How to record a video with Google Earth Pro?

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FoxAdriano

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Hi, I use Google Earth Pro to search for various places.
Today I need to record a video (map) but then use it in my UHD documentary.
I would like to do this: I live in Italy, so I have in front of me the map of Italy where the video must start. Then in "Search" (top left) I write Lubango which is the arrival city.
OK.
Then I go to Tools and put a check mark on "Movie Maker".
A small page opens where I configured everything. Look at the photo:
Then I click on "Create movie" and then click on "Search" to search for Lubango (Angola). At that moment the World begins to move, but the movie I get is horrible and jerky. I think I'm doing something wrong. Can someone tell me if I'm doing the right steps?

If I record it as a PNG sequence a path of a few seconds, I get the same mess. Even 2 seconds of sequence are skipped.
I also tried to record in HD.
I don't understand where I'm going wrong.

Is there a tutorial that explains in a simple way (I'm not an expert) how to create a video? I read, I wasted hours, but I didn't do anything.
Thanks for some info.
 
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In the past, I have just inserted an Atomos Ninja in the monitor line and looped through the Ninja to the PC monitor. Suggestion. Just make sure the graphics card is outputting at 50Hz or 60Hz. That depends on the frequency I want the production in, mostly 50Hz as I'm based in Australia. On my big monitor, I line up everything to just before what I want to record. I then hit record on the Ninja, then hit play on the PC. That way, I get as smooth a recording on the Ninja as just watching Google Earth play on the PC. The smoothness and quality of the recording will in my experience be the same as I experience on the PC.

Chris Young
 
My video card is NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080Ti . I think it's enough to manage everything about Google Earth. I configured it at 50Hz because I live in Italy.
Anyway I thank you for your reply.
 
FoxAdriano said:
My video card is NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1080Ti . I think it's enough to manage everything about Google Earth. I configured it at 50Hz because I live in Italy.
Anyway I thank you for your reply.
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That's the first card, the 1080i, that I used for exactly this job. Still a good card! (y)

Chris Young
 
I think Chris has the "best" approach. The other option I've used for this is to just use a screen recorder. If you are on Windows, you can even use the built in XBOX Game Bar. You need to config it first to "60fps" and "High" in Windows Settings --> Gaming --> Capture. If you then set your Windows Refresh rate to 50hz, it will record in 50fps (variable). It's not the "best" quality but it does work.
 
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