Creating video from WPF/Silverlight animation

Question

I have a animation written in XAML. I need to create a video (AVI) from that animation. Is there a way to do that ?

Answer 1

Here is how to do it for WPF (i.e. not Silverlight)

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saveenr/archive/2008/09/22/wpf-xaml-saving-an-animation-as-an-avi-video-file.aspx

Answer 2

If you have Expression Encoder, you can do the following:

1. Create a blank movie that has as many frames as your animation (you can change the length later if you get it wrong)
2. Use the XAML Animation overlay option to add your XAML-based animation
3. Render out the animation to WMV
4. Convert the video from WMV to AVI (many free tools will do this)

I believe the free version of Expression Encoder will handle this.

If Expression Encoder won't work for you, you can also use screen capture software like Jing or Camtasia.