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What is the best way to make a video from a still image with hours of audio?
Premiere Pro CS6. On Friday I took my four hour podcast recorded from Skype, placed a title and logo over it, chucked on the 10 second show title animation, then exported it at 1920×1080 10Mbps. Its Monday now and it is only 58% complete. Premiere estimates it will be 9431 MB. The audio file is 250 MB, the image is 4 MB and the intro animation is probably 20 MB. 250+4+20=274. So where are those THOUSANDS of extra Megabytes coming from and why does it take FOUR DAYS to export?
I need a better solution. My computer is unusable and God Forbid I want to change anything in the recording.
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12 Replies
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Hi, Paul. I think the best way is upload the audio alone to Youtube and pit a still image (your logo) as a cover.
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What are your EXACT export settings?
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I didn’t know I could upload an audio file to Youtube. Also, I want the intro animation.
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H.264 1920×1080 Target 5Mbps Max 5.4Mbps 29.97 fps Progressive VBR 2 Pass AAC 160 kbps 48 kHz Stereo. Its currently 84% complete and claims it has 6h04 to go, but the timer is not moving. I hope it hasn’t stopped exporting…
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In every second of your 4 hour video there are 29.97 individual frames of 1920×1080 pixels each. That’s a huge number of pixels and they all have to be rendered out – even if they are just black ( a pixel is a pixel and each one has to be created by the rendering process). That is going to take a lot of rendering time – especially if you are not using a powerful computer. Just produce an audio only file.
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There’s no need to do 2 pass encoding because as there’s really nothing to improve with the second pass because it’s mostly a still image. Also you didn’t mention it but turn off maximum render quality if you have it on. You should also add a value to the keyframe field though because you don’t need to encode and write every frame (or have the encoder decide for you) so you set a longer time before the encoder adds a keyframe.
For example I rendered an hour long full HD sequence with a still image and a music track.
10Mbps no keyframes, file size a bit over 2 gigs
10Mbps keyframe every 300 frames, file size a bit less than 400 megs
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That sounds swell but how do I keep the intro animation pristine?
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Test some settings and see how it looks.
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It finally finished exporting after several days and it looks crystal clear. The estimate of 9431MB was way off – the file is only 864MB thankfully. It seems quite primitive that the program cant simply detect a still image and massively speed up this process. Can anyone recommend a better editing program that can do this?
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I’ll take that comment as a shrug. Not sure why you bothered typing anything at all.
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