Video Location Intro

RetromanIE · Apr 25, 2015

I'm currently waiting on my Inspire to arrive and am playing around with a location intro for the videos I plan to do(My Phantoms are grounded so no flying for me until my new toy arrives). What I want is a brief earth zoom to the location of the video and then the video plays. Now, what I don't want is an overindulgent and long intro (a lot of people make this mistake).

Below is a rough version of what I plan to do. At the end is a still picture, but the final version would be the video playing and then filling the whole screen.
Now this is obviously not for professional use and just something I think would be nice in front of my personal videos as I plan to travel a lot with the inspire.

My question, is it too long? Personally I think I need to shave about 5-7 seconds off it.

Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.

Kauaigene · Apr 25, 2015

Maybe too long, but first question is how were they created?

RetromanIE · Apr 25, 2015

Kauaigene said:
Maybe too long, but first question is how were they created?

Yeah, I'll definitely shorten the intro by starting later or speeding up a portion of it i think.
It was done in Adobe After Effects, its fairly rough at the moment but I just need to clean up the map tiles and clouds and it should look a little better.

lrwskyfilms · Apr 26, 2015

Very nice, impressive.

AMCR · Apr 26, 2015

I have been thinking about doing this. great job man! I have been too busy to work on it but you nailed it. My thoughts for shortening it are.... start with the earth in the center @:03 seconds and end at around :15 = 12 second into!

RetromanIE · Apr 26, 2015

Yes I think about 12 seconds is the way to go. Will have a go later tonight.

Lots of tutorials on how to do this on Google and some sample project files as well that helped me get it setup quickly.