The Tour Director is our new tool to create snoovel guided tours. You can easily show these tours on your website using the MySnoovelLink.
The only thing you need is the Google Earth browser plugin. No special knowledge of Google Earth is needed. The Tour Director supports you in creating movies - as you know them - with scenes and camerashots. Every shot can be described and adorned by text, pictures, sound files and even videos. Look at the examples 
here.
Inside the Google Earth browser window you are free to choose a view onto the surface of the earth. To navigate you got the controls of Google Earth on the right. Tipp: the easiest way to tilt the camera is to hold down the right mouse button and then move the mouse up and down.
There are some icons above the window. The following lines will explain them.
The treeview of the guided tour you are working on right now gives an overview and hightlights the element you want to work on at the moment by using the Google Earth window or the tabs on the right side. All actions will change the currently highlighted tourmovie, scene or cameraview.
The icons above the treeview will fulfill the following functions:
By the way there is a context menu for these function too, if you left click with your mouse on an element in the tree. Even drag&drop is supported here.
The tabs on the right side of the Tour Director enable you to change the name and description for all elements you highlight in the treeview. For your convenience we intergrated a rich text editor you can use to format your texts, add links and pictures.
The tab media lets you cann upload or attache three kinds of media, pictures, mp3 files or flash movies in the .flv format. These will show up in your tour in the media tab of the guided tour player. If you click on a movie you get popup starting the flashmovie or sound. Scenes can have exactly one movie or sound. This file will be automatically played back next to the Google Earth window.
3D objects embedded into Google Earths kml files can be added in the objects tab. We wil parse the file for 3d objects only, everything else will not be shown. Tipp - just download the software Sketchup from Google and build your own 3d model of your house. You can fly to your house then in your snoovel guided tour.
There are two libraries available at the bottom of the object and media tab - just click on "library". There you can find all media and objects you uploaded or you can access from other groups you are in. Attach those media to a cameraview via drag&drop.
The timeline shows the whole movie in chronological order. By pulling on the seperating lines of scenes and cameraviews you can in fluence the duration of them easily.
With a quick look you can determine which media will be shown in guided tour player media tab or played back automatically.
Every scene will get a thumbnail picture of the Google Earth view you chose. Tee genereation of these thumbnails takes some time to be built, so please have some patience. The scenes will inherit the thumbnail picture of the first cameraview it contains. This picture will also be shown in the tourplayer inside the "tourpreview" tab.
Don´t care to read? A short screencast will guide you through the whole production of a guided tour. Check it out - i am sure that most of your questions will be answered here.
a complete Google Earth guided tour.
a guided tour consists of scenes. You can attache title, description and autostarted sounds or flashmovies here.
is a look at the earth with heading, height and tilt which is easily set by capturing the view of a Google Earth window. This is the smallest brick of a tour. Two cameraviews are connected by transitions which describe the movement from one view to the next.
Point of interest is used to reference scenes on the surface of the earth. Every scene must have one poi
are movements of the camera connecting two cameraviews. There are flyTo (a straight line), flyAround (revolving around ), blackCut (a film cut) and the Google Earth specific movement. Here you'll see a Guided Tour presenting examples for using all different kinds of transitions.
