Columbus is a software program with many
applications, but primarily it allows of illustration of
travelling routes on standard shots of road and city maps.
Simply film a map or select one of the pre-loaded maps and
play it back in your Casablanca as a scene, then use
Columbus to create a route directly on the map.
The routes can be animated and created in variable ways.
Key-frames can be used to define the route from any starting
point to any end point.
Determine the speed of the route "drawing",
change the brush color and width, or create stop-points and
label these with city names for instance.
Use the included 3D objects (eg. cars, airplanes, arrows,
pencils,...) to draw the route. If you intend to add
stop-points to your route, Columbus can be used to
automatically create multiple part-scenes when rendering.
These can be used in conjunction with the included special
effects.
The special effects inside Columbus can - as opposed to the
standard effects - be applied to a position on the screen (eg.
a stop-point on the map), from which the following video
scene is zoomed, rotated or faded in.
With the recent release of Colmbus 2,
the original version of Colmbus is no longer available. All
of the features of Colmbus listed below are now included as
features of Colmbus 2.
- Click here to read more about Columbus 2
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