How to import and KML route

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1) Google.com /maps/d/u/o

   Google maps > create a new map

2) In the overlay window double click on the route this will center route in the screen as well as providing a true north at the top of the screen.

  - Set a key frame here do the same for the Staple Center double click on it and then find a position where you're going to  be able to see a little bit

    of the route as wellas the actual Staples center and then we'll do one more for the pier which is our final location. These 3 key frames will not be used

    used in the actual video itself but will be used to help construct the KML file that we'll be bring in to AE.

 - and our finish point here we'll just remove  the curve on the final location of the pier as it will have curved into our top over head shot of the actual  

   route  as you probably aware you can not import a KML file into AE. A KML file uses as latitude and longitude to indicate  locations and coordinates

   where as AE uses  a pseudo universal transverse mercator file  or coordinate to indicated coordinates as its work space. So we'll be converting the 

   KML file data into an SGV file that can be used  in AE and overlay into our our AE project.

 - We will however add a couple of track point. We can use these track points within AE to create animated place marks. You will also help us align

   our path or route.

 - So once we got those set up we will go into our overlay and hide it so as to not show it in our render. So we'll set this up. Make sure our advanced

   settings include the Java Script file and we'll click start . So I'll just fast forward through here and here. We see it just finishing up this, This is the

   output video from Google Earth Studio < 7;30 >

 - So we'll save that to our computer and now jump into our folder view and extract the content of the zip file that was provided. OK and now we'll

   switch over  to AE and we're gonna go file - script and runs script file - and we'll select that fil from the zip folder.

 - And it will load up the world coordinate system and camera. I always delete the text elements that one provided in this file.

   And we'll just scrub that video and a look.Make sure it's all these of course it is.

   And we're just going to go the frame where we get the top down view of the route area. We're going to jump over into Google  and do a search

   for KML to SVG. And there is one web site called GPS visualizer which will do the conversion for as you select file then we will also select SVG format

   and get that created now. This is a free service . So I would recommend. If you are using it that you use the donate button and make sure that 

   the provider of this service can keep it up and running.

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 Now to get the path into AE we're just going to jump illustrator and open open up the SVG file does have some information in there that we don't need.

 So we're just going to select that path that line there make it copy of it or cut it and just paste it on to a blank work sheet. Now  the way that these files are constructed are there lines connected to lines. So we we want to join them all , so we'll select all of the elements  there and join them and this will 

create one large line . And now we can just copy that file back into AE. We're going to create a new shape layer. We're going to draw a shape with the

pen tool /and then in the contents of the that drawing we're going to go the path select the path and now past or CTRL V for window users. and we're

replaced that path with our path our path from illustrator. So this is now we get the SVG into the actual file. We're gonna switch it into 3 D mode and 

select the Staple center as our target zero out some items here. So we can leave leave the x and y and will or which ever coordinate the left and right.

We'll zero out the altitude zero our rotation. And now we're just going to increase the size and now move it closely to between two points and you

can barely see them there but there're indicated by the place marks there with little red boxes. So we'll zoom it sized and  because everything was north

 when we double click on the overly within Google Earth Studio and the file that is created in this SVG format is worth. We do'nt have to any rotation we can just size and position the path itself. So takes a little bit of fine tuning scrub but you can scrub through the video where we have both in tract< 11;13>

 

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