select this new keyframe that was created
and hit control c to copy it this will copy the path
and then you're going to turn off the stopwatch which will get rid of that
keyframe now we're going to go to the airplane
layer and select u to expand all the properties and then
we're going to turn off the existing stopwatch
next to the existing position keyframes then we're going to turn it
back on again and press control v
to paste the keyframes from the route path onto the airplane
then we're going to move these keyframes to align to the timing
and now when we play back the airplane is moving on the same path
so i'm going to give this template 4 out of 5 stars mainly because of all the
manual work that you have to do not a panel that just allows you to
easily plug in the different cities and it doesn't
automatically move for you but it's really easy to use and it's part of
envato elements which makes it super affordable and
accessible to a lot of us now it's on to the map connector. Map
connector is a great 2d template to be able to
show metadata or more info about the different locations but it's
not good for connecting two different cities
it's really just great to show different cities and have information pop up
unlike flight maps there are no theme to choose from inside this template you can
see here that there's only one default but you can select the general settings
and from effect controls you can customize the map colors
to change the city locations you need to first open up the destinations
composition and here you can press p to review the
position of the camera and you can change the camera's position
to go over the regions or cities that you want to show
first select zero one the first keyframe here
and then you're going to use the position controls to move
the camera over your first location in our case it'll be france
and then we're going to select zero two keyframe
the second one and move it over india and then we'll do the same for the third
one for australia and now when we go back to
the main composition you can see that the
destinations have been shifted to these new cities or locations that we
chose so to update the text and info boxes you
actually need to go back to the project panel and open up the different
positions to edit them then to edit the text just double click
on the info comp you want to edit and once you've customized the text you can
then go back to the main comp and you can move these keyframes around to
control the timing so if you want the last destination to
hold for a longer period you have to lasso and select these other
keyframes and shift them over and that will hold it for a longer
period so it requires a little bit more work
overall it's pretty easy to use i definitely prefer flight maps over it
i do think that the keyframes are a little bit more difficult to use
for beginners but if you're an intermediate user you probably should
get the hang of it fast so i'm going to give this 3 out of 5
stars. The next template is called Place on
Earth and if you're looking for a way just to visualize one place
using a 3d globe this is a great template to use so first
with the edit composition here you can edit your location
so scrub the comp to the point where you see the city tag appear this is just the
default city tag it's las vegas and what you can do is
double click to change it from las vegas to whatever city you want
let's say to miami and then i'm going to update the font as
well then you're going to click on the position layer and simply move it
over to florida on this map then you're going to go to the render tab
and from here we can scrub through to see the movement from point
one to point two and right now you can see we're at a quarter resolution so it
doesn't look that great but it's faster so we can easily
edit before we decide to render so as we scrub through we can see that we need to
update the Point 2 parameters so that way miami is
better in frame to do that we need to use effect controls and from here we can
go into the point two parameters and change the radius
so that way we see it better i'll change it to around 1600
and then the rotation to about 140 and rotation two to around minus 20.
so you can change all of these parameters and play around with them
until it looks right for the city that you're trying to
visualize now one thing to note is that these parameters are super sensitive so
just by clicking and scrubbing to a new value it'll happen really fast and it'll
be kind of delayed so definitely try to type in numbers and try to get it
right it's just easier to type versus scrubbing and there are a few
more parameters to choose from i'll make the color of the label to be
pink for miami and also change it back to the full resolution
and then i'll fully render it out so that way you can see how it looks
so overall it's pretty easy to use but be prepared for a lot of render time
because of the 3d animations i'll give this a 4 out of 5 stars the
only option for map animations in premiere pro not
after effects is the world map toolkit and
this is actually created in after effects but exported as a motion
graphics template that you can use in premiere pro now if you have after
effects i do not recommend using this template
because it's super slow inside of premiere pro
because it's optimized and created in after effects
and for some reason the mogrt files when you try to edit them
inside of premiere there's just a lot of delays so when you
drag and drop the mogrt file in the timeline and then you go to adjust the
parameters it's just super slow so if you just have
premiere pro i honestly would recommend just
investing in after effects or just getting the trial of after effects
just to use one of the after effects templates because it's just not worth
the pain of using this motion graphics template
i hope in the future that premiere pro will optimize itself better to work with
more advanced mogurts from after effects but right now
it's just not worth it so you can try it out that's the beauty of invati elements
is that you can download any of the templates um as much as you
want and and try them out but i'm using a new
dell computer with 64 gigabytes of ram um and a great gpu, an nvidia gpu and it
was still super slow so those are the four templates that are available in
envato elements you can search the whole library
they add more templates all the time so you can go see if there's going to be a
new map animation that you can use but remember
that elements has way more than just these animations
they have music they have stock video and templates
and what else do they have photoshop templates they even have fonts and
textures it's really really useful so use my link
below to get 70 off your first month of elements and
thank you envato for providing that to you guys
and also a huge shout out to boone for his recommendations as well again
his recommendations are linked down below and now it's time for
the comment of the week
Spencer Hogg wrote "how do i do the same thing
with call outs in premiere pro."now this question
was left on my video on three motion tracking effects inside of after effects
so if you want to track a call out in premiere pro let's say
if somebody's running and you want to call out to stay glued on their body as
they're moving you can do that in premiere pro but you
need to use a plug-in called mocha pro by boris effects and
basically you install it and it opens up its own window and you can use it and
i've made a whole video on how you can use mocha pro to track
objects to moving objects in premiere
but if you want to have a faster performance i would recommend
still using after effects because you can actually take a clip from
premiere pro and use dynamic link to open it up in after effects do the
tracking in after effects and then once you hit save whatever you
did in after effects appears in premiere pro so if you added
a callout you'll then see that in premiere
so i think that's a really good workflow is to continue to
to use premiere pro for the editing and then
you know when you need to add an effect just cut that clip
and send it over to after effects using dynamic link
and do the tracking in after effects because it's more powerful for
doing that type of thing so i hope that answers your question
spencer thanks so much for asking and if you guys have any other questions for a
future video just leave a comment below and yeah
that's it hope you guys enjoyed this video
you map nerds enjoy these map animations take advantage of elements um to spice
up your next video see you guys next time bye!
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