How to Create Historical Maps in After Effects🌎GEOlayers Tutorial

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Here's how to create historical maps using GEOlayers in Adobe After Effects. Get the PROJECT FILES! - www.patreon.com/boonelovesvideo Get GEOlayers - bit.ly/3zMj1Lq Historical Basemaps Repository - github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps

[@Historia_Hoje]

If you are having problems to find the files after setting the Search Feature, you just need to create the mapcomp FIRST and then search for the historical geojson files. I've seen many people asking about this issue here, I had the same problem, hope it helps!

[@Partyrockerrocks]

thanks haha

[@the3fs944]

thanks mahn

[@Boudz57]

thanks duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude

[@mahiuddinibnul200]

Still not working!

[@UnKnown-zx5kj]

Thanks bro

[@LabidRahat]

Amazing one man ! Just learned the best thing from your channel . I used to manualy draw the Historical areas on GEOlayers before. Damn this saved a lot of time ! Thanks ! 🥰

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad to hear that! Indeed this seems like a pretty amazing workflow. 🔥

[@UniverseInsideYou]

Amazing video! Thank you!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for the kind words.

[@proeffect454]

Thank you sir, no one do the things that you are doing. Thank you again 💓

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey thanks! Glad to hear that. 🙌

[@HistoryofHungary]

Thank you Boone! This tutorial is a godsend! I always wondered if there is an easier solution than drawing borders manually in photoshop and trying to resize and morph all the different reference maps to fit the composition. I guess I have my answer.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad it helped! Share some links if you create something. 😎

[@HistoryofHungary]

@@BooneLovesVideo I will! 😁

[@tsechunon]

I used to have the same problem as well. An alternative is to import a reference map to after effect and draw the map directly on a shapelayer. You might be able to use auto-trace in AE if the reference map has really sharp and distinct edge.

[@alvirarahman1559]

Boone you are GOD SEND! Thank You!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome! Hey thanks for the nice comment.

[@mehas81]

Just what I need. BTW, master in GitHub refers to which branch you want to pull from, with master being "main" branch. Thanks

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Ahhhh ok. Thanks for the clarifications!

[@IbrahimKotaesh]

Very good video man. Thank 👍

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad you liked it! And welcome to the Patreon page. Just uploaded the project files for this one over there. 😎

[@jeremymasse]

Thank you for this video, it is so helpful as always :) I had a good laugh as well : "Blame it on André" may become a new trend among cartographers. Poor André! And thank you for your work if you ever read this.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

haha. I hope André did a good job, because he's definitely taking the fall for anything that goes wrong with my animations. 😂

[@vynorr]

2:39 the word master need to type because in the github repo, the final or updated project in the name of master branch. Branch means it's kind of a folder in github. Branches use in git and github for version controlling of an application, software or projects. Older version of a project could be in other branches but the final or update project always will be in the main branch which could any name 'master', 'main' or whatever. But most of the time it is either 'main' or 'master'.

[@Dancehallbanger]

def works. my friend and i both use this

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Nice! 😎

[@RailwaysExplained]

Very helpful!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks! Glad to hear it. 🙏

[@iozpheonex8180]

me realizing i'll never be able to make edits because geolayers 3 costs $329.99

[@vichael]

u can get it for free 🤭

[@iozpheonex8180]

@@vichael wait what

[@AmirsPlayhouse]

Sorry if I am spamming but I can’t see my reply

[@HistoryHaty]

The don’t need that plugin to make map animations. You can still make great stuff with out plugins.

[@fyzaneditor]

I can give you cheaper

[@abhishekchaudhary4058]

2:36 You need to type master because it must be the primary branch on which the data is pulled when the contributer does a commit on the repo.

[@RMTRADES25]

LOVE IT! can you please make the geolayers effect johnny harris used in "Putin Will Lose, Here's Why" where there's an army represented by circles and invasion effect.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Awesome! Yes, actually that tutorial is coming up soon. Stay tuned! 😀

[@ralphramos4463]

now that's the effect im trying to figure out too using geolayers. looking forward to it!

[@RMTRADES25]

@@BooneLovesVideo noicee!

[@rajeshcruz1640]

​@@BooneLovesVideo literally a life saver

[@wcsdiaries]

@@BooneLovesVideo did you ever end up making that tutorial?

[@MetalJare]

you have to put Master on the config because it's a repository.. you are selection the branch name (there could be infinite branch names.. but usally the stable branch of data it's Master)

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Ahhhhh, okay. That still makes no sense. 🤔

[@peterheynen]

This was super helpful, thank you very much 🙂

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the nice comment. 😎

[@burakalay]

well, for some reason there is no such thing as "feature search" in the section of preferences. What should i do, can you help me out please?

[@MrHistorical9]

this is one of the most important Video for Geo Layers users

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Agreed

[@historical476]

Great tutorial! Altough one question, is there any way to get more detailed borders for the countries or is the only way to manually adjust them?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah, unfortunately these aren't very detailed borders to begin with. Releasing a tutorial next week that will touch on this a bit.

[@mapperofalthistory03]

THIS IS WHAT I WAS SEARCHING FOR

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Nice! Glad it helped.

[@Ummahperspectiveofficial]

Very effective ❤️

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Glad you think so! Thanks for the nice comment.

[@BeautyOfData]

Great work Boone!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey thanks!

[@stickmanland]

The reason for typing master is because github repos have multiple branches. The branch that you want is the main branch (i.e. master)

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Now I have more questions. :)

[@jalalmmilan]

I did exactly what you said, but the name does not come up again in the search field. Are these regulations expired or I can't

[@YuruCampSupermacy]

master means the main branch of the GitHub repository. There can be multiple branches with different version of the codebase.

[@FCYRZZ]

you need to add master as the repo is on the "master" branch

[@BooneLovesVideo]

😎 thanks!

[@KipJackson]

Really helpful and thank you for the resources bro

[@bubanga]

2:35 Best time explanation Oscar lying down here without any notice, here me people of 3k. Discover this; - And now for some technical weird reason I have to type in the word "master". Can I explain why that is? - No, I can not explain why that is.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Dropping knowledge.

[@EuAfro]

Thank you Boone for sharing this tutorial. Am beginner with geolayers so, am having problems to fitting the rome empire image to fit inside the country as a mask. In the banner you got that little star the same when you add label of a place. i think am having a problem to put the map as a label than use the effect. i dont know am just guessing. best regards

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Ah yeah, I kind of quickly skipped over that part. I use a tool called Overlord to bring vectors from Illustrator to AE as shape files. Watch this tut - kzbin.info/www/bejne/joXNdaKAecp0rqM

[@ABetterQuestion]

​@@BooneLovesVideo Right...So NOT using Overlord is there a way to do something similar. EG I've got a mapcomp with the camera animating how I want. I've not finalized it yet. I've got a shape layer for the borders of Japan, this is pinned to my greater map comp. I've got the Imperial Japanese Flag as an image file. I can set it so the flag shows up as a matte for the shape layer - forming a flag cutout in the shape of Japan's borders. I also set the image to 3d and link it to the main mapcomp base. Then I move the mapcomp along the timeline for the animation, the flag image stays within the borders of Japan - NEAT The problem is the part of the flag shown within Japan's borders does not remain static (or rather it doesn't move along with the rest). So I'm seeing different parts of the flag as the animation plays - yes I'm only seeing them within the borders of Japan, but it's distracting AF and defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to do. Essentially the borders of Japan are acting like a window to the flag image beyond - the window stays in the same place within the wall (my comp) as I (the camera) move around, but I see different parts of what's beyond the window. What I want, is the borders of Japan to act like a frame ON the wall, showing me whats within the frame in the same spot on the wall as I move around. ...if that makes sense. Is the problem that I'm using an image file?

[@ABetterQuestion]

Okay, I figured a way around it by making another mapcomp by duplicating the maincomp, adding a drawn Japan borders, and linking it to the maincomp (like you did for the borders in the Lemino video). Then I made the flag image its own comp, brought that into the main comp, made the duplicated layer borders the matte, and had the flag comp following the borders comp which followed the maincomp...which I had to change to 3d to make it work. God damn this program sometimes...

[@EuAfro]

@@BooneLovesVideo Right. Thank you am going to try that. best regards

[@EuAfro]

@@BooneLovesVideo Hi Boone, i do have overload now. do i need to convert image as vector first? because i put the image png at AI then try to push to AE and the shape layer looks empty.

[@mingjai14]

Wow you have no idea how valuable this is. Big thanks from HK! Do you have any idea where else can we find geodata like the EU? or British empire?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks! Let me do some research and get back to you.

[@mingjai14]

@@BooneLovesVideo Thanks please keep it up, i have learnt so much from u🥳

[@yousefbrown4708]

@@BooneLovesVideo would also love to see that

[@BeautyOfData]

All you have to do his draw the Kml file and import into geo layer, I am working on some country history video with Geo layer it gonna bang!

[@mingjai14]

@@BeautyOfData thanks for the reply! Any tutorials where I can learn this technique? I feel I’m not using geolayers to its full potential.

[@LoganHemenway]

So sick. Good stuff.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks Logan! How are you my man? How's the family?

[@LoganHemenway]

@@BooneLovesVideo Faaaaantastic.

[@chusterinforma]

Good job! I follow from Costa Rica.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey thanks! And Costa Rica is my favorite. You're lucky to live in such a beautiful country. 🙌❤

[@chusterinforma]

The Best!!Pura vida mae👍👍👍

[@ameer-dex]

Thank you so much dude ❤

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome! Thanks for the comment.

[@Journal_Haris]

You absolute flipin legend m8

[@BooneLovesVideo]

😎🐉🔥🗡

[@KamalKumar-b5p9n]

your video so much helpful for me ❤❤❤

[@parvez301]

You are just great............. Love your videos.......

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thank you so much 😀

[@kirillsmiag2995]

Nice! Thank you

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You're welcome. 😀😎Thanks for watching.

[@Miguel_Countryball_Editz]

Nice tutorial!

[@منتصرعبداللطيف-ط3ق]

amazing tutorial ... "1492 Columbus sail th ocean blue " love it 😂

[@BooneLovesVideo]

:) thanks!

[@roadtothelemongrove5746]

Nice work, however, it certainly would have been nice if there was more transparency regarding the use of maptier before we paid and travelled down this road. For use of maptier (2 x 4 second shots) in a low budget documentary/without broadcast (after their discount pricing is $1500 USD). Perhaps we should have just stuck with Cinema 4D

[@katherineallen6292]

2:41 Why that is? .... It's because the folder name recently changed from "main" to "master" on the github - Hope this helps. :)

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Ah, thanks for dropping the knowledge! I appreciate it. 🙏

[@washim01000]

thanks dude

[@BooneLovesVideo]

No problem!

[@realmynameshiro]

Yo! How did you do that with the eagle? Did you use a pen to mask it? I'm new, please help!

[@Elyas07]

did you find out?

[@richardminhle]

Effect > Channels > Set Matte

[@SrEncantado1]

Your'e just awesome man

[@BooneLovesVideo]

😎💪🙌😀🙏🌐

[@CheezsterYT]

I can't access some years like 600 AD, when I try my Geolayers crashes plz help

[@Geonif]

Thank you so much brother, anjay~

[@kirmanig9071]

Thank you sir

[@bastianrivero]

what if i need historical borders of the us states? couldnt find them in there, just the country borders. Youre the goat!

[@geschielogie]

Thanks for the tutorial but it doens't work on my pc. When I put the link in the prefrences and everything just as in the video, it doenst show me anything when I search "1960" or ahything else. Do I first need to download something or?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hmmm, that should work. Make sure you scroll all the way down after you do a keyword search for 1960. The GEOlayers panel can hide things if it's too small. If that doesn't work I would double check that you followed all of the steps to connect the database.

[@leaf3376]

​@@BooneLovesVideoSame problem here :/

[@Historia_Hoje]

hey @geschielogie, I had the same problem but found out what was wrong! You need to create the mapcomp first and then search for it!

[@devanshgupta.233]

thank you so muchhh

[@BooneLovesVideo]

No problem 😊

[@Rockist]

Pretty amazing!!!! Thnx a million Boone!! But can you animate how borders shift? for example, WW wars borders have dramatically changed, or Israel's borders shifted over the years in its wars with the Arabs. How do you do that in GeoLayers?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for the nice comment! I would use a custom shape layer that I could animate. Then you use that as a track matte for the others. OR you could manually animate the shape/mask path of original country borders after you draw them out in GEOlayers.

[@ArsenMadinov]

you know I'm something of a catographer myself

[@Slovak_Warrior]

Hey bro, i am trying to draw the france from 1500, on mapcomp but it doesnt work, it says that i need some layers to be able to start working

[@Italylandscapes]

Hi Boone, thanks for this video!How can I do if in the timeline I would like to show the old empire and how It Is nowadays. To explain Better, in the holy Roman Empire there Is a part that now belongs to Italy (approximately Northern Italy), how can I "extract" that part from the holy Roman Empire layer?

[@visceraljourney]

So if the country borders I need are nowhere in this repository, how would you solve it? I have all the pictures of the required territories in high resolution, but how do I merry them with geolayers?

[@EDUCATIO9954]

thanks

[@AAABBB-hu3bg]

you are the GOAT

[@vishnumallya]

Hey, Do you know how to film reel effect that vox and Johnny Harris uses?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I'm not entirely sure where they got that from. The editors use that, not me. I can ask them. :)

[@vishnumallya]

@@BooneLovesVideo Yes! Ask them. Also can you make a video on color pallettes and colour there. Thanks!

[@Infinitelove0143]

Please make a video on how to make ocean animation please

[@meschacebe]

Hi Boone, thank you very much for this tutorial ! I'm having a problem following your steps though, as the flag I import into AE is not considered as a shape layer like your Holy Roman Empire flag is. If I keep following the steps, the flag will rotate as the camera rotates afterwards. Thanks in advance for your help.

[@TheTrackRecord]

That’s crazy cool. I had no idea you could do that. Don’t suppose you know anywhere where you can get a geojson of the EU do you Boone? I tried to do that in geolayers the other day and had to manually add each country.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey Simon! Glad the tutorial helped. So not sure where you can find the EU. That one might be found via a simple Google search, and not in the repository. But I manually created NATO for a recent project. I manually downloaded all of the countries, and then merged them into one object.

[@TheTrackRecord]

@@BooneLovesVideo thanks. I’ll try that.

[@MubashirDocumentaries]

can u make tutorials like knowledgia map animation ottoman empire that very dificult

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add it to my list.

[@avenzawr]

hey boone, let's blame it on adre together!

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Great idea! Whatever happens, it definitely isn't my fault...

[@SojournWithUs]

Which version of Geolayers it this? I don't see "Feature Search" in my Preferences.

[@partyballoononlinestore7726]

how can we have all the countries of ww1 on map. it seams alot of time to draw all of them and have 200 layers. how to put them all in a precompose for example? thank you for tutorials by the way 😍

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hey, yeah it's kind of complex. I couldn't find a really great solution either. What I did for a WWII map was to draw out all of the borders with simplified geometry. Then I drew out the oceans in a different color. This allowed me to avoid drawing out every country as a solid with all of those extra vertices.

[@vamboo8918]

Can you do after effects king a beginner tutorial ❤️

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Ah yeah for sure. It's in the works.

[@yk.beats2407]

this tutorial is great bro, but theres just a problem with the borders like for example germany 1938, to the east germany only has modern day kaliningrad not actually the accurate historical borders. it would be great if there's other projects such as this one but with more border accuracy

[@JoseWolff]

in Geolayers is there a way to use older (but not as old as in this video) map TEXTURES? say like from the 80s-90s? similarly to how you can do that with Google Earth?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Great question, but unfortunately I have no idea.

[@JoseWolff]

@@BooneLovesVideo thanks for the reply! - and love ur content btw ✨

[@BooneLovesVideo]

@@JoseWolff Thanks!

[@TerceiroMundista]

Hey, idk if you still respond to these, but how did you "expand the yellow" at 6:11?

[@Iturramako]

I have the same question. Do you now know how to solve this? Thanks in advance.

[@TerceiroMundista]

@@Iturramako I haven't found it yet, but I've replicated it by creating a shape with the color I want and then fitting that shape into the country's border by using track matte

[@庞雪青]

我也有同样的问题，我还没有解决

[@Aipicksell]

Hello there I'm facing a problem with having Geo layer 3 being open, so after I did this in Ae I pressed on Edit > preferences > scripting & expressions > allow scripts to write files & Access network > windows > extension > geo layer 3. After pressing on geo layer 3 nothing shows up, I tried a lot & then they asked to link to the creative cloud libraries I did, but still not giving me the desired result, any help please, I'm new to Adobe in general

[@salmabibi-vx8pg]

Idk but you look like a kid who has downloaded virus intead of real extension

[@Wik_Trip]

Thank you i am starting a youtube channel and i will use your tutorials thank you. P.s. i would tell you when my fist video is ready and i will provide you link if interested in history then you can watch. Thanks a lot. Love from india.

[@BooneLovesVideo]

That's awesome! Yes, please share a link as soon as you create something. 😎

[@enteristic]

Are there any free versions of geolayer? 329 in my currency is around 2k and i dont have money for that

[@sobol4741]

I don't see feature search option, what should I do?

[@wastedtime0_0]

Is this used by Geolayers 3 or the free geolayers?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I didn't know there was a free version of geolayers.

[@jalalmmilan]

I did exactly what you said, but the name does not come up again in the search field. Are these regulations expired or I can't

[@OneoftheCaesars]

I'd like to know too. That 350 is freightning

[@IshaanOP07]

Hello! I really like these maps but I don't have any way to get AE or geolayers so can you suggest some other way to make maps for free?

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Freevectormaps.com with Overlord and Adobe Illustrator. 😎

[@IshaanOP07]

@@BooneLovesVideo thank you very much!

[@m.shahbaz5962]

i do not see search results from the repository, github rep is shown in the bottom bar of search list but no results

[@BooneLovesVideo]

I think you have to search the datasets by name specifically. For example, type in 1800 and scroll down to the world dataset for that year. To see the years available, checkout the list on the GitHub page. Make sense?

[@michalsiporski8967]

Hi, How do i download files from that website?

[@haseebasad6766]

this method doesn't gives all maps can you please tutorial on any other method please please ❣❤💞

[@SerbianMapping.]

Can you please tell me what is the name od this world map

[@shuangdonglu436]

I want to know another way, because my pirate GEOlayers3 is too old，please! thank you a lot

[@sampawria]

Can we animate longitudes and latitudes and other earth core angles like spinning and all in geo layers

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Hmmm not entirely sure. But you can use Video Copilot's ORB with GEOlayers.

[@sampawria]

@@BooneLovesVideo thanks i was also thinking of using the same

[@jingpanhuang931]

Which video editing app is that

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Adobe After Effects with GEOlayers 3.

[@jingpanhuang931]

@@BooneLovesVideo thank you!

[@luigi-b5m]

How to set matte like 6:29 in video? I watched another video tutorial，it works，but not like this perfectly

[@Iturramako]

I have the same question. Do you now know how to solve this? Thanks in advance.

[@bastianrivero]

Its all Andre’s fault

[@BooneLovesVideo]

You can say that again...

[@s4naan]

i dont have feature search showing pls help

[@clubmus]

How to freeze a picture like in your video, I have a picture leaves when the camera moves

[@ArsenMadinov]

use keyframes

[@LordBaron1]

how can u add borders of wartime to Geolayers 3 ? can u HELP ME PLEASEE

[@LordBaron1]

like napoleonic war borders or ww2 1944 borders

[@Mavaramedia]

How i find more year geojson file?

[@aaronferrandomkarbel6420]

Da Vinci tutorials? 🙏😅

[@BooneLovesVideo]

😵

[@codymoore1765]

The Catogropher lol

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Andre has skills.

[@haseebasad6766]

❤❤

[@Laughing_Piper]

bro expects me to buy 300 US Dollar for a app?

[@addixie]

please limit yourself on making tutorials from using geolayers because not everybody has that plugin

[@tapis82]

It is still very usefull for people with geolayer. Geolayer is worth every penny. It won't be cheper so consider to purchase it asap (of course using Boon's affiliate link ;)

[@addixie]

yes thanks, but as of now I can't afford it, I am still a broke student

[@SrEncantado1]

@@addixie i'm too

[@petarstarcevic8895]

it does not work somehow can not connect with geojson, I have a trial version of Geolayers 3, maybe thats why? what do you think @bonnelovesvideo

[@BooneLovesVideo]

Yeah that could be the reason.

[@editorvijaypro]

wonderful video, but I don't know what's wrong, i have put same url as you said but I can't find any map like, 1960.geojson (:

[@editorvijaypro]

​@Aen Elle not yet!

[@mimicryator2793]

@@editorvijaypro Write if you find it because it doesn't work for me either

[@editorvijaypro]

@@mimicryator2793 sure! and same for you do provide me if you do find!

[@MetaverseOfAI]

I guess you have to create the mapComp first and then when you will use the search bar the results will show up.