Animate Your Route on a Map with After Effects
This YouTube video provides a tutorial on *how to animate a route on a map in After Effects**, including the creation and animation of **start and finish pins**. The process begins by showing how to **obtain a map* (with a note on Google Maps attribution) via screenshot. The video then demonstrates how to bring this map into *Premiere Pro* and subsequently **replace the clip with an Adobe After Effects composition**.
In After Effects, the tutorial covers:
*Drawing the route* using the pen tool, focusing on setting stroke properties and clicking along the desired path.
*Animating the drawn route* using the *Trim Paths* function within the shape layer, including the application of *Easy Ease* for smoother animation.
*Creating start and finish markers* using the ellipse tool, duplicating shapes, changing colours (red for finish, green for start), and manipulating the ellipse path to create a pin shape.
*Pre-composing* the finish and start marker layers.
*Positioning and scaling* the start and finish markers on the map.
*Animating the appearance* of the start and finish markers using **opacity keyframes**.
Finally, the video shows how the completed map animation in After Effects is **integrated back into Premiere Pro**. This tutorial is aimed at individuals wanting to learn how to visually represent a journey or path on a map using these Adobe Creative Cloud applications.
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