ALL DESIGN TOOLS
40. Earth Zoom
• Create a cosmic Earth zoom in AE
• Use masking and parenting to link imagery
• Use masking and parenting to link imagery
Posted on Jul 02, 2007
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Engdamb
6 years ago
Pls give a tutorial for how to realistically composite cg elements in real life footage
Gaurav Sharma
7 years ago
hi Andrew Sir,
I am having a great and unique question for you related with this tutorial. I am making 7-8 similar images from GoogleEarth of different location and replace them in your given project folder. When opening project ae file, all goes well. the only only big problem I am facing is that all images are only few inches offset from their positions. Then I set the images manually for that location. Afterthat i made 7-8 images of another location again from google earth, and again replace them in respective folder. voilà! again same offset problem. Please kindly suggest me where I am getting wrong. I just want ""on replacement of images, whole project goes smooth on opening AEP file""
I am having a great and unique question for you related with this tutorial. I am making 7-8 similar images from GoogleEarth of different location and replace them in your given project folder. When opening project ae file, all goes well. the only only big problem I am facing is that all images are only few inches offset from their positions. Then I set the images manually for that location. Afterthat i made 7-8 images of another location again from google earth, and again replace them in respective folder. voilà! again same offset problem. Please kindly suggest me where I am getting wrong. I just want ""on replacement of images, whole project goes smooth on opening AEP file""
Anddrea
7 years ago
Hi guys! I didn't understeand what's the EartStill.png file. How can I take it? It's just an image of earth from google images?
Behbood
8 years ago
Hi , How's it going ? I have a question and I beg you please let me know about it . Where can I find the pictures related to the same place of earth but with different hight from earth to space . I mean the pictures like those photos that you used in this tuterial . I appreaciate you . Thanks
park
8 years ago
how to capture sanfrancisco image
google earth or what?
-thank you for your useful video -
google earth or what?
-thank you for your useful video -
Mal
9 years ago
For people having problems when linking all the layers (images) to layer 1 6 mins 25 seconds into the video. If using JPGs change the files to PSD format and it works perfectly.
jonathan
9 years ago
i just bought the stuff.....my balloon isnt going up into the air :/
what to do??
what to do??
Evgen
10 years ago
video format in which to save the project? gives an error message.
very large numbers in the last picture (163566555 ...).
very large numbers in the last picture (163566555 ...).
Dc
10 years ago
This parenting technique is no longer working in CC 2015 or CC 2014. The last layer remains at 100% scale after reparenting all of them to the first one and setting it back to 100%. Everything looks messed up. Anyone has a solution for this? I don't think I'm skipping a step here.
Ben
11 years ago
I can't seem to get this looking right. First of all trying to scale and line up the each image seems almost impossible because each image is at a slightly different angle so I have one part lined up but another part is out. Also once I have them all connected etc the images look blurry. I tried this for 5 hours and had no success. A tutorial on how to prepare the images from google earth in photoshop may be helpful.
thenated0g
11 years ago
7 years later and i still go back to this tutorial:
Just made this little video using it:
http://youtu.be/g-Pzw9whFME
Just made this little video using it:
http://youtu.be/g-Pzw9whFME
Vu
11 years ago
For some reason, I'm having problem from the get go. As soon as I'm done lining up all the images to each other, I unparent everything and then parent it to layer one. Problem is that only layer 1 shows up when as I scale. As I scale down, nothing but the black bg shows up. Using AE CS5.
Baz M
11 years ago
For some reason the exponential option was greyed out after following the tutorial.
I tried testing the exponential function in a new comp with just a solid being scaled and for some reason the option wasn't greyed out and it worked.
I don't understand why the exponential function doesn't work in the zoom project and why it will work in a new comp.
If you are wondering about my workaround this was my method:
. While in zoom project create a new comp by clicking the "create a new comp button"
. Created a new solid (doesn't matter what colour)
. Set scale keyframes and match the to the keyframes in the zoom project
. Go back into the comp with just the solid in it and select both the scale keyframes - right click on them and select exponential scale (if you can!)
. Copy and paste the exponential keyframes from the comp with just the solid into it to the zoom comp
- This may not work for everybody but that worked for me.
I am not sure if I have the Pro version of After Effects or not (When I go to about "about after effects..." It just says "After Effects CS6", it doesn't say pro.
I tried testing the exponential function in a new comp with just a solid being scaled and for some reason the option wasn't greyed out and it worked.
I don't understand why the exponential function doesn't work in the zoom project and why it will work in a new comp.
If you are wondering about my workaround this was my method:
. While in zoom project create a new comp by clicking the "create a new comp button"
. Created a new solid (doesn't matter what colour)
. Set scale keyframes and match the to the keyframes in the zoom project
. Go back into the comp with just the solid in it and select both the scale keyframes - right click on them and select exponential scale (if you can!)
. Copy and paste the exponential keyframes from the comp with just the solid into it to the zoom comp
- This may not work for everybody but that worked for me.
I am not sure if I have the Pro version of After Effects or not (When I go to about "about after effects..." It just says "After Effects CS6", it doesn't say pro.
Simon
11 years ago
Hi Farris,
Can I commission you to produce such a video for my website? If so, how can I get hold of you to discuss?
Thanks,
Simon
Can I commission you to produce such a video for my website? If so, how can I get hold of you to discuss?
Thanks,
Simon
elem
11 years ago
Hey
I need a zoom in FullHD from the "Earth" to Beirut. It have to be 30 secunde long. How much it cost if you do it for me?
Thank you.
I need a zoom in FullHD from the "Earth" to Beirut. It have to be 30 secunde long. How much it cost if you do it for me?
Thank you.
Hunter
11 years ago
Someone please help me! I have done everything exactly as instructed up to 8:45. I have created the keyframes and am now trying to add an exponential scale to my layer "1". But the problem I am facing is that the "exponential scale option is greyed out! I cannot figure out why. I created a new comp, and it worked. I even duplicated the clip and when I unpainted all the objects from it, it worked. Please help me
Nils
11 years ago
The overlaying works, but when I'm fitting it (and thus when I'm zoomed in, in the composition preview window) everything is pixellated, is this because I took the printscreens at a resolution of 1600*900? (the cropped size is 1500*700 because I had to cut of some Google symbols)
Chris
11 years ago
Hi,
Your tutorial is amazing! Just thank you from a french guy!
Just a question, I have a problem when i link all the parents with the first layer (6"25): The layer 8, the entire earth, is distorted like a pierced blue ballon. The image 8 is like a trapeze and not rectangular... And when the parents are none, everything is fine. My images are 1480 by 1360. I did it one time with your dimensions, 864 X 480, and it worked well.
I need help, it's for a presentation... :S
Your tutorial is amazing! Just thank you from a french guy!
Just a question, I have a problem when i link all the parents with the first layer (6"25): The layer 8, the entire earth, is distorted like a pierced blue ballon. The image 8 is like a trapeze and not rectangular... And when the parents are none, everything is fine. My images are 1480 by 1360. I did it one time with your dimensions, 864 X 480, and it worked well.
I need help, it's for a presentation... :S
umi
11 years ago
@ 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
@ 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
Audrey Luce
11 years ago
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 )
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 )
smile
11 years ago
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.
Radek
11 years ago
Can i do this with element 3D as the last layer (Earth)? I am trying, but it is not working. Btw you are great!! 
Pete
11 years ago
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?
K
12 years ago
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."
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."
connor
12 years ago
Hey how do you rotate the picture to have it match up with the previous one? Whats the shortcut?
Daniel
12 years ago
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
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
daniel
12 years ago
omg you killed me with the baloon string camera thing ! i just couldnt breathe !! lol
Manolo1Sanchez
12 years ago
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
Hawkins Eye
12 years ago
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.
BigM
12 years ago
Hello Andrew. I love this tutorial. Any change you will do an addition to this where the camera orbits around the planet?
Peace
Peace
Sergio Quetzalcoatl
12 years ago
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...
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...
Alex
12 years ago
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
Anyone know why?
Thanks,
Alex
Tanvir
12 years ago
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
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
khalid
12 years ago
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)
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)
Sony
12 years ago
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 ?
Naude´
12 years ago
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!!
Sam
12 years ago
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
Syafiq
12 years ago
There's nothing wrong with cs6, check your steps again. Turn on all the layers before you scale layer no 1 to 100
Alex
12 years ago
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
Luke Engel
13 years ago
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
-Luke
Joel Puello
13 years ago
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.
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.
Naitian Zhou
13 years ago
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?
alex
13 years ago
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
Sebastian
13 years ago
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.
Andre
13 years ago
Wow great, like on film! Maybe my computer must take a long-long time to make this....
Comando
13 years ago
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!
Need Help please
13 years ago
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!
Caleb
13 years ago
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.
Cyborlite
13 years ago
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.
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.
Duke
13 years ago
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?
AE_Guy_01556
13 years ago
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!
http://vimeo.com/35240205
GREAT work FarmataFilms!
Julien
13 years ago
Just awesome, I tested it here :
https://vimeo.com/41798021
Really great tutorials! Nice work
Thank you
https://vimeo.com/41798021
Really great tutorials! Nice work
Thank you
Bryan Massa
13 years ago
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?
Abbs
13 years ago
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];
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Hope this works... it's my first crack at anything like this.
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.
James
13 years ago
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?
Gilberto Balderas
13 years ago
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
Claudio
13 years ago
I have always wanted to thank you for your tutorials, but I have never dared enroll me and to do it... THANKS!
FermataFilms
13 years ago
Great Tut
If anyone is interested, you can see my try at this. Please feel free to leave comments.
http://vimeo.com/35240205
If anyone is interested, you can see my try at this. Please feel free to leave comments.
http://vimeo.com/35240205
Sean Vikingsson
13 years ago
How did you get such a high resolution photo resolution of my country (Ireland).?
Jhabril Harris
13 years ago
At first with the weather balloon thing I was like "forget get it" then 15 seconds realized you were joking and was like "oh"
Tonc91
13 years ago
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
i did open it in photoshop and removed the background and it still has a grey box around it? can anyone help?
thnx
Doo
13 years ago
-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
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
FM
14 years ago
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.
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.
Jarred
14 years ago
Now I parented all of my footage. But now everything up to the Earth isn't there. What happened?
nicklas
14 years ago
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?
another thing , if i dont have the proffesional after effekts, is there any other ways to get the " Exponential look" on the zoom?
Joel
14 years ago
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?
komp master
14 years ago
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 ....
alexandru
14 years ago
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!!
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!!
Andy G
14 years ago
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!
Good work!
solomno cletus
14 years ago
pls, i'm findin it difficult to buy stuff in videocopilot.i don't wats going on.....code isn't working.
Space Ace
14 years ago
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!
chandu
14 years ago
hi.,its too very advance tutorial, this video for freshers & experts use for create new project
charlie
14 years ago
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?
anyone know why this could be?
Jahim jean-noel
14 years ago
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
Sphere911
14 years ago
When i parent alle layers to the first one and go to scale 1% it wont go back to the last one.... why not?
chaitanya
14 years ago
Your tutorial was awesome it was like a treasure for noobies like me...one problem with me is that that images u placed how to get them
SedComet(GdsProductions,sub if you like)
14 years ago
Haha...I love the tottaly stupid ways to do the effect alternate in almost every tutorial start...very creative 
Riley
14 years ago
Can anyone help me? I have followed this tutorial exactly, and when I add new layers to the closest one, they get blurry. Do I have to use Photoshop files or can I use JPGs?
paquiton96
14 years ago
when i try to buffer it, ae shows me an error and then it says me to save changes the program closes.
macfreez
14 years ago
I tried the weather ballon merhod 2, if NASA would be so kind to bring my camera back... pleas... n.n
chun
14 years ago
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.
Rob Cartwright
14 years ago
Hi Andrew!
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.
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.
Felix
14 years ago
Hi!
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'm just wondering what the the name of the sound from the designer sound FX that you are using?
Thanks for a great tutorial!
S.mahmood
14 years ago
hi dear Andrew Kramer i always follow you're tutorials and i thank you for tutorials
i am very interested with your tutorials specially
for VFX thanks...................................!
i am very interested with your tutorials specially
for VFX thanks...................................!
carlos
14 years ago
where do you get footage or images to practice on and eventually use for videos that you can show or use for school projects? I'm a new video student and have not used after effect before, what do you recomend?
Phaniraj
14 years ago
HI, My name is Phaniraj, I've made my own pictures of the world, Starting from My place which was located in INDIA, I Did every step that you have told in your tutorial,but when i unlink them all from each other and then link them to the first picture all of them disappear except for the first one. What did I do wrong?
CamMcP
14 years ago
If your wondering how to reverse the zoom out so that it zooms in all you have to do is select all the layers then go to Layer> Time> Time-Reverse Layer. Do this at the end.
Ant
14 years ago
How can i do this in reverse (i.e zoom in). Also where can i get this kind of high res picture other than google earth?
Fawz
14 years ago
Only the first picture, which should be the closest to earth, is clear. The others are really really blurry as if they have a bad quality, but I know they are not, cuz they are 1mb each. What's wrong?
Terence Roberts
14 years ago
I know this is an old tutorial, but I was having some problems with this and thought I would help out those with the same issue.
I was experiencing issues with the project files provided, specifically the .png. I could not get the transparency to work in AE CS5. The problem is that the png is saved as indexed colour. Open the file in photoshop, go to image > mode > rgb and save it again as the png. Transparency should be working now.
I was experiencing issues with the project files provided, specifically the .png. I could not get the transparency to work in AE CS5. The problem is that the png is saved as indexed colour. Open the file in photoshop, go to image > mode > rgb and save it again as the png. Transparency should be working now.
exist
14 years ago
At first> Thanks a lot for the great tutorials.
Problem: after the step at 6:26 I can't see the layers anymore in my comp-preview-window, everything disappears, nothing to see but big blank spot on the map. What did I do wrong?
Problem: after the step at 6:26 I can't see the layers anymore in my comp-preview-window, everything disappears, nothing to see but big blank spot on the map. What did I do wrong?
Josh Antonio
14 years ago
Hi, I was wondering where you got the images from so i can get them for the location of my short film,
thanks.
thanks.
akkaneko
14 years ago
Hi, I was wondering. I saw that you can't use the pictures in the tutorial for commercial use, and was wondering where you got them. I want to make this kind of effect for a product commercial, but I don't know where to find that kind of picture. Thanks!
Ithor
14 years ago
Hey man,
You're Awesome
I really love you're work
was my first look on this web site, I definitively love your tutorial
Thank man, take care
You're Awesome
I really love you're work
was my first look on this web site, I definitively love your tutorial
Thank man, take care
Noah
14 years ago
That Was GREAT! you should upload that to youtube. I'm looking foreward to more tutorials.
Saeed
14 years ago
Dear Andrew Kramer,
My Name is Saeed Ahmad. First of all I am very thankful to you for your tutorials. Your tutorials are very helpful to me. I wanna say something that I am requesting you to make a tutorial on earth crack.
Thanks alot
My Name is Saeed Ahmad. First of all I am very thankful to you for your tutorials. Your tutorials are very helpful to me. I wanna say something that I am requesting you to make a tutorial on earth crack.
Thanks alot
John
14 years ago
Hey Guys,
Awesome tutorial as always, but I was wondering how he created such good looking photos just from Google Earth when he got towards the ending of the zoom. The final picture of the Earth is awesome but when you just look at the Earth in Google Earth it looks like crap compared to this one...
Thanks,
John
Awesome tutorial as always, but I was wondering how he created such good looking photos just from Google Earth when he got towards the ending of the zoom. The final picture of the Earth is awesome but when you just look at the Earth in Google Earth it looks like crap compared to this one...
Thanks,
John
insertnamehere
14 years ago
Hello, I'm working on a project which involves a lot of zoom-ins. Actually it is nothing but a zoom into words and pictures for a whole minute. Whatever I try I eventually end up with position and scale values like 2345,43534 and it makes a lot of trouble.
This tutorial helped a lot with introducing me to the exponential scale. However still it doesn't solve my whole problems since it isn't a single strict zoom like in this tut.
I think it would be more than welcome if you guys make a tutorial about a project which makes a lot of zoom into objects that are all connected to each other.
This tutorial helped a lot with introducing me to the exponential scale. However still it doesn't solve my whole problems since it isn't a single strict zoom like in this tut.
I think it would be more than welcome if you guys make a tutorial about a project which makes a lot of zoom into objects that are all connected to each other.
Abali Joshua
14 years ago
Wow I love your work, I am your greatest fan from Nigeria, Africa. Your tutorials make me more creative. you are doing a good job there, keep it up.
Siya Digitals
14 years ago
i need high quality satellite image of indian places, where can i get those !! do u know about that !
Christina
14 years ago
The project files are missing graphic #8, it only has jpegs 1 to 7, and the earth-still ... is this effect still achievable without the 8th graphic
Alexander Cross
14 years ago
Hey! I need help, I can not do, "wiggle (10, effect (" Slider Control " (" Slider)), Adobe After Effects CS5
(" Slider)), Adobe After Effects CS5
Daddy_C
14 years ago
HA! i love it when it takes you 23 minutes! when I do it, it takes hours!!!!! stop....play that back again....stop......rewind!!!! ....hahahhaah LOVE ya work Andrew!!!
Brice
14 years ago
I need to know which is the best way to buy Hd satelite photo's from pictures of The Netherlands, Africa and the whole world.
Many thanks
Greets Brice
Many thanks
Greets Brice
Brice
14 years ago
Hey Guys,
I need to know if there is another way instead of Google Earth (pro) to find high res pictures from The Netherlands, Afrika and the whole world.
Help would be appreciated.
Greets
I need to know if there is another way instead of Google Earth (pro) to find high res pictures from The Netherlands, Afrika and the whole world.
Help would be appreciated.
Greets
Pablo
14 years ago
very nice and useful tutorial (as usual here), but imho stars should not be parented. stars are so far far away that moving few thousands miles with "camera" should not make any difference in our seeing the distance to stars. ... or maybe Im wrong heh
regards to Andraw and cheers to everyone in AE scene
hehregards to Andraw and cheers to everyone in AE scene
Richard Forman
14 years ago
I need to know where the best place is to find the pictures to do this tutorial from Terni Italy. Thanks for the help!
anand
14 years ago
I Like This Tutorial Because It Is amazing & excellent video tutorial.
thank you for giving to this tutorial for viewers
thank you so match..........
thank you for giving to this tutorial for viewers
thank you so match..........
luke westwood
14 years ago
Hey Mate,
Just want to say a massive thank you for what you do. I've just found your site, and have found it so difficult finding a good after effects tutorial website so thank you
Just want to say a massive thank you for what you do. I've just found your site, and have found it so difficult finding a good after effects tutorial website so thank you
Tony
14 years ago
Hi Andrew...
OK..It's all been said before a zillion times over...but you truly are an inspiration to us all...thank-you & the your talented crew
I absolutely luuuurve everything about VC!!!
I've purchased all of your products except for Optical Flares... (most def my next VC purchase!!)
I use your amazing tools almost every day & would be lost without them :/
Best regards...Tony, Perth Australia
OK..It's all been said before a zillion times over...but you truly are an inspiration to us all...thank-you & the your talented crew
I absolutely luuuurve everything about VC!!!
I've purchased all of your products except for Optical Flares... (most def my next VC purchase!!)
I use your amazing tools almost every day & would be lost without them :/
Best regards...Tony, Perth Australia
Aes ALShatti
14 years ago
Andrew you are Great thanx alot ... im visual effects Editor & Movie Director just wanna tell u few important informations: if you are having RED ONE Camera you cant tight it with the balloon cz it very heavy :p just kidding ..... thanx alot man for all the tutorials With my Best Wishes
ur brother / Abdulah ALShatti
just kidding ..... thanx alot man for all the tutorials With my Best Wishesur brother / Abdulah ALShatti
suman jaishwal
14 years ago
sir u r really a vfx king and i also want to be a vfx king like u that can solve all types of problem so sir plz help me to be like u. and sir i want to make a great explosion like the film depth charge without using any plugins and presets with in aftereffects cs3. so plz help me to do this projects
Alex
14 years ago
My Balloon exploded and the Camera recorded something like in the submerged-tutorial instead, ahhh!
Nice Tutorial.
Thanks.
Nice Tutorial.
Thanks.
UtopiaJJ
14 years ago
Nice tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to explain and break everything down step by step. I wanted to use an effect like this in a school project but had no idea how to get it to look so realistic since I was relying mostly on Max. Needless to say, I am taking the power of AE much more seriously nowadays. Thanks again.
kyr
14 years ago
oh....my....god your an AE proffesional man
you really helped me with these tutorials although some of them are so difficult for me! or are imposible for me to make because i dont have some effects for example i dont have particular which is a very important effect!
i have CS4 and i cant have CS5 because my pc is only 32 bits
i thank you very much!
you really helped me with these tutorials although some of them are so difficult for me! or are imposible for me to make because i dont have some effects for example i dont have particular which is a very important effect!
i have CS4 and i cant have CS5 because my pc is only 32 bits
i thank you very much!
Alex Dinca
15 years ago
i made a similar video ( before seeing this tutorial ). The only differences are that it is with a zoom in effect and the transitions between the images are not that smooth. But it's a pretty good video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckc0u3Qj4ZQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckc0u3Qj4ZQ
George
15 years ago
Hey mate, someone took your joke at the beginning a little too literally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZMscMp8UM
Rob
15 years ago
Hey There, amaznig tutorials mate! very impressive!
I am using CS4 and I have my own pics but for some reason, when I clikc down on my first pic (i have shut off all the others except the 1st and 2nd one) It says transform where it should say opacity, so i clikc in transform and it says it there, when I make it 50 it does nothing and i cannot see the otherpicture coming through, what shall I do? Im a newbie with AE
Thanks So Much!
Rob
I am using CS4 and I have my own pics but for some reason, when I clikc down on my first pic (i have shut off all the others except the 1st and 2nd one) It says transform where it should say opacity, so i clikc in transform and it says it there, when I make it 50 it does nothing and i cannot see the otherpicture coming through, what shall I do? Im a newbie with AE
Thanks So Much!
Rob
Mike
15 years ago
wow...I can't believe that guitar center ripped this vid. All they did was reverse it and throw a simple font on the roof. Are times that tough?? Corporate hustle man...corporate hustle.
Vic Adams
15 years ago
Hi Andrew!
You would be surprised (or not) to know that UR popular even in Ukraine! Just a couple of minutes ago saw your Earth Zoom on Ukrainian TV without any changes! Plagiarists bastards!
PS BTW thanks for all your tutorials. They're very helpful in editing video games reviews.
You would be surprised (or not) to know that UR popular even in Ukraine! Just a couple of minutes ago saw your Earth Zoom on Ukrainian TV without any changes! Plagiarists bastards!
PS BTW thanks for all your tutorials. They're very helpful in editing video games reviews.
miigaa
15 years ago
if you are having a problem viewing the tutoral or daownloading a project file or preset . please start a new thread about it in the Website Support Forum . This section is or commenting on the tutorial . not posting problems . If you post a problem with the tutial here . it will not get dealt with in tinely manner
mac007
15 years ago
u r the best Andre Kramer im form India i see you tutorial i really like them all spacial y this one too
leontje0
15 years ago
nice vid but i wanna see not zoom out but zoom in? how i can do that zoom out is succesfully done by me but i want zoom in can you make a video and send it? to tutorialvideo@hotmail.com? thx
can you make a video and send it? to tutorialvideo@hotmail.com? thx
Lance
15 years ago
Andrew, thanks for all your tutorials. You have made it fun to learn Adobe After Effects! I will support your site with purchases of TWITCH and another CONTENT dvd... Not sure which one yet. I use your Tuts as the basic starting point for some projects. Thanks again! you rock -
klausey
15 years ago
or you take a phone, a rope and some balloons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvo2g7RkVSo
Lieo
15 years ago
4 day's I'm rushing all over your videos - MAN you are GRATE you don't know how much I learned.
And very much tanks to "tvtreated" who solved THE PROBLEM (with parentation) dem i was going to smash my computer do dust...
CheersP
And very much tanks to "tvtreated" who solved THE PROBLEM (with parentation) dem i was going to smash my computer do dust...
Cheers
P
Frank
15 years ago
The sound used from Designer Sound FX appears to be a tweaked 'Rocky Build Up.wav'
k.Rajesh kumar
15 years ago
it was aimageing. when i saw the tutorial totally stock in way you are createing video in filme's.well this video's are good.thaks for showing tutorial's in your website.bey
Xebec
15 years ago
How do we legitimately use Google Earth content in our video projects with these TOS requirements:
"Attribution is the line(s) shown on the bottom of the Content in the products along with copyright notices, such as "© 2009 Google, Map Data © 2009 Tele Atlas." (The exact text of the attribution changes based on geography and Content type.) The attribution text must be legible to the average viewer or reader. The automatically-generated Google logo and attribution text may only be removed or obstructed if reintroduced in a visible form elsewhere within the Content. In print use, if for some reason attribution cannot be placed within the Content, separate attribution text must be provided directly adjacent to the Content. In video, attribution must appear on-screen for the entire duration the Content is displayed; we cannot approve requests to move attribution to end credits."
"Attribution is the line(s) shown on the bottom of the Content in the products along with copyright notices, such as "© 2009 Google, Map Data © 2009 Tele Atlas." (The exact text of the attribution changes based on geography and Content type.) The attribution text must be legible to the average viewer or reader. The automatically-generated Google logo and attribution text may only be removed or obstructed if reintroduced in a visible form elsewhere within the Content. In print use, if for some reason attribution cannot be placed within the Content, separate attribution text must be provided directly adjacent to the Content. In video, attribution must appear on-screen for the entire duration the Content is displayed; we cannot approve requests to move attribution to end credits."
tejpal rajput
15 years ago
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.!!!!!
Robert Streiferd
15 years ago
Check it out, Guitar Center ripped off Andrew's Earth Zoom project! Look at the 0:29 mark! I noticed this on cable tv today. It's on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iJcbw3TOVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iJcbw3TOVI
YourFan
15 years ago
hello, you're goood at tutorials.
I Have a problem with it.
Im running CS5 AE.
And when i try to play the video it only shows the planet? And the planet's backround is white.
I can't play the video, it only shows the earth.
Is it because Im running CS5?
If it is, then could you send me a trial version of CS4? Or w/e you're using.
Thanks!
`YourFan
I Have a problem with it.
Im running CS5 AE.
And when i try to play the video it only shows the planet? And the planet's backround is white.
I can't play the video, it only shows the earth.
Is it because Im running CS5?
If it is, then could you send me a trial version of CS4? Or w/e you're using.
Thanks!
`YourFan
Han Minsu
15 years ago
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.
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.
Mbo
15 years ago
For those asking where the images come from, you can see the watermarks when you open the tutorial files: Google.
Gracie
15 years ago
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!!!!!!
Thanks for showing us how to do this!!!!!!
Ishwor kumar khatri
15 years ago
I used this all video tutorials. I like it. I am very happy I rally want to give thanks for adobe group.
Louis
15 years ago
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 )
) ps..I've forgot to press play to my camera attached to the baloon and 10 miles of string )
julian
15 years ago
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
amal
15 years ago
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
Geegee
15 years ago
How am i supposed to get pictures of my country zoomed out but with such clear quality?
mktnet
15 years ago
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
Thanks for this exciting tutorial.
here is my exagerated Earth Zoom video based on the same tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sn62xd0fpQ
Yam :D
15 years ago
If I'll be damn rich when I grow up, I'll give you half of my wealth >
Thanks for the tutorials, very pro, very informative
Thanks for the tutorials, very pro, very informative
adegunwa adewale
15 years ago
i,m sorry most of your video lectures can not play on my system, it play at the rate of 5secs per minutes.
Steve
15 years ago
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
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
Martin Bavio
15 years ago
Hi Andrew! Amazing Tutorial!!!!
where one would find photos of this high a resolution?
Google earth??
as did??
THANKSSS!!!
where one would find photos of this high a resolution?
Google earth??
as did??
THANKSSS!!!
dan ruiz
15 years ago
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
thanks
Marcel
15 years ago
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
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
Warren
15 years ago
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!!
xjimdim
15 years ago
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
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 cs4thnx andrew
ismail lahsayki
15 years ago
im very interisted about you i wesh evry day to yalkind wethe dericted i have alot wathe me ned to tolkin about tankyou for your tutoial im talant in after efecte can you giv me sond me your imail at amy adress electronc aap-maroc@hotmail.fr
your student ismail
your student ismail
John
15 years ago
Tank you.
i've send the balloon with the camcorder, and I'm waiting when it come back. (:
i've send the balloon with the camcorder, and I'm waiting when it come back. (:
Liam
15 years ago
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
Ali Faizan
15 years ago
this is my first time on this site and i m really impressed..Great work.best.
Lukas
15 years ago
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?
Bill Tull
15 years ago
Thank's for another great tutorial, I love the way you evenly pace the info and not skip ahead or leave things out!
dinesh
15 years ago
thxs for doing this excellent video, but i have a question where did u get those pictures.
Jordan M
15 years ago
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...)
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...)
Mitchoveli
15 years ago
I bought designer sound FX but was wondering which ones you use for your project?
Alex from PARIS
15 years ago
Sir Andrew definitly you rock !!!
Every day you make my life happier.
THX and see u tomorow
Every day you make my life happier.
THX and see u tomorow
Daniel Evangelopoulos
15 years ago
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
Daniel
Bsquidwrd
15 years ago
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!!!
shilpa.m
15 years ago
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
Josh
15 years ago
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
Heli
15 years ago
A very nice demonstration and a professional tutorial. Thanks for this and I hope to see more of this
Heli
Heli
franklin
15 years ago
Hi. sir i am franklin, that tutorials are good. my ID samfranklinv@143.gmail.com
maryn
15 years ago
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
After doing a lot of your amazing tutorials, i am gonna buy some of the dvd's as wel!
Greets from the netherlands
Hamid Bilverdy
15 years ago
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!!!
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!!!
tvtreated
15 years ago
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.
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.
tvtreated
15 years ago
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.
I managed to create this strange behaviour with the original project but can't figure out what's wrong in cs4.
Charles Ferran
15 years ago
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
hugo castro
15 years ago
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.
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.
Pere
15 years ago
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
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
Albart
15 years ago
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
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
Cathie
15 years ago
Hi Andrew. Where did you get the pictures from? Are they just Google Earth cut and pasted into photoshop?
Amir Zahir
15 years ago
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 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.
Alejandro
15 years ago
I can not write well in English
but I write only to congratulate
for your work is excellent
but I write only to congratulate
for your work is excellent
Tómas Ingi Ragnarsson
15 years ago
Gratitude for all the tutorials. Here is my edition (done as a party invitation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUn6CV7lVg0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUn6CV7lVg0
Rajat
15 years ago
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
Connor
15 years ago
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)
Thanks
Connor (N.Ireland)
atif
15 years ago
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
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
Neko
15 years ago
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!
Sensing
15 years ago
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
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
Jamie Cooper
15 years ago
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.
Alejandro
16 years ago
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
Meanwhile, why don´t you do a tutorial about a progressive route or itinerary over a moving map?.
Thanks.
Alex
Ziekheid
16 years ago
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
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
Tomi Scotti
16 years ago
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!
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!
kemebo
16 years ago
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.!!!!!
Mehmet
16 years ago
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?
Trevor Speer
16 years ago
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!
juniorar
16 years ago
increible....gracias a vos conozco AF !!! segui asi que se valora mucho el aporte!.
desde argentina!
desde argentina!
Scott Bedford
16 years ago
Great tutorial - I used this technique as part of a website intro for Coke: http://www.vimeo.com/6973731 (hope I did it justice - I think it's cool!)
prabhakar
16 years ago
hi this is nice and cool effect. But where i can found this images can any body tell me
Steve
16 years ago
If you've ever seen the tv show The Big Bang Theory this exact effect was used almost identically on season 3 episode 5 at the very end of the show and I have a strong hunch it was created using this this tutorial.
Enzo
16 years ago
I swear am half way about crying here... this lining up is definately NOT as easy as you make it look man.. Am so fustrated i feel like blowing up. Andrew, do me a favour, use me instead of Sam. i think i need all that torture
by the way, love ya Sam.. Your awesome too.. Feel like releasing my fustration just typing alot but.. not such a good idea.. my coffee even got cold trying to concentrate too much.. But, il just say your just amazing.. wish i could ask you questions.. wait, rather, interview you haha. Alright i'l leave now
by the way, love ya Sam.. Your awesome too.. Feel like releasing my fustration just typing alot but.. not such a good idea.. my coffee even got cold trying to concentrate too much.. But, il just say your just amazing.. wish i could ask you questions.. wait, rather, interview you haha. Alright i'l leave now
Michael Mandaville
16 years ago
Andrew,
Thanks for the tutorial. I very much enjoyed and learned from it.
Thanks for the tutorial. I very much enjoyed and learned from it.
JORDAN SKYLER ANDERSON
16 years ago
I love your tutorials learning alot from you!
Im 17 and im a intermediate user at this program love it!got years of practice 2 come
A quick thing i did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgPWAAuye8
Im 17 and im a intermediate user at this program love it!got years of practice 2 come
A quick thing i did:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzgPWAAuye8
richeie
16 years ago
guys/ its an awesome tutorial but how the flip do you scale down the images//
i'm having trouble. i've tried everything..
can anyone help me please//
ciao
richie..
i'm having trouble. i've tried everything..
can anyone help me please//
ciao
richie..
Ruby
16 years ago
wow! how'd u get to visualize those things?! u must have great photographic skills...and to think you can link it perfectly to after effects. that's just so whoa! thanks andrew...-college student^^
JoeyRiverrocks1
16 years ago
Great tutorial andrew! Keep it up!
If anyone's bored out there plz let me know what u think of my earth zoom to australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2oeG9rpy-A
If anyone's bored out there plz let me know what u think of my earth zoom to australia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2oeG9rpy-A
Anseres of people
16 years ago
Hey. Everyone keeps asking: "Where do you get the images from?"
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
People asking about maps can also try http://flashearth.com
Hey guys! the images: from google maps (not google earth!!!)
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
People asking about maps can also try http://flashearth.com
Hey guys! the images: from google maps (not google earth!!!)
Fifth Weapon
16 years ago
You a bad man...In another life you would have been a rasta...thanks and praise to jah for the kramer.
felipe
16 years ago
it's spectacular
it's perfect
it's beautifull
it's very very great
sorry for mi english i'm spanish
it's perfect
it's beautifull
it's very very great
sorry for mi english i'm spanish
Jojin Kang
16 years ago
Great tutorial as usual Andrew, I guess you are always pressed for time doing 100's of these tutorials but I would go one step further and go through each layers and fade out them out completely as they get too small to be noticed. that way you wont notice colour difference when they contrast like in the last 2 shots.
thanks for your tuts mate, you got me interested in after effects. Something I never thought much of before.
thanks for your tuts mate, you got me interested in after effects. Something I never thought much of before.
Tulio
16 years ago
Andrew, earth zoom video tutorial is breaking down when you reach close to 8 min of video. You should check this out!
FeanaroSingollo
16 years ago
Amazing tut. it was so fun to do
People i used Google earth to get high res images
People i used Google earth to get high res images
Stephane
16 years ago
Hey Andrew, awsome turotial,
I'm attemping to recreate this zoom from my part of the world, I was wondering where you get the high res pic from?
I'm attemping to recreate this zoom from my part of the world, I was wondering where you get the high res pic from?
Shivang
16 years ago
amazzzzzzzinggggggggggggggg is also small word for your tutorial..........!!Keep it up Andrew...
irene
16 years ago
Anyone can tell me where can i get images of a diferent place in the world? I've tryed with Google earth and it works for closer ones but when i zoom out it looks pretty ugly...
what can i do?
what can i do?
Bear
16 years ago
Hi I am desperately looking for a slow, long zoom out video from the earth into the far reaches of space. Can ANYONE help me with this?
jabez.in
16 years ago
Andrew Thanks for that great tutorial god bless you
where are those maps from ??? Google Earth ??? I realy like some maps of MY city
sagar
16 years ago
nice sir one more time u inspired me to do something...u r geat...plz check the below link to see what I have done using u r tips on Google earth
plz do reply
by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0xHzEjSGs
plz do reply
by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0xHzEjSGs
madhu sanjel
16 years ago
Love the tutorials. Congrats on the new addition.
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?
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?
boryst
16 years ago
hey guys. i love the tut. worked great. the only problem i ran into was that i want the planet image at the end to be centered in the frame. so the beginning is centered at my house but then when we are in space looking at the earth i want the planet centered. any ideas?
Michael Stoffels
16 years ago
Hello there,
first of all, I want to apologize for my bad English.
Last week, I was watching TV and during the advertising I was zapping around. I found sth kinda funny on the German Channel "Pro-7".
They have a stupid Casting Show called "Sommermädchen 2009" (Summergirl 2009) and on this day, the finale was on air. They used this effect here. But not just this effect...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF5j0b5Q8yw
first of all, I want to apologize for my bad English.
Last week, I was watching TV and during the advertising I was zapping around. I found sth kinda funny on the German Channel "Pro-7".
They have a stupid Casting Show called "Sommermädchen 2009" (Summergirl 2009) and on this day, the finale was on air. They used this effect here. But not just this effect...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF5j0b5Q8yw
KoenBucket ( 93GB on YouTube )
16 years ago
Hey people,
I was working on this effect, and had the same problem with the scaling, with the black screen showing instead of the Earth image, however, I found an easy way to (sort of) fix this. For some reason AE doesn't recognize any value below 1 for the scaling. What you want to do, is the following:
- Just leave the black screen when you enter 0,0005%, which will be changed by AE into 0,0%, and go on with choosing the exponential scale.
- You will notice that the black screen is gone and the earth image is visible. However, the earth looks very tiny, which doesn't looks very nice (however, that's just my opinion). If you check the scale at the end of scale-animation, you will see that it has the value of 0,0001. Also, if you go through the whole scale-animation, you will see that the Earth will 'shrink', but stops 'shrinking' while the exponential scaling hasn't even ended yet.
- What you want to do, is search the part where the Earth has the size as you wanted it to be. The next thing you have to do, is deleting all the keyframes that come after it. If you have done that, and you check the whole animation, it will stop at the right moment.
This worked for me so far, I hope it'll help you guys. Good luck
P.S. I'm from the Netherlands, so please forgive me if there is any bad spelling in my comment (I always like to keep it clean, I know how hard it is to read when someone writes unreadable stuff with lack of dots and stuff.)
Note: Some details about the outcomes as I described it (like the tiny Earth), could be different than others, because of the sizes of the PSD's you use, etcetera
Note 2: With 'sort of fixing', I ment that when you will fix the problem with the scaling, the stuff like time will slightly change, so if you made the animation last 10 seconds in the first place, it will end up lasting 9.1 seconds or something like that.
I was working on this effect, and had the same problem with the scaling, with the black screen showing instead of the Earth image, however, I found an easy way to (sort of) fix this. For some reason AE doesn't recognize any value below 1 for the scaling. What you want to do, is the following:
- Just leave the black screen when you enter 0,0005%, which will be changed by AE into 0,0%, and go on with choosing the exponential scale.
- You will notice that the black screen is gone and the earth image is visible. However, the earth looks very tiny, which doesn't looks very nice (however, that's just my opinion). If you check the scale at the end of scale-animation, you will see that it has the value of 0,0001. Also, if you go through the whole scale-animation, you will see that the Earth will 'shrink', but stops 'shrinking' while the exponential scaling hasn't even ended yet.
- What you want to do, is search the part where the Earth has the size as you wanted it to be. The next thing you have to do, is deleting all the keyframes that come after it. If you have done that, and you check the whole animation, it will stop at the right moment.
This worked for me so far, I hope it'll help you guys. Good luck
P.S. I'm from the Netherlands, so please forgive me if there is any bad spelling in my comment (I always like to keep it clean, I know how hard it is to read when someone writes unreadable stuff with lack of dots and stuff.)
Note: Some details about the outcomes as I described it (like the tiny Earth), could be different than others, because of the sizes of the PSD's you use, etcetera
Note 2: With 'sort of fixing', I ment that when you will fix the problem with the scaling, the stuff like time will slightly change, so if you made the animation last 10 seconds in the first place, it will end up lasting 9.1 seconds or something like that.
Garrett Phillip Montgomery
16 years ago
Great tutorial. I was able to get decent photos out of google earth. What would make it even better is to combine maltaanon's tutorial for 'Advanced 3D Planets' (created with CC Sphere).
http://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/advanced-3d-planets/
Although I don't know how the heck to do it because my last layer (Pre comp of 3D spinning planet) would be spinning. I start zooming out from downtown LA and then end up in Africa. Any suggestions on how this can be done?
http://maltaannon.com/articles/after-effects/advanced-3d-planets/
Although I don't know how the heck to do it because my last layer (Pre comp of 3D spinning planet) would be spinning. I start zooming out from downtown LA and then end up in Africa. Any suggestions on how this can be done?
Manoj Perumbavoor
16 years ago
Hi, video copilot creaters, excellent creations...nice tute, my HD movie making come true.....
manoj Boogloo
manoj Boogloo
DarkEntity
16 years ago
whaaaaa...that was amazing!totally brilliant!you are bad!!!thanks man!you're the master,the prof!
JBL
16 years ago
Just like code said:
"alright, i just wanted to let everyone know that the best solution i have found so far is to parent every layer to the last layer (earth) and then, starting with the scale of that layer at 25 million, keyframing it down to 100. i can see this causing a lot of problems and it definitely isn't perfect. that being said, i could still use some advice on this one."
This method works but it's extremely slower and less user friendly.
I had to move my anchor point up to a 0.00001 precision (my project is kinda bigger than the one in the tutorial)
"alright, i just wanted to let everyone know that the best solution i have found so far is to parent every layer to the last layer (earth) and then, starting with the scale of that layer at 25 million, keyframing it down to 100. i can see this causing a lot of problems and it definitely isn't perfect. that being said, i could still use some advice on this one."
This method works but it's extremely slower and less user friendly.
I had to move my anchor point up to a 0.00001 precision (my project is kinda bigger than the one in the tutorial)
JBL
16 years ago
I got the same problem as Olli,
"Hi. Thanks for that great tutorial.
Still i've got a question:
Wenn i connect all Layers to Layer Nr. 1 I just see a Black Window.
If I Scale Layer Nr.1 at 100 I can see the right Picture, but if i scale it up and down i can't see the other Layers. They are not connectet any more.
Does any of you know why this is happening.
THX Olli"
"Hi. Thanks for that great tutorial.
Still i've got a question:
Wenn i connect all Layers to Layer Nr. 1 I just see a Black Window.
If I Scale Layer Nr.1 at 100 I can see the right Picture, but if i scale it up and down i can't see the other Layers. They are not connectet any more.
Does any of you know why this is happening.
THX Olli"
Olli
16 years ago
Hi. Thanks for that great tutorial.
Still i've got a question:
Wenn i connect all Layers to Layer Nr. 1 I just see a Black Window.
If I Scale Layer Nr.1 at 100 I can see the right Picture, but if i scale it up and down i can't see the other Layers. They are not connectet any more.
Does any of you know why this is happening.
THX Olli
Still i've got a question:
Wenn i connect all Layers to Layer Nr. 1 I just see a Black Window.
If I Scale Layer Nr.1 at 100 I can see the right Picture, but if i scale it up and down i can't see the other Layers. They are not connectet any more.
Does any of you know why this is happening.
THX Olli
Dave
16 years ago
Hi, i really like this tute, and want to use it for a promo video i'm working on. i live in Australia and was just wondering how you got the high res pics of San Francisco, i would like to get some of a city here.
Cheers.
Cheers.
cody
16 years ago
alright, i just wanted to let everyone know that the best solution i have found so far is to parent every layer to the last layer (earth) and then, starting with the scale of that layer at 25 million, keyframing it down to 100. i can see this causing a lot of problems and it definitely isn't perfect. that being said, i could still use some advice on this one.
cody
16 years ago
great tutorial, but please, im begging, explain the parenting problem. all my scale values are automatically set to zero when i unparent the images... i have no idea what to do.
Erwann M
16 years ago
Thanks a lot for all your great tutorials !
Please, continue to help me to realise my graphic dreams !
Thank you very much !
Please, continue to help me to realise my graphic dreams !
Thank you very much !
VEERAN.M
16 years ago
hi team,
thanks for this great toturial i admire your work andrew im just starting with fx cs3 keep up the good work ,and keep them coming where can i download this toturial because i have a slow internet connection i want to try it much respect ,and blessings from suriname
thanks for this great toturial i admire your work andrew im just starting with fx cs3 keep up the good work ,and keep them coming where can i download this toturial because i have a slow internet connection i want to try it much respect ,and blessings from suriname
Jake
16 years ago
Were can i get those pictures??????
and if some body know how to do smallville effects did you know andrew???????????
and if some body know how to do smallville effects did you know andrew???????????
Anonomous
16 years ago
Hey,
If you want to use Google Earth, there is already an option to save these photos to your drive. You can also go to View and there's an option to resize the window for DV video.
If you want to use Google Earth, there is already an option to save these photos to your drive. You can also go to View and there's an option to resize the window for DV video.
Steve
16 years ago
Andrew, great tutorial, I'd like to do this tutorial but with a different location, how can I find photos at different altitudes? I have google earth, but there are all of the blue signs, and the quality isn't that good...any suggestions?
TweaK
16 years ago
Its me! Just follow the tutorial then highlight every element and precompose it then reverse that comp
Nice tutorial AK. Keep 'em coming.
Nice tutorial AK. Keep 'em coming.
Jonas (from Germany)
16 years ago
This is a great tutorial
But i got one Question:
where do i get those Pictures for the earth zoom ?
But i got one Question:
where do i get those Pictures for the earth zoom ?
legion1908
16 years ago
all the way from mexico... thanks man... u really rock and kick butt doin' this!
waqz
16 years ago
wel i jus wana say ther r people certified by adobe they say in their tutorials
but this Guy iz the DADDY....
THANKS
but this Guy iz the DADDY....
THANKS
Brinkin
16 years ago
Hi All,
I found free high res images of the earth at http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download
Have a look at my earth zoom, http://bit.ly/h5ehV
Thanks
I found free high res images of the earth at http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download
Have a look at my earth zoom, http://bit.ly/h5ehV
Thanks
sase
16 years ago
where can I get those picitures help??? Can you send them by E-mail please my e-mail is sosakasbe@hotmail.com
you sure know how to show everybody to make every thing you're the best ANDREW
you sure know how to show everybody to make every thing you're the best ANDREW
A_Croneasy
16 years ago
Hey Andrew I just wanted to say I hate you and ya I'm just saying that to be different than everyone else. Thanks for all the help. You don't know how many ideas I get just watching your the little mouse over videos of your tutorials.
Thanks for the inspiration,
Funkmaster A_Cron
Thanks for the inspiration,
Funkmaster A_Cron
guitarlosMPLS
16 years ago
Andrew,
keep up the great work, we will support you and this webiste by spreading the word around and by purchesing the verious product available.
I look forward to learning from the master himself. you should plan to go on tour and when you do, dont forget to stop in Minneapolis, MN. land of the frozen chosen!
guitarlosMPLS
keep up the great work, we will support you and this webiste by spreading the word around and by purchesing the verious product available.
I look forward to learning from the master himself. you should plan to go on tour and when you do, dont forget to stop in Minneapolis, MN. land of the frozen chosen!
guitarlosMPLS
salsa
16 years ago
Somebody tell me please how i supposed to remove that white area around on earth? Nice tutorial, but i wanna get away from that white area. It is in the picture. Why?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Milton Choque Chaparro
16 years ago
Muchas gracias...!
un monton de agradecimiento al portal, su pagina es muy interensante especialmente para personas del ambito de la comunicacion.
un monton de agradecimiento al portal, su pagina es muy interensante especialmente para personas del ambito de la comunicacion.
Dj Hannz
16 years ago
this dont work for me, i have the latest version of after effects.
when i change the scale of pic 1 when all the pics are parented to pic 1, all the pics just change to the same size as pic 1?!? need a little help!!
when i change the scale of pic 1 when all the pics are parented to pic 1, all the pics just change to the same size as pic 1?!? need a little help!!
ld
16 years ago
Where can I get high def aerial shots for broadcast? Google brands a copyright on their images.....
Also
Is there an expression for exponensial scale? Got pro at home but not at work, what a pain in the hoo haa.
And thank you!!!
Also
Is there an expression for exponensial scale? Got pro at home but not at work, what a pain in the hoo haa.
And thank you!!!
herve
16 years ago
You rock man!
This is so fun to watch your tutorial. Learning a LOT!
Thanks for your effort
This is so fun to watch your tutorial. Learning a LOT!
Thanks for your effort
Phantom
16 years ago
Nice one Andrew
BTW where can i get maps???
I mean frm my area. Google earth???
BTW where can i get maps???
I mean frm my area. Google earth???
Groothoofd
16 years ago
Mine doesnt even go into space. It stops at the pic where the coast and the bridge is. I Dont even see USA etc. Help :S
delly DEL
16 years ago
very cool tutorial i was wondering were
you got the satellite pic from i want to do one of london
holla bk
bless
you got the satellite pic from i want to do one of london
holla bk
bless
Patanet
16 years ago
I Spotted the use of this stuff in a "Flight of the Conchords Video" http://www.hbo.com/conchords/video/index.html
THe video is the "Final Masterpiece" one
THe video is the "Final Masterpiece" one
Ranyjan
16 years ago
Do you make all of this stuff yourself and then show us? or does Jesus teach you all of this beautiful stuff.... sick sick tut man
RED
16 years ago
Hey thanks Andrew. I used the parenting technique for the free fall in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTf6CzTeyYM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTf6CzTeyYM
max b
16 years ago
Hi, I'm really impressed with all this great project, you guys really save peoples lives...take a look at this website...
www.vfxproducoes.com
I think they are copying yours stuff and selling it on dvds, I just found on youtube another tutorial just like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkGxrvXKoo
kind regards,
thx again!
www.vfxproducoes.com
I think they are copying yours stuff and selling it on dvds, I just found on youtube another tutorial just like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkGxrvXKoo
kind regards,
thx again!
ruben
16 years ago
thanks for this great toturial i admire your work andrew im just starting with fx cs3 keep up the good work ,and keep them coming where can i download this toturial because i have a slow internet connection i want to try it much respect ,and blessings from suriname
Andrew Fan
16 years ago
O man Andrew
U ever Done a Good Job, Please Make some thing bad work for your Competitors.
Andrew a Great Man
U ever Done a Good Job, Please Make some thing bad work for your Competitors.
Andrew a Great Man
Charles
16 years ago
Awesome !!! lol You are a great guy. And the same question, what program you use to record?. It was difficult to me to get involved in AE but since I met your since, I can't just get out of my screen watching your tutorial.
Lumkile
16 years ago
Andy this is the best site of all time. You have saved my life!!!
Great teaching style too. You always have me in stitches!!!!!
Totally awesome dude!
Great teaching style too. You always have me in stitches!!!!!
Totally awesome dude!
george
16 years ago
hey nice tutorial
i got 1 problem my second last layer doesn't move with all the rest of the layers and i can't fix it
anyone got any su
i got 1 problem my second last layer doesn't move with all the rest of the layers and i can't fix it
anyone got any su
rjwesten
16 years ago
I was having the same zooming issues as I've seen posted here. The problem is the anchor points. I had 15 layers and when I ran a small test (5-7 layers) it was fine .. once I got above that it didn't work. It was the Anchor points on layers 8-15 .. I had to reset those maunally to be the same center as the rest and that took care of it
Stan Arthur
16 years ago
I used this tutorial to create my own earth zoom-out that is the final sequence in my latest documentary about a group of law students who tour the deep south in a bus. In the final scene, the students walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, the site of one of the bloodiest attacks in American civil rights history. The scene ends with an aerial shot of the bridge, then zooms out to reveal the planet and a quote by Howard Thurman. It's very effective. Thanks, Andrew.
Rob
16 years ago
Hey Andrew,
Great work mate!
Im having a problem zooming out after parenting all the layers to layer 1, im using cs3 and dont know if thats the problem. I have followed your steps very carefully but still I seem to get stuck hear? If anyone can help it would mean alot
Keep up the great work from Australia
Great work mate!
Im having a problem zooming out after parenting all the layers to layer 1, im using cs3 and dont know if thats the problem. I have followed your steps very carefully but still I seem to get stuck hear? If anyone can help it would mean alot
Keep up the great work from Australia
Guillermo Herrera
16 years ago
Andrew:
What software did you use to make the tutorial number 40 Earth Zoom for obtain the photos with HD?
Sincerely
Guillermo
What software did you use to make the tutorial number 40 Earth Zoom for obtain the photos with HD?
Sincerely
Guillermo
Andrew (not Kramer)
16 years ago
First and foremost, THANK YOU!!! With a program as extensive and powerful as After Effects, there is NO WAY I would ever even come close to learning this stuff without these tutorials.
I'm working on AE CS3 and the expression you used for the shaking effect would not take. That was the one and only discrepancy I ran into. Anyone know what's up with that?
Also, to get the images, I used Google.com's map search. Just make sure all the labels are off. If you're on a PC, you should be able to use the Print Screen option to take the screencap and just trim it down in a photo editor. I'm on a Mac and had to use the Grab app, not from Safari's menu but from the applications folder, and captured by selection. I ended up taking about 18 of them, one from each zoom level. I'm quite content with the finished product, especially given that it was my first attempt. I didn't line up the layers perfectly, but with the motion blur and at the speed at which it zooms out, it was hard to identify.
Again, thank you so much for these tutorials. I'd have a very expensive hard drive occupier without them.
I'm working on AE CS3 and the expression you used for the shaking effect would not take. That was the one and only discrepancy I ran into. Anyone know what's up with that?
Also, to get the images, I used Google.com's map search. Just make sure all the labels are off. If you're on a PC, you should be able to use the Print Screen option to take the screencap and just trim it down in a photo editor. I'm on a Mac and had to use the Grab app, not from Safari's menu but from the applications folder, and captured by selection. I ended up taking about 18 of them, one from each zoom level. I'm quite content with the finished product, especially given that it was my first attempt. I didn't line up the layers perfectly, but with the motion blur and at the speed at which it zooms out, it was hard to identify.
Again, thank you so much for these tutorials. I'd have a very expensive hard drive occupier without them.
iceman
16 years ago
Hey guys the pictures he uses in this tutorial didnt come from google maps. if you see the rotation and the side lights of the buildings you will see they are offset to google maps. i dont still know where he go his maps from. "would like to though".
anjel-2k
16 years ago
these pictures as far as i know are not from google maps. If you take a look at the Transamerica pyramids in google maps it has a different height and rotation offset to the one he uses in his project. still dont know where he got it from though.
Demon Deacon
16 years ago
I just found this site and I've got to say this is the coolest site I've ever come across. Simply amazing tuts. Thanks videocopilot.net!!!!
Silberlocke
16 years ago
At first: very nice tutorial
and, i saw exactly the same shot at the CeBit (maybe you know)
I didn't remember which brand it was, but i was really surprised to see a shot, which I created in After Effects
And Andrew, you're awesome
and, i saw exactly the same shot at the CeBit (maybe you know)
I didn't remember which brand it was, but i was really surprised to see a shot, which I created in After Effects
And Andrew, you're awesome
Adrian
16 years ago
Awesome tutorial. Did it once and was fine, now trying with different images and half way through when i test all images parenting to the first image, they all disappear leaving tiny block in the middle - has anyone else had this? Really annoying, is it because i'm scaling out too far?
howry
16 years ago
hey there, is there a way to make the same thing but opposite? from space to surface of the earth?
Sindre
16 years ago
i have figured out a way to add sun an where the sun dont shining the dark side of the planet will turn into night and all the lights from the cities will shine right after it have cross the dark! But Can you please make a tutorial where you shows how you make the terminator Sam! xD please!
Raven
16 years ago
Hey love all ur tutorials but my question for this one is how do u get the pictures to make the zoom. i have tried getting some the google earth and a couple other websites but i am unable to get them.
Dennis
16 years ago
Hello there Andrew.
I like ur style, realy nice tutorial.
Helps a lot to get into Affter Effects and stuff.
Keep on going....
I like ur style, realy nice tutorial.
Helps a lot to get into Affter Effects and stuff.
Keep on going....
FCP Wizzard
16 years ago
if it's a reversal of this effect you are looking for it is a simple as putting the finished QT or AVI into you editing software and reversing the clips playing direction. You will need to render this out but a quick and easy way to do this.
Also as far as hi-res images to make this happen, use google earth for your wide shots whole earth ect. Once you find your ending point record its exact position using longitude and Latitude and then get the last few close up images using the same long/lat as for your wide shots. Google earth start to turn the camera as it gets real close. Easy as that.
great tutorial though.
Also as far as hi-res images to make this happen, use google earth for your wide shots whole earth ect. Once you find your ending point record its exact position using longitude and Latitude and then get the last few close up images using the same long/lat as for your wide shots. Google earth start to turn the camera as it gets real close. Easy as that.
great tutorial though.
Hassa
16 years ago
You are the coolest and your method of teaching is incredible, keep up the good work...
Gangadhar Mahato
16 years ago
Hi i am your fan and i regularly watched ur video its amazing and gr8.I am a student a i learn lots of trick to u so thanks and provides us lots of many new tutorials,
Matthew
16 years ago
I seem to be having quite alot of difficulty getting this to work, I'm not sure if it is because I am in CS3 or if I have instaled a plug in incorrectly but once I have gone through, linked all the layers and then when I get to the stage where I relink everything to layer one and go, set layer one scale to 100, I am then unable to zoom in and out, even though the layers are parented it seems as though they are not connected and the scale only seems to change the properties to that one picture.
Please Help
Please Help
Penske
16 years ago
haw to resolve with exponential problem
1.jpg selected, tool bar/Animetion/Add exponential
and then,choose 2 key flame ,and open key menu,
you can use it.
thank you andrew , I love your tutorials
1.jpg selected, tool bar/Animetion/Add exponential
and then,choose 2 key flame ,and open key menu,
you can use it.
thank you andrew , I love your tutorials
Mark
16 years ago
Loving these tutorials been trying loads but I'm having a problem with this one, Instead of having the globe as a picture, I've got a texture (used from the 3d planet tut) which I've used the cc sphere plugin but when I try and parent all my layers to layer 1 so I can sort out the scale everything dissapears! This only seems to happen when I'm using the sphere plugin. Any help is greatfully appreciated!! My final aim is to zoom out from a point on the earth and then rotate the globe with stars etc etc. (basically linking the two tutorials together)
Kenswift
16 years ago
Bad ass. I used Yahoo Maps and just put a mask over the sign in the very last frame. I actually did it in reverse, starting with the earth.
Matt
16 years ago
Hey Andrew, I tried downloading the project file for this tutorial, but when I go to open it, it doesn't work.
VamPy
16 years ago
you r the best :> ........
i want this effects temme how can take?? any 1 share ??
i want this effects temme how can take?? any 1 share ??
Rafael
16 years ago
Hi Andrew... and everyone
this tut really rocks
but im having a problem if the pics...
I can't find a decent high res pic..
i tryed the google earth and google maps but
the problem is the clouds... the water mark is
easy to take off, but the clouds are killing me.
Thanks for everything Andrew you is the best
and sorry for the english... im from Brazil
this tut really rocks
but im having a problem if the pics...
I can't find a decent high res pic..
i tryed the google earth and google maps but
the problem is the clouds... the water mark is
easy to take off, but the clouds are killing me.
Thanks for everything Andrew you is the best
and sorry for the english... im from Brazil
Dimitre
16 years ago
Outstanding Tutorial Andrew. Your other work is amazing as well. You are a true Hollywood genius.
Prabu
16 years ago
Hi AK,
Great Work! @ Kudos...
Would like know, How you had tracked the still image_01 for scaling?
Also Pls let me your contact info;
Congrats Again.
Prabu~
Great Work! @ Kudos...
Would like know, How you had tracked the still image_01 for scaling?
Also Pls let me your contact info;
Congrats Again.
Prabu~
456886
16 years ago
With this tutorial and the one after (tutorials 40 and 41) I made the intro of this video: http://br.youtube.com/watch?vf9PJli-7ZI
I also use tutorial 66 to the end of the video.
Thanks Andrew K.
You are an amazing artist.
To everyone who reads this, have a Happy New Year... full of new After Effects.
f9PJli-7ZII also use tutorial 66 to the end of the video.
Thanks Andrew K.
You are an amazing artist.
To everyone who reads this, have a Happy New Year... full of new After Effects.
dokgu
16 years ago
this is way cool.. it's just outside my reach, i got to get myself an AE.. i should start learning now..
cool, just way too cool..
congrats man..
cool, just way too cool..
congrats man..
joao
16 years ago
hi andrew kramer, first of all i love this tutorial, thanks for helping me
my question to you andrew is how do you get those high quality pics, because i use google earth and i do printscreen -.- the best resolution i can get is like 900 X 600, and that doenst work with this tutorial, i thought the problem was mine but i tried with your pics and it worked perfectly
now i saw some comments here of people that dont want the zoom out, but the zoom in. My opinion is to make the video as this tutorial (zoom out) and then using a video editor software like Ulead video studio you can make the video play form the end to the begining so that will have a effect of zoom in
staw well
my question to you andrew is how do you get those high quality pics, because i use google earth and i do printscreen -.- the best resolution i can get is like 900 X 600, and that doenst work with this tutorial, i thought the problem was mine but i tried with your pics and it worked perfectly
now i saw some comments here of people that dont want the zoom out, but the zoom in. My opinion is to make the video as this tutorial (zoom out) and then using a video editor software like Ulead video studio you can make the video play form the end to the begining so that will have a effect of zoom in
staw well
Sadun
16 years ago
Thanks man, really helped me...
here is the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUbP2RYjyY
not so pretty as yours but, ...
here is the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibUbP2RYjyY
not so pretty as yours but, ...
uur
17 years ago
i love your works
and i love your products
thank you so much,Andrew and other your friends...
and i love your products
thank you so much,Andrew and other your friends...
Tyler
17 years ago
Hey andrew! I love this tutorial... very ocmplete and explicit, I just have a question? How can I revert the video?? I did the zoom out, but I think that zooming in looks cooler.. is there a function to revert this?
Thank you andGod bless you!
Tyler
Thank you andGod bless you!
Tyler
michael
17 years ago
hey andre very nice tutorial
very cool saw were do you get the images from?
because I try with google but evrytime I zoom in the resolution goes bad
it goes pixel lated.
saw if you have any sugestions please tell me thanks
michael...
very cool saw were do you get the images from?
because I try with google but evrytime I zoom in the resolution goes bad
it goes pixel lated.
saw if you have any sugestions please tell me thanks
michael...
ds9480
17 years ago
if you can do it on the zoom out, so that is possible to do the reverse way to zoom in correct? where can i be able to download all those satallit pictures?
Thanks man, you are awesome!!!
Thanks man, you are awesome!!!
maamar mohamed
17 years ago
i want you to see guys what i made with the earth zoom it s not finished yet , thank you andrew krimer http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=gygn9NOf79g
FELIPE
17 years ago
Thans for all your videos , you are awesome man, i have a problem, i dont know if its a problem of my computer or internet perhaps, but i cant see the zoom on earth video, dont load... please i need your see that video, good job, thanks for your time.
balachandar
17 years ago
awesome. being here for the first time. you're the man, Andrew. Keep it coming.
Jack
17 years ago
You just about just about had me for a second there at the start with the balloon joke.
Nice tutorial
Nice tutorial
Steven Hayes
17 years ago
Wow Andrew, this stuff is awesome! Your tutorials are extremely helpful. So far I've done about 3 of them and put 2 on youtube. If anyone would like to see them and give me feedback, then that would be great.
I love this tutorial especially. I've always wondered how this is done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTQIJOQi7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHEOtOZWn0
I'll upload my version of this one soon.
Thanks Andrew!
I love this tutorial especially. I've always wondered how this is done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTQIJOQi7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHEOtOZWn0
I'll upload my version of this one soon.
Thanks Andrew!
Sebastian
17 years ago
Thank you man!!!! Your work is really great! I don't know anyone who makes such good tuts. Best regards from Germany!
zhi
17 years ago
always loved this tutorial
now wondering if I can apply this technique to do an 'eye zoom out' effect, those ones you can often see in flashback or premonition movies
now wondering if I can apply this technique to do an 'eye zoom out' effect, those ones you can often see in flashback or premonition movies
rOY
17 years ago
I have been watching your videos and it really inspires me so much to do make my ideas come to reality.
There's just one question i wanna ask and i know you Andrew can help me. Ive been trying the luma matt and its good because the background is set free. But the thing is the color is altered to black and white. How can i or what other sort can i do to track matt the image and how to retain its original color.
There's just one question i wanna ask and i know you Andrew can help me. Ive been trying the luma matt and its good because the background is set free. But the thing is the color is altered to black and white. How can i or what other sort can i do to track matt the image and how to retain its original color.
AOG
17 years ago
Awesome tutorial!!!!! Thanks a lot Andrew...
Ive been wondering how they make this effect in movies, and now I know..... Amazing!!!!
Cheers
Ive been wondering how they make this effect in movies, and now I know..... Amazing!!!!
Cheers
giorgi
17 years ago
hi where i can download pictures for this tutorial? i cannot speake english good. . .
please send me link on meil where i can download ather pictures
please send me link on meil where i can download ather pictures
Bombasarkadian
17 years ago
Great tutorial.
For Netty and everybody who is looking for good maps I'll recomend maps.yahoo.com
They've got hi-quality maps without visible mistakes (you can see them for example in Google Earth as many-colour sqares).
The only one thing is little plus in center (but it's preety helpful when synchronising layers)
For Netty and everybody who is looking for good maps I'll recomend maps.yahoo.com
They've got hi-quality maps without visible mistakes (you can see them for example in Google Earth as many-colour sqares).
The only one thing is little plus in center (but it's preety helpful when synchronising layers)
Netty
17 years ago
Dear Andrew (or anyone who can answer me).
Where did you get such high-res map? I tried on Google Earth but it didn't work. When I zoom out (pull out) some areas are just meaningless colourful square pixels. Well, I'm talking about Thailand. I guess our satellites are not good enough, hehe. So.. if you would help me with this, I would be really thankful. (i'm a student and this is my final project. I'm trying to persuade my teacher to buy your products since we are starting to buy new things to our department).
Thanks in advanced,
Netty
Where did you get such high-res map? I tried on Google Earth but it didn't work. When I zoom out (pull out) some areas are just meaningless colourful square pixels. Well, I'm talking about Thailand. I guess our satellites are not good enough, hehe. So.. if you would help me with this, I would be really thankful. (i'm a student and this is my final project. I'm trying to persuade my teacher to buy your products since we are starting to buy new things to our department).
Thanks in advanced,
Netty
Dan
17 years ago
PLEASE HELLLLLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!
I've followed your wonderful tuto (I have AE CS3)step by step but I'm stucked on step when setting the scale of first layer to .0005%. When I do that, I get a black screen with a dot in the middle and I cannot see my planet earth layer!
I thought it could be a scale issue (I was using my own custom layers), so I tried several values: 0.05, 0.005, 0.0005, 0.0000005...... 0,12234567# and allways got the same dang black screen!!!!
I tried with the original layers downloaded from here and nothing! I set my composition to exactly the same values you did in your tutorial and NOTHING! I'm desperated, what am I doing wrong? >:8
I`ve noticed your 1rst layer position is "-0,0 -0,0" and mine is "360,0 240,0". Could be that the problem?
I've read all comments and noticed some have the same problem than me but anyone give even a clue about a possible solution...
Any goodhearted here? :'(
I've followed your wonderful tuto (I have AE CS3)step by step but I'm stucked on step when setting the scale of first layer to .0005%. When I do that, I get a black screen with a dot in the middle and I cannot see my planet earth layer!
I thought it could be a scale issue (I was using my own custom layers), so I tried several values: 0.05, 0.005, 0.0005, 0.0000005...... 0,12234567# and allways got the same dang black screen!!!!
I tried with the original layers downloaded from here and nothing! I set my composition to exactly the same values you did in your tutorial and NOTHING! I'm desperated, what am I doing wrong? >:8
I`ve noticed your 1rst layer position is "-0,0 -0,0" and mine is "360,0 240,0". Could be that the problem?
I've read all comments and noticed some have the same problem than me but anyone give even a clue about a possible solution...
Any goodhearted here? :'(
caubebutchi
17 years ago
Amazing Tutorial . I like it , thanks Andrew very much . Hope , YOu upload new tutorials .
Aharay
17 years ago
Does anyone know the copyrights of those google earth pictures. Can those screenshot pictures used in commercial video. We have entertaising agency and I had idea to use this kind of video in our firms advertising.
xD
17 years ago
WTF this sucks!!!
i tried that thing with the weather balloon..
IT DIDNT WORK!! WTF A.K.?
lol jk no really what is the best way to get the pics.. google earth/printscrn/photoshop?
i tried that thing with the weather balloon..
IT DIDNT WORK!! WTF A.K.?
lol jk no really what is the best way to get the pics.. google earth/printscrn/photoshop?
ANZH
17 years ago
i tried.
but like if i want to do another place how do i get the pics of zoom from google earth?
but like if i want to do another place how do i get the pics of zoom from google earth?
MovieMaker
17 years ago
Rage,
Give a moment when you zoom in , coz google earth takes fraction of minute to display the view, if you zoom in ,randomly.
Anzh,
You can get the pictures its not big thing.Google it.
Give a moment when you zoom in , coz google earth takes fraction of minute to display the view, if you zoom in ,randomly.
Anzh,
You can get the pictures its not big thing.Google it.
rage
17 years ago
i 've downloaded google earth and it's a very cool software to use.
but i seem to have a problem....
when i zoom a place very deep the image become pixilated and cannot be seen....why is this happening ???
Andrew kramer got all nice images and did not seem to face this problem....all his images all well to be seen...even though the 3d buildings all very clear...
can someone tell me what;s wrong with my problem ?
but i seem to have a problem....
when i zoom a place very deep the image become pixilated and cannot be seen....why is this happening ???
Andrew kramer got all nice images and did not seem to face this problem....all his images all well to be seen...even though the 3d buildings all very clear...
can someone tell me what;s wrong with my problem ?
nate
17 years ago
A user on vimeo.com watching my video from this tutorial that i did a year ago and asked me to make one for him: http://vimeo.com/1826713
Niranjan Sagar
17 years ago
Andrew............ your my teacher.....i learnt alot from you......
Thanks for being so brilliant....thanks for being my teacher......
god bless u teacher.........
Thanks for being so brilliant....thanks for being my teacher......
god bless u teacher.........
Jasho
17 years ago
I love the bit at the start with the fishing wire and the weather balloon! All your tuts are brilliant.
Very inspiring.
Thanks
God bless
Very inspiring.
Thanks
God bless
Noka
17 years ago
if you want to get the map segments for your town/city look in the resources section of videocopilot.net and it has the programs used to get the shots.
shadow493
17 years ago
Yo Andrew. Thank U for this tutorial and for the rest of them. U are the best. I hope to see you working with Stiven Spilberg or some other great director. Your tutorials helped me very much...
GREATINGS FROM POLAND !!! ( Hope you know where is it )
GREATINGS FROM POLAND !!!
( Hope you know where is it )
Dee
17 years ago
Andrew,
U are a wonderful teacher!!I love your site and your tutorials are out of this world. thank you for sharing your skills with us.
Dee
U are a wonderful teacher!!I love your site and your tutorials are out of this world. thank you for sharing your skills with us.
Dee
Jon Siddall
17 years ago
Great tutorial !!!
Working on it now, just one problem
Where do you get the images from ?
Keep em coming, your vids are awesome !!!
Working on it now, just one problem
Where do you get the images from ?
Keep em coming, your vids are awesome !!!
Stephen
17 years ago
Andrew,
You're the bomb. Thanks for all the great tutorials. So, where do I donate?
Stephen
You're the bomb. Thanks for all the great tutorials. So, where do I donate?
Stephen
Sanox
17 years ago
Hi there , lovely tutorial but is it possible to make it zoom in instead of out ?
Muji
17 years ago
To Leo, Jonathan, Stefan,
I've also had this problem. I can't understand why, but you can either make the last layer have like 10billion% zoom, or you can hide the first layer, and make it have like 10 million zoom. It works at least.
If anybody has a good answer how to fix this problem, please post.
I've also had this problem. I can't understand why, but you can either make the last layer have like 10billion% zoom, or you can hide the first layer, and make it have like 10 million zoom. It works at least.
If anybody has a good answer how to fix this problem, please post.
Henrik Willstedt
17 years ago
This is so totally awsome!
Is it possible to buy your dvd?
Regards from Sweden
Is it possible to buy your dvd?
Regards from Sweden
aravind kumar
17 years ago
i cant express my words how excellent tutorials
we got from you thank you very very much
for helping vfx category.
thank you once again.
we got from you thank you very very much
for helping vfx category.
thank you once again.
Greg
17 years ago
would you be willing to do one of these for me... specifically with it starting from Dallas, TX (USA) and then zoom out to the same image?
The Digital Prince
17 years ago
Thank you very much Andrew... it was an excellent tutorial...
Anybody has some tips to generate high definition map image files? Since I intend to have a different location, I cannot use the one its available with the project files (SFO).... I tried it with google earth and image quality is not pretty decent....
Anybody has some tips to generate high definition map image files? Since I intend to have a different location, I cannot use the one its available with the project files (SFO).... I tried it with google earth and image quality is not pretty decent....
GuruMidge
17 years ago
Great tutorial - we're all Kramer fans in our studio!
For people wanting hi-res sat images, try maps.live.com - They're high quality and you can turn all of the controls off around the edge, to get a bigger image.
I got a load from there - i just opened the page on the highest res monitor possible, then took a screenshot and cropped out the edge in photoshop.
When you are scaling in AE, each layer is 50% of the previous one - handy!
You also don't need any rotation, but matching the zoomed out one to the globe is tricky.
For the globe image, i just took the satellite image of the whole world, carefully cropped it and used CC Sphere to globify it.
Enjoy (and remember to credit microsoft for the images!!)
For people wanting hi-res sat images, try maps.live.com - They're high quality and you can turn all of the controls off around the edge, to get a bigger image.
I got a load from there - i just opened the page on the highest res monitor possible, then took a screenshot and cropped out the edge in photoshop.
When you are scaling in AE, each layer is 50% of the previous one - handy!
You also don't need any rotation, but matching the zoomed out one to the globe is tricky.
For the globe image, i just took the satellite image of the whole world, carefully cropped it and used CC Sphere to globify it.
Enjoy (and remember to credit microsoft for the images!!)
Reeko
17 years ago
40. is the best, i will say the pretty best tutorial...its really funny to see what the programm can do...
DeadGalaxyPictures
17 years ago
Great tutorial,but i have a question where can i find the photos(layers)?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Leo
17 years ago
I have a problem that appears to be the same from posted by Jonathan 08/16/2008.
When I unparent all the layers and then parent layer 2 and followers, all the scale goes to 0% and nothing happens. I´ve tried some different ways and don´t have any results.
The only thing I could do was zooming out the composition for the hardest way, dealing with the superzoommed scale, like 3 million%, but I would like to learn the way you did, which is clealy practical and intelligent.
Thanks a lot man, you are a great guy. A big hug from Brazil.
When I unparent all the layers and then parent layer 2 and followers, all the scale goes to 0% and nothing happens. I´ve tried some different ways and don´t have any results.
The only thing I could do was zooming out the composition for the hardest way, dealing with the superzoommed scale, like 3 million%, but I would like to learn the way you did, which is clealy practical and intelligent.
Thanks a lot man, you are a great guy. A big hug from Brazil.
firedrop92
17 years ago
awesome tutorial but how did you get those pictures at different zoom levels because tried google earth and that just does not work
rasunum
17 years ago
Greetings Andrew ...
and the rest of ur audience, i think this is my first post.
I think you are the best at what you do, great work
quick question (and i see that it has been asked before0 where do i get pics of different places to use for a similar effect (i live in the caribbean)
and the rest of ur audience, i think this is my first post.
I think you are the best at what you do, great work
quick question (and i see that it has been asked before0 where do i get pics of different places to use for a similar effect (i live in the caribbean)
ThE_OwNeR
17 years ago
I hope i get a anwser soon:
Sometimes you get the video full screen and then you edit it. How do you do that? Is it a shortcut? All i can do is zoom in but that isn't very helpfull...
grts, TO
Sometimes you get the video full screen and then you edit it. How do you do that? Is it a shortcut? All i can do is zoom in but that isn't very helpfull...
grts, TO
Biggleman
17 years ago
I would love to do this i can make a 3D World but where in hells name am i going to find HD pics of Where i live FROM SPACE! plz link ><.
Tony Esposito
17 years ago
Hey guys, thanks for sharing where to find the pictures to create this!
Tony
Tony
tania
17 years ago
thanx to Ur tutorial, i was able to do a similar project. really helped me alot, i was kind of worried if it was possible at all in after effects or if i had to model an actually globe and get a high resolution image for it.Its really helpful thanx alot man!
gurru1989
17 years ago
Andrew u rock man, u r the man, thnx alot , i love ur tutorials and i have learned alot from them keep rocking man!!!! lots of love and respect from pakistan
Jonathan
17 years ago
Hi there Andrew
Great tutorial man, however,
When I unparent all layers to 'none' and then parent 'Layers 2 and Following' to layer 1 the scaling drops to zero on most layers? What am I doing wrong here?
Please help!
Im new to AE!!!
Great tutorial man, however,
When I unparent all layers to 'none' and then parent 'Layers 2 and Following' to layer 1 the scaling drops to zero on most layers? What am I doing wrong here?
Please help!
Im new to AE!!!
Shavkat
17 years ago
Hi Andrew Kramer. This tutorial is pretty pretty cool. I've found what i wont. Biggggggggggg Thanks
H
17 years ago
Hi
Great tutorial man.
When parent all the layers to layer one the scaling drops to zero on most layers? What am I doing wrong here?
Im new to AE!!!
Great tutorial man.
When parent all the layers to layer one the scaling drops to zero on most layers? What am I doing wrong here?
Im new to AE!!!
Nemesis TS
17 years ago
Nice... I had to sign up for the site you have the best tutorials I've seen. Where do you get the pics used for Earth Zoom? Is there a site that has other cities?
Andre Colares BRAZIL
17 years ago
Hi Andrew!
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!
P.S.: Sorry for my poor english, I'm still learning...
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!
P.S.: Sorry for my poor english, I'm still learning...
Dev
17 years ago
I just saw this in motion tonight in a comercial on NBC promoting the olympics!
Props to Andrew!
Props to Andrew!
Joedse
17 years ago
My solution to the exponential scale problem is to copy the keyframes from the tutorial project file, paste it in your own comp. If you want to make adjustments be sure to use ONE of the original keyframes and make a new exponential scale. . .
labrainc
17 years ago
hey guys go koco.com and from there click interactive radar
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!
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!
aly
17 years ago
Hi, i cann't watch the video and i don't know why.
Is there any problem in the website.
Thx for replying.
Is there any problem in the website.
Thx for replying.
Daniel
17 years ago
It's really cool, but I got a question. If I want the move playby the zoom in not zoom out, something like at first show the the earth and than satellite locate somewhere and zoom in, keep so on till show a place. how to do that? I try to opposite the proccess but it's not work.
Sven
17 years ago
Thnx for the tut andrew!
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?
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?
Kakarot
17 years ago
gr8 tutorial!! i got couple Q
1) how u get those pics?
2) if have them from google earth or maps how u disabled the watermark?
THX 4 TUTORIAL MAN!!
1) how u get those pics?
2) if have them from google earth or maps how u disabled the watermark?
THX 4 TUTORIAL MAN!!
bardia
17 years ago
Hi every body
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
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
Stefan
17 years ago
Hi Andrew so nice tut. btw i got problem , when i unparent all and parent to layer 1 and than zoom out the earth is gone , i can see it when i zoom out , just got all zoom outs and last one is black backround no earth there, so i wonder what is the prob i couldnt find it , plz help here dude . ty , go on with the free tuts im realy glad there's so nice free tuts since i cant afford to buy ur dvds sry =/
Stefan
17 years ago
Hi Andrew so nice tut. btw i got problem , when i unparent all and parent to layer 1 and than zoom out the earth is gone , i can see it when i zoom out , just got all zoom outs and last one is black backround no earth there, so i wonder what is the prob i couldnt find it , plz help here dude . ty , go on with the free tuts im realy glad there's so nice free tuts since i cant afford to buy ur dvds sry =/
Stefan
17 years ago
Hi Andrew so nice tut. btw i got problem , when i unparent all and parent to layer 1 and than zoom out the earth is gone , i can see it when i zoom out , just got all zoom outs and last one is black backround no earth there, so i wonder what is the prob i couldnt find it , plz help here dude . ty , go on with the free tuts im realy glad there's so nice free tuts since i cant afford to buy ur dvds sry =/
nati
17 years ago
hi andrew i saw some the tut.s it is awesome i am from Ethiopia not Utopia ok so and i m film editor and i dont have resources for learnign this saffs so thanks this good. can i ask some Q? i need to make a ghost like the one found in X-men 2 i frooget his name(the German aqcent the that tried to kidnapp the presedant in white house what is your advice . thank u andrew
Alex
17 years ago
Gabil that's impressive!!!
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!!
Alex
17 years ago
Gabil that's impressive!!!
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!!
Gabil
17 years ago
Russia greetings you Andrew!
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!
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!
Stephen
17 years ago
Awesome tutorial! This totally saved my butt!!! See the completed zoom in I produced for the intro of this site.
http://www.degreerookie.com/
Cheers!
http://www.degreerookie.com/
Cheers!
uyu
17 years ago
hey, great tutorial, very inlightning, anyhow, where did you get those images?
thanks and great work!
thanks and great work!
Chris
17 years ago
Hey if anyone could help me out with this I've been stuck on it for quite some time. Whenever I unparent and then re-parent all layers to first layer, All my images disappear except for the image on the first layer. Originally I was using 19 images, so I cut them in half to 9. I've done everything exactly as he does in the tutorial and can't figure it out. If anyone has any answers please help!
Kaami~
17 years ago
man! ur all works are awesome... u realy got a sense coz every work of urs are mind blowing n full of style... . sorry my english is not so good but hope u guys'll understand wut i m trying 2 say bout these genius guy who are helping us n teaching us such a mind blowing tutorials...
. sorry my english is not so good but hope u guys'll understand wut i m trying 2 say bout these genius guy who are helping us n teaching us such a mind blowing tutorials...
Damon
17 years ago
Hey Andrew can you tell us where you got the high quality images for this tutorial? Google Earth doesn't cut it. Thanks.
mark
17 years ago
What stills can be legally used for this rather tasty effect.Wow lovely.however google and microsoft do not permit use.who does
Brandon
17 years ago
Awesome effect!
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!
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!
low strife
17 years ago
I've watched more than 20 of your TUT's, and this is BY FAR your best. I really enjoyed the product of this, but I do wish you include the pictures (and other media in other projects) that you have in the project download. It would help out a ton.
Your TUT's are the best that I've seen on the internet, so keep it up!
Your TUT's are the best that I've seen on the internet, so keep it up!
Justin Pinto
17 years ago
Hi Andrew
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
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
messahel messaod
17 years ago
thank you MR andrew karmer for all those free tutorials you are my best teacher thanks alot and am happy to learn from super pro artist like you
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
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
Matt
17 years ago
I think he got the high res pics from:
http://maps.live.com/
its high res maps from Microsoft
http://maps.live.com/
its high res maps from Microsoft
Louis Tristan
17 years ago
Love this tutorial! Combined it with the Blue Planet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_kzSiGlM0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_kzSiGlM0
The "?"
17 years ago
can anybody tell me were is the fly.wav from???
Andrew is the best!!!
forgive me... my english is terible
Andrew is the best!!!
forgive me... my english is terible
Dom
17 years ago
Going mad Going MAD!!!!!
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!!! >-(
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!!! >-(
Matt
17 years ago
Your tutorial is great! I was wanting to make this effect in one of my current projects and this tutorial will make it much more impressive. Where did you find the images you used for the maps? Thanks.
Dom
17 years ago
I've got the same problem as Dan:
'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!!!
'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!!!
www.roberthein.dk
17 years ago
Hi 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
Cheers
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
Cheers
Joshua
17 years ago
Andrew.. this tutorial is just great!!!
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!
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!
Dialogos
17 years ago
hola..que bueno encontrar tipos como vos y que puedan enseñar programas como estos, lastima la condicion de nuestras lenguas, no has salido de las fronteras ..si fuera texto lo podria traducir..aunque algo puedo entender...y te comento que lo tengo que ver dos o tres veces porque vas muy ligero..very fast...te felicito, por tu dedicacion...antes que me olvide me interesa el efecto del zoom tierra..pero no me termina de bajar..se cuelga algunos kb antes como puedo hacer saludos.-
..si fuera texto lo podria traducir..aunque algo puedo entender...y te comento que lo tengo que ver dos o tres veces porque vas muy ligero..very fast...te felicito, por tu dedicacion...antes que me olvide me interesa el efecto del zoom tierra..pero no me termina de bajar..se cuelga algunos kb antes como puedo hacer saludos.-
David
17 years ago
I did the tutorial.. and learned a lot ! I found that on AE7.. after 5 digit after the coma, AE is unable to handle the numbers.. so it's possible to have some problem (when you parent a lot of layers and scale them.) Great work Andrew !
Eugene
17 years ago
Hi Andrew,
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
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
Dan
17 years ago
Okay, I've done this before just like the tutorial showed and it worked just fine...now for some reason, when I un-parent all the layers and re-parent them to layer 1, all my layers disappear. Can someone tell me what I've done to mess this up?
Antonio Raya
17 years ago
Hey Andrew!! Thank you very much for this nice tutorial!! I've tested with photos of my town Nerja (in Spain) and here is the results... Enjoy it and thanks again!!
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6RrMz_x8I
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=cC6RrMz_x8I
Costinkara
17 years ago
Great tutorial!
You can record the maps from google maps and setting off all the settings including icons for better view.
You can record the maps from google maps and setting off all the settings including icons for better view.
Arno
17 years ago
This is GREAT!! Have always wondered how to they make this in films! you're the best!
Have always wondered how to they make this in films! you're the best!
Sean Dahlberg
17 years ago
Hey All,
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
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
jakethashi
17 years ago
thats is best way to learn After effects, thanks for all this stuff, i like it
( i'am from cz, so hello from Ostrava )
( i'am from cz, so hello from Ostrava )
Rick D
17 years ago
Here's how I used this tutorial:
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
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
marijn
17 years ago
Hi, very cool effect. I want to try it but i have just one problem: the Exponential Scale is grey, i cant use it. I use After Effects Professional CS3.
would you please help, or somebody else.
TNX!
would you please help, or somebody else.
TNX!
Melvin
17 years ago
Hi i am from norway so i can't spike so god englis.Can you give me the web site to explosions plugins for after effekts??Nice video
Xistel
17 years ago
Great Tute! i have one question tough. Where did you get the various pics of the City? did you use Google Earth? Has anyone done this on another city? What did you use? thanks!
bigjoe
17 years ago
Hey dear... m very new in working with after effect...
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.???
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.???
Ludo
17 years ago
Je suis français et j'ai réussi àtout comprendre! Bravo pour les explications claires et net!
a noob
17 years ago
hello i tryd the weather baloon thingie and then after a few minutes it snapped and my camera fell all the way down... and now i need to buy a new camera for my stefgranddad... hmmm THX !
Someone
17 years ago
I want to know wich programm was used to takes those pictures. With google earth it is not as sharp as it has to be, you see very blurry images and soms sharp images throug each other. I want the same sharp pictures that andrew used in this tutorial, but then from the netherlands. Can anyone tell me what programm this is?
stillearth-problem
17 years ago
Nice TUT, but i have ONE problem!
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!
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!
Prateek
17 years ago
Man...your tuts are just....amazin'.....and im benifiting from them...oh yeah love ya andrew...but soon you will have a new competitor...
Yuri
17 years ago
Thank you so much, I'm going to do this for a film that I have to make for a class in high school and I will definitely blow everyone away with the special effects!
Oscar
17 years ago
Your hilarious, and amazing at what u do... where did you learn all of this? how could i learn all of this?
D Money
17 years ago
Just astonishing!!! Im at a loss for words right. I feel so aspired when i watch these tutorials even though i suck at after effects!
اسماعيل
17 years ago
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NMWO
17 years ago
Hey. Everyone keeps asking: "Where do you get the images from?"
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.
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.
John Swanson
17 years ago
Awesome tutorial! Where can I find similar pictures so I can do this effect without just redoing THIS effect? Specifically, I'd love to be able to zoom out of Baltimore.
Matt Hoffman
17 years ago
Looks great, is that the building you work/live in? Cool to know your down in the SF area, I'm about 40 miles north of you!
Alessandro Esteves
17 years ago
Congratulations for the contribution that you
they give those that look for resources
more advanced in after.
they give those that look for resources
more advanced in after.
muhammad Abdel-sattar
17 years ago
hi Andrew,
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
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
Darius F
17 years ago
HEY! Awesome tut. I usually use FCP programs, never used AE before and got it perfect first time! Thanks for a great tutorial. Ill be spending alot of time on this site
Zeid
17 years ago
Hey Andrew, saw you at the AENY meeting the other day, thanx for the camera tracking insight. I got a question about this tutorial. I work for an agency that is always worried about getting sued. Where can i get good images that I can use for commercial use (even if i have to pay for them, preferably not of course)? I am also trying to convince them to buy twitch but need to get this first obstacle out of the way to make a case for purchase(s). Hopefully that will get you to answer my question sooner then later.
Zeid
Zeid
Enrique
17 years ago
Donde puedo conseguir estas imágenes satelitales de optima calidad? Muy bueno el tutorial.
BoB
17 years ago
Great tutorial!
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?
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?
Erik D
17 years ago
A very cool tutorial. I like it reversed and when the animation ends (which leaves a still of my house at about 100m height) I added a very thin animated cloud layer, as if you were looking at a live picture. Works great! Thanks Andrew...
Erik D
17 years ago
A very cool tutorial. I like it reversed and when the animation ends (which leaves a still of my house at about 100m height) I added a very thin animated cloud layer, as if you were looking at a live picture. Works great! Thanks Andrew...
wojs
17 years ago
you're the man, mr kramer.
great tutorial, like all the others and of course, you're comments are unbeatable...
great tutorial, like all the others and of course, you're comments are unbeatable...
Dominic Lopez
17 years ago
People asking about maps can also try http://flashearth.com
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.
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.
Samuel
17 years ago
I Just finihed the basic training and i must say Wow really good explaint and funny. Thanks allot!
I am already excited of all the other tutorials
I mite try this next
Thanks again.
I am already excited of all the other tutorials
I mite try this next
Thanks again.
Alexander
17 years ago
Hi Andrew, great tutorial again
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
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
Tal Mor
17 years ago
Hi Andrew, Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorials. I'm looking forward to go through all of them, and some of the products as well.
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
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
Bas
17 years ago
Me again
I have just finished my try at the zoom,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdOIXCVijM
I have just finished my try at the zoom,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdOIXCVijM
Bas
17 years ago
Nice one, i am gonna try to do it as well
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 Only problem is you cant use the whole picture, you need to use everything in the middle otherwise the stupid compass shows up. 
Great tutorials by the way andrew, i love em! keep up the good work!
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
Only problem is you cant use the whole picture, you need to use everything in the middle otherwise the stupid compass shows up. Great tutorials by the way andrew, i love em! keep up the good work!
Umair Haroon
17 years ago
THIS IS VERY GOOD TUTOTRIAL.I M FROM PAKISTAN AND VFIRST TIME VISIT THIS SITE IT NICE SITE, GOOD TUTORIAL AND BEST INSTRUCTOR. THANKS
Tawny
17 years ago
You really just blow me away every tutorial I watch. I laughed so hard when you were talking about the weather balloon. A thousand thanks.
pudesign
17 years ago
Hey nice tutorial! just like all the rest!
Any body know how to get the earth/city images rathe than using google earth?
Any body know how to get the earth/city images rathe than using google earth?
narayanan.k
17 years ago
you work is amazin and your tutorials are very easy to understand
thanks for the legacy!!
Dan hodgetts
17 years ago
lol andrew tried the camera tied to the weather balloon didnt work so well people thought it was a ufo and so the air force shot it down and sent me the bill for the missle love your work bro i wish i could learn more
love your work bro i wish i could learn more
Mark
17 years ago
Same question as Steven: I have the Designer Sound FX discs... was wondering what swoosh sounds you used for this? I found a couple that might work well - but probably need to be stretched out or pieced together to match the length of the piece.
James Smyth
17 years ago
For all the people who are asking about maps
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!
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!
aneeshappu
17 years ago
this is the..........;;;;;'; ; nooooooooo ..............................................................super' ...................................
One Up
17 years ago
this is the most epic effect ive ever seen. like OMG WOW.
insane.
i heart you andrew
insane.
i heart you andrew
kees
17 years ago
Wow, this is the first time i've used after effects in my life, and mine looks just as cool as in the tutorial. great work! thnx!
Stephen
17 years ago
I have the Designer Sound FX discs... was wondering what swoosh sounds you used for this? I found a couple that might work well - but probably need to be stretched out or pieced together to match the length of the piece.
Maryan
17 years ago
I was trying to do this tutorial but when I tried to down load the project it would tell me that the file is corrupted.
I was really looking foward to doing this project.
I was really looking foward to doing this project.
Tony Colapietro
17 years ago
This looks very similar to your own technique but zooming in fast towards the planet for the new Will Smith movie "HANCOCK".
Looks funny!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/hd/
Looks funny!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hancock/hd/
tyguy
17 years ago
Is there a way to do this without expedential zoom? I have After Effects 5.5. Can you do this effect in after effects 6.5?
Dwight Stewart
17 years ago
thats awesome!! where did you get those hires images if you dont mind me asking. im in miami by the way.
erik
17 years ago
Hey,
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
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
shido
17 years ago
Hi Andrew
Very nice tutorial. It helpt me allot.
You are the man.
Keep it up
Shido
Very nice tutorial. It helpt me allot.
You are the man.
Keep it up
Shido
karl dietmann
17 years ago
Hey 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
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
tiny
17 years ago
where do you get those satellite photos? Those I got from google maps seems to have less quality
Josh
17 years ago
Hey guys! the images: from google maps (not google earth!!!). if you look close you'll see some google watermarks in that Footage. some watermarks seem to be hardly erased with Photoshop and the water of the sea is also tuned-up with PS. just the 2 last images of andrew's Footage seem to be from other sources. that's it!
Thx Google and of course Thx Andrew!!!
Thx Google and of course Thx Andrew!!!
Jeremy
17 years ago
Super man, I was just wondering where I can get Images of my city, hopefully you can help , thanx again.....
qiantsquid
17 years ago
Thanks for the lessons,
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....
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....
dementho
17 years ago
I would really like to know how to get this one into a night-scene and maps.
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
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
Nick
17 years ago
be cool guys i see a lot of where to find the images of you're place well the answer is goolge maps but here's the thing you hold Control + ALT and press Print Screen and that will copy the the srceen, then you just Crop out what you want using adobe photoshop....
TP
17 years ago
Ive watched all ur tutorials and its really helped me with AE thanks mate keep up the gd work
p.s where u get the images from??
p.s where u get the images from??
Jeff Patrick Poteau
17 years ago
I love all ur tutorials. Ur an inspiration.... Where are those maps from ??? Google Earth ??? I realy like some maps of MY city
Joz
17 years ago
Hey Andrew, I got to admit that all of your Tutorials helped me a lot in motion Graphics, It even helped me to find a good job, Actually, As Everybody is asking, where have you found those picture, Because I'll say likes some up there and I think that these are not Google Earth and/or Google Map images..
thx for the hint !
great fan
thx for the hint !
great fan
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17 years ago
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Jorge
17 years ago
Instead of using motion title I just scaled the precomposed to 106%. This way the edges are more detailed
my result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJIDN2S3-M
my result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJIDN2S3-M
Patrick
17 years ago
Where do you get the high res pics that are legal to use? The thing I don't like about google earth is that a lot of times the water near land is very boxy because the water is different colors.
Patrick
17 years ago
Where do you get the high res pics that are legal to use? The thing I don't like about google earth is that a lot of times the water near land is very boxy because the water is different colors.
Rob Neal
17 years ago
Yhanks again for a great idea Andrew, but sorry, this one hasn't been fully thought through. If you use a reasonable number of layers, each one parenting the previous, the scale range becomes, excuse the pun, astronomical. I used 16 hi-res images form Google Earth (Yes, they are good if you buy the pro version) - but when you come to clear down all the parents and point to the original, most of the scaling has zeroed out and you are left with a dot.
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
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
Wes
17 years ago
Great tutorials.
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?
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?
kami
17 years ago
i made a proffesional clip by using your tution.i recommended my frinds to watch your site.thank you.
it would be greatful to see recent tutions in your site.
it would be greatful to see recent tutions in your site.
Tahsin
17 years ago
Thank you Andrew very much for your tutorial. I am a very big fan of your work and your one of the reason why I am focusing more on having a career in motion graphics.
Josh Hunter
17 years ago
Hey Andrew Look here :
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.
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.
Tariq
17 years ago
Andrew!
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!!
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!!
Christian
17 years ago
Wondering where you got those cool satellite images ???
Sick tutorial, like usual
Sick tutorial, like usual
Sterling
17 years ago
I was wondering where you got the satellite pics from without the copyright lettering on it. Great tutorial
Keught
17 years ago
>-( whats up i just cant render the earth zoom i very slow and only with this project
Jon Weimer
17 years ago
Sweet video. Too bad it doesn't say where to get the photos. I don't want to use Google Earth, because I don't want to erase their watermark, which is there for a reason. Is there some legal source, like NASA? The tutorial is really of limited value unless you tell us where we can get similar high rez images.
Keught
17 years ago
ey thanks i make my animation like this one and i hope u can see the work of what u make watch it on youtube com/keught
Eric
18 years ago
Thanks for these great tutorials man. They are realy helpful. Am looking forward to buy your DVD collections.
Yorkshireman
18 years ago
Hahaha. My kid heard what you said you need in beginning of the tutorial and he was like, "dad, have we got enough string." Cute hahaha.
Thanks Andrew. Your tutorials awesome!
Thanks Andrew. Your tutorials awesome!
Trond Erik
18 years ago
The Earth Zoom can be seen in the new movie 'Jumper'. Check out the end of the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/large.html
Looks almost identical...
Looks almost identical...
Yoeri
18 years ago
Hi, I was just wondering on how to get high-res images from your own country/neighbourhood .. now I know there's Earth Google, but you can never get them from there as high-res I think.
Where did you get the pictures from ?
Where did you get the pictures from ?
shelle
18 years ago
Hey wow great video thanks
Where did you get the good res images from. google earth standard ones look out of focus.
thanks again
Where did you get the good res images from. google earth standard ones look out of focus.
thanks again
Raphael Luz
18 years ago
lol
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!
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!
Kenny
18 years ago
Hi dude you are so awesome ! I watched almost every of your tutorials and it really helped me . I'm a beginner in Special/Visual Effects and your tutorial are very important to me so good job and if oyu wanna see some of my effects go on youtube and check my profile http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=klb2000000
Goodbye
Goodbye
siousu
18 years ago
It's 100% Google Earth.
I've searched the same house
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
I've searched the same house
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
Jasmine
18 years ago
This is fantastic and exactly what we need. Where did you get the high rez images? Doesn't look like it was from Google Earth like eveybody else is saying. Also, is there any licensing issues?
RobNL
18 years ago
My first project i ever made with After Effects. I think its pretty hard, but thanks to this tut i think i understand
JPhantom
18 years ago
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/jumper/lrg.html
That movie, I believe, used this technique towards the end of the trailer.
That movie, I believe, used this technique towards the end of the trailer.
jason
18 years ago
@arek and neo:
the pics are from google; you can see the watermark on them.
btw, awesome tutorial (as usual), andrew. you are awesome!
the pics are from google; you can see the watermark on them.
btw, awesome tutorial (as usual), andrew. you are awesome!
Suvir
18 years ago
Hey congrads.... my wishes for ur daughter... btw my birth date is 2nd of sept too...
Lroger01
18 years ago
Thanks for the tutorial, Andrew. The steps are great, but what I like the most is seeing you're work flow.
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...
Lroger01
18 years ago
Thanks for the tutorial, Andrew. The steps are great, but what I like the most is seeing you're work flow.
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...
Mikael Sölvberg
18 years ago
I am really impressed with your work and with the speed you do your work. Just wanted to show my appreciation, keep it up. As far, the best tutorial-making-guy for after effects I've seen so far.
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!
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!
magicman
18 years ago
very good tutorial !! watch my movie http://www.magichousestudio.net/mhs_video/wip/earthzoom.avi
thx for the video ++
thx for the video ++
Jessua
18 years ago
hey I dont know how yo get the maps offline, if you could help me out that would be awesome.
Payton
18 years ago
I liked it! it was good, my internet connection isn't very fast so i don't watch many but these products are expensive. why are they so expensive? I just got Action movie essentials for 60$ 60:too much. i know its stuff the pros use, but what about regular people? TOO Much
Johannes
18 years ago
Hey!
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
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
Spettro
18 years ago
Hi,
For this image from Google Earth, i should just to set the zoom level or other thing? How can to it?
Thanks
For this image from Google Earth, i should just to set the zoom level or other thing? How can to it?
Thanks
Ben Laroche
18 years ago
This tutorial could not have come at a better time. I am actually working on a project which is exactly the effect I was looking for. Your tutorial is awsome, well explaned, concise and very easy to follow. Thank you for your help. One question though, where can I find these high resolution pictures of areas? Thanks again for your response
Thpmas
18 years ago
Thanks! Does anyone know how to reverse the frames so it looks like you're zooming in instead of zooming out?
Yusuf
18 years ago
The google earth screens makes the earth looks like it has patches. Those are some clean pictures, was another program used?
kompi
18 years ago
Thanks for all your job Andrew, easy and clear, keep moving forward, thanks from Spain Andrew.
mogli23
18 years ago
I tried it with the ballon with a camera and the fishingline! Did somebody found a camera with an ballon - I'm still looking for it!
Nice tutorial!
Nice tutorial!
Freeman
18 years ago
This turned out to be so simple... I'd spend hours on making something like this. Andrew you have an awesome piece of talent! Keep up! Your fan from Russia!
GageFX
18 years ago
Looks like Doug Liman (Go, Swingers) is a fan of Andrew's or at least the post house on JUMPER is.
http://www.jumperthemovie.com/
You have to wait until the end of the trailer, but it's there.
-GFX
http://www.jumperthemovie.com/
You have to wait until the end of the trailer, but it's there.
-GFX
Nikk
18 years ago
That was great! Always wanted to know how it was done without killing yourself much. Thank's Andrew. You rock!
Marko M
18 years ago
you work is amazin and your tutorials are very easy to understand (clean great explanation)wish you the best men!!
thanks for the legacy!!
umer
18 years ago
thats a goood tutorial but i m having a problem .I dont have a better creative mind than other so please tell me what can i do to made my mind creative.Plz tell me
Ian
18 years ago
If you need to get some decent photos, try Google Earth, you can remove all the road icons etc from the bottom left and you can save a picture. Sure you get the watermark but you simply use a feathering system on each photo like Andrew does and you solve the issue of the watermark. If you use the earth pic, just mask the bottom corner out. Simple 8P Enjoy!
rlbob
18 years ago
It is alive
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
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
Allister gourlay
18 years ago
Andrew just gotta say these tutorials are the best ever.
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.
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.
Adenoah
18 years ago
Combining creativity, humor, and teaching is a rare gift.
U've embellished both by serving as an inspiration to others.
I commend u.
U've embellished both by serving as an inspiration to others.
I commend u.
Djizz
18 years ago
Hey what's up !!! Djizz from guadeloupe ( French west indies) !!! Very good tutorial!! nice job Andrew !!! But this question is : Where can we find HD pictures like yours ??? have a good day man !!
Simba
18 years ago
Kool worx bro..Much respect for wat yo doing?Haven`t gut Aefx 7 yet still running on 6.5 but feel yo vibe..
Ak47..Uganda-E.Africa
Ak47..Uganda-E.Africa
James
18 years ago
a gr8 tutorial, but where can i get pictures of a city without the google earth watermark >-(ops:
Mickaël from France
18 years ago
Hello everybody !
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
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
Bradley
18 years ago
Hey guys, I really really need some help. This is a great tutorial Andrew, but where do I find still for my city? Thanks alot,
Brad
Brad
Eelke
18 years ago
Had some problems as well. After a lot of fiddling around, I discovered that the numbers behind the dot are probably so small, that my after effects rounded it of to zero. By adjusting the scaling the lowest layer up first, then unparenting and reparenting, it was solved.
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!
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!
Arek
18 years ago
George, can you just record somebody on green screen from the position u want, and hten put em on there.
Florian Götz
18 years ago
Sorry for my bad english, I´m a german guy!
I made 14 Screenshots from Google Maps. It is great, every Zoom step is exactly 50% resize in After Effects.
I made 14 Screenshots from Google Maps. It is great, every Zoom step is exactly 50% resize in After Effects.
Alex
18 years ago
This was one of my favorites, so it's no surprise I watched it several times-
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. lol (i'm serious. )
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.
lol (i'm serious. )
Mauricio de Oliveira
18 years ago
Legal!!!!!!
meu, muito fera mesmo, você me passou uma nova gama de conehcimento com esse tutorial
vocês são os cara!!! rsrsrs
meu, muito fera mesmo, você me passou uma nova gama de conehcimento com esse tutorial
vocês são os cara!!! rsrsrs
George
18 years ago
Love the tutorials. Congrats on the new addition.
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?
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?
Arek
18 years ago
Florian that was pretty nice, u should work on the color correction when it zooms out to the globe though.
where did u get those maps from?
where did u get those maps from?
Florian Götz
18 years ago
Hey,
I love A.K. tutorials
whatch my Earth Zoom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4TZ10Z5fI
I love A.K. tutorials
whatch my Earth Zoom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4TZ10Z5fI
il Dante
18 years ago
Andrew u ROCK men! and this tutorial 2
congrats about the kid
cheers from argentina!
congrats about the kid
cheers from argentina!
