Earth Zoom Tutorial using Motion

[jdiezvideo]

GREAT tutorial!Thanks!

Motion is more intuitive and easy than After Effects. Although, AF has more effects.

Just one detail; you can use Masks with Feather for each layer to match better the shape of the terrain at different scales.

[Abhijit2389]

motion is so smart yo...

[jigen08]

A great help, very straightforward and clear. Excellent tutorial thanks!

(And a side note, in comparing this to the prominent AE tutorial on this same subject, I appreciate your not taking the first minute to go into an elaborate joke about tying a video camera to a weather balloon and giving me something painful to try to scrub through.)

[barrettcat]

By the power of Greyskull, this was a good video!

[TsumValley]

m very new to Motion 3. so far i am not facing any complications. your tuts is very good. thanks

[ElInventor]

Like the Heavy said in Team Fortress 2, ¡YOU DID WELL!

[joejumps4fun]

Okay...just one problem tho--I'm done w/ all the layer editing so I'm looking at Earth from space. Now how do I select that first image to put an anchor point now that I'm all the way zoomed out in space?

[sboyd100973]

start watching the video from 4:25. I assume your question is you are so far from earth in your video, you cannot see exactly where to put your anchor point? IF so, just put it where you think it should go, then move the play head and as it zooms in, maybe you can adjust the anchor point?? Not sure if that helps you, but good luck.

[joejumps4fun]

Thanks...I'll give it a try. I'm still learning Motion but I'm a whiz at FCP.

[apodo360]

i'll ty it

[TerraformerOfLight]

Absolute Genius mate, thanks! I've learned a-lot :)

[sdarrenwonder]

Really helpful. Thanks for posting!

[rayudu1239]

hello sir,thanq for giving this tutorial.this is helpful for the composit artists.but i have 1doubt.which softare ur used.after effects or motion academic.plz tell me

[sboyd100973]

motion

[ULISILLODF]

your voice sucks men... stop talking!!!

ist horrible!!

ask to your mom to make the tuto please!!

[QuiZiGaming]

some1 can pm me and link me to the after affecs tut :D

[edelucila]

I think with google earth is more easy to do that.....

[hyrcan]

It's easy, but quality is what you give up for the ease of use. Google earth won't allow you to add camera shake, clouds, or colorcorrect the different layers. Plus it's tricky with out the Pro version of Google earth. requiring fraps or some other screen cap software.

[VibeAustralia]

dude your a genius!

[thecackhandedgimp]

Why not open google earth, zoom into the required point to cache the images in your RAM, and then record the selection of your screen? you can import the movie into Motion and add clouds to the movie.

[alexv24]

That was pretty good. I use After Effects at work and I have Motion 3 at home. And hey that was really good. Great JOB

[KRoNiCZzx]

u sound like cleavland from family guy haha

[PowerLevelers]

ROFL

[Esvione]

ROFLMFAO!

[dee200872]

was watching with no sound, had to listen after reading this, ha ha! Heeeyy Peeeeeterrrrr!

[visionprods1]

@KRoNiCZzx i thought i was the only one who noticed...

[bytethis123]

Wow! I thought that was a really good tutorial. Good job. Looks great.

[threnodyfilm]

I'm not an editor from Barcelona but I like your style and I like that you are humble. There are so many maverick know it all guys out there ...

I used to do this in a 3D app every time I needed the effect but now I'm convinced I could cut 3d render times by hours if I were to use your technique with a match frame at the end of my 3d animation.

Now I just need to go buy some 15km or less satellite images ..

Thanks!

[sboyd100973]

Use Google Maps--satellite images. "print screen" or save the map image, then zoom closer, and repeat. If using a Mac, "command+shift+4" and drag your mouse to highlight the screen area you want to "picture." It then saves the image to your desktop....

[czerwoneguitary1990]

no offence but this is not how you do it

[sweetgreggo]

no offense but you can't spell

[voodooscuba]

I learned two things from your video. An easy technique for what I had thought to be a painstaking process, and the fact that Barcelonians repeat themselves quite a bit.

Thanks!

[edduay]

your tutorial is very good, i just migrate from pc to imac and i go the final cut pro hd and its ver good.....sure do learned from your video..keep it up! check my video too!

[ptm2020]

I'm also a editor from Barcelona and your tutorial is very interesting for introduce me in the motion world.Thanks a lo

Joan

[fontyou]

I'm a editor from Barcelona and your tutorial is very interesting for introduce me in the motion world.Thanks a lo

Joan

[thebest1et]

Are you editor from Bercelona?

[thebest1et]

Are you editor from Barcelona?

[fontyou]

I'm a editor from Barcelona and your tutorial is very interesting for introduce me in the motion world.Thanks a lo

Joan

[thebest1et]

Are you editor from Barcelona?

[fontyou]

I'm a editor from Barcelona and your tutorial is very interesting for introduce me in the motion world.Thanks a lo

Joan

[thebest1et]

Are you editor from Barcelona?

[fontyou]

I'm a editor from Barcelona and your tutorial is very interesting for introduce me in the motion world.Thanks a lo

Joan

[reinpro]

Thanks!

[owutang]

Nice example! As an editor..liked it!

[k0koro]

Great job!

[Cowboooy]

Nice work..thanks for sharing...

[demoncheeseball101]

where and how do you get the photos?

[sboyd100973]

google maps

[ShootatWill]

appreciate the tutorial...also looking for new ways to edit...and you did that for me. thanks.

[ghsusaxa75]

great tutorial!

[pimenta1960]

Great tutorial thanks!

[digitalreasoning]

I just picked up Motion 3 a couple of weeks ago, and found this tutorial to be very helpful. There just aren't a lot of Motion tutorials available. Keep up the good work.

[sboyd100973]

Yeah, i couldn't find a tutorial on how to do the earth zoom with Motion so I taught myself and decided to share. Not great, but I had fun.