MoviePy is a Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations (like cuts, concatenations, title insertions), video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, or to create advanced effects.
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Mixing audio files in MoviePy
I've been writing a script using MoviePy. So far I've been able to import videos, clip them, add text, replace the audio and write a new file. It's been a great learning experience. My question is this:
The movie that I'm editing has audio attached.…
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Moviepy zooming effects need tweaking
I would like to zoom a clip to a certain dimension, then stop further zooming. In other words, the clip stop further increasing its size after reaching a certain size, and its better if the clip start zooming from much smaller of its original size,…
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MoviePy VideoFileClip instance has no attribute 'reader'
I've searched for a few days regarding this issue but have come to no solution. I have a big script (I'm trying to concatenate large number of videos, ~100-500), which is why I was getting the error "Too many files open". Reading Zulko's responses…
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Difficulty animating a matplotlib graph with moviepy
I have to make an animation of a large number (~90,000) figures. For context, it's a plot of a map for every day from 1700 - 1950, with events of interest marked on relevent days.
I can do this using matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation, and I have…
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Pygame/MoviePy - The video displays with a terrible framerate and the window size is bigger than my screen
I've been looking around for a while trying to find a way to display videos in Pygame because of a new story video-game project. I finally stumbled across Moviepy which works alright...except that the video displays showing only one of the 24 frames…
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Moviepy - Output video not playable
I'm using the library moviepy on Linux Mint 18.1.
Specifically, it's moviepy 0.2.3.2 on python 3.5.2
Since I'm getting started, I tried this simple script, which should concatenate two videos one after the other:
import moviepy.editor as mp
video1…
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ffmpeg installation on macOS for MoviePy fails with SSL error
I'm trying to write a Python program that uses MoviePy on Mac OS 10.11.16 to convert an MP4 file to GIF. I use:
import moviepy.editor as mp
and I get an error saying I need to call imageio.plugins.ffmpeg.download() so I can download ffmpeg. I…
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MoviePy: Concatenating video clips causes weird glitches in final video
Is there a way to successfully always patch up any clips together in such a way that prevents weird glitches? I put together a .mp4 from smaller .mp4 files and I got a final video with weird glitches. I am running Python 3.6.1 on Windows 10 through…
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Extract images using opencv and python or moviepy
I have a video (.mp4) that has ~8000 frames. I have a csv that tells me the time that I need to grab each frame at in the video, and the number of frames to grab.
number_of_frames in video = 8000
times is an array like [0.004, 0.005, ... 732s]
The…
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Get number of frames in clip with Moviepy
You would think this would be such a simple operation, but there is nothing in the documentation about how to get the number of frames in a video clip. The only way I can think of is to use iter_frames() and just count the frames out one by one, but…
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moviepy resize not working in some sizes
I have a mp4 video of 720x1280, and I want it in different sizes like:
0.66%, 0.5% and 0.33%.
For each of these sizes I use:
clip = mp.VideoFileClip(file)
clip_resized1 = clip.resize(height=int(clip.h * float(0.66666)))…
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How can I get the volume of sound of a video in Python using moviepy?
I want to get the volume of sound of a video so I use the following:
import numpy as np # for numerical operations
from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, concatenate
clip = VideoFileClip("soccer_game.mp4")
cut = lambda i:…
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Moviepy: add audio to a video
I am trying to run the following code:
from moviepy.editor import *
videoclip = VideoFileClip("filename.mp4")
audioclip = AudioFileClip("audioname.mp3")
new_audioclip = CompositeAudioClip([videoclip.audio, audioclip])
videoclip.audio =…
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High performance video edit in Python
I'm trying to add watermark on very short part of the mp4 video. It has to be very, very fast. Now I tried to do it with moviepy Here is my code:
import moviepy.editor as mp
video = mp.VideoFileClip("video.mp4")
part1 = video.subclip(0,10)
part2 =…
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ValueError: MoviePy couldn't find the codec associated with the filename. Provide the 'codec' parameter in write_videofile
Why is it throwing this error on some files, and for other files it doesn't ?
The files are all .mp4 videos.
'ValueError: MoviePy couldn't find the codec associated with the filename. Provide the 'codec' parameter in write_videofile.'
The code,…
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