Turning a still frame into a video

Factual Questions
1

I livestreamed a video to youtube but it was cut short due to a connection issue.

I recorded the audio separately and it is complete.

Is there a way to extend the video in some way, i.e. to pad it to the required length, without having to use some complex video editing software which I don’t have? Other than ffmpeg and Youtube Studio.

A perfectly fine solution would be to extend the video with a freeze frame on the final captured frame.

Another fine solution would be to create a new video out of just one single frame held for a few minutes. I can easily concatenate that with ffmpeg. Is there a simple software that could do this?

Or is there a codec in ffmpeg that can turn a still picture into a video?

Any other ideas or suggestions?

2

Adobe Premiere Elements is the crippled version of Premiere Pro (professional video editing software); it’s around $70 and is pretty easy to use. It might be worth it if you anticipate needing to edit video again in the future.

I don’t know of any free windows-based software which will do this without leaving a watermark, etc.

3

Do you have a Mac or iPhone or iPad? iMovie comes free with the OS and can easily do this.

4

I do it all the time with Movie Maker

5

You can do that with recent versions of ffmpeg:



ffmpeg -i myvid.mp4 -vf tpad=stop_mode=clone:stop_duration=10 newvid.mp4

will repeat the last video frame of myvid.mp4 for 10 seconds, for instance. You’ll have to handle the audio separately, of course.

6

Thanks for the suggestions all!

I found one solution for making a still video, it is built in to Windows 10. The “Photos App” has a Video Editor where you can drag just a picture to the storyboard, set a duration and then Finish. Boom, out comes a still video of the specified length.

I was next going to figure out the ffmpeg command line for concatenating them, but then saw Kyrie Eleison’s answer. Gonna try that first, saves me the concatenation step! Thank you!

7

Thanks Kyrie Eleison I tried that command line on a shorter video and it works right out of the box! Exactly what I had in mind and saved me quite a bit of effort! Great answer!