The 3D digital artists used Blender to create an introductory video showing a high quality rendered animation for five seconds. They took advantage of Blender's animation creation features, as shown in the following screenshot:
A spaceship flies in a starry universe for a few seconds. Then, the camera navigates through the stars.
Your project manager wants you to add this video as an introduction to the game. However, as the video file is in AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format and Silverlight 3 does not support this format, you have to convert the video to an appropriate format.
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The creation of video animations for a game is very complex and requires specialist skills. We are going to simplify this process by using an existing video.
First, we must download and install an additional tool that will help us in converting an existing video to the most appropriate file formats used in Silverlight 3: