How to make a custom, personal Universal Studio intro Part 2 of 2

This tutorial is for the old Blender 2.49b. Click here for the new tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McocktRmG_s

For noobs and pros! Part 2 of 2. IMPORTANT: read below.

Here is explained how to make you own custom Universal Studio intro. It is very easy you just need to donwload the files at Link1 and download blender at Link2 and then do it. (Take your time, this is a whole hour project for a noob and a 10 minutes thing for a pro). It only takes about 3-8 hours for it to render, but then you got YOUR OWN INTRO!!!
If you have any questions, you are free to PM me.
Watch in High Quality!

Link1: http://goo.gl/XtyJJ
Link2: http://www.blender.org/

Disclaimer:
This is not my video, neither are the files or the program! I actually don't own anything! :-)
I've uploaded this video, made by a very kind guy back on backyardtheater.com. I want to thank him very much for his great tutorial!

• Press the TAB key to put the "YOUR THEATER" text into edit mode. Backspace it out and type in the name of your theater.
• Press the TAB key to exit edit mode.
• Press Alt C, then left click on CURVE. (This converts the text to a curve).
• Press Alt C, then left click on MESH. (This converts the curve to a mesh).
• Left click on the button marked Centre Cursor (This make the object center the same as the earth provided you haven't moved the red & white cursor).
• Change the frame number from 500 to 1.
• Click the Shapes Tab.
• Click the Add Shape key twice.
• Make sure the mouse cursor is back in the top view and press TAB.
• Press A to select all (The text should turn yellow).
• Press Shift W to warp the text.
• Left click to accept the warp.
• Press TAB to leave edit mode (text should straighten out).
• Back in the Shapes Tab, drag the bar next to 0.00 until it says 1.00.
• Change the frame number from 1 to 180.
• Back in the Shapes Tab, left click on the bar next to the 1.00 (it should stay at 1.00, but this will add another key frame).
• Change the frame number from 180 to 270.
• Back in the Shapes Tab, drag the bar next to 1.00 until it says 0.00.
• Press F10 to enter Scene mode.

When rendering the animation, choose Full HD and AVI Raw for best quality. Choose PC and AVI Codec for fastest render.
Normally it renders either to C:\renders or to "the folder where you saved the .blend file"\renders. To check it, open up the blend file and press F10. Then look at the bottom left and take a look at the first directory under "Output". Thats where you should look. It can also happen to render into the user directory.
To use the video, I recommend encoding the large file with a program e.g. XMedia Recode. Recommended format is DivX AVI.
If "unable to create directory", run Blender in Admin Mode (Right Click Blender, Run as Administrator) or choose a non admin directory like C:\Users\username\Documents (you can change this under output as described above.)

This tutorial was made by Tony Hawkes at Backyardtheatre.

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[ArcticGreenStripes]

@Ballyweg XMediaRecode will not open my file. It's a .blend file, I'm not sure if I have done something wrong in the process, although I have followed every step; I was wondering if you know how to help? Thank you.

[Ballyweg]

After you have rendered the Video file (which takes a few hours) you should locate the .avi file (where you saved the video). When you have located the AVI file, then you convert it with XMediaRecode. I am again referring to the bottom of the video description, where this whole procedure is described.

[DisAdvantage12]

HELP.. i did everything you told me, i followed everything but it won't play. on quiktime and windows media player.. it says "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file." idk what went wrong but i need this intro for windows movie maker for a project.. please help!

[Ballyweg]

PLEASE read the description or the previous comments. The rendered file needs to be converted afterwards with any conversion program. Tip: super or xmedia recode. Use DivX Avi for best results.

[32o4]

how do you fix the slowness its like skipping

[Ballyweg]

This is caused by the enorminess of the file. Tip: Convert it to Avi DivX using XMediaRecode, SUPER or windows Live Movie Maker.

[TheLysMann]

really helpfull thanks alot!

[Ballyweg]

I am sorry, I don't know how to do that. But it might be possible. Try asking thr folks at backyardtheatre(dot)com. They are the experts. I wish you the best. Bally

[computerizedcobra]

Thank you very much Tony, your instructions are so clear and precise. Appreciate the lesson very much.

[2007jabez]

very clear formulated tutorial, very helpful, thank you very much.

[Mr12345678901212]

HI, so i made my intro, but it keeps skipping. how do i convert it to windows live movie maker?

[gssantospequeno]

thnx a lot! i was tired of teh fox intro ^^

[ArcticGreenStripes]

@Ballyweg Thank you very much for your help :)

[TheShadowReapers9]

Blender isnt not working for me can someone make me one please