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ffmpeg: Create a black background video from audio, for Youtube upload
Alternatively you can have ffmpeg generate the black video with the color source filter instead of making an image:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i color=c=black:s=1280x720:r=5 -i audio.mp3 -crf 0 -c:a copy -...
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How to encode for YouTube with ffmpeg?
Use
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf yadif,format=yuv420p -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced/2)" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -bf 2 -c:a aac -q:a 1 -ac 2 -ar 48000 -use_editlist 0 -movflags +faststart out....
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ffmpeg: Create a black background video from audio, for Youtube upload
Youtube requires a video stream but your image is a single frame. Loop it to create a stream and terminate output when audio ends by adding -shortest.
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i black.png -i 'input.mp3' -c:v ...
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Resuming a large video uploading on Youtube
Yes.You can. It is officially announced the Youtube has brought up the FEATURE. If you had to abandon your upload for any reason, you have up to 24 hours to continue uploading where you left off.You ...
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Rough Idea of Time Spent Editing Videos
This is a tough question because there are a ton of different factors involved here, from complexity of the video to the equipment you're working with to the NLE you use. However, the default formula ...
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What part of this video is good and how to improve it?
Since you asked for general feedback, here's a few things I noticed:
0:00 The logo animation is too long in my opinion, especially since the video itself isn't that long.
0:12 Make the text much ...
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YouTube Season/Episode presentation
What you are referring to is called a series playlist. A series playlist is used to display videos in that manner.
What you have misunderstood is that it's actually the name of the show that is ...
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How to make video with a scrolling graphic?
You create the whole graphic as a still image - for the above, likely a 1080 x 28000 px image to start with.
Then I'd import the image into either Premiere or After Effects based on what you're more ...
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Does 60 fps make sense for YouTube?
Google has supported 60fps video since 2014. YouTube has a page that talks about video formats, codecs, framerates, etc., here. It is up to the Browser and YouTube to negotiate what format, frame ...
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Is CPU speed important for uploading a youtube video
Sending your files to YouTube (once rendered and or exported) will be down to the upload speed of your internet service provide (ISP) / Broadband supplier. The faster the upload speed, the faster it ...
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What happens when I upload a multi-audio video to YouTube?
Good news at the horizon. You should expect Multi-audio tracks and descriptive audio feeds support in the near future. There's actually a video demo with this capability, which is kind of proof of ...
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How does YouTube encode my uploads and what codec should I use to upload?
Your question is "How does YouTube encode my uploads and what codec should I use to upload?".
Digging deeper into your question I see: "Should I adjust my own encoding to "play nice" with Youtube's ...
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Shortcuts to other videos on YouTube
It is in:
Creator studio => Video Manager => (Select Video) => Card (or "End screen & Annotations")
There you select time and click on "Add element" button. Now you can choose, what you want to ...
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Streaming vs Let's Play on YouTube
I think your actual question is for a list of resources to get starting making gameplay videos (Let's Play is actually owned by Roosterteeth as a title).
But I think your premise is wrong, you ...
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I have a .mkv video file I need to use but it is apparently infinite
So I've found the issue to be related to inconsistent framerates. I found that running the video through ffmpeg with ffmpeg -i yourfile.mkv -c:v copy -c:a copy -r 30 newfile.mkv actually fixed the ...
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Include portion of youtube video
Do people use screen recording? If they do, will that include sound?
Definitely not in a professional setting. If you're making an amateur production, and you only need a few seconds or so, a screen ...
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I want to have multiple streams (up to 4) on one YouTube Live broadcast, Is that possible?
You want to start an Event, it support multiple cameras.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853812?hl=en
You'll also need either a program that supports send multiple streams or a program ...
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Graphic music visualizer without after effects?
You can add a music visualizer to videos for free online using VEED. (Disclaimer, I am the developer of this software)
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Head/Vision Tracking
It doesn't really look like it is actually being tracked. It looks like a manual overlay of a line on to it based on the head movement. It really doesn't look particularly accurate either from what ...
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Is there a way to improve quality for videos with snow/confetti/LCD in background?
Yes this feature exists, but it is not widely used yet.
Texas Instrument developped such solution, called SmartCodec, which looks to be implemented in a Samsung video surveillance system: Megapixel ...
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Does Youtube count views from facebook?
What counts as a view on Facebook are way different that what counts on YouTube. Facebook is famous for its defense on three second views. This is in contrast to YouTubes complex algorithm that ...
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What if YouTube owner doesn't respond if I can use their upload further?
Nothing, really. YouTube Standard License doesn't give you any rights to redistribute or remix the video (see my answer here). You can only try to contact the uploader through other means. Look ...
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Recommendations for Video Recording/Editing
This is always one of the biggest questions when a consumer finds they have a need to record something, just once. Couples wonder if their friend can record their wedding, dad's try their best to ...
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Setting format to H.264 in After Effects
I would not recommend trying to output your AE Comp using H.264. Unfortunately, regardless of the settings, you will get less than desirable results (typically terrible).
The proven workflow / best ...
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Replacement for Windows Live Movie Maker for combining images and audio (Windows 10)?
It can be made directly on the YouTube website. Look at the "Upload" page at the bottom-right corner:
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How to speed up playback speed like YouTube using Camtasia?
You don't do this in Camtasia as it doesn't appear that Camtasia supports pitch shifting at this point although there has definitely been some discussion of the topic for quite some time.
There are ...
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How do I make a YouTube video with text-only?
You can create these easily in most video editing programs. For example, in iMovie (which is available on Apple devices), each of these is a Title. "Title" is what iMovie calls a page of text. So ...
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Is there a Youtube-supported subtitle format that does positioning + Unicode?
Google Subtitle Workshop... it's an outdated program, but allows for full flexibility in terms of subtitles, size, language, position, lines, size, color, position, etc.
It's an old program, but it ...
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