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Bjørn Sørensen · October 5th, 2003, 07:09 AM

I need a short animated clip with a globe rotating/moving in space. Anyone who knows where to buy such a clip in PAL (Quicktime mov).?

Michael Wisniewski · October 5th, 2003, 05:19 PM

Check this company out

Bernard Diaz · October 5th, 2003, 05:31 PM

Check out this free real time 3D space simulation.
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
It's similar to a planetarium.
I wouldn't know how to record the spining globe but you're probably more computer savy than I am.
Once you download it, run the demo under help.
Sit back and enjoy.

Stephen Schleicher · October 6th, 2003, 10:58 AM

Check this site out

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

The QT and MPEG versions you can download have some weird-ass stuttering problems and are not usable. However, if you contact the person directly, they will let you have access to their FTP site for a much larger and supposedly cleaner version of the earth rotation. I haven't had the time to do it myself, so I don't know if the weird-ass stutter shows up in their "large" version or not.

Paul Tauger · October 6th, 2003, 03:37 PM

I've used the Blue Marble stuff mentioned by Stephen with great success. If you go to www.ruyitang.com and click on the India video, you'll see an opening sequence that I created using the Nasa stuff. The two globes are stills from the site. The moving earth beneath them was created using a still from the site, panning across it using the Motion filter in Premiere, carefully looping the end result and then applying some Gaussian blur. If you want just a pure, rotating earth in space, instead of downloading the one on the Blue Marble site, send in an email request for the uncompressed video. They'll email you back with a url where you can download it. It takes a couple of days to get the email response back, and then quite a while to downloadm the file, but it's worth it -- very good resolution and no stuttering at all.

October 5th, 2003, 07:09 AM	#1
Bjørn Sørensen Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 143	Rotating Globe I need a short animated clip with a globe rotating/moving in space. Anyone who knows where to buy such a clip in PAL (Quicktime mov).? __________________ x

October 5th, 2003, 05:19 PM	#2
Michael Wisniewski Wrangler Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Makati, Metro Manila Posts: 2,706 Images: 32	Check this company out __________________ "Ultimately, the most extraordinary thing, in a frame, is a human being." - Martin Scorsese

October 6th, 2003, 10:58 AM	#4
Stephen Schleicher Regular Crew Join Date: May 2003 Location: Hays, KS Posts: 188	Real Earth Rotation Check this site out http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/ The QT and MPEG versions you can download have some weird-ass stuttering problems and are not usable. However, if you contact the person directly, they will let you have access to their FTP site for a much larger and supposedly cleaner version of the earth rotation. I haven't had the time to do it myself, so I don't know if the weird-ass stutter shows up in their "large" version or not. __________________ Stephen Schleicher www.stephenschleicher.com

October 5th, 2003, 05:31 PM	#3
Bernard Diaz Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 151	Check out this free real time 3D space simulation. http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ It's similar to a planetarium. I wouldn't know how to record the spining globe but you're probably more computer savy than I am. Once you download it, run the demo under help. Sit back and enjoy.

October 6th, 2003, 03:37 PM	#5
Paul Tauger Wrangler Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Los Angeles (recently from San Francisco) Posts: 954	I've used the Blue Marble stuff mentioned by Stephen with great success. If you go to www.ruyitang.com and click on the India video, you'll see an opening sequence that I created using the Nasa stuff. The two globes are stills from the site. The moving earth beneath them was created using a still from the site, panning across it using the Motion filter in Premiere, carefully looping the end result and then applying some Gaussian blur. If you want just a pure, rotating earth in space, instead of downloading the one on the Blue Marble site, send in an email request for the uncompressed video. They'll email you back with a url where you can download it. It takes a couple of days to get the email response back, and then quite a while to downloadm the file, but it's worth it -- very good resolution and no stuttering at all.