How to Add Location Pins to a Map Animation

Step-by-step guide

1. 1

   Frame the place and select a slide

   Use the search bar at the top or drag the map to put the place near the center of the view. The toolbar only appears once the Storyboard has a slide, so click Start Manually first if the Studio is empty. Make sure the slide you want is selected, with a blue outline, because a pin is added to the selected slide.

   

2. 2

   Click the Pin tool

   Click Pin in the toolbar above the map. A red pin labelled Here drops at the center of the map, anchored to those coordinates, and a small bar opens beside it with a name box, the pin style, its size and a color. That bar covers the first changes. Click More to open the full settings on the right; after that, clicking the pin opens them straight away.

   

3. 3

   Name the pin

   Type a name in the name field at the top of the settings panel (or in the small bar). With the default Pin style the name shows in a small white tag under the pin, and the Show Label switch turns that tag off.

   

4. 4

   Choose a pin style

   On the Style tab, under Pin Style, pick Pin (the classic teardrop), Dot (a small circle), Bubble (the name inside a colored badge), Marker (a solid teardrop), Text (the name alone, with no icon) or Emoji (any emoji as the pin). Below that, Size scales the pin from 30% to 300%, and the swatches under Colour change its color.

   

5. 5

   Move the pin

   Drag the pin on the map to the exact spot. The settings panel stays open while you drag. Zoom in first if you need more precision.

6. 6

   Use your own image

   On the Style tab open Custom Marker Image and click Upload Image, then choose a picture. It replaces the pin icon and the label stays with it. Replace Image swaps the picture and the bin button removes it. To put a picture on the map that is not a pin, use the Image tool in the toolbar instead.

   

7. 7

   Choose when the pin appears

   A pin appears on the slide it was added on and stays for every slide after it, so select the slide where it should first show before you click Pin. On the Timing tab, under Animation, Effect sets how it enters: Fade, Pop (the default) or Drop. To make a pin disappear, set Disappears at, under On screen at the top of the Timing tab, to a later slide, with Seconds after for an exact moment. Appears at, just above it, moves the slide it first shows on. The Elements button in the Storyboard bar opens the Elements panel, which lists each pin under Visible, Hidden on this slide or Starts later, with an eye button to hide or show it.