How I Edit My Videos With Python - Python Task Automation

In this tutorial, I show you how I edit my videos using Python and MoviePy.
MoviePy is a Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations like cuts, concatenations, title insertions, video compositing, video processing, and even to create advanced effects.
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[@yuvrajsingh-gm6zk]

As a video editor who is now a coding wannabe, this is pure gold man!!

[@thedebapriyakar]

Straight to the point and just mind blowingly well explained.

[@patloeber]

glad you like it!

[@brendensong8000]

Thank you for sharing this! Love all your video! It's very informative!!!

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[@patloeber]

Thanks so much for the kind words Markus!

[@markusbuchholz3518]

@@patloeber Good luck!

[@vegaarcturus509]

Very useful for Minecraft ASMR mining blocks and putting blocks. I know that this is applicable in a lot of situations

[@rajukani100]

That's it i looking for. Awesome Bro !

[@patloeber]

Thank you!

[@ThorstenMueller]

I just found your channel. Great and really helpful content, thanks for providing it 🙂. Subscribed directly, of course.

[@Micetticat]

I found your great tutorial because I was thinking how convenient would be to have a way to edit videos using code for some workflows.

[@saralgyaan]

It's very helpful video, will be trying it for sure.

[@terraflops]

this is so cool! Python can do so many things. Happy to know Python can edit videos and audio. Thanks!

[@patloeber]

Glad you like it

[@quagmirev252]

Hey, Nice work! Really helpful for me :D i really want to thank you for the help!

[@sikkavilla3996]

this channel deserves more subscribers

[@patloeber]

thanks :)

[@jrnpaulsen9926]

I've been thinking of doing something similar myself, but I'm trying to find a more efficient method for the manual work (in Audacity). One method could be to just use the label-function in Audacity, then find a way to extract/export all of the label-data (from/to/labelname). Another (more basic) improvement to the current workflow could be to link a hotkey to a script that adds track-selection start/end-time to the clipboard. Anyways, great video! There's so many tasks that (in large parts) can be be automated :)

[@WebStacks500]

Thank You, now I'm gonna go and make a Video Editor in python with GUI - Quite a bit of work :)

[@EveryLastdrop-tw6rg]

you can actually just open your videos in audacity by the way, but that code is awesome thank you for showing

[@abhimanyunegi4382]

Loved it Wass willing to make it myself, but you made it easier....👌👌👌

[@patloeber]

Thanks :)

[@abhimanyunegi4382]

@@patloeber Welcome ;)

[@kamel3d]

is there a library to visualise all of this I mean to give it a visual interface like in classic editing software?

[@JuanGabrielOyolaCardona]

Thanks for the great content. Thanks for sharing 😃🇨🇴

[@shantanudhiman5263]

I mean wow, this is better than any video editor, freaking awesome....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@patloeber]

yeah it's cool :)

[@SerapioSergiovich]

Nice video shows methods to create a business..

[@brandonallen2301]

Came for the video editing tips. Reminded me that I majored in deep learning, lol

[@hishamsomroz6913]

Great man

[@CodeWithTomi]

This is a great tutorial..

[@patloeber]

Thanks :)

[@LanaDominkovic]

Awesome, didnt even think about this possibility! Maybe I try to edit videos with Python :D

[@patloeber]

Go for it!

[@wassyppp]

Great video! Is there a way to play the video and save the cuts by pressing a button (start/stop). Then just running this function. Thanks

[@lukajeliciclux3074]

@PythonEngineer do I see Tech with Tim and Corey Schafer in your subscription. 😃

[@patloeber]

Yes 😄

[@todologic]

Great info!

[@patloeber]

Glad it was helpful!

[@CustAndCode]

pretty nice! 🤗

[@christiangeng6070]

Thanks for the lovely video! I have one question not directly related to the content presented, but as you are demoing your screencasts I think this is still relevant: How are you recording your screencasts - before cutting them? For me especially relevant would be appropriate command line switches for ffmgeg under Linux.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I have only done screen grabbing on Linux under X11. On Wayland, things will be different. I once did a capture of a 1280×720 region using a command like ffmpeg -f x11grab -video_size 1280:720 -framerate 25 -i :0.0+«offset» -vcodec png «dir»/frame%04d.png

[@oneeyedphotographer]

I might use this approach to add a standard preamble, to trim dead space to make the video fit the target duration (good for YT #shorts), add a trailer for the next episode as required. I think a standard GUI editor would be my go to for normal work. If I'm talking, make an error and reshoot that segment, this isn't going to handle it well. Similar if I record an interview, it might take an hour of shooting but need to be condensed to 15 minutes. Python can probably be made to drive Premiere Pro too, it can drive Photoshop.

[@hoclaptrinh882]

Amazing!

[@patloeber]

thanks!

[@azarmahmood1421]

Hi with python pillow can it improve the video image quality or is it just pictures it does thankyou

[@saurrav3801]

Nice video bro 🤙🤙

[@patloeber]

thanks!

[@rachit6099]

Thankyou so much :)

[@patloeber]

thanks!

[@RozBizMedia]

DUDE, I was wondering if this was possible :)

[@efiratoglu]

Great video about MoviePy. But I really wonder how you were planning to define silent parts of a video to extract automaticaly. Would you please drop a few lines about the algorithm of that? TBH, I could not find the command to analyze the sound level in an audio clip to create croppin time stamps and that would be more than enough... Many thanks again for that great tutorial!

[@muhammad_talha]

thanks

[@narendrarao5989]

i want to add an audio test.mp3 of 2 secs to a video file of test.mp4 of 15 secs at multiple places like at 4th, 8 th , 12 th. what would be the approach?

[@ClashBaseDeveloper]

This is insane

[@seanivore]

I have a database of images and text and can't find a no-code bulk automator for making video shorts. Canva came out with one but you can't change the background. I've never used code... will this be too hard for me???

[@GoodBoyDanny]

I want to add a looping gif over music with out making a million cuts. Is that possible?

[@JJSeattle]

Ahahha okay, that was a funny disclaimer, "I don't use it myself for my KZbin videos, but you could." Ahahahaha that just tickled me.

[@future9728]

Can we add an audio file that plays when with text overlay

[@errorhostnotfound1165]

--I'm not sure why __name__ is italicized and missing an _ on the right and left side in this comment, but I didn't write it like that. --What does if __name__ == '__main__': edit_video(loadtitle, savetitle, cuts) --do? --What is "libx264"? Does the video have to be ".mov" to ".mp4" or can it be ".mp4" to ".mp4"? Videoquality is "24", what happens if I increase/decrease that number? Instead of having title separate from loadtitle and savetitle, could I have loadtitle and savetitle be paths? What are cut[0] and cut[1] in for cut in cuts: clip = video.subclip(cut[0], cut[1]) clips.append(clip) --? Are they individual cuts or are they start of a number of cuts? If I have cuts = [('00:01:00.00', '00:00:02.00'), ('00:00:05.00', 00:00:07.00')] is it for cut in cuts: clip = video.subclip(cut[0], cut[4]) clips.append(clip) --or for cut in cuts: clip = video.subclip(cut[0], cut[1], cut[3], cut[4]) clips.append(clip) --? Also, I haven't been able to run it fully yet, but it seems that for Windows txt = mpy.TextClip('Please Subscribe!', font='Courier') fontsize=120, color='white', bg_color='gray35' txt = txt.set_position(('center', 0.6), relative=True) txt = txt.set_start((0, 3)) # (min, s) txt = txt.set_duration(4) txt = txt.crossfadein(0.5) txt = txt.crossfadeout(0.5) ... final_clip.write_videofile(savetitle, threads=4, fps=24) codec=vcodec, preset=compression, ffmpeg_params=["-crf", videoquality]) --needs to be rewritten as txt = mpy.TextClip('Please Subscribe!', font='Courier') txt = txt.mpy.TextClip(fontsize=120, color='white', bg_color='gray35') txt = txt.set_position(('center', 0.6), relative=True) txt = txt.set_start((0, 3)) # (min, s) txt = txt.set_duration(4) txt = txt.crossfadein(0.5) txt = txt.crossfadeout(0.5) ... final_clip.write_videofile(savetitle, threads=4, fps=24, codec=vcodec, preset=compression, ffmpeg_params=["-crf", videoquality]) --to avoid an unexpected indent error.

[@abuazfaar3662]

Beautiful 👍. Hey, I have some questions. Where do I reach out to you?

[@patloeber]

KZbin or Discord

[@user-yz8yn4zc2i]

Hi, I'm a student. I want to know how to clip the photos into a vedio with python like a function of the photo album and add some special effects when a photo changes. Thank you for your replying.

[@yusun5722]

There might be a simpler way, but at least you can save the video frames as images, embed the photo to the correpsonding images and export the video.

[@todologic]

Out of curiosity, why did you stop using this method and what software do you use otherwise?. Thanks.

[@patloeber]

It's not super convenient and limited in the features. You cannot do fancy video transitions or something. I switched to Davinci Resolve afterwards

[@todologic]

@@patloeber thanks for the info. The problem that I have is that I can not find a good video editor that is parametric. I know you can use JS with Premiere, but it is limited.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

There is also “melt”, which uses the MLT framework. You can drive that via an XML control file.

[@todologic]

I saw that Davinci Resolve has Python Scripting support. Have you tried it?

[@patloeber]

no I haven't but that's interesting

[@todologic]

@@patloeber Would be nice for a video perhaps? ;).

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I did a quick search, and it seems it has trouble with newer versions of Python.

[@todologic]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 oh. Pitty…

[@Kig_Ama]

How do we know the cut times? What if we have so many cut times? I am not sure, whether this works for my purpose.

[@patloeber]

Yes as I said, it is not suited for every workflow. You have to select the cut times manually by going through the video or audio line

[@Kig_Ama]

@@patloeber true, ty. May be in future there will be an AI that decides this for u.🙃

[@patloeber]

@@Kig_Ama Yes, I think this is already possible (even without AI just by analyzing the sound intensity). But for my own recordings this task is more difficult because sometimes I don't talk but still write code on the screen. It's hard to detect this...

[@Kig_Ama]

@@patloeber Amazing!

[@AbdifatahNadir-fk7lc]

Python is Every Think

[@matthewpaquette]

cool. but like... nooooooo

[@-raiwzo]

Guys don't you feel weird while editing on python, I mean there should be a GUI there no ?

[@suretmeyenateistoc4252]

ı'cant see ui? but nice click bait

[@SerapioSergiovich]

Nice video shows methods to create a business..