That is pretty advanced and probably not easy to achieve. How much do you want to spend? Take a look at Vasco da Gamma (here). Is that what you want for your video? .
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I just happen to be creating a simple tutorial for creating this effect now using only basic tools in PowerDirector! It should be on YouTube and on my videomaker support web site Muvipix.com in the next couple of days.

I'll let you know when it's done!

Quote After watching several video tutorial on how to add an animated path on a map I still have to find a tutorial on how to acccomplish that on a MOVING map, not a fixed map image.
I am referring to a moving/animated google earth map where the pathway is drawed on a subjective point of view climbing the mountain.
How is it possible to achieve it with power director?
Thank you!
Piero

Just a thought but would the "Paint Designer" in PD16, work for you?

cheers

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Quote That is pretty advanced and probably not easy to achieve. How much do you want to spend? Take a look at Vasco da Gamma (here). Is that what you want for your video?

Thank you Steve for your suggestion, that software looks very interesting, but I think is not going to produce what I am really looking at, mostly a "subjective" look while walking on the path, but I understand it's pretty difficult.
But I managed in some way, check the link on my latest reply https://www.pieroannoni.com/

Quote I just happen to be creating a simple tutorial for creating this effect now using only basic tools in PowerDirector! It should be on YouTube and on my videomaker support web site Muvipix.com in the next couple of days.

I'll let you know when it's done!

Great Steven, keep me updated, thank you https://www.pieroannoni.com/

This is what I end up to, let me know your thoughts:

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Done following the video tutorial by Sharper Turtle. I used PS CC2018 to creat 8 layers and then edited on PD16.

Piero

(PS: soundtrack is just for test) https://www.pieroannoni.com/

You can do that effect with RouteGenerator. I thought that you need a moving map. RoutGenerator is not able to use movies, but any kind of picture to generate those effects.
RouteGenerator is free of charge.

http://www.routegenerator.net/

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Hi PieroA -

Yes, marking a route on a static map/image is a very different thing to trying to do it on a MOVING map/video.

Marking a continuous "growing" line as shown in your example is next to impossible on a video background... for a start, points on the route would be on-screen one moment, then off the next.

The only way I could think of to do it would be to have a marker (arrow, or dot or something) move across the terrain. That means keyframing position (and maybe scale & rotation) to match the video/moving map.

I just tried it (yes, brave I know Nina). Here's the packed project if you want to take a look.

Cheers - Tony
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Here's my tutorial on YouTube, if you're interested.

How to create an animated line over a moving map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izwy-_gmbfo&feature=youtu.be

Quote Hi PieroA -

Yes, marking a route on a static map/image is a very different thing to trying to do it on a MOVING map/video.

Marking a continuous "growing" line as shown in your example is next to impossible on a video background... for a start, points on the route would be on-screen one moment, then off the next.

The only way I could think of to do it would be to have a marker (arrow, or dot or something) move across the terrain. That means keyframing position (and maybe scale & rotation) to match the video/moving map.

I just tried it (yes, brave I know Nina). Here's the packed project if you want to take a look.

Cheers - Tony

Yes, Tony, brave and SUPERCOOL!

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Here's my tutorial on YouTube, if you're interested.
How to create an animated line over a moving map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izwy-_gmbfo&feature=youtu.be




Yes, it's an idea! even if is not really what I am looking for, as I would like a "ground" pov https://www.pieroannoni.com/

Quote Hi PieroA -

Yes, marking a route on a static map/image is a very different thing to trying to do it on a MOVING map/video.

Marking a continuous "growing" line as shown in your example is next to impossible on a video background... for a start, points on the route would be on-screen one moment, then off the next.

The only way I could think of to do it would be to have a marker (arrow, or dot or something) move across the terrain. That means keyframing position (and maybe scale & rotation) to match the video/moving map.

I just tried it (yes, brave I know Nina). Here's the packed project if you want to take a look.

Cheers - Tony

Hi Tony,
This is a great idea, interesting suggestion for future projects. Thank you!

I could achieve something similar recording the screen while moving the Google Earth map and then add an arrow....

Btw, thank you all for your suggestions, impressed by the vitality of this forum. As I am only at my 2° clip editing with this software, hope to improve quickly

Piero https://www.pieroannoni.com/

Nice tutorial StevenG!

I've used the shifting mask idea to reveal the image/video "behind" it. With routes on a map, as you'd know, the shifting mask works well, so long as the route doesn't double back on itself.

The green route below would be fine, but the red route requires a different approach.


Oh, & thanks Hatti for the vote of confidence.

Cheers - Tony
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I recently had to do this for a travel movie and found no way of doing it the way I wanted, a meandering broken line. Where it goes and whether it turns back is of no consequence.

In the end I wound up making a moving .gif file by taking the map and using layers with the line drawn in full and then erasing one element for each frame. Once all the layers are done and saved as individual gif files in sequence, you create a moving .gif file.
I use a very simple and free program called "unFreeze". Google it, it's free to download from several places.

It is an incredibly time consuming way to do it but it works because PD thankfully recognizes a moving gif file as a "video" and not a static gif

Above thread is a very interesting way of creating a moving point on a moving map. Will check it out.

Some individuals have other ways of doing this. Check out this YT video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr7EToxdri0&feature=youtu.be . There is a moving yellow line on a moving terrain at 9 seconds into the short video using an app called Movescount.

Quote ... how to acccomplish that on a MOVING map, not a fixed map image.
I am referring to a moving/animated google earth map where the pathway is drawed on a subjective point of view climbing the mountain.
How is it possible to achieve it with power director?

Moving map: so the map moves in relation of the camera? This is not possible in PD.
In the past I used special animation software like VDG, ITIN, Routegenerator. But all these software are somewhere limited or expensive. Nowadays I only use BLENDER, a free 3-D animation software. The output of this is a videoclip or image sequences that you can import in PD.
You can see an example with the earth : https://youtu.be/711vkSo5j04
with a flat map: https://youtu.be/iuqowAa_vg8