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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)
Anyone got any ideas?
-Luke
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.
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.
THX A LOT!
http://vimeo.com/35240205
GREAT work FarmataFilms!
https://vimeo.com/41798021
Really great tutorials! Nice work
Thank you
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];
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Hope this works... it's my first crack at anything like this.
I know my mate pulled this off from this tut wish makes me suck even harder...
If anyone is interested, you can see my try at this. Please feel free to leave comments.
http://vimeo.com/35240205
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.
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):)))
where i can find it ?
i did open it in photoshop and removed the background and it still has a grey box around it? can anyone help?
thnx
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
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.
Everyone suggests flash earth which has bad picture quality !
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!!
thanks!!
Good work!
anyone know why this could be?
Kati
dood AL KHAL
it failed :(
There isn't "Layer 7" D:.
I've been working on it for almost two hours,
but the problem's still here!!
instead of parent everything to the first layer, leave them as they are one to next. turn of visibility of all layers then scale up last one (use numbers or the square) and fix center manually,
is not as fast an confortable as andrews way,... but it works
First of all, fantastic work! I've seen this comment a few times on this thread and I am also experiencing the same issue. I'm no stranger to After Effects, but I'm completely stuck here. When I get to the step around 6:25 when all of the layers are parented to Layer 1, everything disappears.
I can scale Layer 1 to 100% to see it; but when I zoom out, all the other layers are missing.
I would really appreciate your insight if you can think of what's going on. I'm working on something for a company and broadly using this tutorial.
Thanks.
could you help me out?
could you help me out?
I'm just wondering what the the name of the sound from the designer sound FX that you are using?
Thanks for a great tutorial!
i am very interested with your tutorials specially
for VFX thanks...................................!