I saw your video.
This was more than I wanted.
It has occurred to more than video questions.
The image quality of your source is very nice.
I would like to know where he got the image.
That's Google Earth image quality is not well understood.
Answer please.

For those asking where the images come from, you can see the watermarks when you open the tutorial files: Google.

Please how can i get the pictures of my city ? Thanks you... you are great

Heya!! really want to do this tutorial but i want it coming out from Europe, where did you get your images? ive tried google earth but the colours are all patchy, and don't look so good.
Thanks for showing us how to do this!!!!!!

I used this all video tutorials. I like it. I am very happy I rally want to give thanks for adobe group.

dude! u rock! i love you:)) ps..I've forgot to press play to my camera attached to the baloon and 10 miles of string :))

i am pretty incompetent at these things but i just got it to work by downloading the actual project and then replacing the san fran pic with my own and renaming them to be the same. i had to reposition some but it saved me 1 hours of work

hai.im from kerala ,am a 1 student.and very much intrested in video editing animating...etc.But i dont know how to do these special effects.watching your tutorials will make me more enthusiasic.thanks mail me.Again thanks

where can if ind a different location to zoom out or in??

How am i supposed to get pictures of my country zoomed out but with such clear quality?

Briant tutorial and sharp skills as usual !
Thanks for this exciting tutorial.
here is my exagerated Earth Zoom video based on the same tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sn62xd0fpQ

Amazing tutorial. You are a beast Andrew!
You are helping me a ton.

If I'll be damn rich when I grow up, I'll give you half of my wealth >:D

Thanks for the tutorials, very pro, very informative

i,m sorry most of your video lectures can not play on my system, it play at the rate of 5secs per minutes.

thanks andrew! and thanks tvtreated! solved my problem.

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the tutorial - quick question mate!

In the project files you have zoom 1 and zoom 2

I started my "zoom out" in a different position - I am just cool like that..

How do I copy my composition #1 so that I can then add the shake to the second composition like you do in the tutorial. I can't use yours because my zoom out starts at a different position.

Steve

Thank you so much
best wishes
Egypt

Hi Andrew! Amazing Tutorial!!!!

where one would find photos of this high a resolution?
Google earth??
as did??

THANKSSS!!!

it is good video but are you can make tutorial 3d men

amazing tutorial, but were did you get the images from? i have been looking every were, google earth for example but they don't seem anywhere near as high quality as you have used. any help would be greatly appreciated =)
thanks

i'm from tunisia and your tutorials are realy useful.You are the man Andrew!

hey, that´s ...just ...great
big thx, it helped me for getting my first real order working with after effects,

But I had a Problem with scaling the transparent layers, so I kept the opacity to 100%, and just used the scales, i had so much tries with the opacity, but it didn´t work, but, after i just used scaling, i was ready after less than an hour
The Main problem i think, was, there are cities, which are not built so regular...thats the right word, regular, but see yourself what i mean
so here´s the result

http://phoenix-indesign.com/Download/Anja/Earth/Earth_controller.swf

Good job Andrew!!
Greets from Greece!

thanks.
very good.

ilove you

Im becoming a big fan of these tutorials, i tried learninf after affects about 4 years ago but found all the tutorials i was using then boring so its good to find someone that has made so many cool tutorials, im a animator so these title tutorials and others are helping the professional quality of my work which i would like to thank you for, just one question though, i was wondering how you got the pictures because i have used google earth but the pics are really low res, i know theres a pro version but dont fancy paying 400 for it. Thanks again!!

Amazing tutorial!!

I had this problem too (with the layer 1) but i fixed it by using 0,005 (with coma not a fullstop) instead of .005 ;) this will probably fix it at cs4

thnx andrew

You are the best.
where one would find photos of this high a resolution?


Thank´s

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your student ismail

Tank you.
i've send the balloon with the camcorder, and I'm waiting when it come back. (:

Nice tutorial... I like all title tutorials.

It is posible make this only with Sony Vegas?

I was just wondering where you got your pictures from. I got mine from google earth by taking off the HUD and cropping but I can't find a way to get it to match my "Blue Planet" PLZ HELP

this is my first time on this site and i m really impressed..Great work.best.

Great tutorial, just the effect I needed, but I need it the other way around zooming in from space to a certain place on earth, I'll just need to reverse the same animation and it's fixed right?

Thank's for another great tutorial, I love the way you evenly pace the info and not skip ahead or leave things out!

it's mind blowing tutorials.

Ha Ha Ha... love your tutorials
The best VTC with good humor.

thanks a lot!

simply AWESOME!

nicely done man

thxs for doing this excellent video, but i have a question where did u get those pictures.

here's what I did with this one:

http://vimeo.com/11615068

Thanks for making this tutorial, it looked great on my school project.

really cool!!!!!!!!

K K K K K KRAMER!

Here's my version of this tooot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNigbE18YCs

(I tried making it look like I ate the earth as it zooms out...)

I bought designer sound FX but was wondering which ones you use for your project?

Sir Andrew definitly you rock !!!
Every day you make my life happier.
THX and see u tomorow

Hi,I come from China,I like you very mach,you are great!

Hey Andrew I loved this tutorial! Great work! I was just wondering which version of After Effects you were using as I can't seem to find the same shortcuts to certain functions and scaling is a lot harder for me which is odd. If anyone has any ideas on where I might be going wrong please help!

Daniel

Very thanks amazing. but how to make screenshots of earth

THANK YOU!!! Andrew Kramer you are the BOMB!!! I remembered doing this at my High School as a Tutorial. I am now using this for my Great Grandmas 100th Birthday!!!

very nice tutorial thanks al lot...should v take the lanscape imajes spretly 6 images or one images and should be zoomed it in photoshop and saved in 6 layers can u say me plz ...and where do v get that imajes

A guy managed to put a pocket digital camera into space using northing more than a balloon. Check it out here on the UK BBC website. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8588156.stm?utm_source=twitone

i am very happy ur tutorial is really a huge

Thanks. Thanks for share your knowledge. God Bless you.

A very nice demonstration and a professional tutorial. Thanks for this and I hope to see more of this

Heli

Hi. sir i am franklin, that tutorials are good. my ID samfranklinv@143.gmail.com

I kinda love you!
After doing a lot of your amazing tutorials, i am gonna buy some of the dvd's as wel!

Greets from the netherlands

Hi.
I know AK use high resulution images, I use 1000x500 px earth images which I got fra google maps and cropped out in photoshop. I am having issues when I set the scale to 100% and scrub the scale slider, it will only show until image 4 then it goes backward and zooms in?? Does anyone knows why?? I am trying to combine this earth zoom with the blu planet tutorial, I want to make a zoom in effect. Please advice anyone, cause i really want to make this since I spent a lot of time on geting the correct images.
Thanks for very learningfull tutorials!!!

fixed the parenting problem. instead of parenting all to layer 1, ignore this layer and parent to layer 2.
It seems that when your layer 1 get gets scaled very close to 0,0001% (or something like that) it resets to 0% so all you other layers get 'confused' and won't show.

Hope this works for others.

great tutorial, but i'm having the same problem with parenting all to layer 1 : only the first layer is visible.
I managed to create this strange behaviour with the original project but can't figure out what's wrong in cs4.

Andrew, great tutorial, to everyone else asking where to get images, a few things: Google Earth is best because you can go to any level you want to take snapshots. You really should only use a city or other well documented place. Your house might not cut it since satellites don't take as many pics of your house as they do cities. So if you're doing this for a client, you might want to mention that. Also, notice these images come from PhotoShop, they've been touched up, you should do the same, if you have a lake that looks funky, clone-stamp it, if you have those hard edges on things, blur them out, stuff like that, no real 'easy fix' with this tutorial... Again, awesome job Andrew, you're an inspiration to us all. Oh, and sorry for my bad engrish, I failed that class in High School ;)

Hello andrew , awesome tut, greetings from portugal.
I'm having the same scaling issue as some other people here. So I parent everything sequencial, and after that point, remove all the parents in layers, I select layer all layers except layer 1 and parent all to layer 1, then the scale from the last one stays on 100% and layer 1 goes back to 0%. Then when I scale up layer 1 to 100% I only see layer 1.
What i'm doing wrong.
Thanks for the amazing tuts. I'm doing a short-movie, and I learn so much with you. If you come to portugal let me know.

Hi. Thanks for all that tutorials you made, they are so usefull =^_^=

I got a problem with that tutorial because when i try to animate it, instead of making a 10 seconds animation, it animates all in one second (even though in the time line shows that its a 10 second animation) and it only allows me to work like if it was project of 10 frames. I tried to do all i know, but i didn't get nothing.

Sorry about my english if there are some mistakes. I'm spanish and its too late here, i'm almost falling asleep xD

Thanks for all

8^), i need more tutorials!!!!

Hey Andrew,

just want to say - "you are the MAN! and your tutorials are the SH*T!" You've taught me very much.

I realize you're a busy guy, and I also realize that I'm not the only one to ask this question, but WHERE did you get your images for this? I can't figure it out..... any help would be greatly appreciated!

it can't be google maps or earth because your images look way better.....

Thanks!

Al

Hi Andrew. Where did you get the pictures from? Are they just Google Earth cut and pasted into photoshop?

Great tut. and I love your sense of humor.

Hello and Great PAGE really great page man.
I was searching for something like this for a long long time and as you can see you've posted this tutorial 2007 and we are know at 2010 wow this is a long time. making my story short I NEED HELP PLEASE.

When I Grab all the files and then select layer to none and then select the number 1 file and get the scale up to 100 it does go to 100 but not like the video tutorial you have 100%, 100%. But I have 100%, 601.7% and does some funny things to the pictures and moves them around why? what I'm I doing wrong? please help me this is great to learn.

By the way one again KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK WOULD ALL THIS WORK ON ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS CS4 PROFESSIONAL EDITION? BECAUSE I SEE YOU HAVE USED ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS VERSION 7.01 PROFESSIONAL EDITION.

I can not write well in English
but I write only to congratulate
for your work is excellent

Gratitude for all the tutorials. Here is my edition (done as a party invitation):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUn6CV7lVg0

amazing what else could be said!

www.altafk.com

I am a software developer and accidentally landed to this site, but man what a wonderful tutorial i have...awesome. I am a graphic desgining and animation lover and i really like the efforts. KUDOS guys keep doing good job

Hi, just watched the earthzoom tutorial. great work. One question though, where did you get the images to work on? Was it google maps (satellite) or what?

Thanks

Connor (N.Ireland)

really great tutorial, just the thing I needed for my project!

great tutorial man...
thank you andrew,...you are the best...

Thank you Andrew.

well you are good, i really like that. A year ago i had the same kind of animation project, but after watching the tutorial i feel that this is the more right way to do this kind of animation.
i want to say thank you again

SUch a Beatiful Animation ..... I LOve Andre Kramer

I saw this on some science thing except it was zooming in on a cement block and it zoomed in 2,000,000 times. you could see the silicon atoms! it was so cool!

your are the best andrew :) yesssss

Thank u so much

Sukar Madrid
Saudi Arabia

Hello,

A lot of people asked about the pictures and how to get them....

Usually you can buy them. My Team an me are creating such Pictures for commercial use.
You can ask the local Gouvernement they should have such pictures.

alex

Muchas gracias

THANK YOU!!

Thank's to Videocopilot
this very good

I ran into a problem 27 seconds into the video. I cant find a weather balloon or a hot air baloon anywere! Where can I find something like this? Im not someone who can spend much as im only 15.

where do u get pictures of the world like that

Thanks for this great tutorial !!!

HOLA Andrew, you are so nice and your tutorial is so great. Thanks. I use it to do a film you will see sooner in my web page about Namibia, South Africa, and Botwana.

Meanwhile, why don´t you do a tutorial about a progressive route or itinerary over a moving map?.

Thanks.
Alex

Thanks for the awesome tutorial Andrew, much appreciated!

Some problems I ran into (and seen others who posted here run in to) are:
Scaling to %0.0005 will sometimes show the composition background.
By playing around a bit with the scaling I could get it to be exactly the way I wanted it, which is the most zoomed out picture. I ended up putting it at 0.0015 I think.

I've also seen people who had problems with the exponential scale being greyed out, I had this too but after linking the layer up (which was explained a step later in the tutorial, the second time you use it) it suddenly worked again..

Hope this helps someone :)

hey, great tutorial, but I can´t find good photos. Google Maps doesn´t work cause the photos never fit at all and it get´s blurred.
Google earth hasn´t got enough details. Can you please gelp me (photos captured with windows [capture button] and sharpend with Gimp).
Sorry for my bad english i´m German.

Thank you for these great Tutorials!

wow Andrew u rock bro, ur tutorials are so crystal clear and to the point. I am a beginner and I am so ahead of the learning curve due to ur teachings great job to u and all the guys that are behind the scenes at Video Copilot.!!!!!

This is the best tutorial ,Thx

Hey, I have a problem. When after the first part, when parent all layers to layer 1 and scale it to %0.0005 i see my composition background instead of world view. I realised that when I change the scale of layer 1, layer 8's scale doesn't change. What should I do?

Thank you the tutorials ! Thank youvery much !
I's in Thailand.

Thanks a lot for all your great tutorials !
Thank you very much !
Thailand

that string joke got me..i thought u really meant it so i went outside i paused it before u continued then just thought to myself did Andrew really do this took me 1 hour to figure this out. Nice vid!

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