I am trying to make an animation that is both a time-series animation and fly-over animation. That is, I have a feature class with one feature per second in time and I want to flyover those features, simulating the view from an aircraft or satellite. I have two time-enabled feature classes, one with the polygon features I want to animate second-by-second and the other with camera view points second-by-second.
My use case is to make an animation for next year's total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. An example of what I did in 2017, using ArcMap to make individual frames stitched into a movie, is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvE4lY5RGqQ&t=60s
I've studied the instructional videos and help pages for animation, but I'm stumped. How do I create a time-series animation which is also a flyover animation? Is it possible with an animation?
By the way, I've also tried to export individual frames in Pro using def queries and controlling the camera position on a series of frames exported from a 3d layout, but when I combine the frames I get an strange motion jerkiness which I could not resolve after much effort. My last-ditch option is to reinstall ArcMap and use old Python code to recreate what I did in 2017. But I hope I don't have to.
Thanks, Michael Zeiler, GreatAmericanEclipse.com
