02/27/2014

@ Audrey Luce..Im also kinda new 2 A.E as well but...Try soloing the first layer by itself n see if it scales up or down. click the solo sqaure in the timeline beside the file u want to solo

@ smile...Once you finish project grab the created composition and put it into the Create a New composition icon. Right click said Icon and go to
Time,Time Reverse Layer

02/25/2014

hi everybody. Sorry for my english i'm a french woman. I'm learning tut to on AE. Bit please help me :( When we wave to move the scale for the first layer (at the beginning at 6minutes) i don't see anything changing. My first layer isn't bigger. All my layers 'except erathstill) are in psd... I'm sure it's a silly mistake but i just can't find.


Thanks Guys ^^(maybe nobody will answer...but please..try <3 )

02/11/2014

hahahah loved the joke at the beginning

01/24/2014

hi guys, i'm a fresh beginner with AE, could you please tell me how could i invert the effect? i need a zoom from space to earth.

01/27/2014

If you change the values of the zoom and switch them around.
So set the 0.0005 on the First keyframe and then set the 100 on the last for the zoom levels

01/07/2014

Can i do this with element 3D as the last layer (Earth)? I am trying, but it is not working. Btw you are great!! :)

12/19/2013

It's a great tutorial and I love to use it in my next family movie; zooming out of the house we live in to outer space. But .... I can't get it working correctly. When I start with 100m in 7 steps to 4500m it works fine, but including the "earthstill" (at 64000m) it's a mess. Trying an intermediate picture at 30000m does not solve the problem. Did anyone encounter the same issue? If so, what's the solution; what did I do wrong?

12/09/2013

Tried it a couple of times, and it worked in the end with CS6 and Google Earth. The reason why you may not see the rest of the layers after connecting to layer 1, is because they go really fast. For me, it was size 0.00001 or smth like that, to be able to see the last photo.

For the photos and comp, I took the advice from an earlier comment:

"I sampled images from Google earth using the following guides – You can use Google Earths Earth ALT (Altitude) feature in the lower right hand of the screen:

Photo 1: 200m
Photo 2: 1, 52 km
Photo 3: 7, 47km
Photo 4: 30, 93km
Photo 5: 117, 63km
Photo 6: 856, 81km
Photo 7: 4700,00km
Photo 8: Large earth photo

I made my composition 1920 * 1080 and took several images at the ‘above’ Earth Altitudes in Google Earth to create 7 images 5000 * 3000 pixels as I wanted the best resolution possible and room to move the still images around a little."

12/19/2013

Hi K, Is it correct that your "Large earth foto"is at 64000km? Did that mean that the 4700km foto had to be reduced to some 9%? I have a similar setup as yours, but when I include the earth picture, everything gets blurred. Did you modify any of the parameters of the earth foto? I have also CS6 and it would be great if you could help me!

11/16/2013

Hey how do you rotate the picture to have it match up with the previous one? Whats the shortcut?

11/13/2013

where can i get the picture?

11/10/2013

My earth still image has a white background how do I get rid of it?

12/20/2013

To get rid of the white around the earht? Import the picture in Photoshop, single out the earth and delete everything around it. (Most likely you have to do this on a layer-copy) Then, save the picture as a psd and merge the layers when importing in After Effects. Good luck!

10/31/2013

Hi,
great tutorial but could you tell me how you got the high res map pictures as i tried google maps but they are not the same quality as yours???can you get back to me

10/28/2013

omg you killed me with the baloon string camera thing ! i just couldnt breathe !! lol

10/25/2013

I used this in a Street Zoom, I took 10 pictures and lined them up according to this tutorial.I needed that effect in my video. Couldn't get it perfect but that was not necessary, it turned out great! Thanx a lot! Here you can see the result: http://youtu.be/D_QyV9TqES4

10/25/2013

Great Video.. I wanted to try this effect with video and failed each time.. Is there any suggestions to how I would be able to pull this off using moving objects. I can give you all the specs of each attempt. Including the ones I haven't tried yet.

10/11/2013

Hello Andrew. I love this tutorial. Any change you will do an addition to this where the camera orbits around the planet?

Peace

09/06/2013

best

08/21/2013

i used google map it worked

08/05/2013

does this thing work on CS3?

07/30/2013

how I can get map pictures.??
someone please tell me...

12/17/2013

download google earth and save picture as u want...

07/22/2013

Always great stuff here on Video Copilot. Thanks again Andrew.

07/20/2013

Perfect tutorial.

I loved the exercise and with your help I finihed my first professional animation.

One question... Zoom in is like this? For example, play in reverse...

07/09/2013

I have a problem with lining all of the images together. They never seem to line up on the edges. I tried using Google Earth and FlashEarth but I still get the same problem.

Anyone know why?

Thanks,

Alex

06/04/2013

hello your adobe after effects tutorials are awesome...
i am rookie of adobe after effects and your tutorials help me very much to learn AE. after seeing this tutorial i made this..

I know it is not good but i am trying to learn and make it more better

05/14/2013

Hi,

For the pictures, download google earth, and take snapshots of the screen.Redimension the picutres on photoshop afterwards (otherwise it's really hard to adjust them on Aftereffects)

04/29/2013

Thanks you so much for your tutorials in AE, I am from Angkor.

03/04/2013

Hi thank you so much for this tutorial I did it and it worked out fine than I did it again with better resolution photo and I having a strange problem. The first image and the last one are the only one that shows when I have conect the images all together I have done it couple of times but it always happends again and again can anyone help me ?

06/14/2013

you dont connect them altogether, you connect the one above it to the one below it

03/01/2013

Thank you so much!! Really appreciate the fact that people like you take the time to make these tutorials! They always have a bigger impact than you can imagine!!

02/28/2013

Thanks a lot, that was very helpful.

02/13/2013

WOW THANK

02/03/2013

Hey Andrew I know everyone is asking you this but where do I get high res pictures like these? If you could get back to me that would be great thanks

01/25/2013

There's nothing wrong with cs6, check your steps again. Turn on all the layers before you scale layer no 1 to 100

02/07/2013

There must be ... having the same problem. Even when I open the project files the the same problem occurs... must be a setting.

Anyone got any ideas?

01/10/2013

how do u turn on the option when ur adjusting the layer to match the other layers, all i get is a bounding box thingy, i want to be able to see how much i am scaling

11/30/2012

Hey Andrew, I'm planning on doing this same effect for a music video but I'm in Chicago. Where did you get the pictures used in this tutorial and is it possible for me to get some zooming out from there? Thanks so much.

-Luke

11/29/2012

I followed your tutorial step by step but when parenting all layers to layer 1 and scaling layer 1 to 100%, only layer 1 zoomed in and out.

Finally I just left the layers parented to each one but last and increased the scale of last layer to bout 30k and it worked perfect for me.

01/04/2013

I'm having the same problems as Brad. Must be a different setting in CS6. Or I'm doing something very wrong. Also possible ;)

01/03/2013

I am having the same issue. I am working with CS6, and each layer once un-parented and re-paranted to layer 1 loses all scale and position info... I can't seem to get it to work.

11/27/2012

Please send me the fly.wav sound.

11/06/2012

For some reason, I can't switch from rectangular masking to elliptical masking. I am using CS4. I know you click on the little triangle thing, but the selection panel won't pop out. Help?

11/06/2012

Really awesome tutorial

10/26/2012

What did you use for the photos shots

10/19/2012

he is a crazy guy how come im gonna be able to create the balloon that's doesn't make any sense well guess what Mr felix i quit learning after effects

10/09/2012

Wich Programm did you use to take this photos? Google Earth won´t let me take some without brandings on it. And FlashEarth images aren´t in 3D.

09/05/2012

Wow great, like on film! Maybe my computer must take a long-long time to make this....

09/03/2012

perfect tutorial

09/03/2012

you are the best Mr i give you a high five.

07/31/2012

Upgrade to win 7

07/17/2012

i am trying to finish this effect for a music video, I wanna give up, I just started using AE and it is taking me forever, I still think that I will not be able to finish it. Anyone interested in sharing their effect, will give you credits! We recorded on a roof top in SF, so it needs to be Zoom IN to SF. Thank you so much!

07/16/2012

At 7:54 , he types in the number: .0005 , or 0.0005. When I do this I just get 5. I can go smaller than 1. When I type in 0.0003 for example, I just get 3. Please someone help me!

07/19/2012

you need to type a comma, not a point.

07/03/2012

Thanks Andrew! I did this and made a moon out of a New Solid with Fractel Noise and made it come past the earth. I also achieved a pretty deacent sound effect by making it with the sound of a missle.

06/21/2012

AWSOMEEEEE I USED THIS METHOD ON A SHORT THAT WAS ENTERED IN FILM FIGHTS!!!

06/01/2012

So how did yo get Google Map to show the real water surface of SF bay, etc?

When I captured my images they only showed the contours of the ocean's floor. I did a Google search on how to show the water surface and found this: Google in general only acquires imagery of land masses.

05/22/2012

Because we all have 10,000 miles of fishing string....

05/22/2012

whats the shortcut for the opasity

06/18/2012

just hit "t" and the opacity settings will open

06/18/2012

ctrl t

05/22/2012

AMAZING TUTORIAL!
THX A LOT!

05/15/2012

i'm have no idea if i want to inverse this method to zoom in from the earth to the specific building.. the last layer turned extremely small.. anyone?

05/10/2012

One of the best tuts out there. I liked everyone else's try at this, especially the one with the "help" guy but my fav was:

http://vimeo.com/35240205

GREAT work FarmataFilms!

05/08/2012

Just awesome, I tested it here :

https://vimeo.com/41798021

Really great tutorials! Nice work
Thank you

05/05/2012

Huge fan of your instructional videos. You make learning AE fun and interesting. I was wanting to know about where you got these images. I would like o use this for a video that I am working on but I don't want to infringe on anybody's rights or steal anybodies work. Where would I get images like the one you are using?

03/30/2012

For those of you, like me, that don't have the exponential option for interpreting key frames to sort the camera zoom out I made an expression that will achieve the same thing.

Cut and paste this into the camera position expression field. You can create a null object and add some sliders for easy control or just set the values of zMin, zMax etc manually.

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// Slider to control the following variables are controlled by sliders placed in a null object.
// Sliders are not required. The variables can be set within the expression.

// zMin is the minimum z value of the camera (closest to the subject).
zMin = thisComp.layer("ZoomControl").effect("Zmin")("Slider")

// This is the maximum extent of the zoom (furthest from the subject).
zMax = 100*thisComp.layer("ZoomControl").effect("Zmax")("Slider");

// The time in the comp at which the zoom starts.
tStart = thisComp.layer("ZoomControl").effect("Zstart")("Slider");

// The duration of the zoom from zMin to zMax,
tEnd = thisComp.layer("ZoomControl").effect("Zoom Duration")("Slider");

// tRel represents the point of time within the zoom
t = time;
tRel = t-tStart;

e = 2.718281;
a = (zMin*Math.pow(e,tEnd) - zMax)/(1-Math.pow(e,tEnd));
b = -1*(zMin+a);

x = value[0];
y = value[1];

if(t<tStart)
{z = -zMin} else

{if(tEnd>tRel)
{z = b*Math.pow(e,tRel)+a} else
{z = -zMax
};
};

[x,y,z];

------------------------------------------------------

Hope this works... it's my first crack at anything like this.

06/06/2012

How do I get that camera?

03/20/2012

Thanks for the tutorial. Great Job, very easy to follow. One problem I'm having is, I follow your instructions but when I turn all the layers back on the first layer is completely gone. If I see it right as I go back down the layers they seem to get smaller and smaller with black around them. Any suggestions?

09/17/2012

Same problem here, done it 10 times same every time :(
I know my mate pulled this off from this tut wish makes me suck even harder...

03/11/2012

Can I use footage form Google Earth ?

03/15/2012

Use flashearth(dot)com

03/15/2012

Use flashearth.com

03/06/2012

I'm going to do the hot air balloon thing...

02/06/2012

Wonder if one of the best night clubs in cancun was suppost to use your project files for their 8th anniversary letme know and I share the link

01/29/2012

How you can overlap of exposures in the new Version Cs5.5 ?

01/29/2012

It s so interesting guy I ma so happy for that. I ll try to do it soon

01/20/2012

I think I saw this effect in big bang theory.

01/19/2012

I have always wanted to thank you for your tutorials, but I have never dared enroll me and to do it... THANKS!

01/17/2012

Great Tut

If anyone is interested, you can see my try at this. Please feel free to leave comments.

http://vimeo.com/35240205

05/10/2012

Thanks, Jackson!

Ah_s, I think it's in the tut, but the images I found had some controls from the site I used. (I forgot which one, but it's like Google Earth), so I just removed those controls from the image.

03/10/2012

wow thats good!

02/04/2012

Nice man,but u r sayin that u "cleaned it up in photoshop"
what does that exactly mean?cuz I havent watched the tut yet.It the anser is in the tut ,,then u dont have to answer (u dont have to answer anyway):)))

01/13/2012

How did you get such a high resolution photo resolution of my country (Ireland).?

01/05/2012

FLY.WAV

where i can find it ?

12/21/2011

At first with the weather balloon thing I was like "forget get it" then 15 seconds realized you were joking and was like "oh"

12/16/2011

my earthStill.png has a white /grey box around it why is this so?
i did open it in photoshop and removed the background and it still has a grey box around it? can anyone help?
thnx

12/28/2011

I added a elliptical mask, feathered and expanded the edges a bit and voila... an atmosphere!

12/14/2011

that is bnot coo, i

12/11/2011

-To every person having problems with all the layer disappearing when parenting-

Parent all the layers to the second layer, instead of the first. after effects seems to be bugged and doesn't like how small and insignificant the first layer becomes after all the scaling down. So parent 3-8 to 2 and your problem should be solved. If not, try 4-8 to 3 and so on and so forth. Hope this helps

05/10/2012

awesome! thanks, i was stuck for the longest time

12/08/2011

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for spending your time to offer those awesome tutorials up to the community. Really appreciate listening to you and your detailed instructions – its helping me learn super-fast and I have a giggle along the way listening to you.

Here are some further tips to help folks who have experienced a few problems with scaling and alignment issues. SCALE and PARENTING being the key words here…

I have read almost every post here and find some people experience the same problems I ran into… If you follow the tutorial exactly using Andrews files you won’t experience any difficulties however if you try to use your own high resolution satellite images you may run into alignment and spacing problems if you are not accurate or centrally aligned all the way… so this is what I have done to keep everything in time and as accurate as possible…

1/ Sample your satellite images keeping the target centre aligned in every image – your point of focus eg building, tree, car, house etc (MAKE SURE AS MOVING THE CENTRE 1mm CAN EFFECT THE SCALING DRASTICALLY WHEN YOU SCALE UP LATER ON) – this is crucial otherwise when you sale up your assets will be all over


2/ I sampled images from Google earth using the following guides – You can use Google Earths Earth ALT (Altitude) feature in the lower right hand of the screen:

Photo 1: 200m
Photo 2: 1, 52 km
Photo 3: 7, 47km
Photo 4: 30, 93km
Photo 5: 117, 63km
Photo 6: 856, 81km
Photo 7: 4700,00km
Photo 8: Large earth photo

I made my composition 1920 * 1080 and took several images at the ‘above’ Earth Altitudes in Google Earth to create 7 images 5000 * 3000 pixels as I wanted the best resolution possible and room to move the still images around a little. This was most time consuming as Google Earth uses a mapping system that distorts the images to try to render the altitudes however once you move from one point to another most of the time it is distorted… so lots of tweaking. Once you have these images in the bag following Andrews instructions is very simple… in fact to save time you can swap the images over and make the comp size larger and then just manually adjust the rotation and other layers – keep in mind that you may have to un parent layers while adjusting them.

Hope this helps.

10/26/2012

Which program/website did you use ?
Everyone suggests flash earth which has bad picture quality !

12/02/2011

Now I parented all of my footage. But now everything up to the Earth isn't there. What happened?

12/01/2011

How do I get the High res pictures of, say, San Antonio, Texas?

11/30/2011

please let me know where i can got those high-res pictures?! wanna try it out, but i dont know where to get pictures like that :( another thing , if i dont have the proffesional after effekts, is there any other ways to get the " Exponential look" on the zoom?

11/28/2011

Hey dude how do you get your own images that high res

11/16/2011

ohh thank GOd he is joking :D

11/03/2011

I have done everything perfectly up the point where you unparent all the layers, then when I reparent them back to layer 1 and set layer 1 scale to 100%, layer 1 shows up zoomed in, but when I adjust the scale down from 100% the other layers are gone and it's just black? Help! Does this work with .png files? That's the only thing I can think of?

02/23/2012

had the same issue. Converted my files to psd and then it worked flawless.

10/16/2011

Thought that he was serius with the bloon this at first.

11/10/2011

LOL ! , thats exactly what I also thought heh

10/13/2011

Hi Andrew I am your fan and I follow every video that comes out this tutorial on the site we particularly liked and then I decided to do that it looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmykSH0dPLg I hope that you will like and that you leave a comment ....

10/11/2011

or you could just do it like this: http://vimeo.com/30067977

10/07/2011

very interest in after effcts

10/05/2011

Awsome work Andrew, thanks for teaching me AE!!

Does anyone know where I can find HD satelite images as the one in google maps, couse I need to do something like this for a tv station, but need to do it in HD, the thing is that goggle has a quite bad quality. I just took snapshots of the page and edited in photoshop, cause I don't know if you can download from google maps... But if anyone knows other website where I could download HD satelite images to do a shot like this I would most appreciated.

Thank you very much!!

09/29/2011

actually very nice
thanks!!

09/24/2011

Hey canyou tell me where you get the sound effects from pls?

09/28/2011

There's a button above where you can watch the video, and there is another button called: PROJECT FILES. Click on that and it will download everything what Andrew used in his tutorial.

09/27/2011

You need to buy the designer sound fx from Video Pilot

09/21/2011

Wow... thanks for the tutorial. This will work great for a segment of my logo. You are definitely the king of of explaining stuff with this stuff.
Good work!

09/13/2011

pls, i'm findin it difficult to buy stuff in videocopilot.i don't wats going on.....code isn't working.

09/03/2011

to good

09/01/2011

That's exactly what I want !! Thnx Tooo Much ^.^

08/31/2011

Just wanted to say HUGE THANK YOU to you Andrew! You are a After Effects god and the reason I've learned (and continue to learn) to use this wonderful program. Please keep doing what you do and all the success for you man, you deserve it!! Thanks again for all the great work!

08/21/2011

hi.,its too very advance tutorial, this video for freshers & experts use for create new project

08/20/2011

wow. That was incredible to watch, Andrew is VERY talented.

08/18/2011

i did this ages ago and worked fine but im now onto another video with the same effect, but this time when i use the elipse tool and feather them all to 250 and expansion to -250 the whole thing just gets completly blured during the zoom out effect
anyone know why this could be?

08/17/2011

i can't seem to find a place where i can download some high res picture....this effect is just to cool there are so many things that could be done with it....please help

10/04/2011

I'm tryin to find the same thing. Anyone know?

08/16/2011

Andrew, you are the God of After Effects!!! Thank you so much!
Kati

08/16/2011

When i parent alle layers to the first one and go to scale 1% it wont go back to the last one.... why not?

08/15/2011

You are crazy and I want to not know you

08/05/2011

who owns a wheather ballon and who would send it to space.

08/01/2011

If we didn't have AE pro version it's over . . .