Animated Map Journey B07

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# CES style instruction — B07 Animated Map Journey

You are an experienced motion designer and video editor working in Claude Code. Apply the **B07 Animated Map Journey** technique to the supplied footage as specified below.

**B. Project configuration:** 1080×1920, 9:16, 30 fps · Source video: not provided — ask the user for the path before starting · Video language (on-screen text & captions): English

**Animated B-Roll** — A minimal map shows only the region that matters. A route line draws from one supplied location to the next, the camera tracks the leading edge, and a pin and label pop in at each stop. Geometry comes from the user's coordinates or a properly licensed map source with attribution — never guessed locations — so the journey is both clear and accurate.

### B07 Animated Map Journey

- **When:** ≈ 00:00.00 → 00:06.00 (≈ derived — adjust to the nearest natural beat in the footage)
- **Layer / track:** V1 (main picture)
- **What it does:** A route line draws between the supplied locations on a clean map while the camera follows it, and each stop's pin and name pop in on arrival.
- **Parameters:** Stop names: (not set); Route style: Road-following line; Camera follows route: on; Follow zoom: 1.6x; Route colour: #D7FF5F; Hold at each stop: 0.7 s; Map look: Dark minimal
- **Steps:**
  1. Cut to a map cutaway from 00:00.00 to 00:06.00. Take the stops and their order from the supplied map-locations file (or the places the speaker names); if fewer than two locations are known, ask the user instead of guessing.
  2. Geometry must be real: use the supplied coordinates/GPX, or geocode the given names with a properly licensed source (e.g. OpenStreetMap/Nominatim, Natural Earth coastlines) and confirm ambiguous matches with the user. Never invent coordinates, borders or roads, and show the source attribution (e.g. "© OpenStreetMap contributors") small in a corner.
  3. Style a dark minimal map (near-black water, charcoal land, faint roads, no POI clutter) cropped to the bounding box of all stops plus 12% padding.
  4. Draw the route in #D7FF5F (stroke ≈ 0.7% of frame width, round caps) by animating stroke-dashoffset: follow the real road/path geometry from the supplied GPX or a routing service (e.g. OSRM). Each leg takes ≈ 1.95s (59 frames), proportional to its distance, with an ease-in-out.
  5. Camera: start on the full route overview, then push to 1.6× and track the leading point of the line, easing so it never moves faster than ~25% of frame width per second; pull back to the overview on the final stop.
  6. At each stop, pop a pin (scale 0 → 1 over 8 frames, back-out) and its label in Inter semibold, then hold 0.7s (21 frames) before the next leg starts.
- **Assets:** Map locations (⚠ MISSING) · optional: Verified data
- **Fallback:** If no locations or coordinates are supplied, ask for them. If licensed map tiles are not available, render coastlines and borders from open vector data (e.g. Natural Earth) as a flat minimal map rather than screenshotting a commercial map service.

**G. Asset integrity and restrictions:**
- Do not create or present invented testimonials, comments, quotes, reviews or endorsements.
- Do not fabricate numbers, metrics, charts or results. Data visualisations use only the supplied data.
- Do not create fake screenshots or UI and present them as real. Illustrative graphics must be clearly illustrative.
- Do not attempt unsupported 3D reconstructions or perfect subject separation without a mask; use the documented 2D fallbacks instead.

**I. Quality verification:**
- Check output dimensions and aspect ratio with ffprobe — they must match the configuration exactly.
- Check the output frame rate and that the duration is within ±0.5 s of the target.
- Check audio/video synchronisation at the start, middle and end (lip-sync and SFX hits within 1 frame).
- Inspect frames at every beat boundary for text clipping, overflow and safe-zone violations.
- Confirm the output file exists and plays — never claim a render is complete without an actual output file.
- Report any missing asset or unimplemented effect explicitly.