![]() Your rendered MP4 file will be in a nice small file size and ready for quick uploading to YouTube. Yes, the MP4 will be slightly larger, but it's still better as far as a video-sharing sites like YouTube are concerned. Use MP4, because video sites "understand" that format better than WMV. WMM build 16 offers the ability to export in MP4 or WMV. It will render so fast that you'll think something is wrong with your computer. Probably faster than anything you've ever exported from WMM before. When you export this video, it will happen really, really fast. And thankfully, you don't have to scroll to get to it. ![]() Now when you hover over "Save movie," your new custom setting will appear to the right of it. Click Save there, then close the Custom Setting box. You'll be prompted to save to a "Video Profiles" folder. The custom name is "720p 1fps", 1280 width, 720 height, 100kbps bit rate, 1 frame per second, and a better-than-average (for YouTube) audio quality of 192kbps stereo. Whether you used the fast way or the stupid way, you end up with this box:įill out the fields so it looks like this: The menu choice you want here is "Create custom setting." It's the very last choice and looks like this: The way to go through this menu is that after you hover over "Save movie," let go of your mouse and use your UP and DOWN arrow keys, and then you can scroll through the choices properly. However, when you hover over them, the menu races like crazy. ![]() These can be used to scroll through other options. Then you hover over "Save movie." And then you encounter this bad menu, and you'll understand why in a moment.Īt the top and bottom of this menu are thin arrow bars that you probably didn't even notice until I just told you. There's the fast way and the stupid way to do this.Īt top left, you click the blue bottom to show the menu. This, in all honesty, is a pain in the ass at first because of bad menu design. Instead of that little 7-second image, now the image runs the full length of the audio. When you do that, your image's running time now matches the audio, and your editor changes to reflect that: My running time is 137.97, so that's what I type in and press Enter. Stretch running time of the image to match audioĬlick on "Video Tools", which is right next to "Music Tools." The first thing you'll notice is that your image has a running time (or "Duration" as WMM calls it) of 7 seconds.Ĭlick in that field and manually type out the running time of the audio.ĭO NOT type the s, just the number. Remember the end point number, which in this example is 137.97. If Start time and Start point are not 0.00, click in the field where the numbers are, type a single 0 (do NOT type an s), press Enter, and it will then be set to 0.00 like it's supposed to be. "Start time" should be 0.00s, "Start point" should also be 0.00s, and "End point" is a different number. Get the running time of the audioĬlick on "Music Tools" on top. If you don't see it, compare it to the image above and you'll find it. Note the green bar below the video on the right side, that's the audio. Place your audio into WMMĭrag-and-drop your audio into WMM, and it will look something like this. WMM will not accept any audio until it has an image or video to work with. We'll change this in a moment.Īnd yes, you have to place the image first. The default running length of the image will be 7 seconds. Place your image into WMMĭrag-and-drop your image into WMM. WAV is better if you have it, but if MP3 is all you have, that works too. If you need a test image, get one from here. You need 1 image, and I suggest using 1280x720 since that's what 720p is and will look proper once uploaded to YouTube. Get (or create) an image that is 1280x720 in resolution Why do this? It's good for musicians that just want to post their music to YouTube and need a very quick-and-dirty way to make a video. The goal: Create a video that's just a single image with an accompanying audio track, and have that video be only 1 frame per second since it's only one image to get the file size as small as possible so you can upload to YouTube faster. This is another one of those that I'm writing for my own reference, but I'm very sure a whole bunch of you out there will find this useful. How to join an image and audio with Windows Movie Maker
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