Background
It seems easy enough. There are some audio files that I will like to upload to YouTube.
But, Youtube is kicking back that it does not accept Audio Files.
Error Message
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Textual
The file you uploaded contains only audio and no video. Learn how to easily convert your audio track to a video file type.
The hyperlink directed us to:
Convert audio and image files into a format that will work on YouTube
Microsoft Movie Maker – v2012
Movie Maker is bundled as part of Microsoft Live Essential.
Depending on my OS, I will need a different version of Live Essential.
OS Matrix and Software Version
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials
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Download Location
Thankfully, On a blog post, Microsoft’s Aviraj Ajgekar provided a link for Windows Essential 2012. The link is http://g.live.com/1rewlive5-all/en/wlsetup-all.exe
Installed Application
Downloaded and installed Application.
Usage
Here are quick steps on how to create a video file out of an audio file.
- Avail Audio File
- For us, we downloaded Ray Stedman’s Audio file on Prayer
- Select a background image
- Choose Ray’s picture from Googling his name
- Launch Windows Movie Maker v2012
- Choose to create a new project ( File / New Project )
- From the menu access the “Add videos and photos” icon (
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- From the File menu, navigate to the folder where our photos were placed
- From the menu access the “Add Music” icon (
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- From the File menu, navigate to the Folder where our audio ( mp3 ) files were placed
- Get duration of the Audio
- Double click on the Audio
- Context sensitive information on the selected media is shown at the top of the Application
- Here is what ours look like ( when we selected the green audio strip )
- Note the Start and End Point; in our case 0s and 1776 s
- Set the duration of the Picture element to be same as the Audio
- Double-click on the Picture Element
- Again, the top panel reflects specificalities of the chosen element
- Match the duration
- Here is what our screen looks like, post match
- The window changes to reflect the fact that we have extended the duration of the pictures
- Save the movie via the “File” \ “Save Movie” menu option
Of course, we chose “YouTube”
Images
A little out of place, but here are the pictures we took.
Picture Added
Audio Added
The difference between this image and the one preceding it is the 
Upload
We now have a good, well package mp4 file that YouTube will allow us to upload as a movie.
Result
Here are Ray Stedman’s Audio artifacts that we are able to package as video (mp4) files.
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