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40. Earth Zoom
July 02, 2007
• Create a cosmic Earth zoom in AE
• Use masking and parenting to link imagery
• Use masking and parenting to link imagery
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Thank you Andrew
congrats about the kid :)
cheers from argentina!
I love A.K. tutorials ;)
whatch my Earth Zoom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4TZ10Z5fI
where did u get those maps from?
Also curious where one would find photos of this high a resolution?
Also, what would be the procedure of reversing the effect where you come from space and zoom into a street... but then, add in a motion shot of a person looking up, as if to start a story of such a person? Which is what I'm now wanting to do. I'm sure I've actually seen this somewhere actually?
meu, muito fera mesmo, você me passou uma nova gama de conehcimento com esse tutorial
vocês são os cara!!! rsrsrs
did you know this was used at the end of the newest AT&T commercial? it didn't look too great, though. Andrew's is WAY better.
I made 14 Screenshots from Google Maps. It is great, every Zoom step is exactly 50% resize in After Effects.
BTW, an extra nice effect I discovered: put your audio files in the nested comp, that way the swoosh winds up and down gradually by the time remap effect.
Cheers Andrew,your tutorials are the coolest!
Brad
sorry for my english, 'cause i'm french...
this tutorial is wonderfull !!! i'st what i'm looking for since a long time !
my problem today is how can i do to find pictures of my place. i think about google maps, of course, but there is a lot of icons on the picture...
is there someone who can help me please ?
write to me : thebesteditor@caramail.com
thanks a lot !
Mick
Ak47..Uganda-E.Africa
U've embellished both by serving as an inspiration to others.
I commend u.
ive been using Macs since 1987 for print design and got into corporate film work 7 years ago and always shyed away from AE due to its complexity (so i though).
As i have CS3 suite I thought id have a go instead of using Apple Motion... wow... your tutorials have made me learn the basics of AE in 1 week. im now watching your tutorials and applying them to my projects and wowwing my clients.
The best AE learning site on the web, its just like having a teacher sitting here in my studio in Scotland, thanks again.
ty Master great tutorial
This is my try.
http://www.vbox7.com/play:cef12844
This will be introduction of my advertising of my firm
Thank u again
P.S. Sorry for the poor english
plz, give me this effect free
wish you the best men!!
thanks for the legacy!!
Thank´s for your big help.
http://www.jumperthemovie.com/
You have to wait until the end of the trailer, but it's there.
-GFX
Nice tutorial!
For this image from Google Earth, i should just to set the zoom level or other thing? How can to it?
Thanks
they actually made a earth zoom in swedish television after your Tutorial on channel 4+ here in sweden. thats cool!
Andrew, you are becoming an international star :D
I am going to work on it with my new film.
thx for the video ++
Easy to follow what you are doing but never slow. And always ending up with a superb result. Tried this earthzoom, took me an hour instead of your fiftheen minutes.
Keep up the good work and always interesting tutorials!
I figured out how to get it to zoom IN to earth. Took me a while, but then a brick hit me in the head...ouch...and it came to me.
Are you ready?
Select the Earth Zoom 2 comp. Right-click and select Time and then Time-Reverse Layer! Instant reversal, that's easy to undo when you need to go the other way.
Here is my version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikts2-As3Ac
Thanks again Andrew - for the tutorials, and helping me learn to "think" in AE.
Now where'd that brick go...
I figured out how to get it to zoom IN to earth. Took me a while, but then a brick hit me in the head...ouch...and it came to me.
Are you ready?
Select the Earth Zoom 2 comp. Right-click and select Time and then Time-Reverse Layer! Instant reversal, that's easy to undo when you need to go the other way.
Here is my version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikts2-As3Ac
Thanks again Andrew - for the tutorials, and helping me learn to "think" in AE.
Now where'd that brick go...
very - very good tutorial
Thank U
the pics are from google; you can see the watermark on them.
btw, awesome tutorial (as usual), andrew. you are awesome!
That movie, I believe, used this technique towards the end of the trailer.
you are so funny~ ^0^;;;
Thank you so much for your tutorials!!!
Great job.
Thanks for the tutorial :)
I've searched the same house :D
And I've found it (looking similar!!)
The 2 - 3 Image could be Nasa World Wind..
Or Google Earth!
And the first one is just an Earth map from Google Image Search...
greez siousu
Goodbye
Thax from Brazil!
Kisses
Muito Foda, realmente o melhor site de tutoriais sobre after effects que encontrei! Parabéns mesmo! Continuem fazendo esse maravilhoso serviço! Abraços do Brasil!
(translating haha)
Rox a lot, actually the best site of tutorials for after effects that i find! Congratulations! Keep doing this great job! Hugs from Brazil!
Where did you get the good res images from. google earth standard ones look out of focus.
thanks again
Where did you get the pictures from ?
Looks almost identical...
it is really cool!!
Thanks Andrew. Your tutorials awesome!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/
I was wondering where you got the satellite pics from without the copyright lettering on it. Great tutorial
Sick tutorial, like usual
Awesome tutorials.I also love your sense of humor!
You make those complicated and wonderful tricks look amazingly easy.. And u know what..Like everybody else said, i will just say:You are a Genius!
1000 thanks is just not enaf!!
http://movies.virginmedia.com/player/default.asp?url=/film/fid4864/trailers/trid3245/wm/bb.asx&filmid=4864&trid=3245&partner=virgin&sec=trl&psec=
2 mins 5 seconds in video clip they have used your tutorial or it looks very similar.
it would be greatful to see recent tutions in your site.
How could an earth zoom be applied in the opposite way? What I mean is, how do you zoom from space down to a certain point?
Any suggestions to this one? I am working on using an expression, but it's a bit tricky. If I figure it out, I'll post again.
Keep up the good work, and Happy New Year to you all.
Rob
my result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJIDN2S3-M
thx for the hint !
great fan
"xix" in albanian means - cool...
p.s where u get the images from??
I really do not know howto fix that. Is it possible to play with the contrast and else to get it like a night-shot?
Hope you guys can help me out
they are brilliant
I appeciate what I have learned from you...
you are a cool person
R E S P E C T B R U V....
Thx Google and of course Thx Andrew!!!
amazing verrrrrrrrrry nice.
Well i have a little question: did you copy this one cause i saw exactly this zoom being used at a german - french channel called "Arte". It was really exaktly "your" zoom. So your tutorials are really intresting ;D keep on doing such great work
greetz from germany
GR8 JOB!
Very nice tutorial. It helpt me allot.
You are the man.
Keep it up
Shido
When I saw the "Powers of Ten" it reminded me of this tutorial.
You can check out the old school earth zoom here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZpA28eUB7Ek
Enjoy
Looks funny!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/hd/
I was really looking foward to doing this project.
insane.
i heart you andrew
Simple download Nasa World Wind. No watermarks. It's free and the images are in the public domain
The images are also just as high qualitly as andrews
Hope this helps!
you work is amazin and your tutorials are very easy to understand
thanks for the legacy!!
Iam korean
i cant speaking is very well
always thank you^^!!
Any body know how to get the earth/city images rathe than using google earth?
Oh since evryone is asking about where to get the maps from, its quite simple. just download google earth and turn of everything (there is some stuff in the left of the screen you can uncheck the boxes and evrything is gone
Great tutorials by the way andrew, i love em! keep up the good work!
I have just finished my try at the zoom,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdOIXCVijM
I saw this question repeating itself on this page but not sure what is the definite answer.
Where are the images taken from? It doesn't look like google earth. Especielly the picture of the full globe. where can I find this one? (i live in europe)
Thanks, Tal
people if you want to reverse the earth zoom, so zoom in on earth i think you just have start with scale at 0.005% and end with 100% insted of starting with 100% and ending with 0.005%. I'm not sure if it works.
i didnt try this because i had some problems with my pictures and im also an ae noob, but this seems quite logical to me xD oh and dont be mad if it doesnt work ;p
bye ppl
I am already excited of all the other tutorials
I mite try this next
Thanks again.
has several map sites it pulls its images from and you can right click and hide the menus for almost a full screen view. Only thing is the logo and text that is left on the bottom left corner.
great tutorial, like all the others and of course, you're comments are unbeatable...
But for whatever reason, my exponential scale option is always grayed out. I can't used it.
I downloaded your project file and the exponential scale function works in there.
I have CS3 by the way.
Any suggestions?
Zeid
i wrote to you message and i don't know
if you read it or not any way i just want to tell you
i dont want your help any more there is 6.60 billion
people on earth would like to help me.and if you think you are the best you are wrong bodie
thanks
they give those that look for resources
more advanced in after.
As for me I don't know where he got the high resolution images from. What I use is google earth for the in close pictures and NASA World Wind for the farther away pivtures(State and country). I use Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter 5.0 Pro to capture the picture because after you can crop out anything you dont like. On google Earth it has all the writing at the bottom which you can crop out and on NASA World Wing it has the tool bar. Both have the top window and bottom window. Just use sreen hunter. Crop and your done. I don't know about the high res screens though.
My "stillearth" picture (png) which should be transparent is NOT transparent in my comp and I don't know why cause i think i made it right.
Please help me!
previously i used the effect of Sony Vegas... and when we cut the video we used the shortcut key S to cut split the time line... but in After effect what was it? i need help...
I'm really confuse while i want to used one effct for like 5 sec. only... but that effect goes until the Muvi was end... and can i the Muvi and used the effect for like only 5 or 10 sec.???
would you please help, or somebody else.
TNX!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2126480144482936305&q=source:013642788556193505667&hl=en
I also mimmicked the "Jumper" effect at the end :) hope you like it
( i'am from cz, so hello from Ostrava )
Does anyone know how to put a 3D Spin on the Earth after it lands? Like a slow rotation/revolution? Independent of the stars of course.
Oh, and Andrew...that was awesome!
Thanks,
Sean
You can record the maps from google maps and setting off all the settings including icons for better view.
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6RrMz_x8I
I am trying to recreate the earth zoom to fly into an aerial shot of a building from space... I have followed your tutorial up to linking all the layers and then unlinking them and then linking them all to the top (closest) layer.. now I go to give it exponential scale to smooth out the zoom and exponential scale in keyframe assistant is is greyed out!
any ideas?
Many thanks
By the way! EVERYONE having problems with the Exponential Function (meaning you have the option, but it's always grayed out) I figured out how to get it working.
This is what you do.
Instead of hitting the drop down triangle under the first jpg, hit "S" so it brings up the "scale" sub menu. add your key frames, then right click and Exponential Scale should be selectable. I don't know why it doesn't work with the drop down menu, but you must press S I guess..
Thanks again andrew!
ive said it before and id say it again - your are an AE artist -i love your work!
I have a question though for this tutorial, i have made the nifty smooth zoom with the Exponential Scale, BUT i wanna make some movement on the planet before the zoom starts, but the zoom start so rapidly, can u give me a hint how to make the zoom start real slow at the beginning?
If any one else can help, id be glad also :D
Cheers
'Dan Says:04/29/2008 - 18:49
now for some reason, when I un-parent all the layers and re-parent them to layer 1, all my layers disappear'
Don't know whats wrong, any ideas anyone?????
It's driving me mad, i can't see why all my layers vanish!!!
Still can't figure out what's wrong, so i'm gonna start again in te vain hope that i missed something the first time round.
Fingers crossed guys!
Andrew, for the love of all that is artificially created in a computer, put us out of our misery and tell me what i'm doing wrong!!!
Andrew is the best!!!
forgive me... my english is terible
pleas tell me were i can find the fly.wav (folder)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_kzSiGlM0
http://maps.live.com/
its high res maps from Microsoft :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvbqMIOvLNE
Thanx a lot
thanks
Bino
http://portfoliobino.free.fr/
i wante you to make another free tutorials about the tacking and also how we can make 3d invorment withe pictures and real movie
thanks again
Super Tutorial, you work is always an inspiration.
Just one question after going through the blog, were did you get your hirez first image from? (goggle earth is not that hot)
thanks again for all the tutorials
And good joke in beginnig !!!
Your TUT's are the best that I've seen on the internet, so keep it up!
I was looking for something like this!!
o you mind telling me where you got your high res images?
thanks a lot, & keep up the good work!
Dogan from Turkey
thanks and great work!
http://www.degreerookie.com/
Cheers!
Very nice tut. you're inspiring hundreds of peoples to get close to the world's best special effects tool which is called to be - "After Effects".
Thank you so much dude!
Best tutorial I have seen so far! Thank you for what you do.
YES!!
Andrew thank you once again ... this one's one of my favorites. I'm having a little problem. I downloaded the Project folder so i could use your earthstill.png file. I imported it and did everything pretty much but when i scaled it out I noticed the white box around the earth (the .png file picture is actually a square, where the earth is) was still there. I know that box is supposed to be transparent but somehow it still shows. Can't figure out what to do. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.
This is what I mean
Thank you!!
_Alex_ ... GO B-BOYS!!
Andrew thank you once again ... this one's one of my favorites. I'm having a little problem. I downloaded the Project folder so i could use your earthstill.png file. I imported it and did everything pretty much but when i scaled it out I noticed the white box around the earth (the .png file picture is actually a square, where the earth is) was still there. I know that box is supposed to be transparent but somehow it still shows. Can't figure out what to do. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.
This is what I mean
Thank you!!
_Alex_ ... GO B-BOYS!!
jk, awesome tutorial
I am so surry for my bad english because I am an Iranian guye.
Any way I hope Andrew make, more tutorials for learning us, and give us a download link for each toturials that we can use better than last.
Tnak you andrew, and bye
1) how u get those pics?
2) if have them from google earth or maps how u disabled the watermark?
THX 4 TUTORIAL MAN!! :)
I have the same problem as stefan (6-29-2008)
When I unparant all layers and then parant them 2 one. When I zoom out all layers seem to be turned off (with the eye).. you just don't see them anymore:s
how come?
Is there any problem in the website.
Thx for replying.
heres the link though http://www.koco.com/interactive-radar/index.html
just find your state city and you can even zoom in onto your house!
where can i get that great photos of the earth?
Props to Andrew!
I tried it using DV camera baloon,record botton was pressed
We have the same name, but my is in brazilian portuguese...
So, I have 17 years and I'm a begginer in 3Ds Studio Max 2009 and thanks to you now I'm ultra interesting in After Effects!
I love your tutorials, jokes, everything!
As soon as possible I will buy your bundle,...
It's amazing!
Thanks for all!