If you have tried creating travel films and wish to use Columbus to create beautiful traveling routes - you may possibly have problems with recording maps or tediously importing map material from other media. This is about to change.

  

Xpress-Maps offers special effects and a collection of 81 high-quality maps in two versions each, fully interacting with Casablanca.
The 3D version of the Xpress-Maps offers a fantastic picture of the continents, with mountains, deep oceans and colors making the result look stunningly realistic.
The 2D version of the Xpress-Maps allows for a more down-to-earth view of the countries, the color of the seas/oceans and landscape can be chosen by user.
It is also possible to combine 2D and 3D versions of the maps.

  

A 2D-Map of the Northern-Sea region, combination of 2D and 3D Maps.

  

Enable or disable borders and city names.

A special effect included inside Xpress-Maps allows you to simply mix the map with video footage. For instance, a map of an island can be made to appear on real life sea footage.

  

The maps can me modified using options for borders, cities and city names which can be enabled or disabled as you wish. The most important and largest cities and towns (more than 900) have been accounted for with city-points.

Overview (click on the preview to see the full size image)

   

Watch a videoclip for Xpress-Maps 1 (4 MB, Quicktime format)

Xpress-Maps covers the most frequently visited and populated areas which are:

01) Africa with 02) Egypt, 03) South-Africa

04) Antarctic

05) Asia with 06) China, 07) India, 08) Israel / Jordan, 09) Japan / Korea

10) Australia with 11) New Zealand

12) Europe with 13) Island - 14) Scandinavia - 15) Baltic - 16) Great Britain - 17) Ireland - 18) Denmark - 19) Germany with 20) Northern Germany, 21) Middle Germany, 22) Southern Germany, 23) Germany North Sea, 24) Germany East Sea, 25) Germany Ruhrgebiet - 26) Poland - 27) The Netherlands - 28) Belgium - 29) France with 30) Provence, 31) Corsica - 32) Austria - 33) Switzerland - 34) Alps - 35) Italy with 36) Toscana, 37) Sardinia, 38) Sicily - 39) Balkan - 40) Spain with 41) Pyreneans - 42) Balearic with 43) Ibiza, 44) Mallorca, 45) Minorca - 46) Portugal - 47) Greece with 48) Crete - 49) Turkey - 50) Cyprus - 51) Canary Islands with 52) Fuerteventura, 53) Gomera, 54) Gran Canaria, 55) Hierro, 56) Lanzerote, 57) La Palma, 58) Tenerife

59) North America with 60) Alaska - 61) Canada - 62) USA with 63) USA Northwest, 64) USA central northern part, 65) USA Northeast, 66) USA Southwest, 67) USA central southern part, 68) USA Southeast, 69) Florida, 70) Hawaii - 71) Central America - 72) Central Mexico - 73) Caribbean - 74) Cuba - 75) Jamaica - 76) Haiti - 77) Puerto Rico - 78) Antilles

79) South America with 80) South America northern part - 81) South America souther part

The maps have been created by "4DiMotion".

Comprehensive online help provided in the installation menu and when selecting the effect informs you about the various settings options available for each effect. You can also install this product as a free demo version.

Software requirements:
SMART EDIT 2.5/3.0