Making a line interactively move on a map clip

You've seen how a map is shown on the page and then you see the line with an arrow superimposed on it to show the route traveled across the clip (I do want it to be interactive not just one line all at once from start to finish). Can anyone give me step by step on how to do this. Briefly I want to show the entire world and start from NY moving on to California then on to Asia etc. Wondering if Motion would come into play on this? FYI I'm familiar with FCP to the extent for what I do with it - that is to say I'm not an expert or even an advanced user and am well aware of the fact that I probably only use 25 percent of it's capabilities. Thanks

Do you have iMovie? That is a built in feature. Click on the button for the Animatic Browser:
Create your moving map, then export to FCP for use.
Here is a low rez example:
http://vimeo.com/31232175
MtD

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Message was edited by: Mac Friendly
Message was edited by: Mac Friendly

Mac Friendly wrote:
.. QUESTION: When does iMovie 09 drop alternate scan lines? At ALL exporting? (Even to QT?)
it drops..
• NOT on import = all clips in Events contain 100% quality, whatever you do in Projects..
• NOT if you use speed, dissolve or fade ONLY in a Project
• ALLWAYS, if you use any OTHER 'effect' (e.g. page curl, a map, a background, any title), on ANY clip in the Project.. therefor on any export setting
the intended workflow is, you shouldn't export manually, but Share to MediaBrowser (=which creates a 540/h264file.. ), which appears in the Media/iM tab in iDVD.. you've tried that way?
did I mention my suade .. ?
consider:
• iDVD creates videoDVD, which has - by standards - 720x480.. a fraction of your original pics and what your Mac's screen offer..
• watching such a disk on a computer or HiDef-flatscreen in 'fullscreen mode' means, each pixel gets zoomed by some factor of up to 4 .. => 'blocky', pixelated look.
• for finally judging pic quality, you should use a 'tube'/CRT TV ..

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