[Jonathon Bell]

Thank you very much for the response. This is completely new to me, I’m excited to give it a go! I’ll report back once I get some time to try.

You all are great. Thank you for taking time out of your busy days to share your knowledge, I greatly appreciate it.

Jon

[Jonathon Bell]

That’s a great idea! Thank you very much. I’ll give that a go and report back.

[Jonathon Bell]

Thanks for the response! What do you mean by staggering the stroke? A quick google search didn’t turn up anything. I’ll dig more into it as well.

[Jonathon Bell]

I’ve spent some time working on this issue. What I discovered was that setting a tracked solid and camera then using the pen tool to draw the property line with a stroke resulted in very pixelated lines that were close to the camera. Instead, after tracking the camera, I created a null then a shape layer. I drew the property lines with the pen tool and stroked it. This reduced the pixelation but the perspective issue is still present. Lines near the camera appear much larger than lines off near the horizon.

I’m not sure how to address this in after effects. The only idea I have at this point is to shoot for the property line overlays. Keeping the drone higher and angling the camera down more should “flatten” things giving me more of a google earth view and the property lines should appear more the same size.

I just wish there was a way to address this in the software as I like keeping the drone lower and shooting with some sky in the frame.

[Jonathon Bell]

Thanks Richard! I’ll have to do some more research into this. Googling “write on effect after effects” hasn’t provided the info I was hoping for, more handwriting text focused. The video you linked shows something that I believe would work very well, however I don’t know how to create that. Again, more research on my part is needed.