tracing our journey on a map image

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_Angus_

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Oct 24, 2012 06:52

Hi all,

I recently got back from a road trip holiday in the US (a big deal for us) and I'm preparing to start editing my footage. I wanted to show our route on a map and have a little animated series of dots tracing our journey. Possibly I'd do it for each stage of the journey and break up the less than story-boarded nature of my filming.

I think I can work out/remember how to pan over a still image, but how would I produce the sequence of dots describing our progress? This is PowerDirector 9 I'm using.

Cheers.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Oct 24, 2012 17:16

Quote: Hi all,

I recently got back from a road trip holiday in the US (a big deal for us) and I'm preparing to start editing my footage. I wanted to show our route on a map and have a little animated series of dots tracing our journey. Possibly I'd do it for each stage of the journey and break up the less than story-boarded nature of my filming.

I think I can work out/remember how to pan over a still image, but how would I produce the sequence of dots describing our progress? This is PowerDirector 9 I'm using.

Cheers.

You need Powerdirector 10 or above to have the map drawing application (paint animation).

You can do that in PD 9 by using A photo editing application and drawing the line in that software and importing the Movie.
There are Photo editors that can animate images.

Check out 'The Gimp'.

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_Angus_

Senior Member Joined: Feb 19, 2011 19:59 Messages: 180 Offline

Oct 25, 2012 04:54

Quote: You can do that in PD 9 by using A photo editing application and drawing the line in that software and importing the Movie.
There are Photo editors that can animate images.

I've got access to Photoshop but never used it for animation. I'll have to investigate that.

And I'm right in thinking an animated GIF won't work, I'll need to convert what I do in Photoshop to a .wmv or similar?

Thanks.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Oct 25, 2012 06:59

Quote:

Quote: You can do that in PD 9 by using A photo editing application and drawing the line in that software and importing the Movie.
There are Photo editors that can animate images.

Powerdirector does not do animated GIF. You do have to convert to a wmv or maybe mp4.

If the search function will work there were some posts on that subject. I remember seeing the posts, and The Gimp has a animation function that outputs a movie.

THE GIMP is a free open source program, it is much like Photoshop.

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_Angus_

Senior Member Joined: Feb 19, 2011 19:59 Messages: 180 Offline

Oct 26, 2012 10:45

Quote:

Powerdirector does not do animated GIF. You do have to convert to a wmv or maybe mp4.

THE GIMP is a free open source program, it is much like Photoshop.

I'm keen to try and save as much hard drive space as I can by not installing new stuff - though I've heard good things about Gimp.

If I can't get what I need from Photoshop, I wonder if I could just use a fullstop (period) from PowerDirector's titling software, and placing a succession of them strategically on the map. That's going to prevent tracking across the map at the same time though, I suppose. Hmmm....

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Oct 26, 2012 11:34

Quote:

Powerdirector does not do animated GIF. You do have to convert to a wmv or maybe mp4.

THE GIMP is a free open source program, it is much like Photoshop.

I really have no idea how to do a map draw in Powerdirector 9. It is very easy to do that in Powerdirector 10 and Powerdirector 11.

Both PD10 and PD11 have the animation tool.

The only other method I know of is to use third party software to create a movie of the path.

You create your series of the line path in photo editing software, then you create a movie of those images.
This is how to do it in GIMP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kp4RrWptP4&feature=related

This is the tool in Powerdirector 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5h2BtKhbT8

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