I've been trying to make a music video to play in iTunes, that uses a single photo to show throughout an entire song - Does anyone know how I can do this???

Question

The files work fine on my desktop, in iWeb, and in iTunes, then a couple of days later they stop working somehow.  I did notice that the audio portion is 6 minutes or so and the video only lasts 8 seconds, but it really does show the picture through the entire song  for the first few times.  I just want to know how to do this so it works.  Here is an example of what I am talking about:
http://web.me.com/edjgraphix/EDJ_GRAPHIX/EDJpodcast/Entries/2011/12/13_Still_Lyr ic_Videos_for_iTunes.html
Thanks,
Erik Jurado

Answer 1

I just want to know how to do this so it works.
The most common methods to create a podcast are using QT 7 Pro or the GarageBand application. Your sample files look as though they may have been created using a QT 7 Pro (or similar app algorithm) by opening your JPEG in a player and then attaching the music to the to the end of image frame. The proper way to do this is to create a QT player with the JPEG image in it and then copy the content from the image player to the opened audio player using the "Add to Selection & Scale" Edit option to paste the image across all frames of the audio track.
Here is an example of what I mean: Blow Me Away_modified.mov
In this case I extracted both the audio and JPEG tracks and then re-sampled the audio track to get rid of the added empty audio frame and then added an externally re-scaled 826x638 version of your 1651x1275 internally scaled 827x638 display to reduce the file size from 10 MBs to 6.7 MBs.