How one can Add Google Drive Movies to Google Earth Professional Placemarks

Final week a reader emailed me to ask for assist inserting movies into placemarks in Google Earth Professional. His college students had recorded movies and saved them in Google Drive. They needed to make use of them of their Google Earth Professional placemarks. I used to be completely happy to assist. 

Earlier than supplying you with the instructions for tips on how to add Google Drive movies into Google Earth placemarks, I ought to remind you that Google Earth Professional is the free, desktop model of Google Earth you can set up on Mac and Home windows computer systems. (Do not the let the “professional” idiot you, Google Earth Professional is free). 

I also needs to level out that the method of including movies into placemarks in Google Earth Professional is completely different from the method of doing the identical factor within the net browser model of Google Earth. 

So as to add a video saved in your Google Drive right into a placemark in Google Earth Professional you first must make it possible for the video sharing permissions are set to “anybody with the hyperlink can view.” Then you should copy that hyperlink. Paste the hyperlink into “URL” discipline within the placemark that you’re enhancing in Google Earth Professional. A video of the method is embedded beneath. 

Purposes for Training

This matter got here up as a result of the reader who emailed me was having his college students full an Across the World With Google Earth exercise. That exercise was primarily based on utilizing the net model of Google Earth which is why they wanted instructions for including movies into placemarks in Google Earth Professional.