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zoom into world map
I would like to make a zoom from space into into a city in germany, but am having a hrd time to achieve anything that looks ok. has anyone an idea? or does anyone know where i can get a HUGE picture of the world where i can set a sphere effect on it and still have a good quality when I get close?
any help is mightily appreciated.
thanks in advance
simon -
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Nope, wrong approach. The best res you can get for free is the huge NASA Blue Marble map (32000 by something pixels), but even that is not enough if you really want to zoom in tightly. In addition to that, you could never load it in AE and still be able to work with it. The only way you are ever going to be able to pull this off, is to use multiple rez footage and add invisible transitions – pretty much like Google Earth does, but with better quality and fancies.
Mylenium
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“Worlwind” is probably what you want, but I haven’t used it yet so I can’t quite believe the hype, but might try it today since you brought the subject up, so thanks for that. Anyway supposedly you can Zoom into anywhere on earth with it, we’ll see. I don’t know how it translates into footage.
https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
There are some great zooms at Goddard Space Flight Center, but alsa they are all in the US, that’s just the way we are here in the US I guess, a bit self-centered.
Click on “Great Zooms” near the bottom:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html
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search for “infinite zoom” in the archives. It might help you achieve what you’re looking for. Chris Smith gave a solid explanation just last week.
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I’d definitely go with worldwind. I did a few effects with it awhile back and they came out looking pretty descent. It was a report I produced for a network when I was looking for Noah’s Ark in Turkey. Take a look….
https://www.thequestforbibletreasures.com/Behind_the_scenes/Video%20Reports/Behind_Scenes_Video.html
Jeremy
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