Google Earth Studio - It's AMAZING!

so I remember when Google Earth first came out in the early 2000s I was at my uncle's house and he sat me down as computers of hate how to check this out he showed me Google Earth after he showed me just how to use it and navigate it then he showed me the feature where you could animate a point-to-point animation so you could plug in two different locations and then have the camera fly around and it was so amazing now you've probably already seen a lot of these animations either on the news or in documentary films they're used a lot and the way they're done is someone will create an animation inside of Google Earth and then they'll do a simple screen recording and export that well now Google has introduced a much much better and much more fun way of doing this so Google Earth studio is a browser-based animation tool for all of Google Earth satellite and 3d imagery it gives users a ton of options for creating customizing and exporting Google Earth animations and videos it's perfect for news agencies documentary filmmakers nonprofits or for anyone who just loves Maps so in this video I'm gonna give you an in-depth look at the interface I'm going to show you how to create some cool animations I'm gonna show you how to export those animations and I'm gonna also show you how to bring those animations into Premiere Pro and After Effects now I'm only going to be scratching the surface with After Effects because this program goes way in depth with the compositing options you can have with After Effects so I'm probably going to create a standalone tutorial because way too many cool things so a quick disclaimer Google Earth studio is still in a preview release version which means you're going to have to send in a request and my request took about a month to get approved also you're gonna need to be running in the latest version of Chrome and you're going to need to have a Google account I really have no idea if and when they'll do a wide release all right let's take a closer look while this tool can get pretty in-depth I want to show you how easy it is to use so if you have no animation experience it doesn't matter and let me show you why so here I can open an old project or I can create a new blank project but if I hit the drop down menu you're gonna see a Quick Start button and this is going to give me access to a bunch of animation presets which really really are very very easy to use so let me just quickly show you how we can knock one of these out really quick so we have a couple of different options here we have zoom - zooms in on a location we have orbit we have point point and we have spiral and also fly to and orbit so let's just pick orbit here I'm going to click on orbit this is going to create a new project great start and now it says where do you want to set your point of interest so I'm going to select the arc de triomphe I live in France and this happens to be this the area where all the yellow vests if you've been watching the news late all the yellow vests protesters this is kind of where they like to protest here there's been a lot of chaos at this particular location ok so I typed in the location and now it has kind of a straight overhead view here it looks kind of like Google Maps and I'm gonna go ahead and click the next button here ok and now we can see a little timeline here and we can see our animation and what I'm gonna do here is I have four different options to change or if I want to change this animation in the opposite direction I can have it go this way so now I'm going to bring the radius down just a little bit I'm gonna come down and altitude there we go and I'm gonna leave the target altitude where it's at and I'm gonna leave this start heading where it's at click Next and let's say we want it to be 15 seconds instead of 50 and it's basically gonna do an entire orbit in 15 seconds so it's gonna go all the way around and it'll be loopable as well ok I'm gonna go ahead and click that checkbox ok so now it brought us in to the actual application interface here which we're going to go into more depth in just a minute but you're gonna see it's placed all of our keyframes here and everything's good to go so this animation is good to go I can just go up here and hit render and just give it a name and type in arc de triomphe there we go and just like that I have you know no animation experience I can go ahead and render that out that's how easy it is to create I'm gonna go ahead and click cancel it now let's take a closer look at what we got going on in the face here I'm gonna go ahead and start from scratch again I'm gonna go to file new blank project but as you see in here we still have access to all these QuickStart options but I'm going to go ahead and click blank project and I'm gonna click don't save and in regards to saving projects it will save associated to your Google account so when you launch the website again you can automatically reload you know any of your saved projects okay so let's call this one Arc de Triomphe and this is the cool thing I have I can change the dimensions the duration and the frame rate and the dimensions can go up to a maximum of just above I think it's four K and I'm gonna change the frame rate the earth frames I want to look at timecode 15 seconds is a good duration for me and the frame rate is fine but if you look here's all the different options for frame rates we can go from 24 to 60 so I'm going to keep that on 30 click start and that's going to bring up the interface here so let's take a look at what we got going on now Google based the design of Earth studio off of industry standard animation tools so this works off keyframes on a timeline so here down here we have our timeline and over here to the left we have our attributes we have attributes for camera position such as longitude latitude and altitude and camera rotations such as pan and tilt over here we can add different attributes such as camera target field the view time of day which is very very cool by the way we can make it nighttime if we want we can turn the clouds on and off we can turn the over ocean overlays on or off now the way we make our animation is we add keyframes so essentially we'll add a keyframe move the playhead to a different spot in time change the attribute at another keyframe and then we have an animation so that is how this program is based off of but first we want to learn how to navigate with our camera here it's important to learn a few keyboard shortcuts to make your life much much easier so let's take a look here up in this viewport at how we can control the earth so if you've ever worked in Google Earth it's very much similar I can just grab the earth here and drag it around can zoom in with my mouse scroll I have actually a couple of different viewport options I can toggle the viewport with this button over here and if I go to this two box now you can see I've got this other cool different way to look at the interface here I can see my camera moving as I change the view here I can change the view of this second window here and there's some settings here and I can also navigate via this window as well I'm going to switch it back to the one window now let's go back to the Arc de Triomphe and I can just type it in in my search bar here like I can type in any location it's going to take us straight there and now let me show you some of these shortcuts so here we are we're straight over top of the Arc de Triomphe now if I click and drag just as I did before I can move the earth around and now if I want to pan tilt or orbit the camera I'm gonna hold the Alt key first and we're gonna orbit the camera so if I hold alt and then I click right here you're gonna see this set of crosshairs comes up straight on where my cursor was that's important to know now my camera point of view is basically gonna orbit around that target so as I click and drag here you're gonna see now we can start to see the 3d aspect here which is super super cool so I'm just going to kind of pivot it this way you can see I can orbit all around quite fast so I'm going to orbit it to maybe right here and now I can zoom in I'm gonna change the altitude here now the other shortcut is when you hold ctrl so I'm gonna hold the ctrl key and this controls the camera rotation so here I can do tilt and pan moves there's a tilt and there's a pan so those are the two main modifier keys you want to learn ctrl + Alt + or option alt again click and drag to get that target and then we orbit around our target and then ctrl is for pan and tilt super super important and that's the first thing I think you should learn ok so now I'm ready to create some animations let me go ahead and show you one thing in particular - click add attributes and I'm gonna click on time of day and you see that actually changes the time of day here and it's added the time attribute here it has we can actually change the date and also the time of day so what I'm gonna do here is I'm going to animate this from 8:00 in the morning add a keyframe go to the end and change it to maybe 11 o'clock and then we see another keyframe is added here and now if I scroll through here you're going to see pretty crazy the day's change there now also what's interesting is you see the intensity of the shadows are actually changing but kind of a bummer if we look at our big shadow here from the Arc de Triomphe it's not changing but nevertheless still very very cool thing that you can animate here now I'm gonna go ahead and let's make the time of day not change that much we only wanted to change a little bit like let's say this is a only a little bit and let's bring this one up to ten maybe okay so it's only one hour here so let's say this is kind of a time lapse now we want it to go from we want it to do kind of a little fly around so I'm gonna hit the all attributes keyframe here and that's going to add keyframes to all these attributes so this is our start point I'm gonna go to the end point here and I just wanted to kind of orbit around the arc so I'm gonna hold the Alt key click on here and now it's gonna kind of orbit like this and maybe up a little bit and that'll be our end point and you see no keyframes have been added here but now these have turned yellow meaning that the attributes have changed and they need to be keyframed again so I'm gonna go ahead and click keyframe all attributes okay so the keyframes are in place now I'm gonna smooth things out so what I can do here is I can add some easy ease now I can do it in a couple of different ways I have a animation menu up here with all of my easing options or I can just go directly down here and highlight some of the key frames right click and I'm gonna say ease out for these you can see now that they have these little arrows attached I'm gonna do that for the camera rotation options as well ease out and then for all of these here I'm going to ease these in and we won't worry about time and there's also a couple of curve options here if I right click straight in the timeline not over Neath overtop of any of this you can see that I can look at value graphs and I can look at speed graphs so if I click on value graphs now and I click an attribute you can see I can see my value here I have a couple of different options and I can switch this over to speed graph as well and we can see since we added the easy ease now I can control the speed here kind of have it ramp up ramp out what however I want really a lot of options here ok now I have my animation good to go and ramps up here and just does this ever so slight push around now I'm gonna export this so you'll see there's a big red render button over here and I also have this little button here which lets me export just a single image or a snapshot but I'm gonna go ahead and click render now let's take a look at our options here we're seeing our preview and we have a couple of different options I can change the frames that I want to export and I can change the dimensions here I can go to advanced and I can actually export the 3d tracking data for use in after-effects which once again this is kind of super in-depth in advance and I'm gonna save this for another tutorial but very exciting stuff it allows you to composite stuff straight into your map here I'm gonna have the texture quality set to high when I go back to basic and for attribution you can have the Google Earth logo set anywhere and wherever you want it but you have to have it on there and as of right now this is free for use for any kind of nonprofit non-commercial use there's no way to buy a license just yet for this but I urge you to go and read the guidelines but if you're working in news or you're working on a documentary as long as you do the proper attributions it's fine to use so now I'm going to go ahead and click start now is kind of the interesting thing here is that this is going to render directly here to my downloads folder and if I go and I open up a new tab here and I kind of navigate away it will pause this render and I have to have this tab active however if I open up a new window this will still render everything will be fine so if you're ever working in here and you open up you know you open up another tab just know that this is going to be paused and it can also cause some problems with your render so just just kind of keep this tab open and really don't worry about the speed of your internet that has no effect on the quality of the render it will just take the render a little bit longer to finish okay so that render is complete now I'm going to show you how we can bring these into Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro first I'm going to go over to my Finder window and go to downloads and you'll see that I have these two exports here the first is my orbit and the second is the render that we just rendered out so I'm going to do you compress both of these and now I'm gonna go over and we'll do with OB Premiere Pro first now I'm in Premiere Pro I'm gonna double click in the project panel I'm gonna go to downloads folder and first I'm gonna grab this orbit one you'll see I have a footage folder here if I click on footage we have basically an image sequence that's how these export they export as JPEG sequences and here we have 750 images so what I need to do I need to bring this in as a sequence so to do that I just select the first image go over to options and make sure image sequence is selected I'm going to select import and now we have our image sequence here I click on it you can see up here the stats are the tech specs 1920 by 1080 25 seconds at 30 frames per second so now I'm going to drag this over and we'll just create a new sequence here based on those settings and now I fullscreen that and we can see now we have this great look in 1920 by 1080 orbit that is also loopable and we also have our Google Earth logo right there so that's looking good now I can double click and do the same thing for our other one grab the footage first image and options this is selected import there we go and now this one's a little bit different you can see we change the time of day this is more kind of like at high noon this is more kind of in the morning 10:00 to 11:00 and it's a bit slow a little more slow and we have the ease out and the ease in and this one's much more subtle looking good okay now let's go over to After Effects and it's the same kind of deal when you're importing in After Effects you just need to make sure okay we're already in one of the folders here you just need to make sure you select one image and look down in your options and make sure that importer JPEG sequence is selected and that will bring it in as a JPEG sequence this is 450 frames then I can bring this into the new comp and then voila I will have a new comp there we go and as I said before you can go pretty crazy in depth if you want to composite I'm going to create another tutorial and I'm going to show you how to composite exporting 3d tracking data from Google or studio and using it within After Effects so be sure to subscribe to my channel hit that notification bell because that tutorial is in the pipeline okay before I in the tutorial I want to show you one last thing that is just so super cool if you aren't impressed yet you're about to be so I'm gonna go back to add attributes I'm gonna turn on time of day hit done and now you can see we have this super cool view we can actually see the lights of all the cities here we have this crazy Milky Way galaxy in the back you can see the Sun I mean that is super cool and even if I go in let's say we want to go and do we could do a time-lapse of of the stars here so I'm gonna go over here this is um this is this little Monument in Wyoming I don't know if you guys have ever been there it's called Devils Tower so we have the stars on the on the horizon here now watch what happens as I change this here yeah this beautiful just lit up where's that galaxy gonna make sure we get that in the shot so I can orbit around this way there it is so we could go in here and do some kind of crazy cool time-lapse I mean look at this this is unbelievable if you're not impressed by this yeah I don't know check your pulse man it because now I could go I'll actually I already have some keyframes in here look at that see and there we go we have this animation very very cool and now we can even have it creep in like I can set keyframes for all come here and then we can have it just kind of creep in a little bit like I said you want to learn the shortcuts because it's kind of can be kind of hard to figure out how to do this okay so now you see we're moving in just incredible incredible okay so they have it there's an in-depth look at Google or studio I'd love to hear what you think I'm absolutely psyched this is so cool I just love everything about this program and I really hope I can incorporate it in a project soon so let me know what you think in the comments section I'd love to hear if you're going to use this tool if you've already used it send me a link I'd love to see what you created with it and also as always be sure to subscribe to my channel and hit that notification bell so you get updates for all my new content and hit that thumbs up button if you liked the video I'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 19min 40sec (1180 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 21 2019