Batch create single frame videos

[moosehunter]

I have about 1-2 thousand audio clips that I want to use in my website. I don't have enough space or bandwidth to handle the kind of traffic it gets, so I've decided to host them on YouTube. However, YouTube only hosts video, not audio, so I have to make a video clip with a single picture in it with the audio track I want hosted.

As far as I know, with the programs I currently have, Premiere elements 8 and Final Cut Pro, I have to manually add the audio, manually add the picture, stretch the picture to take up the entire video, and export, which would take forever to do thousands of times.

I need a quick way to take an image and audio clip and create a video from them. The video would preferably be HD with maybe only a single keyframe, and the audio, which could be easily uploaded to YouTube. I don't really care how this is done, command line tools (Windows, OSX, or Linux. Doesn't matter) would probably be best, but if i can do it inside of premiere or final cut that would be fine to.

[jimbobob84]

you could set up a macro
I use windows movie maker and there is probably a way that could save you some time by using shortcut buttons or something.
maybe a play list with an image or something idn

wait. you can only upload 10 videos at a time on youtube
maybe you should try a ftp server

[moosehunter]

but would there be any way to do this with, say, ffmpeg?

[moosehunter]

nvm, made a program/batch file that takes a picture and a folder of audio clips and spits a bunch of flv's

[moosehunter]

Oops, I forgot to post how I did this >_< so, at the request of someone, I did.

Just do something like this: ffmpeg -loop 1 -r 1 -shortest -i "pic.png" -i "audio.mp3" -acodec copy "out.avi"
-loop 1 will loop your input image, -r 1 will give the video a fps of 1, for a smaller file size. If this causes problem for some odd reason, you can take it out. -shortest will limit the output file to the length of the input audio file.

To do a batch convert, just do a for loop if you're on Windows. for %a in (*.mp3) do ffmpeg -loop 1 -r 1 -shortest -i "pic.png" -i "%a" -acodec copy "%~na.avi"