Marble/C3/Features-of-Marble/English
Visual Cue | Narration |
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Title slide |
Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Features of Marble. |
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Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial we will learn to
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System Requirements |
To record this tutorial, I am using,
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System Requirements
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The process demonstrated in this tutorial is identical in
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Pre-requisites www.spoken-tutorial.org |
To practise this tutorial, learner should be familiar with Marble interface.
For the prerequisite Marble tutorials, please visit this site. |
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Code Files
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The files used in this tutorial are available in the Code Files link on this tutorial page.
Please download and extract them. Make a copy and then use them while practising. I have downloaded and saved the files to my Desktop. |
Point on world map file on the Desktop.
Point to Atlas view.
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Let us first learn to create a map in Marble.
Let us open the default Atlas view. |
In Map View panel, click on the down arrow, select Flat View.
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In the Map view panel select Flat View option if not already selected.
Flat view of Atlas is seen on the interface. |
Click on the File menu
select Create a New Map option. |
Click on the File menu and
select Create a New Map option. |
Point on Marble Map Theme Creation Wizard dialogue box.
Select the second radio button A single image showing the whole world.
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Marble Map Theme Creation Wizard dialogue box opens.
Click on the Next button in the box. |
Click on the 3 dots button and select the desired image of the map.
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In the box, click on the 3 dots button next to Source Image field.
Open dialog box appears. |
Cursor in the dialog box. | Select the folder where you have saved your desired map. |
Point to the Desktop folder.
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My image file is in the Desktop folder.
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Select oceans-and-seas-map-of-the-world.jpg file.
Point in the dialog box. |
Select oceans-and-seas-map-of-the-world.jpg file
We can either use .png or .jpg image files. |
Click on the Open button in the dialogue box.
Point to the path to the Source Image field. |
Click on the Open button at the bottom right corner of the dialogue box.
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Click on the Next button in the dialog box. | Click on the Next button in the dialog box. |
Point to General Information.
In the Map Name field type the name as Political Map. |
Please read the General Information given at the top.
In the Map Title field I will type the name as World Oceans and Seas. In the Map Name field type the name as Oceans and Seas. |
In the description field, type a short description about this map. | In the Description field , I will add a short description about this map.
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Point o Preview Image. | Below the Description field, we can see the Preview Image of the selected map. |
Point on Change button.
Click on the Next button. |
If you want to change the image click on Change button.
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keep Legend image and its components blank.
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Let us leave the Legend image and its components as default.
Then click on the Next button. |
Point on Summary
Point on Map Name, Map theme, and Preview Image. |
Read the Summary carefully.
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Click on the Preview Map button next to the preview image.
Point to Preview Map window. Click on the X button to close. |
Click on the Preview Map button.
Preview Map- Marble Virtual Globe window opens. It shows the preview of the map. Close the Preview Map window. |
Click on the Finish button. | Click on the Finish button in the box.
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Click on Map view and scroll down.
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Go to the Map View panel and scroll down.
World Oceans and Seas map is saved in the Map View panel. |
Point to Description on the map. | Here you can see the description that is added while creating this map. |
Click on the map to open it. | Let us open this map. |
Point to the map.
Select Delete Map Theme option. |
Now I will show how to delete this map from the interface.
Go to World Oceans and Seas in the Map View panel and right-click on it. Select Delete Map Theme option. |
Point on the message box asking Are you sure that you want to delete the map.
Point to map view panel. |
A message: Are you sure that you want to delete “World Oceans and Seas” ? appears.
Click on the Yes button in the box. This map is deleted from the Map view panel. |
Cursor on the interface.
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Next we will learn how to copy a map from Marble to other documents.
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Cursor on the map. | For example, I will copy the Satellite view of the world to a document. |
Go to Map View panel, select Satellite View. | Go to Map View panel and select Satellite View. |
Right-click on Overview map.
From the context menu, select Hide.
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I will hide Overviewmap, Compass, Windrose and Scale Bar for a better view. |
Click on the Edit menu and select Copy Map option. | Go to the Edit menu and select Copy Map option. |
Open a Libreoffice document in the system. | I have opened a Libreoffice Writer document in my system. |
Paste this map by pressing Ctrl + V keys.
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To paste this map in the document press Ctrl and V keys together.
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Drag to resize the image. | We can resize the image by dragging the handles.
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Click on File and select Save a copy . | Now we will save this document.
Click on File and select Save option. |
Point to the dialogue box.
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Save dialogue box opens.
Select desktop folder to save the file In the Name field, type the name as Satellite-view.odt |
Click on the Save button in the box.
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Click on the Save button at the bottom of the dialog box. |
Point to the document.
Double-click to open the file. |
This is the saved document Satellite-view.odt
Double-click on it to open the file. |
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An assignment for you,
Create a world map showing climate zones of the world. Hint: Climate Zones map is available in the Code files link. |
Point to the interface. | Next let us learn to record a movie in Marble.
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Select Earth at Night view from the Map View panel.
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I will choose Earth at Night view to record a movie.
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Click on the Globe View. | Click on the Globe View to see the virtual globe. |
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To record a movie in Marble, FFmpeg software is required.
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Ffmpeg |
You can download FFmpeg from the below link.
I have download FFMpeg software to my system. |
Go to the Edit menu and select the Record movie option. | To record a movie, go to the Edit menu and select Record Movie option. |
Point to Movie Recording – Marble dialog box. | Movie Recording – Marble dialog box opens on the interface. |
Click on the Open button in the dialog box.
Point to Save video file dialog box. |
Click on the Open button in the dialog box.
Save video file dialog box opens. |
Choose the Desktop folder as a destination. | I will select the Desktop folder as the destination. |
In the File name field type the name as Earth-at-Night.mp4.
Click on Save button in the box |
In the File name field type the name as Earth-at-Night.mp4
Click on Save button in the box. |
Point to the Fps up down arrow button. | Here we see Fps up and down arrow button. |
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FPS |
What is FPS?FPS is frames per second
It shows how many unique consecutive images a camera can handle in each second. |
Keep the value as 30.
Point to the Save video file dailog box. |
We can change the FPS value between 1 and 60.
I will keep the value as 30. Once everything is set, we can start recordi ng. |
Click on the Start button | To start recording, I will click on the Start button. |
Point to the map.
Rotate the map to see different continents.
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Earth at Night map view shows the Earth’s city lights.
These lights are visible at night on the Earth's surface. Let us rotate the globe to see different continents. |
Point to brighter areas on the map. | The brightest areas of the Earth are the most populated areas. |
Point to darker region, sea | Since there is no human population, oceans and seas look completely dark. |
Go to the Edit menu.
Select Stop Recording option. |
Now we have completed our recording.
Let us go to the menu and s elect Stop recording option. |
Go to the Desktop folder.
Point to the Earth-at-Night.mp4 file. |
Now let us check our saved video.
Earth-at-Night.mp4 file is saved on the Desktop. |
Double click to open the file.
Point to the video. Click on the Close button. |
Let us open this file.
We can see that Earth at night view has been captured. Let us close this file. |
Let us summarize. | |
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Summary |
In this tutorial we have, learnt to
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Assignment |
As an assignment,
Record a movie using Temperature(July) map view. Show the continents with highest temperatures in the month of July. Hint: Use Temperature(July) map from the Map View panel. |
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Spoken tutorial workshop |
The video at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
The Spoken Tutorial Project team:
conducts workshops and using spoken tutorials and gives certificates. For more details, please write to us. |
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Forum for specific questions |
Please post your timed queries in this forum. |
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Acknowledgement Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by,National Mission on Education through ICT and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching,
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Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by,
MHRD, Government of India.
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About contributors | This tutorial is contributed by Viji Nair and Madhuri Ganapathi from IIT Bombay. Thank you for watching. |