How to create video zoom in google maps?

[John Bean]

Try Google Earth.

Depending on what you want, you could setup some video screen capture of the process of you zooming into your location.

If you want better quality, you can manually save images from GE from the desired zoom levels and create the effect of zooming in with Vegas.

Google Earth allows you to save images upto 1000×1000 pixels. Google Earth Pro (non-free) allows you to save images upto 4800×4800 pixels.

But you’ll need to read their LICENSE. No commercial usage allowed.

[Eric Chard]

On VIDEO COPILOT there’s a tutorial on how to do this using AE.

Of course, you need rights to the images first.

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