Common questions before you create your video

No. You can open the tool, create a preview, and see how it works before signing up. Export limits, Pro styles, overlays, and watermark removal depend on your plan.

You can create a 3D flyover from a GPX route, or a cinematic zoom-in from the globe to any location. Both are made for videos you can share on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or your blog.

GPX Animation follows a real route through 3D terrain. Zoom-in effect starts far out, often from the globe, and lands on a final place you choose, like a peak, trailhead, cabin, or travel destination.

Yes. The tool works in the browser on mobile and desktop. Desktop is usually more comfortable for dragging GPX files and fine-tuning, while mobile is useful for quick previews, edits, and portrait video checks.

Most outdoor apps can export GPX, including Strava, Garmin, Komoot, Wikiloc, and AllTrails. If the file contains a track, dddmaps can usually animate it.

Use Find hike. Search for a peak or trail, pick the best result, and dddmaps can use mapped trail data where it is available.

For mapped hikes, yes. The route tool tries to follow existing trails rather than letting users draw arbitrary lines. That keeps the result closer to real hiking routes.

Some peaks or places do not have enough mapped trail data. If no usable route exists in the map data, dddmaps cannot safely invent one.

Yes. You can adjust the start and finish, and add waypoints when the mapped trail needs guidance. The tool is designed to stay on real mapped trails as much as possible.

Yes. Preview is a core part of the workflow. You can adjust camera angle, length, map style, weather, pins, format, marker style, and route appearance before downloading.

You can create landscape or portrait MP4 videos. Portrait is useful for TikTok, Reels, and Stories. Landscape works well for YouTube, websites, and presentations.

Fast renders quicker with lower detail. Standard is the best everyday choice. High uses larger output settings for cleaner video, especially when you want the final MP4 to look sharper.

The export has to load a 3D map, terrain, route layers, markers, weather, and then capture the animation frame by frame before encoding it into MP4. High quality takes longer than Fast.

They should match closely. If they do not, it is usually because the map, terrain, or weather layer was still loading. Try refreshing and exporting again. If it still differs, send a screenshot and the route details.

Yes. The server render opens a browser, plays the animation, captures the frames, and encodes the result into an MP4. It needs Playwright, Chromium, and ffmpeg installed correctly.

The app includes several map looks, such as satellite-focused and outdoor-focused styles. Some are better for dramatic terrain, while others make roads and labels easier to read.

Yes. Blue sky is included in Free. Sunset, Night, and Foggy are Pro styles because they are more cinematic and use extra scene styling.

Yes. In both route and zoom videos you can choose whether the destination pin appears. For GPX animations, start and finish pins can also be controlled from the style settings.

Yes. The route can either be visible from the start or build forward as the hiker or circle marker moves along the trail. Build trail and trail color are shown when the GPX line is enabled.

Yes. Graph + Stats is a Pro route overlay for GPX animations. You can show an elevation graph and choose which stats to display, such as altitude, distance, ascent, and estimated hiking time.

Free exports include a visible DDD Maps watermark. Pro exports remove the DDD Maps watermark, while required map attribution remains visible.

No. Map attribution is required by the map providers and must stay visible in the final video.

Free lets you try both GPX Animation and Zoom-in effect, preview your video, use Blue sky, export landscape or portrait MP4s, and use the core route and camera controls.

Pro unlocks cleaner exports without the DDD Maps watermark, Sunset, Night, and Foggy styles, and Pro route overlays like Graph + Stats with selectable stats.

No. You can open the tool and test the workflow first.

Yes. Subscriptions are handled through the account system, and you can manage your plan from your account when logged in.

Use the contact page and include what you were trying to do, your browser, device, and whether the problem happened in preview or export.

No. dddmaps is a video tool, not a navigation or safety tool. Always check local conditions, official trail information, weather, avalanche risk, access rules, and your own ability before going outside.

That depends on your plan and how you use the video. Map attribution must remain visible, and you should follow the terms for any map data, music, footage, or platforms you combine it with.

The terrain is based on map and elevation data. It is useful for visual storytelling, but it can simplify, smooth, or differ from the real world in places.