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Satellite map explainer video — Satellite briefing style

Make an explainer video on real satellite imagery: flyovers, pins, routes and sources on screen. Made for geography, conflicts, trade routes and the news.

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What this style looks like

Satellite briefing tells your topic from above, on real satellite imagery. In each scene, the camera climbs then dives onto the next place, and drops a pin with the place's name and country. It can also point at several places at once or draw a route between two points, with labelled ends: a shipping lane, a pipeline, a front line.

Around the map sits an investigation-desk frame: series label, topic, date, chapter tabs and a scrolling “Sources” line that includes the imagery credit. Instruments fill out the screen (compass, coordinates, altitude, scale bar). On the dimmed map, an inset can show a library element, an image you import or data bars, and captions light up word by word.

Topics it suits

Avoid: topics that do not happen anywhere in particular (psychology, tips, abstract ideas) and indoor scenes: the map then has nothing to show. The imagery is a cloud-free mosaic from a single year, so it cannot show a recent change on the ground.

  • Geography and bordersShowing where a strait, an enclave or a disputed border sits beats describing it.
  • Conflicts and world newsPins and routes place the facts, and the sources line reminds viewers where the information comes from.
  • Trade and supply chainsA cargo ship crossing a canal, coffee crossing an ocean: the drawn route makes the journey obvious.
  • MegaprojectsA dam, a new city or an airport makes more sense when you can see its footprint on the ground.

Video ideas in this style

  1. Why the Suez Canal matters so much

    The camera follows a cargo ship from Asia to Europe, then draws the detour around Africa if the canal closes.

  2. The journey of a coffee bean

    A pin on a plantation, another on a port, then the route all the way to your cup.

  3. What is at stake in a strait

    Zoom on the passage, the bordering countries pinned, and data bars on the traffic going through.

  4. A city built in the desert

    A flyover of the site, a scale bar on screen, and an inset with the project image you import.

Get it in 1 click

  1. Open this style's link

    The “Create a video in this style” button opens the editor with this style already picked. Without an account, signing up takes a minute and needs no card.

  2. Write your topic in one sentence

    One idea is enough. You can also paste your text or, from Starter, narrate into the mic: the video then builds on your voice.

  3. Review, then render

    AI writes the scenes, picks the style's elements and times them to the words, with voice and captions. You fix what is off, then the vertical MP4 arrives in a few minutes.

What you can adjust

You can write the series label, topic, date and chapters on the bar, the list of sources, the stamp title, the kicker and the big figure. Places are given by name: AI puts them on the map, and you can add pins or draw a route. For an inset, pick a library element, import your image or enter data bars. Length, narration and three variants per scene stay adjustable; from Starter, your own voice and the AI Director.

Frequently asked questions

Free or not, output, uses: the short answers.

Is the satellite imagery real?

Yes. The views come from a public, cloud-free satellite mosaic, credited on screen and in the sources line. They are archive images, not live views.

Does the AI make up sources?

No. The script is written never to invent a source: you add your own, and the “Sources” line shows what you provided.

How far can it zoom in?

Down to the scale of a city or a large site, such as a port or a dam. You cannot make out a single house or car.

Is this style in the free plan?

No, it comes with Starter ($29/month): 15 watermark-free videos a month, all 24 styles plus your own. The free plan gives 3 videos a month with a watermark in 8 other styles: Pixel News, Press paper, Comedy cartoon, Class sketch, Night tale, Social screen, Retro synthwave and Flat vector.

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