Need help with optimal static music video creation

[rex144]

Hello,
I want to create simple "music videos" for full-length album uploads to YouTube.

I'm asking for most efficient and "lossless" way to prepare such videos for upload.

An idea is to use single picture (cd cover) with mp3 files of the given album.

I strongly prefer merging mp3 files and otherwise leave them untouched (if possible) to avoid double recompression when uploading to YouTube.

I'd be glad for any suggestions, I'm ok with anything usable for this task, command line tools, etc.

Thank you

[transporterfan]

Join all your mp3s in Audacity. Export them to a single mp3 file. Get the exact play time of all the joined files From Audacity.
Open this: http://www.photofilmstrip.org/en/features/
Insert your cover image and give it a display duration equal to the play time of your large audio file.
Add the audio file. Export as HD MP4.
Done

Upload to Youtube.

Not used it (use NLE's) but should be just what you're looking for.

Edir Another better one: https://www.videohelp.com/software/DVD-slideshow-GUI

[teodz1984]

just make sure your music isn't copyrighted.. or else youtube will take the video down.

[rex144]

Just for future reference, this is what I settled on..

ffmpeg -loop 1 -i cover.jpg -i audio.mp3 -acodec copy -vcodec h264 -crf 18 -tune stillimage -pix_fmt yuv420p -shortest -vf scale=1280:720 -aspect 16:9 video.mp4

For joining mp3 files I use http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html