Creating Animated Map Routes for your Adventure Bike Videos

[@theskinnyfromphatty5811]

You are the most brilliant man on the internet. I have spent 2 weeks of my life scouring literally 50-70 videos, Reddit, Google etc. on how to make a moving line on a map, simply and quickly. It's as if the entire human race RESISTS simplicity! 95% of those prefer to hear the sound of their own voice and cannot restrain their egos from showing hundreds of complex moves which would take hours and days to replicate (picture a complicated Rube Goldberg machine which, after 20 minutes of tortuous bells, steam whistles and roundabouts, pours a glass of water at the end). I have a very large and long documentary to edit and to follow their way would take me centuries to complete my project. A couple of level-headed Scandinavian guys came close at around 10 minutes, but you are the clear winner. Thank you deeply for your genius - I will treasure your video!

[@brentbat]

Hey Skinny from Phatty, thanks for your kind note. I'm glad you like the simple approach. If you need to do something a bit more complicated and you happen to have a Mac, then you might also be interested in this approach. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poqZfoOsi76psMk

[@AchaJeeVlogs]

What a bloody brilliant and super easy way to create a path animation! Thank you so much for this, mate.

[@durbancraig]

After watching numerous videos this is a great solution for showing route animation. Thank you Brent!

[@Poshgoondas]

Lifechangingly brilliant! Thanks for creating this how-to video! 🙏🏼

[@TravelsByTrike]

That is fantastic - thank you so much. I’m planning a trike tour where I only want to use my iPad and Lumafusion for video editing. This looks very easy to implement.

[@OliReu]

Thanks Brent - i was going to message you to get a tip on how to do this, google search and your video came up promptly. I completed the "Out West Tour" over the weekend, based on your Tour De Vic. We completed 1770km over 4 days with day 2 reaching 39 degrees C!!!! was a great adventure, piecing together a video now. Thanks for creating so many videos with tips and tricks, much appreciated

[@brentbat]

Wow... riding in 39C is tough... I've done that once... and I hope I don't have to do it too many times again. yes, this video was how I started with animated maps... then I moved to Keynote animation... and finally Geolayers (which is a professional grade mapping package)... but very steep learning curve and price.

[@OliReu]

Cool thanks for giving more tips if I ever want to go that deep into it. I did find a little trick you can smoothly zoom in and around a map with a touch screen laptop to capture a pretty good short map clip via snip video tool, it doesn’t stutter on zoom like mouse roller. Yea the 39 degrees was killer and we know we can do it again if have to - it was the Echuca to Mildura leg, were some fires around so skipped hattah kulkyne that arvo and hit the tarmac last 150km - air temp in tyre got to 59 degrees ! We were all just hoping no one’s bike would blow up running highway speed at 39 degrees - especially the thumpers. Day 1 11.5hr and 8 of riding Day 2 8 hrs and 6 of riding Day 3 9hrs 40 and 7.5hrs riding Day 4 8 hrs and 6.25 hrs riding Smashed out the 1770km - it was a good challenge

[@kymmoulds]

Well done Brent and thanks for taking the time to make the video. A big thumbs up.

[@tuftywhite9628]

Simply brilliant.

[@artur_jeronimo]

Nice and simple solution, seriously this is amazing thank you sir.

[@bendyroads3268]

This proves that not everything need complication, Simply brilliant Idea. Why the hell I couldn't think it off.

[@oulebsirislem3991]

thank you very much, the video ended quite suddenly, so i came back to make this comment, thank you and add a thumbs up . This is the best easiest way to get it done. thank you again

[@vlogs.naveed.chaudhry]

Exactly what I was looking for. Straight and to the point. Well done.

[@sanuknt2094]

❤ superb trick. Keep it up. Superb work!!!

[@joeboudreault2226]

This really helps as I have a video editing suite with all that... thank you!

[@jethrowingnut13]

Perfect thanks for the technique. a great example of KISS 👍

[@adventuristtv]

This approach works fine for somewhat linear tracks, however for tracks that travel in significantly different directions (like your example, which has nearly a full loop near Hill End), you would probably get a smoother result by animating a mask.

[@brentbat]

Yes, you are 100% correct... its a super simple technique only works in some situations. I haven't done animated masks before, but I might give it a shot next time I have a circular route to animate.

[@Poshgoondas]

The Rever App creates a good ‘fly by’ of a tracked ride.

[@brentbat]

@@Poshgoondas I haven't tried the Rever Fly by... I'll take a look at it. I have looked at www.relive.cc/ but you don't get much control.

[@tadpoletrekker]

Thanks for this, Brent, truly helpful!

[@nofrontiersmotoadvs]

love it! so simple! thank you.

[@tyik]

Wow, this is the easiest way to animate the route. Too easy, man. Thank you so much.

[@AdventureTravelandScuba]

Awesome this is what I was looking for for a long time I'm glad I found your channel. I will try to replicate this tomorrow in FCPX I hope it will work. I got map plug-in from Pixel film studios and no idea how to use it lol I will try your way.

[@fce2286]

Simply super. Thank you

[@Wing-Rider.]

Just what the doctor ordered! Thanks!

[@GustavLessing]

Brilliant and simple

[@ADVBrett]

Nice vid Brent! I'll give this a shot on FCP X!

[@brentbat]

Thanks Brett... should work like a treat in any editing package!

[@trekfoto]

Brilliant.... Thank you so much!

[@stevethomas9848]

Great videos -if I’ve never told you!!!

[@VishalPatel-gp9bs]

Thanks for sharing. Such a great hack

[@BigfootOverland]

Very nice. Thanks again!

[@orpaztron]

thanks for this simple solution....I thought it's done by masking tool which looks lot more complicated.

[@nemoltu]

Exactly what I thought.

[@gazooltube]

I just wanted to raise the flag for "GPX Animator" which is a free software (I have no affiliation) that really does a good job. There are several different options for background maps and more.

[@brentbat]

Hey Steffen, thanks for your note. Actually I have been in communication with a German motovlogger called Ralf who also put me onto GPX Animator. I've been playing with it and I love it. I'm going to use it on my next big trip in about 4 weeks time to the Victorian High Country... and I will probably do a separate video afterwards on this app. I really like it.

[@leonesterhazy8355]

thanks for this of course!! however wow.. the wisemans to hill end ride looks pretty damn awesome

[@keisham]

very simple solution. Thanks!

[@HenryAkes13]

SOoo much easier than animating it in afterfx. Awesome Idea.

[@roadintersection]

Haha....out of the box. MacGyver style. 👍👍

[@TheGreyBear]

Brillant!

[@Lauragraceh]

Thanks for the tutorial! Does anyone know if this is possible in capcut - I can't find the wipe feature but not sure if I am looking in the wrong place!

[@kengoold7157]

hi Brent, great video mate. been wondering how to do this. I see you're Sydney adventure group, I'm south east QLD adventure group, Gold Coast. I'm from Bankstown originally, Panania. think I better subscribe to see what you're up to. good on ya.

[@brentbat]

Nice to virtually meet you Ken. I hope you enjoy the videos. I need to start riding up North a bit more.... I'll get to QLD to ride one of these days ;-)

[@HarryKey]

This is super useful thanks, you'll see one of these in one of our (Riding on Eggshells) upcoming videos

[@WildlifeObsessed]

The most comprehensive thus far. Thnx, but 1 x Q. I am trying to plot a super long Drive (NBO to CPT over 5,000 miles and 60+ days) so need to be able to add dozens of Points on Map (not be restricted to 10 ! ). How ….. ? Thnx again

[@brentbat]

OK, You need proper mapping tools. I use GaiaGPS for my Adventure ride planning. It allows me to have organised folders of waypoints within a trip folder (I have one for fuel stops, one for lookouts and points of interest, one for shops etc.). It will build routes for you and allow you to tailor these by dragging and dropping. There are apps that rn on your phone etc. So hopefully this will work for you. there are lots of great video tutorials on how to use GaiaGPS. goto HTTP://gaiagps.com

[@fedorremy1994]

God bless you thank you man make a video with polygon ,route point i mean a global map animation

[@JustTex]

brilliant sir, cheers

[@twowheelswede]

Thank you so much this will help me alot in the future. :D :D :D I'm doing some videos where i'm going on some beautiful roads here in Sweden and i've been looking for a simple way to may the map look good and this is perfect. :D :D :D

[@brentbat]

Hey 2Wheels swede, glad you found this useful. Here's one other tutorial you might find interesting (not mine). kzbin.info/www/bejne/poqZfoOsi76psMk

[@fouriefamilytravels767]

How the hell did you line up your screen shot so perfectly?!

[@brentbat]

Reduce opacity to 50% of top layer in Premiere

[@felixonaheavybike8887]

Thanks for the tutorial, I would just use a animated mask in those cases where the line comes back the other way like in your example (on a mountain road with serpentines it would be even more obvious). I am just a beginner at editing, but I think the wipe transition has some limitations.

[@brentbat]

Thanks Felix. I was just trying to keep it super simple for people that were new to editing. I've now moved onto a much more advanced (and complicated) mapping application for After Effects called Geolayers. Definitely not for anybody who is. not an After Effects pro :-)

[@felixonaheavybike8887]

@@brentbat I did some more research and I think your method is actually the easiest and quickest of them I just need to find a way to get a higher resolution image of the map, as with a screenshot it's only around 720p

[@brentbat]

@@felixonaheavybike8887 I have a 4K monitor, so I am getting good high-res screen shots. Not sure what to do if you only have a small monitor, perhaps you can temporarily plug into a high-res monitor, grab the screen shot, or else ask a friend with a big monitor to get the screenshots for you.

[@felixonaheavybike8887]

@@brentbat That's definitely useful. I tried to make a couple of zoomed in screenshots and stitch them together in Lightroom, but the two stitched maps didn't fit on top of each other

[@felixonaheavybike8887]

@@brentbat I just gonna try the same with Open Street Maps, otherwise with google earth studio

[@renatodangal3298]

I love you!!! thanks. hahaha

[@MotoPavilion]

Nice trick 👍

[@MikeGilroyAK]

Thank you!

[@WhatsDaveUpTo]

THANK YOU!!

[@thecorporategypsy]

Wow!

[@deepakmotovlogs9502]

Brilliant 🔥

[@brentbat]

Glad you enjoyed it. I love it when you can find simple solutions to problems. :-)

[@turkeyinsiders2611]

Hello Brent, Is there any way to take these screenshots on 4k res on macbook pro? It seems a bit complicated when I check results on google and such but you always find or advise an easier solutions and make us more comfortable :)

[@brentbat]

If you are running a Mac Book Pro with high res screen you should be able to just snapshot that as per normal. Even if it's not true 4K, and you have to up-res it a bit, it should still look amazing.

[@iulianrauta6684]

Nice, still limited somehow to linear tracks,....what about a round trip ?

[@brentbat]

Depending on your editor and the version of your Operating System, you could do this using a "Clock wipe".... Now strangely I just noticed that this is missing from Premiere Pro on the Mac (but it is on Premiere Pro on Windows)... Don't ask me why, but if I need to do that, I'll try and hunt for a 3rd party transition to download.

[@beau__]

Where did you get the "wipe" effect? I don't see it.

[@brentbat]

It's in my editing software (Adobe Premiere Pro), try searching the effects for "wipe"

[@henryklazer5805]

thank you!

[@adedotunajibade]

Made easy!

[@Houseofcreators7]

THANKSSSSSSS BROOOOO

[@wamiqulislam]

Cool but this doesn't work with loops.

[@brentbat]

Yes, you are right. There is another trick you can use using an app like Keynote. Try this. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poqZfoOsi76psMk

[@whirltraveller1350]

I find it very difficult to follow with the heavy base music.

[@brentbat]

Sorry about that. I have stopped all the background music on my tutorials. This was a bit of an older one.

[@whirltraveller1350]

@@brentbat Can you send me the link please? You are kind to have replied. Thanks. Roger

[@brentbat]

@@whirltraveller1350 Hey Roger, I'm not sure what link you are referring to. but Here's a link to my GoPro tutorials kzbin.info/aero/PLT32jLKJaV8Nrvt1CZGIx4GNTudDFO7PG And here's a link to my editing tutorials kzbin.info/aero/PLT32jLKJaV8OhhIKkGyG3WEOoCRVn07Cj If you are after something else, just give me a holler.

[@whirltraveller1350]

@@brentbat Thank you. I have been in Europe for a month. The link I was referring to was for creating a gpx route. Cheers. I use Kinemaster to edit videos on my Galaxy S21.

[@brentbat]

@@whirltraveller1350 Here's a link to the playlist on navigation. All videos are listed here. kzbin.info/aero/PLT32jLKJaV8MtPWDWiExjEG0PYm9uoRha

[@peterknudsen8061]

Grete video - the background musik is a bit annoying.

[@whereisthevolume3648]

You are not KZbinr but you are true helper

[@brentbat]

Thx for that. Yes my KZbin channel is more of an accident. I enjoy helping others and making videos of my adventures.