Roasted
August 16th, 2012, 04:35 PM
I'm trying to build up a video and I want to show a smooth transition of the country that zooms in to a specific location. Google Earth of course came to mind, but when you're zooming in it sometimes gets choppy for a second or so. Even when I let it fully cache and repeat the steps several times it acts like that.
On my Nexus 7 tablet within the Google Map (with satellite enabled) it operates just like I need to. It's smooth, quick, and well defined.
I tried Google Maps on my laptop and it just instantly snaps there. There's no transition flowing from the full United States view to Denver Colorado, etc. I was hoping for smooth transitions since, of course, I want the video to look decent and appealing.
So I guess I'm stuck at two crossroads. On one hand, I could figure out how to make Google Earth run smoother (i3 desktop, 8GB RAM, SSD) and just use Kazam to screencast it, or I can do the same with Google Maps on the computer if there's a way to somehow enable the smooth transition I'm after instead of the instantaneous "snap" to location that it currently seems to do.
The other option if the computer route is a dead end is to simply find a Kazam-like video recorder that records your entire screen into an AVI or MP4 format and do it on my tablet, which would be perfectly acceptable as well since it's far from a 320x240 resolution. I know you can take screenshots by simultaneously hitting the power and down volume button on my N7, but what about video? The tablet idea I'm 50/50 on. When you zoom in, an actual white tag appears that says Denver, Colorado. This would be easier for viewers to quickly see on the screen. On the flip side, it doesn't zoom in as far as I would prefer, BUT considering the easy to read tag to quickly identify "Denver Colorado", versus the computer versus that has text over the green landscaping which might be slightly more difficult to read on a screen, it's a minor thing to complain about.
Any ideas you guys could offer I'd greatly appreciate!
On my Nexus 7 tablet within the Google Map (with satellite enabled) it operates just like I need to. It's smooth, quick, and well defined.
I tried Google Maps on my laptop and it just instantly snaps there. There's no transition flowing from the full United States view to Denver Colorado, etc. I was hoping for smooth transitions since, of course, I want the video to look decent and appealing.
So I guess I'm stuck at two crossroads. On one hand, I could figure out how to make Google Earth run smoother (i3 desktop, 8GB RAM, SSD) and just use Kazam to screencast it, or I can do the same with Google Maps on the computer if there's a way to somehow enable the smooth transition I'm after instead of the instantaneous "snap" to location that it currently seems to do.
The other option if the computer route is a dead end is to simply find a Kazam-like video recorder that records your entire screen into an AVI or MP4 format and do it on my tablet, which would be perfectly acceptable as well since it's far from a 320x240 resolution. I know you can take screenshots by simultaneously hitting the power and down volume button on my N7, but what about video? The tablet idea I'm 50/50 on. When you zoom in, an actual white tag appears that says Denver, Colorado. This would be easier for viewers to quickly see on the screen. On the flip side, it doesn't zoom in as far as I would prefer, BUT considering the easy to read tag to quickly identify "Denver Colorado", versus the computer versus that has text over the green landscaping which might be slightly more difficult to read on a screen, it's a minor thing to complain about.
Any ideas you guys could offer I'd greatly appreciate!