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jab's avatar

FWIW, I often want to upload an audio track to youtube, but it does not do that, so I use ffmpeg command line to add a still image to the audio to create a video (mp4)

Your audio is good enough for me !

It ends up like this https://youtu.be/4A21AulfrX8

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i avitar.png -i IceCreamMan.m4a -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a aac -b:a 192k -pix_fmt yuv420p -

shortest IcecreamMan.mp4

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Stan R. Mitchell's avatar

So, I used to use canva to do something like that, but it takes FOREVER...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfpyChnkRRY

Teach me how to do whatever magic you're doing!! lol

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jab's avatar

I made you this example of my process https://youtu.be/OnFtywbnSH8

If you use linux, just "sudo apt install ffmpeg". If you use Windows, there is a different way to install ffmpeg tools but I'm not familiar with it - you have to pay me to do Windows.

Then just run that command line above, giving it your own "IceCreamMan.m4a" audio track, and a still image as "stan.png", and it creates stan.mp4, which you can upload to youtube. Try it if the possibility pleases you :)

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Stan R. Mitchell's avatar

Half of this sounded like a foreign language, but I may try this later! Thanks, brother!!

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Eric Karis's avatar

Stan, good work. Thanks!

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Stan R. Mitchell's avatar

Thanks for the comment! I often think as I'm recording, "Would Eric hear this and think, 'Duh?' I've got to at least make sure I'm speaking to his level, while also doing brief intros to pull in anyone who hasn't served or lacks the kind of experience you have."

Anyway, glad you're enjoying, brother! That's a relief because it tells me I'm at least getting in the right hemisphere of what I'm aiming for. 🤣

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