Movies from Google Earth?

[terrypin]

Has anyone had any success in making short movies (MPG, AVI, or whatever) from GE sessions please? Whether automatic 'Fly By' exercises, or manual navigation. Presumably it's a matter of using a program to capture the streaming images, and maybe another one to edit them later?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

[araT]

Hi Terry!

Try using a program called Snag It! it can capture video of whatever you are doing on your desktop :)
http://www.techsmith.com/snagit.asp

T.

[martin]

Here's one i did using VidShot Capturer.
It creates a Divx AVI, but although if changed frame rate to 25 pic/sec the result is "bumpy".
It shows a flight around Volcano Etna in Sicili.
8 MB!
>>Video<< (http://www.planet-hiller.de/test1.avi)

[martin]

Here's another one using Camtasia this time.
But no matter what frame rate i choose, the result is bumpy!
mpg, 3MB:

Monument Valley (http://www.planet-hiller.de/ctest3.mpg)

[terrypin]

Thanks both.

I do have latest Snagit, which I use frequently for staic captures, but hadn't realised it could capture video too! Will give it a try. Also about to try FRAPS.

Martin: Neat - a lot smoother than my first effort, anyway. Would they be less jerky if you moved more slowly in GE perhaps?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

[quakelord]

Anyone tried fraps?

[IrishHermit]

I made this video (http://www.dailymotion.com/IrishHermit/video/30647) using CamStudio (http://www.camstudio.org/) (free!).

[Appletom]

That's pretty good IrishHermit. :clap:

[Mickey]

Anyone tried fraps?
I use it from time to time. I haven't purchased the full version, but the free one works quite well. I'll probably buy the full one soon.

[Airibis]

i understand crop it to not have the other text on there, but how are you guys having it not show the pointer? is there any way to turn the hud off?

[martin]

You can use the keyboard to navigate.

[erasmo]

Hi dear Forum:

thank you for your suggestions to make a GE video

here is my first video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5290171445437549583) , it shows the GPS route taken in a bike road trip from Mexico City to Tlahuapan (Puebla), last sunday

i hope you could enjoy it, I will try to improve the quality for my next videos :-)

any coment will be appreciated

thank you

greetings

erasmo

ps. this video was obtained using CamStudio (http://www.camstudio.org/) and VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/)

[martin]

I'd like to watch it but:

>>
Thanks for your interest in Google Video.
Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.
We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.
<<

[erasmo]

well, there seems to be some workaround (http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/01/download-watch-google-videos-in-any.html)

hope it helps :-)

greetings

erasmo

[kdt]

Interesting. I'd use fewer sample points for a smoother effect.

On the news the other night I swear they used GE to show the route of a car chase - placemark pin icons and everything.

[martin]

Thanks Erasmo for showing me the easiest way to watch movies...;)

[erasmo]

hi dear Forum:

i have placed a new video (http://www.dailymotion.com/albatros/video/41402) in a new host (http://www.dailymotion.com/)

this video shows the GPS tracking of yesterday's road bike tour

I hope the new site will make no restrictions about the location of its viewers

greetings

erasmo

[erasmo]

hi dear Forum:

everyone is invited to watch videos of GPS tracks (Garmin 60 CSx) over Google Earth of several road bike travels !

in the forum Albatros (http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/Albatros_01/) , we will show you this kind of videos (and photos), hoping someone could be interested in watching them :-)

to go to the videos, just click over the images of videos in the vertical box at the left of the page of the mentioned forum, or to see the photos, just click in any photo of the page

as usual, any comment will be highly appreciated

thank you very much

greetings

erasmo

[erasmo]

hi dear Forum:

i am very happy been able to share with you a video of a bike road tour across the Espinazo del Diablo (Devil's backbone) in the road Durango - Mazatlán, Mexico

It is a 200 miles one-day bike ride trough one of the most inaccesible sierra landscapes in the mexican state of Durango, travelling to the Pacific port of Mazatlan (just at the other side of the sea of Los Cabos)

this video shows the GPS track of the route followed last year, over Google Earth Plus. The following bike tour will be held on september 16, 2006, and you are all invited ! :-)

you can find this video in the videos box of the Albatros (http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/Albatros_01/) forum (first image in the video box, left of the forum description), or in the following location (http://www.dailymotion.com/albatros/video/50087)

we hope you could enjoy this GE+ video :-)

and please, don't forget to turn on your speakers, because we hope you could also enjoy the soundtrack :-)

greetings

erasmo

[erasmo]

Hi dear Forum:

In the forum Albatros (http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/Albatros_01/) we are happy to be able to share with you some videos (in high (http://albatros.filefront.com/) and low (http://www.dailymotion.com/albatros/1) quality), and 3D + 2D satellital maps (http://www.flickr.com/photos/albatros/sets/) (+ altimetries + photos) of some bike tours in Mexico.

The videos and satellital maps are GPS (Garmin 60 CSx) trackings over the topographical tridimensional animation rendered by Google Earth Plus. The shown altimetries were also obtained using the tracking data of this GPSr.

Please feel free to watch these videos and images, or if you would prefer, you could also join the Albatros (http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/Albatros_01/) forum

Any comment will be highly appreciated

Thank you

Greetings

erasmo