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Better program than Google Earth?
Hi, I’m working on a project where I want t use the Google Earth effect of looking at the Earth and showing a from space view but want more control and better image quality so that i can put it in my Final Cut project and make it look real.
Thanks for the help
bernard -
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If you purchase the Pro or Enterprise versions, you get much higher quality images and animations.
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Well, if you have $10-$15 thousand dollars, there is always Curious World Maps. I use that myself.
https://www.curious-software.com/products/worldmaps/
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If you have Adobe After Effects you could download a Nasa Blue Marble image from Nasa’s site (below), use CC Sphere and have fun with that.
-Aaron R. Stewart
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/features/blue_marble.html
I would suggest a summer image, probably not the largest .tiff file, but the largest .jpg one might do nicely, depending of course on how close you want to get to the earth. If you want to get closer to the earth, then either of the aforementioned programs should work nicely. -
Hi Aaron, i down loaded the earth image. But when i put it on my timeline in After effects a message comes up saying After effects error: could not create 21600 x 10800 image buffer. How can i fix this? Thanks in advance
Bernard
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Heh, yes I’ve gotten that very same message. I usually scale the image down to a more manageable size in photoshop, then import into AE. You can probably scale down by 50% or so, and still get good results.
Are you doing SD or HD?
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I am using HD
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Then just open a blank 720 or 1080 template in PS, copy-paste the whole image in, resize manually until you get to the absolute maximum closest possible point you want to be to the earth. Apply the transformations to the layer, then copy, create new document (shows dimensions of what you just copied) and paste into the new document, then use that in AE to apply CC Sphere to. I assume you can do this anyways, just making sure. 🙂
The HD renders will be pretty slow, depending on your system. Don’t forget clouds (there are also Nasa cloud images of the earth you can pull from). You can either make them a separate CC Sphere comp on top of your original if you want them to move independantly (more render time) OR just marry them to the PS image.
Aaron
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