The video is new, but Jordanian pilot Mu'ath Al Kassasbeh was killed more than a month ago.
A resistance group - based in Syria - uses social media to chart life under IS rule.
Early in January it tweeted: "A group of ISIS fighters in Raqqa were talking among them enthusiastically about the execution of Jordanian pilot who was burned to death by ISIS - the reports are unconfirmed yet."
A member of the group today told Sky News: "On 8 January, one of our members who was in a public place - we don't want to say where exactly for his security and to protect him - he saw some IS fighters, including one of their biggest leaders were celebrating.
"They were boasting that they had burned the Jordanian pilot that day."
Instead of publicising the murder on social media, Islamic State has kept extremely quiet online, and spent that time working on an elaborate, highly-produced video.
That shows how important they think these videos are.
This one is the most sophisticated yet.
It uses multiple camera angles, was made using expensive equipment, and employs a lot of whizz-bang visual effects and graphics.
One aim is obviously to terrorise the population in the areas they control.
Every film needs a screening and the same resistance activist told us: "Yesterday, IS projected the video on big screens in the street to show the people of Raqqa the execution.
"The reaction was one of shock, they couldn't believe what had happened.
"One person asked a fighter why they burnt him as in Islam that is forbidden. They said it was an eye for an eye, and that they had killed our women and children with their airstrikes."
The video does indeed try to strike a more emotive note than previous releases.
It also shows how the Islamic State is trying to rewrite its story.
The style is like a spy film with its graphics and treatments, compared to the all-out combat of previous videos.
It is presented as "a security database" and there's a detailed 3D breakdown of the weapons and vehicles used by those fighting IS.
The message - they are not scrappy desert fighters any more, training by jumping through fiery hoops and engaging in limp hand-to-hand combat.
Now they are a sophisticated intelligence network.
Of course, they are not.
The whole aim of the video is to make them seem much more sophisticated than they actually are.
Finally, as polished as it is, the video is not a product, but a continuation of a dialogue.
When Mr Al Kassasbeh was shot down at the end of last year, a hashtag spread through Twitter, asking IS supporters how he should be killed.
One user suggested a bulldozer.
This video ends with another call to action.
It shows the names and purported address of other Jordanian air force pilots, and offers a reward for their murder.
The real sophistication of this video, and of IS generally, is involving others in their story online.
Artur Beifuss, author of Branding Terror, said: "ISIS is not only at war with the so-called West, but also in competition with other terrorists groups that offer the same product.
"Think about the competition: Boko Haram in Nigeria, 9/11 or the Taliban killing 144 school children in Pakistan in December 2014.
"The product is the same, but only one group will be the most notorious one."
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