How to import and animate KML routes with After Effects and Google Earth Studio 

This is terrific. I'm new with GES and AE so, of course, what you've done is overwhelming. Thankfully, your step-by-step approach here will allow me to watch each of your moves so I can practice with this...applied to a project that's somewhat similar. Of course I'll be devotimg the next 2-3 months understanding what you did in less than 18 minutes. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this video - exactly what I was looking for! :0)

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Cool tips, great addition to use google earth studio when making transitions between locations

Watched 100 of videos and then I found this....this is what I exactly want ...Thank you so much for explaining it great and I'm going to subscribe for sure ...

I learnt so much about google studio which I probably should have known years ago, I work in news graphics so this is certainly going to speed up the bespoke map making and with more accurate results thank you so much for this tutorial.

I'm considering buying AFs so I can do just this. Seems like a lot of work, but people really appreciate this in ski videos. Thank you!

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Excellent tutorial, thanks for sharing! Definitely some great tips in here that will help me up my game.

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Thanks for all of your tips! I've just been getting into producing myself for my artists and mannnnn. It's like science lmao. Thanks a ton!

Thanks for this video, the most useful I found on the subject! I didn't see the need to join the path in Illustrator, but I used Path/Simplify to reduce significantly the number of points. Also, I obtained acceptable 'close to 3D' results with mountains or hills by cutting the paths at strategic places in Illustrator and setting additional track points accordingly in Google Earth Studio where the path is cut (this helps zeroing anchor point to one end of the path). Then, fine tuning in After Effects with XYZ orientation and sometimes modifying individual points (but this later action will only work with limited camera movements). However, it's a time consuming process, and junctions are visible when joining several strokes of different width and color as in your example. So I'm stuck with using only one color stroke. I can't wait to see your solution with Blender + After Effects!

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amazing. I event didnt know this exists. definitely going to implement for my own project

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Thanks for a very detailed guide on this! A few things i stumbled upon: * If you render the video with 60p from Google Earth Studio the tracking points will get wacky in AE due to AE interpreting it as 30p, to fix this: " So all you needed to do was right-click the image sequence in the project panel, Interpret Footage, then set the frame rate to 60fps" Another thing i had a problem with was that it still didnt track correctly, this got fixed if i turned of 3D on the Shape layer and turned it on again, (i had to put the SVG file in correct position again after doing this) Thanks!

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Thank you, it helped but i had a little bit of problems. Good Tutorial

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Echoing many of the comments already posted.... a really great tutorial on an essential process. In Illustrator, how do you deal with the "Join" function when it closes the path with a direct line between the start and ending points in addition to the mapped path created in MyMaps?

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Nice video ! Could you explain how you did the "Staple Center" title above the place ? Thanksss a lot

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A little complicated but neat if you can do it, thanks for sharing.

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I've been looking for this for a week and watched it within one hour of uploading so you read my mind. Great tutorial, how can you wave a flag overlaying a country while panning?

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Nice Tutorial, but when I use it for routes in the mountains, things got messed up. AE path lines deviates from actual path :(

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This really looks like a cumbersome process! Wouldn't it be easier in this case to just draw the path in AE? In 3D-Software like cinema 4d or 3d max or blender you can use splines, give them 3d on top and animate the splines - so easy :-) In my opinion there are still some bugs in the keyframing in GE Studio. I play with it for some time now and still have problems to let it look smooth. When you add keyframes, esp. camera targets everything can get crumbled up before. I know cam target overwrites cam angle and tilt - you have to think what to animate first and what to keyframe first ;-)

Wonderfoul tutorial, i found function on google studio that I did not know!! KEYFRAME ON MAP (like Ae)! Keyframe of speed (like Ae)! All good!

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I can´t paste the svg file in After Effects when i create the layer. Help Please!!!

One thing to know. Adobe After Effects is used to render something called "tracking points" in the final video. Tracking points are usually something which is not part of the base layer such as text, etc. They track the overlying content correctly with the base layer. Most people do not even use tracking points. So the GES output content will import into Photoshop CC and other free video editors to render a high quality final .mp4 video. They just won't have extra layer tracking point content. I make mine with Photoshop. If I need text, I add it there on another layer. It doesn't track with the base layer but in most cases that is fine. You could even have that text move with Photoshop's built in animation key frame system if you wanted to. The point... Don't avoid GES because you think you need After Effects. That simply is not true. You do need some kind of a quality editor for final render however.

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i think i love you, i watched all tutorials on youtube about this subject. This is the only one that really allow me to do my job. Thanks you.

Thank you really cool method. My only advice is do not try with very long paths, I've tried with some 100km long path and it is literally impossible to match the path on the map once in AE. So I will just reduce the km of my path and make smaller bits.

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*ROUTE MOVING OUT OF SYNC - SOLVED* Firstly, thanks for this video, it was extremely helpful. The issue I had, was when I began to line/scale up the route to the map render, the line was going out of sync and alignment with the video. I was working in 25fps, and when importing the files into after effects there is a bug where it changes the frame rate to 30. You need to right click the file in the project, interpret footage and change to your desired frame rate

Thanks for the great tutorial! The newer version (current) when i switch off all the overlays, it only render me black screen, i guess i did something wrong here

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Excellent ! Congratulations ! I have the same issue than Fady : I follow the steps exactly many times, but once I get inside After Effects and make my shape layer 3D and parent it to my first track point, my path doesn't match the movement of the camera as in the tutorial. Please note in the overlay, I have only the "direction from Staple Center to Santa Monica" : I do not have the 2 single overlays "Santa Monica" & "Staple Center" because I used a GPX files from a device, but of course I add the 2 Track Points (Start & End). Any idea ?

Thanks for the video! I would like to know if there is a similar way to achieve this effects but with an already existing video scene, not a 3d model. So I have a scene with my camera going across a street and showing parts of a square and I want to add a line that follows the path of the street and gets into the square. How could I achieve that? Any suggestions, tutorials, etc.? Thank you very much!!!!

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great work, is there a way to manual create a route on google maps/earth, im trying to undertake a route around a race track

Great tutorial! I’m wondering if it’s possible to do the Ilustrator part in Photoshop instead. Thanks

awesome tutorial thanks , im very excited to complete this project BUT once in AE my JAVA script file did not include my start and end location.... any idea why not ? cant attach route to anything without it .... ;(

Thank you for the tutorial, it is very helpful. I have only one problem, I don't get the world coordinate system in AE when loading the scrip. Is there something I'm missing?

Really interesting video, I've been looking for something like this for years! I have just one question, in reference to the comment at 12:30. Is it possible to create a 3D path in After Effects in order to tune its altitude to better fit the Google Earth map altitude? It would be really useful to create trekking maps, where mountains create huge altitude shifts. Can you also tell me how can I get access to Google Earth Studio?

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Hi in the minute 9:26 how connect the lines, you use a shorcuts and am lost, (not work in illustrator) can you explain me the steps in ilustrator, thx

The idea is great, but sadly my track point not stay in its place properly after frame 0. How to fix that?

When i zero out the position of the shape layer, the line is disappearing. What i am doing wrong?

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thank's!! this tutorial is amazing, but I have a huge problem because when the route across the mountains or hills, after effect lose the right position of the spline :(

Hello! I was attempting to make an animation of a route across a state (San Francisco to LA) but the KML file doesn't seem to line up correctly. What could be some of the issues? Thank you!

Hi, how to make the same map effects like in Tour de France where they present a stage in a similar way?

How did you add the name tags for the places? You never mentioned that

Hi! Thank you so much! Info... 3d router in mountain not working... the track no support altitude... you has solve?

I am unable to understand the way u did the maping in adobe after effects

Any alternatives for commercial purpose? I am looking for a route map from a point A to a product (A real estate plot)

I must be doing something wrong - when I align my trackers, as soon as I move the footage on a couple of seconds to fine-tune, the route doesn't stay in place - would love to know what I'm doing incorrectly as this is perfect for a couple of projects

Good tutorial, but I can't repeat result. Trajectory of shape layer and JPG sequences are differ. I guess my problem is at 10:01 (parenting and linking), Could you explain this step in detail (why making a link with Stapler Center layer). There are two referent points in your tutorial: the first is Staple Center (Google Earth Studio Timecode 23:08), and the second is Santa Monica Pier (Google Earth Studio Timecode 23:24). But when you making a link with the first point, playhead of After Effects composition locates at 22:14). Why? May be it's a keystone of me failure? Thanks

This effect is exactly what I've been looking for! I'm having one problem, though: when I join the .svg line in Illustrator, it joins the beginning and end of the line by creating a new line between them. It shows up in AE as part of the kml route. I must be missing something. ?

Great tutorial! Unfortunately, doesnt work for bigger scale, because of earth curvature my SVG graph goes much higher than end point