Common questions before you create your video

No. You can open the tool and create a preview before signing up. Pro access is required for Pro-only features such as watermark removal, High quality export, Pro weather styles, and route overlays.

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 is browser-based and works on mobile and desktop. Desktop is usually better for GPX upload and fine-tuning; mobile is useful for quick edits and portrait 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 uses mapped route data where available instead of inventing arbitrary paths.

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.

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.

Exports are MP4 videos in landscape or portrait. Low renders 854x480 or 540x960. Standard renders 960x540 or 720x1280. High is a Pro option and renders 1920x1080 or 1080x1920.

Low uses smaller output settings and lower frame rate. Standard is the everyday option. High is a Pro option with larger resolution, higher frame rate, and stronger encoding settings.

Preview runs in your browser. Final export is rendered on the server, then encoded into an MP4 for download.

It depends on video length, quality, map loading, and the server queue. High quality usually takes longer than Low.

A rendered route can contain up to 25,000 coordinates. Very dense GPX files may need to be simplified before export.

The app includes Satellite+, Satellite, Outdoor, and Streets map styles.

Yes. Blue sky is included in Free. Sunset, Night, and Foggy are Pro styles.

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. You can control route line visibility, trail build, trail colour, marker type, marker colour, pins, video length, camera angle, map style, weather, and format.

Yes. Graph + Stats is a Pro overlay for GPX animations. It can show an elevation graph plus selectable stats: altitude, distance, ascent, and 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 includes GPX Animation and Zoom-in effect, GPX upload, mapped hike search, location search, preview, map styles, Blue sky, core controls, and MP4 export with the DDD Maps watermark.

Pro removes the DDD Maps watermark and unlocks High quality export, Sunset, Night, Foggy, and Graph + Stats overlays. Required map attribution remains visible.

The pricing page currently shows PRO at $9.99 per month. Pricing and currency are confirmed at checkout and may exclude applicable taxes.

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

Yes. You can cancel through your account settings. Cancellation stops future renewals and you keep access until the end of the paid period.

Unless required by law, fees already paid for the current subscription period are non-refundable. EU/EEA consumer withdrawal rights may apply as described in the Terms.

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.

Yes, subject to the Terms and third-party provider rules. Mapbox/OpenStreetMap attribution must stay visible, and you must have rights to anything else you combine with the output.

Uploaded route data is used to generate the animations you request. It is retained while needed to provide the Service and deleted when you delete it or close your account, subject to backup cycles.

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.