[Indiana Jones] So forget any ideas you got about lost cities
exotic travel and digging up the world treasures. We do not follow maps to buried treasure
and x never, ever marks the spot.
Hey everyone, Kelsey here and welcome
back to GAL!
Today I am reviewing four different map
animation templates
that you can use to punch up your video
animations
or to use inside of documentaries or any
other video work
that you are working on. Before we get
into the templates i'm actually going to
skype in Boone from Boone Loves Video who's
become a big
map expert. He has a whole playlist
called monday maps
but before we skype in boone i want to
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that i'm going to be showing you how to
use and review
later on in this video are from envato
elements
but let's say you want to just create a
free animation
or you want some more elaborate
animations that are not available
in Envato elements, let's skype in
Boone and let's see what he has to say
So Boone, you have a ton of videos on
map animations it's almost become sort
of like a specialty of yours
and for people that maybe don't have an
element subscription
or they want to just get some sort of
template to use or if they want to be
able to make a map
animation for free or what would you
recommend them to do if they're like oh
i can't afford this but i just want to
be able to make a really quick map
animation between two points for free.
What i found is one of the most popular
tools that's really a lot of fun is
google earth studio i've done a couple
of videos on that
it works exactly like google earth if
you've ever used google earth it's the
same
it just allows you to basically do
animations
and the really cool thing is that you
can export those animations you can set
track points
and then you can bring all that
information into adobe after effects
as an image sequence and then uh
basically insert graphics
and edit around those which is really
amazing
but what about if somebody wants
something more elaborate
what are some templates that you
recommend? [Boone] Well my two favorite um on envato marketplace are created by the
same creator i think it's an
italian guy named marco and he created
3d earth connections and map route
generator and they kind of work the same
way and the ui is really nice, the panel
setup it's it's super easy to use
so 3d earth connection actually uses
video copilot's orb
plug-in so you know you're required to
plug that and that's a free plug-in
and obviously it's amazing because it's
from andrew kramer so it uses that
plug-in
and then creates all the animations
around that and you really don't have to
do much other than
plug in your locations you can plug in
cities or countries
and then you can immediately connect all
those and you can connect multiple
and you can control the animations of
how fast you want them to animate or how
fast you want the earth to turn and then
map route generator is
a very similar tool but you do it in 3d
but it's with a 2d layer and then it
kind of moves around
and you can control how your little
after effects cam is going to fly around
you can have it
follow and turn or you can have it zoom
out
and again what i like so much about
those tools
is their usability they're extremely
easy to use
yeah i think that there's a lot of
options out there so we'll put links to
boone's videos down below but is there
anything else
for us map nerds out there that we
should know
uh no i'm just gonna i'm i'm trying to
put out a lot more map content like i
said i created a playlist called monday
maps so if anybody wants to check that
out it's kind of
ranges the spectrum of like whether
you're a new user that just wants
elements
or whether you want like a super
advanced template that's going to do
data driven
like population animations um
so yeah if you're interested in that
kind of stuff you know come check it out
thanks bone for joining the gal channel
yeah thank you thank you very much
so now that we know the free options and
some more elaborate options from envato
market
let's go ahead and go over to envato
elements and see what
2d and 3d animation templates that we
have
i'll be showing how to use them and give
them a rating
let's start with flight map.  Flight Maps
is one of my favorite templates
for after effects from elements it's
really easy to create simple 2d
animations between two cities
fast first it has some built-in regional
pre-animated maps to choose from so
let's say we wanted to choose
asia you can just select that box and it
will change the default map
to the asia region you can also select
reverse direction
if you want to reverse the direction of
travel between the two cities
and you can always go back to another
map just by reselecting it
it also has six different map themes you
can select
one of the themes from the template
dashboard and from the effect controls
you can turn on the theme to see how
they look
there's flat dark tech white
lush green gradients dots
and watercolor you can then customize
that theme from the effect controls
panel
i'm going to leave the water here as
white but i'll change the color of the
land to a light green color
just by clicking this box and i'll keep
the objects as red
and i'll change the country and state
lines to a black color
there's also some cool extra features
such as turning on clouds that will add
a bit more depth to the map
as well as some dirt textures on top of
the map which i think
really adds more dynamism to the map and
from the template dashboard composition
you can click on the icon layer to
choose different options such as
a sailboat or a car i'll go with a car
and you can also customize the pin in
the route line style if you like
if you want it to be a solid line just
change the dash slider to
100 and the gap to zero
next we can add some cool animation in
the opening
select the transition style layer then
from effect controls you can turn on one
of these transitions i'll choose the
burn
and let's play it back to preview how it
looks and i think this
transition looks really cool it adds a
nice little touch to start off the
animation
now onto the important part let's change
the location of our points
all you need to do is double click on
the composition frame here
and it will open up the map for
customization
first we need to change the camera to be
in the correct
starting locations let's say we're
traveling from madrid spain to warsaw
poland
let's go to the camera position hit p
and select the first keyframe now press
c on your keyboard multiple times until
you get the camera position icon
and from here you can click and move the
map to be over
the spain country next let's go to the
second key frame and do the same
and use the camera xy position tool just
like we did before
to move it over poland next we can just
click on the city titles
and move them into the correct location
and then you can
double click on the title comps
and just edit the text to be the correct
cities and then we'll open up the second
title comp
and let's update it to warsaw now that
that's done it's time to move on to
changing the route
path from the route layer just expand it
out to open it
and then open up the content and go to
path one
select it and then you will be able to
use the selection tool to actually move
the first path point to your first
location
and then for the second point you can
use the hand tool to move around
and then select v to go back to the
selection tool and move the second point
over warsaw and then you can use the
path handles
to reshape the path into a nice curved
form you can see that it looks really
cool but the airplane also needs to fly
in the right path
to make the airplane follow the path
you're gonna go
to the main route path layer and then
you're going to click the stopwatch
next to path then select this new
keyframe that was created
and hit control c to copy it this will
copy the path
and then you're going to turn off the
stopwatch which will get rid of that
keyframe
now we're going to go to the airplane
layer and select
u to expand all the properties and then
we're going to turn off the existing
stopwatch
next to the existing position
keyframes then we're going to turn it
back on
again and press control v
to paste the keyframes from the route
path onto the airplane
then we're going to move these keyframes
to align to the timing
and now when we play back the airplane
is moving on the same path
so i'm going to give this template 4 out
of 5 stars mainly because of all the
manual work that you have to do
not a panel that just allows you to
easily plug in the different cities and
it doesn't
automatically move for you but it's
really easy to use and it's part of
envato elements
which makes it super affordable and
accessible to a lot of us
now it's on to the map connector. Map
connector
is a great 2d template to be able to
show metadata or more info
about the different locations but it's
not good for connecting two different
cities
it's really just great to show different
cities and have information pop up
unlike flight maps there are no theme to
choose from inside this template you can
see here that there's only one default
but you can select the general settings
and from effect controls you can
customize the map colors
to change the city locations you need to
first open up the destinations
composition
and here you can press p to review the
position of the camera
and you can change the camera's position
to go over the regions or cities that
you want to show
first select zero one the first keyframe
here
and then you're going to use the
position controls to move
the camera over your first location in
our case it'll be france
and then we're going to select zero two
keyframe
the second one and move it over india
and then we'll do the same for the third
one
for australia and now when we go back to
the main
composition you can see that the
destinations have been shifted
to these new cities or locations that we
chose
so to update the text and info boxes you
actually need to go back to the project
panel and open up the different
positions to edit them then to edit the
text just double click
on the info comp you want to edit and
once you've customized the text you can
then go back to the main comp and you
can move these keyframes around to
control the timing
so if you want the last destination to
hold for a longer period
you have to lasso and select these other
keyframes and shift them over
and that will hold it for a longer
period so it requires a little bit more
work
overall it's pretty easy to use i
definitely prefer flight maps over it
i do think that the keyframes are a
little bit more difficult to use
for beginners but if you're an
intermediate user you probably should
get the hang of it fast
so i'm going to give this 3 out of 5
stars. The next template is called Place on
Earth and if you're looking
for a way just to visualize one place
using a 3d globe
this is a great template to use so first
with the edit composition here you can
edit your location
so scrub the comp to the point where you
see the city tag appear this is just the
default city tag
it's las vegas and what you can do is
double click to change it
from las vegas to whatever city you want
let's say to miami
and then i'm going to update the font as
well then you're going to click on the
position layer and simply move it
over to florida on this map then you're
going to go to the render tab
and from here we can scrub through to
see the movement from point
one to point two and right now you can
see we're at a quarter resolution so it
doesn't look that great but it's faster
so we can easily
edit before we decide to render so as we
scrub through we can see that we need to
update the Point 2 parameters so that way
miami is
better in frame to do that we need to
use effect controls and from here we can
go into the point
two parameters and change the radius
so that way we see it better i'll change
it to around 1600
and then the rotation to about 140
and rotation two to around minus 20.
so you can change all of these
parameters and play around with them
until it looks right
for the city that you're trying to
visualize now one thing to note is that
these parameters are super sensitive so
just by clicking and scrubbing to a new
value it'll happen really fast and it'll
be kind of delayed so definitely
try to type in numbers and try to get it
right it's just easier to type
versus scrubbing and there are a few
more parameters to choose from i'll make
the color of the label to be
pink for miami and also change it back
to the full resolution
and then i'll fully render it out so
that way you can see how it looks
so overall it's pretty easy to use but
be prepared for a lot of render time
because of the 3d animations
i'll give this a 4 out of 5 stars the
only option for map animations in
premiere pro not
after effects is the world map toolkit
and
this is actually created in after
effects but exported as a motion
graphics template that you can use
in premiere pro now if you have after
effects
i do not recommend using this template
because
it's super slow inside of premiere pro
because it's optimized and created in
after effects
and for some reason the mogrt files
when you try to edit them
inside of premiere there's just a lot of
delays so when you
drag and drop the mogrt file in the
timeline and then you go to adjust the
parameters
it's just super slow so if you just have
premiere pro
i honestly would recommend just
investing in after effects or just
getting the trial of after effects
just to use one of the after effects
templates because it's just not worth
the pain
of using this motion graphics template
i hope in the future that premiere pro
will optimize itself better to work with
more advanced mogurts from after effects
but right now
it's just not worth it so you can try it
out that's the beauty of invati elements
is that you can download
any of the templates um as much as you
want and
and try them out but i'm using a new
dell computer with 64 gigabytes of ram
um and a great gpu, an nvidia gpu and it
was still super slow so those are
the four templates that are available in
envato elements you can search the whole
library
they add more templates all the time so
you can go see if there's going to be a
new map animation that you can use but
remember
that elements has way more than just
these animations
they have music they have stock video
and templates
and what else do they have photoshop
templates they even have fonts and
textures
it's really really useful so use my link
below to get 70
off your first month of elements and
thank you
envato for providing that to you guys
and also a huge shout out to boone
for his recommendations as well again
his recommendations are
linked down below and now it's time for
the comment
of the week
Spencer Hogg wrote "how do i do the same
thing
with call outs in premiere pro."now this
question
was left on my video on three motion
tracking effects inside of after effects
so if you want to track a call out in
premiere pro let's say
if somebody's running and you want to
call out to stay glued on their body as
they're moving
you can do that in premiere pro but you
need to use a plug-in
called mocha pro by boris effects and
basically you install it and it opens up
its own window and you can use it and
i've made a whole video
on how you can use mocha pro to track
objects
to moving objects in premiere
but if you want to have a faster
performance i would recommend
still using after effects because
you can actually take a clip from
premiere pro and use dynamic link to
open it up in after effects do the
tracking in after effects
and then once you hit save whatever you
did in after effects
appears in premiere pro so if you added
a callout you'll then see that in
premiere
so i think that's a really good workflow
is to continue to
to use premiere pro for the editing and
then
you know when you need to add an effect
just cut that clip
and send it over to after effects using
dynamic link
and do the tracking in after effects
because it's more powerful for
doing that type of thing so i hope that
answers your question
spencer thanks so much for asking and if
you guys have any other questions for a
future video
just leave a comment below and yeah
that's it hope you guys enjoyed this
video
you map nerds enjoy these map animations
take advantage of elements um to spice
up your
next video see you guys next time bye!
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