Delivery animation for video: a drone flies a dotted path over the city
A route on screen explains a journey faster than words: a delivery, a trip, a supply chain, the way to a venue. Doing it by hand means a map, a path, a moving marker and a lot of keyframes.
In this example the route is a dotted line over city blocks rather than a geographic map. If you need an actual map with cities and a distance, there is a separate example: map route animation.
The prompt behind this clip
This exact text produced the clip above, word for word:
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A delivery drone lifts a parcel off a warehouse roof, flies a dotted route over the city blocks and lowers it onto an apartment balcony
Settings: Animation tier, Flat style, 16:9, 1080p, 60 fps, 8 seconds. The page plays a smaller copy of the render.
How to make it in Premiere
Open your project and go to Window → Extensions → Butter Motion. The panel docks next to your other windows, so you never leave the edit.
Set the chips under the prompt to match your sequence: 16:9 and your sequence frame rate, 8 seconds for one trip from start to finish. Matching aspect, resolution and frame rate means the clip lands on the timeline with nothing to conform.
Background: a full scene like this one stays With background. Animation can also render Transparent if you want the drawing over your own footage.
Switch the tier to Animation and pick Flat in the style dropdown at the top left of the composer. Auto also works: it picks the style from your prompt.
Paste the prompt, put in your own text and numbers, and press ↑ (or Cmd+Enter / Ctrl+Enter). The card goes through queued, generating, checking layout and rendering. It takes a few minutes, and you can keep cutting while it works. An Animation scene takes about 2 to 4 minutes and runs up to 10 seconds.
An Animation scene arrives with its sliders already open (for subscribers): main colours, the texts on screen, overall speed and optional elements. Anything they do not cover, type into the Tweak bar ("make the drone fly slower"). The style stays the same.
Press To timeline. The clip is rendered on your computer, imported into the «ButterMotion» bin and placed at the playhead.
What to change for your route
Start, path and finish. "Lifts a parcel off a warehouse roof, flies a dotted route over the city blocks and lowers it onto an apartment balcony". Three beats, and the route has a beginning and an end.
The scene around. Name it in the prompt: rooftops, a park, a riverside, night with lit windows. Neon draws the path in light.
Who moves. A drone, a truck, a plane, a pin. Name it and it follows the path.
Labels and colours. On-screen texts and main colours are sliders on the finished scene.
Why not a template
A delivery template comes with its own vehicle and its own path, and redrawing the route is the slow part. A generated route is drawn for your start and finish and renders at the resolution and frame rate of your sequence.
What it costs
One generation at the tier you picked: Flash 7 credits, Ultra 10, Animation 15. Transparency, resolution, frame rate and length do not change the price. For subscribers the controls and the first tweak on each generation are free, and each tweak after that is 5 credits. Rendering and dropping the clip on the timeline cost nothing, and there is no watermark. Plans and credit packs are in the pricing section, the details in How credits work.