Vasco da Gama 4

Features

Vasco da Gama 4 Features

Vasco da Gama 4 is a software with novel features in the field of video editing. The main purpose of Vasco da Gama 4 is the illustration of itineraries on world-, land- or city maps. Vasco da Gama 4 offers a wide variety of design facillities for the tour video. With the generated video sequences you can enhance your holiday videos, like known from tv productions.

Vasco da Gama 4 combines these rich possibilities with a well thought and easy usage, so that you can let your creativity loose. The real-time preview always shows you all changes and you make the changes they way you want them!

The best of it is that you can import and use the generated videos in all common video-editing packages.

New: Over 300 3D objects already contain, for example, vehicles (including cars, ships, campers, airplanes, trains, etc.), places of interest of the world, people and much more.

New: Now with more than 400 high resolution maps of the most varied regions of the world, including the best flight routes, ship routes and destinations.

New: Integrated video learning course for getting started quickly.

New: Expanded range of functions for even more variety in creating the itinerary.
 

Here are only a few of the many possibilities of Vasco da Gama 4:

• Optimized display quality
• Fade text labels in and out at stop-over points
• Variable window size
• Export of videos as series of images
• Speed up or slow down of movement at stop-over points
• Freely positionable texts and objects
• Undo function
• Realistic lighting and shadow effects
• Use of multiple fonts
• Use of own 2D objects for stop-over and head objects
• Excahnge of line width, -color, -style and so on at stop-over points
• Multiline texts
• Inclusion of own photographs at stop-over points
• Simulation of animated round-trips, starts and landings of objects
• Objects are scalable up to 200%
• Fixed camera mode for non-moving maps
• And many more functions and enhancements that ease the work with the program

Maps

Vasco da Gama 4 already comes with over 500 different maps from all over the world. Among them are continental maps, country maps and even ocean maps. Some with and some without city names and/or frontiers.

You can even use own maps, if the needed maps is not already available. Whether filmed with the video-camera, or a still images taken with a camera or scanned in. Vasco da Gama 4 supports all common image formats to allow importing all kind of map images.

Objects

Vasco da Gama 4 ships with 300 objects already. Among them are categories like cars, buses and vans, aircraft, watercraft, rail vehicles, people and animals, buildings, 2D objects and other. The library offers the right object for nearly each occasion. Many of these object are even animated, so that they do not move around statically. but walk the course, fly or drive.

Tour design

Designing the route is very rich of possibilities. If it is the line colour, line width, transparency, various dotted or dashed line styles, all can be individually chosen. The various design choices offer the right thing to meet everyone's taste. From direct point-to-point connections or smooth curves, Vasco da Gama 4 allows to quickly go over angular city maps, as well as over the smooth course of an airplane roundtrip.

Vasco da Gama 4 can automatically align objects with the route or leave that to you to do manually. An exchange of objects when progressing on the route allow to simulate various means of transportation. Imagine to start your trip with a train, continue by plane and use a ship at the end, The objects can be swapped at every stage of the route. When exchanging objects graphical transition effects can be used, and one can take a break in the middle of a transition. These breaks can later be used as cuts for the real video of the tour.

Vasco da Gama 4 even offers to automatically slice the video at these locations. This saves you the tedious task of manually cutting the video.

Additionally it is possible to place objects like churches, wind-mills buildings, arenas, pins, flags and others on each stop-over point.

Labeling

Stop-over point can be labeld too. This can use all installed TrueType fonts of your system. The label can be individually designed, by setting distance, placement, font style and size, colour, border, shadow and more.

Camera work

An absolute highlight of Vasco da Gama 4 is the camera work over the map. In contrast to static map views, this allows super smooth camera pans over a high resolution map. This is a great way to give the viewer a good impression of the dimension of the tour. The camera panning can be automatically performed by Vasco da Gama 4 or adjusted manually. With this you can do asynchronous movements between the progression of the route and the camera. This makes the videos more lively. Combined with zooming in and out of the map, each video becomes a unique experience. Of course one can use this function to create short videos out of photographs of pictures as well.

Tested video editing packages, that supports AVI DV Type 2:

Vasco da Gama 4 has been developed by popular request of our customers.

Language support

Vasco da Gama 4 supports English, German and French language. The manual is available in all three languages too.

User documentation

If you like to learn more details about Vasco Da Gama 4, we recommend to download the Manual in pdf format and have a look at it. Document format: PDF-Datei Number of pages: 88 Seiten

Screenshots

Vasco da Gama 4 Screenshots

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Videos

Vasco da Gama 4 Videos

The videos are of lesser quality than the original videos created by Vasco da Gama 4! The videos have been modified for internet usage by down scaling and compression.

Please note that some of these videos were produced with Vasco da Gama 4 HDPro and thus possibly not be able to produce with Vasco da Gama 4.
 

Press Articles

Vasco da Gama 4 Press Articles

The press is excited!

	Result: "Vasco da Gama is a well done application to design tour videos with a multitude of options. By using it you can enhance you holliday videos effectively. I can very much recommend the application."
	Result: "Vasco da Gama is a successful solution, to improve travelogues or presentations with animated maps. The usage is very straight forward and the results are impressive."
	Result: "Vasco da Gama combines the manifold features of the design with a thoughtful usage - simple and ingenious."
	Result: "Everybody who is designing sophisticated travelogues, has probably been waiting for Vasco Da Gama. What until now was impossible or a complex task, is easy to do now with the aid of Vasco da Gama. The program convinces with its intuitive and simple interface and the manifold possibilities for designing travelogues."
	“The traveler may choose their means of transportation from among more than 100 animated 3D objects, from airplane to horse-drawn carriage ...”
	“Easy menu prompt, wide range of functions as well as visually attractive results distinguish MotionStudios Vasco da Gama. The program even provides optional full HD resolution. (HDPro Version)”