Stumbled on this awesome tool today.
Make an animated map video of your trip in your browser. Draw your route or use a GPX file, add signs, legs and camera moves, and download an MP4 up to 4K. Free, no account.
Free browser based application to create animated maps of your travels.
Once you’ve created an animated map, download it as a MP4 and use it in your Shotcut projects.
But watch the creator’s demonstration and you’ll see there are many very cool options:
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This video surfaced in my YouTube recommendations today.
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SergeC
October 6, 2026, 8:54am
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I also saw this recommendation yesterday and tested it right away with a .gpx file. It’s pretty cool!
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Wow, very nice, thank you for sharing
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jonray
October 8, 2026, 11:11am
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Wow, that looks cool, @musicalbox . Thanks for the heads-up!
It reminded me of a thread posted on this forum a while ago. I can’t believe it was 5 years ago though! Time flies!
I have created a web-based utility that animates a route on a map. Several people have asked about this in the past, and although simple routes can be animated using Shotcut alone, more complex routes are much more difficult to do this way. This follows on from this post:
My method is relatively simple and makes use of animation commands (SMIL) that can be embedded in an SVG file. For more information and instructions on how to use it have a look my website at:
There is a link there to an …
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