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Creating a travel map in Sony Vegas
Well I have had some great experiences using Vegas but one thing eludes me. I was trying to create a map showing my travels in Africa. I got a great map from Encarta which works well and zooms in nicely.
However even though I could create a text media file in Vegas naming the location as the map zooms in I wanted to also trace the route somehow. I could only find straight text available so I put in fading * (asterisks) to show my location and route traveled but it looks rather lame. I wanted arrows gradually tracing the route… Any idea how to import arrows and or some other cool graphics that show a route traveled?
Thanks again!
Don
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2 Replies
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Here’s an easy way:
Have TWO maps, one without the line and one WITH the line. Now fade from the without to the with and change the transition to a linear wipe (works especially well if the line is going straight across.)
Edward Troxel
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Thanks very much Ed
I also found another way which I found worked beautifully but took a bit more work.
Since I had about 5 legs of the road to show that this is how much I traveled on the map I created five different maps from the same gif of the original map. I used microsoft paint to draw each of the lines. Each map showed a progression of one more line indicating traveling to the destination.
I merged each of these 5 gifs on the video track on Sony Vegas so that they faded one into another in rapid succession. The result was a beautiful effect of the line gradually increasing on the route map quickly and clearly.
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