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Animation with combined time-series animation and path flyover

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05-24-2023 08:11 PM
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AmericanEclipse
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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

This animation takes you on a flyover of the path of total eclipse on August 21, 2017. Nature's grandest sight, a total eclipse of the Sun, passes over the USA from Oregon to South Carolina. The Moon's shadow, where everyone will see the breathtaking sight of totality, races across the USA in 93 ...
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Taren_Esri
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Hi @AmericanEclipse 

I know you said you have gone through the documentation, but can you take a look at these two short how to (bookmarks and linear paths) for a workflow similar to your own, and let me know where you are seeing gaps in functionality? You should be able to accomplish what you want with keyframes. I personally like to use bookmarks when creating animations so I can be precise about the scale of each frame. 

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