Customization
How to customize your travel animation style
Beyond the icons, Travel Story Maker exposes every visual lever to fine-tune your animation: map style, route color and thickness, speed, easing, globe projection and watermark. This guide walks through each setting and gives concrete recipes.
Map style
Seven HD map styles are bundled: Light, Dark, Satellite, Details, Night, Vintage and Watercolor. Light works for most trips. Satellite shines for islands and coastlines. Vintage and Watercolor give a hand-drawn, postcard feel — great for storytelling.
Route color and thickness
Pick a vibrant color that contrasts with the map style — orange or yellow on dark maps, deep blue or red on light maps. Thickness defaults to 4 px; bump it to 6–8 px for short routes in a 9:16 export so the trail stays visible.
Speed and easing
Global speed controls how fast the vehicle travels across the whole video. The easing curve (linear, ease-in, ease-out, ease-in-out) controls how it accelerates and slows down at every stop. Use `ease-in-out` for a cinematic feel; use `linear` for a clinical, documentary look.
Globe vs flat projection
For trips that span more than one continent, switch the map to globe projection. The earth subtly rotates as the vehicle travels, which sells the scale of the journey far better than a flat Mercator map.
Watermark
A small watermark appears on free exports. The Creator plan lets you remove it entirely, or replace it with your own logo — useful for agencies and content creators who want a branded video.
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