Windows Live Movie Maker on your Win7 machine will turn a video into YouTube compressed format. It will also combine several clips into a single video.
Techwalla: Insert and Merge video in WinLiveMM
How to Take an iPhone voice memo Audio File and Turn it into a YouTube
* Your voice memo's from your iPhone will be recorded as MPEG-4 (m4a) audio files.
* Plug your iPhone into your laptop and iTunes will come up, including showing the files on your iPhone. Find "voice memos" and right-click / copy on your file.
* Then in Windows icon select "Computer" and go to where you want to deposit it on your hard drive, and "paste". Now your m4a file is on your hard drive, and still on your iPhone as well.
Making a short pre-amble slide movie
* Open up PowerPoint, make your slide show
* click Transitions and in here, I use Fade and duration 1.25s and "advance slide" after 10.00 seconds, or whatever you want.
* To save it as a windows WMV file, under File / Save As / and about halfway down is Windows Media Video. It'll take a couple of minutes to generate the video.
* Now in Windows Live Movie Maker you'll add this video, then add to the end,a slide that you want to sit on screen while the entire radio audio plays.
How to Merge videos and audio in Windows Live Movie Maker....
* Bring up from the folder in Windows... All Programs / Windows Live / Windows Live Movie Maker
* Click Add videos and photos icon and select on your computer the pre-amble video you just made.
* Position the vertical line positioner on the video at the end.
* Click Add videos and photos icon and select the
photo you want visible while listening to your audio file
* Under Add Music click Add Music at the Current Point and click on the m4a file from your iPhone or iTunes library or from the folder. It should have a "note" icon on it.
* You'll now have a new green square at top Music Tools
* If you have audio to clip off from the beginning, you do that now. The "start time" will read the time elapsed during the pre-amble video, and that's what you want; leave that alone.
* in Start Point set the time after the start of the audio file that you actually want to begin for the merged video. So for the KSQD inaugural audio, that was 2:35 = 155.0 sec. If there's trailing dead time at the end, you can adjust End Point
* Suppose there's audio to be trimmed from places within the larger audio file? Then you'll need to make and End point at the next place you want to start trimming, and then make the video. That'll be time consuming. Then you import THAT video a-fresh, and do it all again to trim out more by adjusting the start pt and end point once again, etc. All the while you'll be...
* then click "fit to music" and it'll insure the photo and audio last the same length of time. It should fill in the photo onto the timeline from start to trimmed finish
* now "save as" and I chose standard format and it saved it as a .wmv file, and took about 15 minutes to make my movie file for a 45 minute interview.
* Now you can re-open it in Windows Live Movie Maker and the video controls should work, enabling further trimming
* slide the bar to the start of where you want, then click Set start point
* Now slide the bar to where you want the video to end, and Set end point
* cllick Trim tool and then Save Trim and then once again click save as and it'll again take much time to save a new trimmed .wmv file.
* Can't use VirtualDub. Unfortunately, VirtualDub does not open .wmv files, only .avi files, and I see no option in WinLiveMM to save in different formats. It always automatically saves as .wmv
Uploading to YouTube
* go to youtube.com. It should remember you if you've already verified your account.
* click the little videocam icon upper left and 'upload'
* follow instructions
* To edit your description or title, you'll need to instead log in to studio.youtube.com
and wait 10 sec for it to load
* on the left panel click on videos and you should see your videos
* click on the little box left of the relevant video
* in the black bar above click edit downarrow and you can edit a lot of things, including the description and title.
* note that to add comments which include URL links, you cannot add linked words, instead add a descriptive title to the link and then the explicit URL below it
* Now, in the black bar above, on the far right, you'll see update videos and it'll warn you the change is permanent ("permanent"??I think instead you can just change it again later??) and click OK and the change is now made.
Editing Your Video After It's Inside YouTube. Splitting, Trimming and pulling out segments on your YouTube video
Not Sure This Below is What I Want to Do, or When. For Now, Leave it here
* Windows Live Movie Maker doesn't handle MPEG-4 audio files. So you first need to convert to e.g. AVI format
* Use this free online converter FilesConversion.com, select your file, I used "moderate" quality, and it turned a 50 minute 24Meg file into a 51Meg AVI file.
* I left "size" unchanged, since it's not a video file. It puts you in a queue and you may have to wait a few minutes before it gets to your file. Then another ~minute for the conversion
* then click on the file when ready and it'll pop up the usual box and you can "save as" onto your computer.