Using nothing more than the Animate app on my phone, I did another trial run this morning. I took a gpx file of a journey across the Brittany peninsula held on my iPhone X and asked Animate to create a video, again all within the phone itself. I guess the conversion took a minute, which at over 200 miles is not bad, I guess.
https://www.relive.cc/view/vKv2R4Qjzov
Now that I know that the app will process any gpx file, I know that I will be able to take a track from my Nav VI and convert it into an Animate video any time I like. Knowing this saves me from recording the journey in the Animate app in real time. That being said, recording it does make it easier to add pictures in real time, too. If I subscribed to the ‘Pro’ version I see that I can add video and do some editing as well.
I am not entirely sure if I prefer the Google map animated version of a journey (as in the opening post) or the Animate, Google Earth version, as in the example above. For something quick and easy, I guess the Animate version, perhaps?
As I have a Mac, I can maybe muck around between the two and create a final product I am happy with. What I do want to use it for is to create a good record of a month jaunt I have coming up in France to celebrate a chum’s retirement. It will give me an excuse to muck about learning. What I really want to do is learn how to embed the files into a trip report, which (at the moment) is well above my pay grade.... but I assume it is possible. I have never done any video stuff nor ever really exploited the huge power of my Mac, simply being happy enough that I know how to use BaseCamp, which hardly taxes a Mac’s brain. I now have an excuse to try to find out what it can really do.
The most amazing thing (to me at least) is that all this processing goes on within my iPhone X and within a free app.