How to make an animated travel map video
Type the places you went, pick how you travelled each leg, and press Make the film. Voyarc plays the trip on a real map and saves it to your device as an MP4, in a landscape 16:9, vertical 9:16 or square 1:1 frame.
Three ways in
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Type the stops
On the home page, type the trip the way you would say it, “Lisbon to Seville, Granada”, and press Enter, or add the places one at a time. Each leg is drawn on real roads, rails and water.
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Import a track
Drop a GPX, TCX, KML, KMZ or GeoJSON file on the home page and it plays as a leg of its own, every bend as you recorded it, its points kept on your device. GPX to video has the detail.
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Open a saved trip
A trip’s link opens it as you left it, and the home page offers the last trip this browser keeps. Or open one of the sample trips and make it yours, a stop or a vehicle at a time.
Pick how you travelled
Every leg has its own mode and vehicle: drive, ride, walk, rail, ferry or fly, from a convertible or a motorhome to a bike, a steam train or a seaplane. Open a leg in the story beside the map to change it, or to play it by night, when the map darkens and the lights come on.
Choose the frame
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16:9, landscape
For YouTube, a television or a laptop screen.
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9:16, vertical
For Reels, TikTok and Shorts, every shot framed for the tall screen: the guide for Instagram and TikTok says how.
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1:1, square
For a post in the feed.
Free, a Film pass or Pro
The free film has every trip, every frame and the vehicle sounds, at 1080p with a small Voyarc chip, up to a minute long. A Film pass, US$5.99 once for 48 hours, or Pro, US$39 a year, takes the chip off, exports up to 4K, adds your logo and makes the film as long as your trip needs. Pricing has the rest.
How long a film is
As long as the trip needs. We pace the film from the trip itself, its legs, its stops and the photos you add, so a weekend away runs shorter than a month across a continent. The Film length chip under the trip’s name can make it Short.
See one
Type your first stop, or drop a track file on the home page. No account, and nothing to install.
Make a trip filmQuestions
Do I need an account?
No. There is no account and no password: you type a trip or drop a track, and the film is made in your browser and saved to your device. A pass or Pro lives in the browser you paid in, and the email you paid with restores it on another device.
Can one film mix a drive, a train and a ferry?
Yes. Each leg keeps its own mode and vehicle, so a trip can drive to the coast, cross on the ferry and finish by train, and a recorded track can sit between typed legs.
Can I make the film on a phone?
Yes. The free film is made on a phone as on a computer. Long films and 4K take minutes on a phone and may not finish on an older one, and a trip started on the phone can be picked up on a computer.
What leaves my browser?
The film is made on your device. To find the roads, a road leg’s two ends go to a routing service, and a place the built-in list does not know goes to a place search; an imported track’s points are never sent. The privacy page has the detail.