Creating camera pans

A tracking shot always has a starting position and a final position. Navigate to a desired section of the map and click “Set start position”. Then move the map to the target and click “Set end position”. You can do that as often as you wish and in any desired sequence. In so doing, you have specified a camera pan, the trajectory of which you can see by clicking “Preview”. You can determine how long the flight should last by changing the details in the field “Flight duration”. The height of the flight is, on the one hand, apparent from the flight speed, however can be adjusted using the “Flight altitude” control.

Should you be satisfied with the flight, click “Create and insert video”. Then Earth Pilot begins to compute a video of the camera pan. This can last several minutes or even a few hours, depending upon the speed of your Internet connection, as well as your PC. Once the video is finished it is automatically inserted into your slide show. You can now exit Earth Pilot or compute further videos.