Classes of Video Clips¶

`VideoClip`¶

class moviepy.video.VideoClip.VideoClip(make_frame=None, ismask=False, duration=None, has_constant_size=True)[source]¶

Bases: moviepy.Clip.Clip

Base class for video clips.

See VideoFileClip, ImageClip etc. for more user-friendly classes.

Parameters:

ismask: True if the clip is going to be used as a mask.

Attributes:

size

The size of the clip, (width,heigth), in pixels.

w, h

The width and height of the clip, in pixels.

ismask

Boolean set to True if the clip is a mask.

make_frame

A function t-> frame at time t where frame is a w*h*3 RGB array.

mask (default None)

VideoClip mask attached to this clip. If mask is None,: The video clip is fully opaque.

audio (default None)

An AudioClip instance containing the audio of the video clip.

pos

A function t->(x,y) where x,y is the position of the clip when it is composed with other clips. See VideoClip.set_pos for more details

relative_pos

See variable pos.

add_mask(self)[source]¶

Add a mask VideoClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the clip with a completely opaque mask (made of ones). This makes computations slower compared to having a None mask but can be useful in many cases. Choose

Set constant_size to False for clips with moving image size.

afx(self, fun, *a, **k)[source]¶

Transform the clip’s audio.

Return a new clip whose audio has been transformed by fun.

blit_on(self, picture, t)[source]¶: Returns the result of the blit of the clip’s frame at time t on the given picture, the position of the clip being given by the clip’s pos attribute. Meant for compositing.

close(self)¶: Release any resources that are in use.

copy(self)¶

Shallow copy of the clip.

Returns a shallow copy of the clip whose mask and audio will be shallow copies of the clip’s mask and audio if they exist.

This method is intensively used to produce new clips every time there is an outplace transformation of the clip (clip.resize, clip.subclip, etc.)

cutout(self, ta, tb)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip but skips the extract between ta and tb, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If the original clip has a duration attribute set, the duration of the returned clip is automatically computed as `` duration - (tb - ta)``.

The resulting clip’s audio and mask will also be cutout if they exist.

fl(self, fun, apply_to=None, keep_duration=True)¶

General processing of a clip.

Returns a new Clip whose frames are a transformation (through function fun) of the frames of the current clip.

Parameters:

fun: A function with signature (gf,t -> frame) where gf will represent the current clip’s get_frame method, i.e. gf is a function (t->image). Parameter t is a time in seconds, frame is a picture (=Numpy array) which will be returned by the transformed clip (see examples below).
apply_to: Can be either 'mask', or 'audio', or ['mask','audio']. Specifies if the filter fl should also be applied to the audio or the mask of the clip, if any.
keep_duration: Set to True if the transformation does not change the duration of the clip.

Examples

In the following newclip a 100 pixels-high clip whose video content scrolls from the top to the bottom of the frames of clip.

>>> fl = lambda gf,t : gf(t)[int(t):int(t)+50, :]
>>> newclip = clip.fl(fl, apply_to='mask')

fl_image(self, image_func, apply_to=None)[source]¶: Modifies the images of a clip by replacing the frame get_frame(t) by another frame, image_func(get_frame(t))

fl_time(self, t_func, apply_to=None, keep_duration=False)¶

Returns a Clip instance playing the content of the current clip but with a modified timeline, time t being replaced by another time t_func(t).

Parameters:	t_func: A function `t-> new_t` apply_to: Can be either ‘mask’, or ‘audio’, or [‘mask’,’audio’]. Specifies if the filter `fl` should also be applied to the audio or the mask of the clip, if any. keep_duration: `False` (default) if the transformation modifies the `duration` of the clip.

Examples

>>> # plays the clip (and its mask and sound) twice faster
>>> newclip = clip.fl_time(lambda: 2*t, apply_to=['mask', 'audio'])
>>>
>>> # plays the clip starting at t=3, and backwards:
>>> newclip = clip.fl_time(lambda: 3-t)

fx(self, func, *args, **kwargs)¶

Returns the result of func(self, *args, **kwargs). for instance

>>> newclip = clip.fx(resize, 0.2, method='bilinear')

is equivalent to

>>> newclip = resize(clip, 0.2, method='bilinear')

The motivation of fx is to keep the name of the effect near its parameters, when the effects are chained:

>>> from moviepy.video.fx import volumex, resize, mirrorx
>>> clip.fx( volumex, 0.5).fx( resize, 0.3).fx( mirrorx )
>>> # Is equivalent, but clearer than
>>> resize( volumex( mirrorx( clip ), 0.5), 0.3)

get_frame(self, t)¶: Gets a numpy array representing the RGB picture of the clip at time t or (mono or stereo) value for a sound clip

is_playing(self, t)¶: If t is a time, returns true if t is between the start and the end of the clip. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t is a numpy array, returns False if none of the t is in theclip, else returns a vector [b_1, b_2, b_3…] where b_i is true iff tti is in the clip.

iter_frames(self, fps=None, with_times=False, logger=None, dtype=None)¶

Iterates over all the frames of the clip.

Returns each frame of the clip as a HxWxN np.array, where N=1 for mask clips and N=3 for RGB clips.

This function is not really meant for video editing. It provides an easy way to do frame-by-frame treatment of a video, for fields like science, computer vision…

The fps (frames per second) parameter is optional if the clip already has a fps attribute.

Use dtype=”uint8” when using the pictures to write video, images…

Examples

>>> # prints the maximum of red that is contained
>>> # on the first line of each frame of the clip.
>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> myclip = VideoFileClip('myvideo.mp4')
>>> print ( [frame[0,:,0].max()
             for frame in myclip.iter_frames()])

on_color(self, size=None, color=(0, 0, 0), pos=None, col_opacity=None)[source]¶

Place the clip on a colored background.

Returns a clip made of the current clip overlaid on a color clip of a possibly bigger size. Can serve to flatten transparent clips.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the final clip. By default it will be the size of the current clip. color Background color of the final clip ([R,G,B]). pos Position of the clip in the final clip. ‘center’ is the default col_opacity Parameter in 0..1 indicating the opacity of the colored background.

save_frame(self, filename, t=0, withmask=True)[source]¶

Save a clip’s frame to an image file.

Saves the frame of clip corresponding to time t in ‘filename’. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If withmask is True the mask is saved in the alpha layer of the picture (only works with PNGs).

set_audio(self, audioclip)[source]¶

Attach an AudioClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the audio attribute set to audio, which must be an AudioClip instance.

set_duration(self, t, change_end=True)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the duration attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip. If change_end is False, the start attribute of the clip will be modified in function of the duration and the preset end of the clip.

set_end(self, t)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the end attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip.

set_fps(self, fps)¶: Returns a copy of the clip with a new default fps for functions like write_videofile, iterframe, etc.

set_ismask(self, ismask)¶: Says wheter the clip is a mask or not (ismask is a boolean)

set_make_frame(self, mf)[source]¶

Change the clip’s get_frame.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the make_frame attribute set to mf.

set_mask(self, mask)[source]¶

Set the clip’s mask.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip with the mask attribute set to mask, which must be a greyscale (values in 0-1) VideoClip

set_memoize(self, memoize)¶: Sets wheter the clip should keep the last frame read in memory

set_opacity(self, op)[source]¶

Set the opacity/transparency level of the clip.

Returns a semi-transparent copy of the clip where the mask is multiplied by op (any float, normally between 0 and 1).

set_pos(*a, **kw)¶: The function set_pos is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, set_position, instead.

set_position(self, pos, relative=False)[source]¶

Set the clip’s position in compositions.

Sets the position that the clip will have when included in compositions. The argument pos can be either a couple (x,y) or a function t-> (x,y). x and y mark the location of the top left corner of the clip, and can be of several types.

Examples

>>> clip.set_position((45,150)) # x=45, y=150
>>>
>>> # clip horizontally centered, at the top of the picture
>>> clip.set_position(("center","top"))
>>>
>>> # clip is at 40% of the width, 70% of the height:
>>> clip.set_position((0.4,0.7), relative=True)
>>>
>>> # clip's position is horizontally centered, and moving up !
>>> clip.set_position(lambda t: ('center', 50+t) )

set_start(self, t, change_end=True)¶

Returns a copy of the clip, with the start attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If change_end=True and the clip has a duration attribute, the end atrribute of the clip will be updated to start+duration.

If change_end=False and the clip has a end attribute, the duration attribute of the clip will be updated to end-start

These changes are also applied to the audio and mask clips of the current clip, if they exist.

subclip(self, t_start=0, t_end=None)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip between times t_start and t_end, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t_end is not provided, it is assumed to be the duration of the clip (potentially infinite). If t_end is a negative value, it is reset to ``clip.duration + t_end. ``. For instance:

>>> # cut the last two seconds of the clip:
>>> newclip = clip.subclip(0,-2)

If t_end is provided or if the clip has a duration attribute, the duration of the returned clip is set automatically.

The mask and audio of the resulting subclip will be subclips of mask and audio the original clip, if they exist.

subfx(self, fx, ta=0, tb=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Apply a transformation to a part of the clip.

Returns a new clip in which the function fun (clip->clip) has been applied to the subclip between times ta and tb (in seconds).

Examples

>>> # The scene between times t=3s and t=6s in ``clip`` will be
>>> # be played twice slower in ``newclip``
>>> newclip = clip.subapply(lambda c:c.speedx(0.5) , 3,6)

to_ImageClip(self, t=0, with_mask=True, duration=None)[source]¶: Returns an ImageClip made out of the clip’s frame at time t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

to_RGB(self)[source]¶: Return a non-mask video clip made from the mask video clip.

to_gif(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_gif is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_gif, instead.

to_images_sequence(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_images_sequence is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_images_sequence, instead.

to_mask(self, canal=0)[source]¶: Return a mask a video clip made from the clip.

to_videofile(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_videofile is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_videofile, instead.

without_audio(self)[source]¶

Remove the clip’s audio.

Return a copy of the clip with audio set to None.

write_gif(self, filename, fps=None, program='imageio', opt='nq', fuzz=1, verbose=True, loop=0, dispose=False, colors=None, tempfiles=False, logger='bar')[source]¶

Write the VideoClip to a GIF file.

Converts a VideoClip into an animated GIF using ImageMagick or ffmpeg.

Parameters:

filename: Name of the resulting gif file.
fps: Number of frames per second (see note below). If it isn’t provided, then the function will look for the clip’s fps attribute (VideoFileClip, for instance, have one).
program: Software to use for the conversion, either ‘imageio’ (this will use the library FreeImage through ImageIO), or ‘ImageMagick’, or ‘ffmpeg’.
opt: Optimalization to apply. If program=’imageio’, opt must be either ‘wu’ (Wu) or ‘nq’ (Neuquant). If program=’ImageMagick’, either ‘optimizeplus’ or ‘OptimizeTransparency’.
fuzz: (ImageMagick only) Compresses the GIF by considering that the colors that are less than fuzz% different are in fact the same.
tempfiles: Writes every frame to a file instead of passing them in the RAM. Useful on computers with little RAM. Can only be used with ImageMagick’ or ‘ffmpeg’.
progress_bar: If True, displays a progress bar

Notes

The gif will be playing the clip in real time (you can only change the frame rate). If you want the gif to be played slower than the clip you will use

>>> # slow down clip 50% and make it a gif
>>> myClip.speedx(0.5).to_gif('myClip.gif')

write_images_sequence(self, nameformat, fps=None, verbose=True, withmask=True, logger='bar')[source]¶

Writes the videoclip to a sequence of image files.

Parameters:

nameformat: A filename specifying the numerotation format and extension of the pictures. For instance “frame%03d.png” for filenames indexed with 3 digits and PNG format. Also possible: “some_folder/frame%04d.jpeg”, etc.
fps: Number of frames per second to consider when writing the clip. If not specified, the clip’s fps attribute will be used if it has one.
withmask: will save the clip’s mask (if any) as an alpha canal (PNGs only).
verbose: Boolean indicating whether to print information.
logger: Either ‘bar’ (progress bar) or None or any Proglog logger.

Returns:

names_list: A list of all the files generated.

Notes

The resulting image sequence can be read using e.g. the class ImageSequenceClip.

write_videofile(self, filename, fps=None, codec=None, bitrate=None, audio=True, audio_fps=44100, preset='medium', audio_nbytes=4, audio_codec=None, audio_bitrate=None, audio_bufsize=2000, temp_audiofile=None, rewrite_audio=True, remove_temp=True, write_logfile=False, verbose=True, threads=None, ffmpeg_params=None, logger='bar')[source]¶

Write the clip to a videofile.

Parameters:

filename

Name of the video file to write in. The extension must correspond to the “codec” used (see below), or simply be ‘.avi’ (which will work with any codec).

fps

Number of frames per second in the resulting video file. If None is provided, and the clip has an fps attribute, this fps will be used.

codec

Codec to use for image encoding. Can be any codec supported by ffmpeg. If the filename is has extension ‘.mp4’, ‘.ogv’, ‘.webm’, the codec will be set accordingly, but you can still set it if you don’t like the default. For other extensions, the output filename must be set accordingly.

Some examples of codecs are:

'libx264' (default codec for file extension .mp4) makes well-compressed videos (quality tunable using ‘bitrate’).

'mpeg4' (other codec for extension .mp4) can be an alternative to 'libx264', and produces higher quality videos by default.

'rawvideo' (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of possibly very huge size.

png (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of smaller size than with rawvideo.

'libvorbis' (use file extension .ogv) is a nice video format, which is completely free/ open source. However not everyone has the codecs installed by default on their machine.

'libvpx' (use file extension .webm) is tiny a video format well indicated for web videos (with HTML5). Open source.

audio

Either True, False, or a file name. If True and the clip has an audio clip attached, this audio clip will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie. If audio is the name of an audio file, this audio file will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie.

audiofps

frame rate to use when generating the sound.

temp_audiofile

the name of the temporary audiofile to be generated and incorporated in the the movie, if any.

audio_codec

Which audio codec should be used. Examples are ‘libmp3lame’ for ‘.mp3’, ‘libvorbis’ for ‘ogg’, ‘libfdk_aac’:’m4a’, ‘pcm_s16le’ for 16-bit wav and ‘pcm_s32le’ for 32-bit wav. Default is ‘libmp3lame’, unless the video extension is ‘ogv’ or ‘webm’, at which case the default is ‘libvorbis’.

audio_bitrate

Audio bitrate, given as a string like ‘50k’, ‘500k’, ‘3000k’. Will determine the size/quality of audio in the output file. Note that it mainly an indicative goal, the bitrate won’t necessarily be the this in the final file.

preset

Sets the time that FFMPEG will spend optimizing the compression. Choices are: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo. Note that this does not impact the quality of the video, only the size of the video file. So choose ultrafast when you are in a hurry and file size does not matter.

threads

Number of threads to use for ffmpeg. Can speed up the writing of the video on multicore computers.

ffmpeg_params

Any additional ffmpeg parameters you would like to pass, as a list of terms, like [‘-option1’, ‘value1’, ‘-option2’, ‘value2’].

write_logfile

If true, will write log files for the audio and the video. These will be files ending with ‘.log’ with the name of the output file in them.

logger

Either “bar” for progress bar or None or any Proglog logger.

verbose (deprecated, kept for compatibility)

Formerly used for toggling messages on/off. Use logger=None now.

Examples

>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4").subclip(100,120)
>>> clip.write_videofile("my_new_video.mp4")
>>> clip.close()

`VideoFileClip`¶

class moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip.VideoFileClip(filename, has_mask=False, audio=True, audio_buffersize=200000, target_resolution=None, resize_algorithm='bicubic', audio_fps=44100, audio_nbytes=2, verbose=False, fps_source='tbr')[source]¶

Bases: moviepy.video.VideoClip.VideoClip

A video clip originating from a movie file. For instance:

>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myHolidays.mp4")
>>> clip.close()
>>> with VideoFileClip("myMaskVideo.avi") as clip2:
>>>    pass  # Implicit close called by context manager.

Parameters:

filename:: The name of the video file. It can have any extension supported by ffmpeg: .ogv, .mp4, .mpeg, .avi, .mov etc.
has_mask:: Set this to ‘True’ if there is a mask included in the videofile. Video files rarely contain masks, but some video codecs enable that. For istance if you have a MoviePy VideoClip with a mask you can save it to a videofile with a mask. (see also VideoClip.write_videofile for more details).
audio:: Set to False if the clip doesn’t have any audio or if you do not wish to read the audio.
target_resolution:: Set to (desired_height, desired_width) to have ffmpeg resize the frames before returning them. This is much faster than streaming in high-res and then resizing. If either dimension is None, the frames are resized by keeping the existing aspect ratio.
resize_algorithm:: The algorithm used for resizing. Default: “bicubic”, other popular options include “bilinear” and “fast_bilinear”. For more information, see https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-scaler.html
fps_source:: The fps value to collect from the metadata. Set by default to ‘tbr’, but can be set to ‘fps’, which may be helpful if importing slow-motion videos that get messed up otherwise.

Attributes:

filename:: Name of the original video file.
fps:: Frames per second in the original file.
Read docs for Clip() and VideoClip() for other, more generic, attributes.

add_mask(self)¶

Add a mask VideoClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the clip with a completely opaque mask (made of ones). This makes computations slower compared to having a None mask but can be useful in many cases. Choose

Set constant_size to False for clips with moving image size.

afx(self, fun, *a, **k)¶

Transform the clip’s audio.

Return a new clip whose audio has been transformed by fun.

blit_on(self, picture, t)¶: Returns the result of the blit of the clip’s frame at time t on the given picture, the position of the clip being given by the clip’s pos attribute. Meant for compositing.

close(self)[source]¶: Close the internal reader.

copy(self)¶

Shallow copy of the clip.

Returns a shallow copy of the clip whose mask and audio will be shallow copies of the clip’s mask and audio if they exist.

This method is intensively used to produce new clips every time there is an outplace transformation of the clip (clip.resize, clip.subclip, etc.)

cutout(self, ta, tb)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip but skips the extract between ta and tb, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If the original clip has a duration attribute set, the duration of the returned clip is automatically computed as `` duration - (tb - ta)``.

The resulting clip’s audio and mask will also be cutout if they exist.

fl(self, fun, apply_to=None, keep_duration=True)¶

General processing of a clip.

Returns a new Clip whose frames are a transformation (through function fun) of the frames of the current clip.

Parameters:

fun: A function with signature (gf,t -> frame) where gf will represent the current clip’s get_frame method, i.e. gf is a function (t->image). Parameter t is a time in seconds, frame is a picture (=Numpy array) which will be returned by the transformed clip (see examples below).
apply_to: Can be either 'mask', or 'audio', or ['mask','audio']. Specifies if the filter fl should also be applied to the audio or the mask of the clip, if any.
keep_duration: Set to True if the transformation does not change the duration of the clip.

Examples

In the following newclip a 100 pixels-high clip whose video content scrolls from the top to the bottom of the frames of clip.

>>> fl = lambda gf,t : gf(t)[int(t):int(t)+50, :]
>>> newclip = clip.fl(fl, apply_to='mask')

fl_image(self, image_func, apply_to=None)¶: Modifies the images of a clip by replacing the frame get_frame(t) by another frame, image_func(get_frame(t))

fl_time(self, t_func, apply_to=None, keep_duration=False)¶

Returns a Clip instance playing the content of the current clip but with a modified timeline, time t being replaced by another time t_func(t).

Parameters:	t_func: A function `t-> new_t` apply_to: Can be either ‘mask’, or ‘audio’, or [‘mask’,’audio’]. Specifies if the filter `fl` should also be applied to the audio or the mask of the clip, if any. keep_duration: `False` (default) if the transformation modifies the `duration` of the clip.

Examples

>>> # plays the clip (and its mask and sound) twice faster
>>> newclip = clip.fl_time(lambda: 2*t, apply_to=['mask', 'audio'])
>>>
>>> # plays the clip starting at t=3, and backwards:
>>> newclip = clip.fl_time(lambda: 3-t)

fx(self, func, *args, **kwargs)¶

Returns the result of func(self, *args, **kwargs). for instance

>>> newclip = clip.fx(resize, 0.2, method='bilinear')

is equivalent to

>>> newclip = resize(clip, 0.2, method='bilinear')

The motivation of fx is to keep the name of the effect near its parameters, when the effects are chained:

>>> from moviepy.video.fx import volumex, resize, mirrorx
>>> clip.fx( volumex, 0.5).fx( resize, 0.3).fx( mirrorx )
>>> # Is equivalent, but clearer than
>>> resize( volumex( mirrorx( clip ), 0.5), 0.3)

get_frame(self, t)¶: Gets a numpy array representing the RGB picture of the clip at time t or (mono or stereo) value for a sound clip

is_playing(self, t)¶: If t is a time, returns true if t is between the start and the end of the clip. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t is a numpy array, returns False if none of the t is in theclip, else returns a vector [b_1, b_2, b_3…] where b_i is true iff tti is in the clip.

iter_frames(self, fps=None, with_times=False, logger=None, dtype=None)¶

Iterates over all the frames of the clip.

Returns each frame of the clip as a HxWxN np.array, where N=1 for mask clips and N=3 for RGB clips.

This function is not really meant for video editing. It provides an easy way to do frame-by-frame treatment of a video, for fields like science, computer vision…

The fps (frames per second) parameter is optional if the clip already has a fps attribute.

Use dtype=”uint8” when using the pictures to write video, images…

Examples

>>> # prints the maximum of red that is contained
>>> # on the first line of each frame of the clip.
>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> myclip = VideoFileClip('myvideo.mp4')
>>> print ( [frame[0,:,0].max()
             for frame in myclip.iter_frames()])

on_color(self, size=None, color=(0, 0, 0), pos=None, col_opacity=None)¶

Place the clip on a colored background.

Returns a clip made of the current clip overlaid on a color clip of a possibly bigger size. Can serve to flatten transparent clips.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the final clip. By default it will be the size of the current clip. color Background color of the final clip ([R,G,B]). pos Position of the clip in the final clip. ‘center’ is the default col_opacity Parameter in 0..1 indicating the opacity of the colored background.

save_frame(self, filename, t=0, withmask=True)¶

Save a clip’s frame to an image file.

Saves the frame of clip corresponding to time t in ‘filename’. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If withmask is True the mask is saved in the alpha layer of the picture (only works with PNGs).

set_audio(self, audioclip)¶

Attach an AudioClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the audio attribute set to audio, which must be an AudioClip instance.

set_duration(self, t, change_end=True)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the duration attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip. If change_end is False, the start attribute of the clip will be modified in function of the duration and the preset end of the clip.

set_end(self, t)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the end attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip.

set_fps(self, fps)¶: Returns a copy of the clip with a new default fps for functions like write_videofile, iterframe, etc.

set_ismask(self, ismask)¶: Says wheter the clip is a mask or not (ismask is a boolean)

set_make_frame(self, mf)¶

Change the clip’s get_frame.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the make_frame attribute set to mf.

set_mask(self, mask)¶

Set the clip’s mask.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip with the mask attribute set to mask, which must be a greyscale (values in 0-1) VideoClip

set_memoize(self, memoize)¶: Sets wheter the clip should keep the last frame read in memory

set_opacity(self, op)¶

Set the opacity/transparency level of the clip.

Returns a semi-transparent copy of the clip where the mask is multiplied by op (any float, normally between 0 and 1).

set_pos(*a, **kw)¶: The function set_pos is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, set_position, instead.

set_position(self, pos, relative=False)¶

Set the clip’s position in compositions.

Sets the position that the clip will have when included in compositions. The argument pos can be either a couple (x,y) or a function t-> (x,y). x and y mark the location of the top left corner of the clip, and can be of several types.

Examples

>>> clip.set_position((45,150)) # x=45, y=150
>>>
>>> # clip horizontally centered, at the top of the picture
>>> clip.set_position(("center","top"))
>>>
>>> # clip is at 40% of the width, 70% of the height:
>>> clip.set_position((0.4,0.7), relative=True)
>>>
>>> # clip's position is horizontally centered, and moving up !
>>> clip.set_position(lambda t: ('center', 50+t) )

set_start(self, t, change_end=True)¶

Returns a copy of the clip, with the start attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If change_end=True and the clip has a duration attribute, the end atrribute of the clip will be updated to start+duration.

If change_end=False and the clip has a end attribute, the duration attribute of the clip will be updated to end-start

These changes are also applied to the audio and mask clips of the current clip, if they exist.

subclip(self, t_start=0, t_end=None)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip between times t_start and t_end, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t_end is not provided, it is assumed to be the duration of the clip (potentially infinite). If t_end is a negative value, it is reset to ``clip.duration + t_end. ``. For instance:

>>> # cut the last two seconds of the clip:
>>> newclip = clip.subclip(0,-2)

If t_end is provided or if the clip has a duration attribute, the duration of the returned clip is set automatically.

The mask and audio of the resulting subclip will be subclips of mask and audio the original clip, if they exist.

subfx(self, fx, ta=0, tb=None, **kwargs)¶

Apply a transformation to a part of the clip.

Returns a new clip in which the function fun (clip->clip) has been applied to the subclip between times ta and tb (in seconds).

Examples

>>> # The scene between times t=3s and t=6s in ``clip`` will be
>>> # be played twice slower in ``newclip``
>>> newclip = clip.subapply(lambda c:c.speedx(0.5) , 3,6)

to_ImageClip(self, t=0, with_mask=True, duration=None)¶: Returns an ImageClip made out of the clip’s frame at time t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

to_RGB(self)¶: Return a non-mask video clip made from the mask video clip.

to_gif(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_gif is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_gif, instead.

to_images_sequence(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_images_sequence is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_images_sequence, instead.

to_mask(self, canal=0)¶: Return a mask a video clip made from the clip.

to_videofile(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_videofile is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_videofile, instead.

without_audio(self)¶

Remove the clip’s audio.

Return a copy of the clip with audio set to None.

write_gif(self, filename, fps=None, program='imageio', opt='nq', fuzz=1, verbose=True, loop=0, dispose=False, colors=None, tempfiles=False, logger='bar')¶

Write the VideoClip to a GIF file.

Converts a VideoClip into an animated GIF using ImageMagick or ffmpeg.

Parameters:

filename: Name of the resulting gif file.
fps: Number of frames per second (see note below). If it isn’t provided, then the function will look for the clip’s fps attribute (VideoFileClip, for instance, have one).
program: Software to use for the conversion, either ‘imageio’ (this will use the library FreeImage through ImageIO), or ‘ImageMagick’, or ‘ffmpeg’.
opt: Optimalization to apply. If program=’imageio’, opt must be either ‘wu’ (Wu) or ‘nq’ (Neuquant). If program=’ImageMagick’, either ‘optimizeplus’ or ‘OptimizeTransparency’.
fuzz: (ImageMagick only) Compresses the GIF by considering that the colors that are less than fuzz% different are in fact the same.
tempfiles: Writes every frame to a file instead of passing them in the RAM. Useful on computers with little RAM. Can only be used with ImageMagick’ or ‘ffmpeg’.
progress_bar: If True, displays a progress bar

Notes

The gif will be playing the clip in real time (you can only change the frame rate). If you want the gif to be played slower than the clip you will use

>>> # slow down clip 50% and make it a gif
>>> myClip.speedx(0.5).to_gif('myClip.gif')

write_images_sequence(self, nameformat, fps=None, verbose=True, withmask=True, logger='bar')¶

Writes the videoclip to a sequence of image files.

Parameters:

nameformat: A filename specifying the numerotation format and extension of the pictures. For instance “frame%03d.png” for filenames indexed with 3 digits and PNG format. Also possible: “some_folder/frame%04d.jpeg”, etc.
fps: Number of frames per second to consider when writing the clip. If not specified, the clip’s fps attribute will be used if it has one.
withmask: will save the clip’s mask (if any) as an alpha canal (PNGs only).
verbose: Boolean indicating whether to print information.
logger: Either ‘bar’ (progress bar) or None or any Proglog logger.

Returns:

names_list: A list of all the files generated.

Notes

The resulting image sequence can be read using e.g. the class ImageSequenceClip.

write_videofile(self, filename, fps=None, codec=None, bitrate=None, audio=True, audio_fps=44100, preset='medium', audio_nbytes=4, audio_codec=None, audio_bitrate=None, audio_bufsize=2000, temp_audiofile=None, rewrite_audio=True, remove_temp=True, write_logfile=False, verbose=True, threads=None, ffmpeg_params=None, logger='bar')¶

Write the clip to a videofile.

Parameters:

filename

Name of the video file to write in. The extension must correspond to the “codec” used (see below), or simply be ‘.avi’ (which will work with any codec).

fps

Number of frames per second in the resulting video file. If None is provided, and the clip has an fps attribute, this fps will be used.

codec

Codec to use for image encoding. Can be any codec supported by ffmpeg. If the filename is has extension ‘.mp4’, ‘.ogv’, ‘.webm’, the codec will be set accordingly, but you can still set it if you don’t like the default. For other extensions, the output filename must be set accordingly.

Some examples of codecs are:

'libx264' (default codec for file extension .mp4) makes well-compressed videos (quality tunable using ‘bitrate’).

'mpeg4' (other codec for extension .mp4) can be an alternative to 'libx264', and produces higher quality videos by default.

'rawvideo' (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of possibly very huge size.

png (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of smaller size than with rawvideo.

'libvorbis' (use file extension .ogv) is a nice video format, which is completely free/ open source. However not everyone has the codecs installed by default on their machine.

'libvpx' (use file extension .webm) is tiny a video format well indicated for web videos (with HTML5). Open source.

audio

Either True, False, or a file name. If True and the clip has an audio clip attached, this audio clip will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie. If audio is the name of an audio file, this audio file will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie.

audiofps

frame rate to use when generating the sound.

temp_audiofile

the name of the temporary audiofile to be generated and incorporated in the the movie, if any.

audio_codec

Which audio codec should be used. Examples are ‘libmp3lame’ for ‘.mp3’, ‘libvorbis’ for ‘ogg’, ‘libfdk_aac’:’m4a’, ‘pcm_s16le’ for 16-bit wav and ‘pcm_s32le’ for 32-bit wav. Default is ‘libmp3lame’, unless the video extension is ‘ogv’ or ‘webm’, at which case the default is ‘libvorbis’.

audio_bitrate

Audio bitrate, given as a string like ‘50k’, ‘500k’, ‘3000k’. Will determine the size/quality of audio in the output file. Note that it mainly an indicative goal, the bitrate won’t necessarily be the this in the final file.

preset

Sets the time that FFMPEG will spend optimizing the compression. Choices are: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo. Note that this does not impact the quality of the video, only the size of the video file. So choose ultrafast when you are in a hurry and file size does not matter.

threads

Number of threads to use for ffmpeg. Can speed up the writing of the video on multicore computers.

ffmpeg_params

Any additional ffmpeg parameters you would like to pass, as a list of terms, like [‘-option1’, ‘value1’, ‘-option2’, ‘value2’].

write_logfile

If true, will write log files for the audio and the video. These will be files ending with ‘.log’ with the name of the output file in them.

logger

Either “bar” for progress bar or None or any Proglog logger.

verbose (deprecated, kept for compatibility)

Formerly used for toggling messages on/off. Use logger=None now.

Examples

>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4").subclip(100,120)
>>> clip.write_videofile("my_new_video.mp4")
>>> clip.close()

`ImageClip`¶

class moviepy.video.VideoClip.ImageClip(img, ismask=False, transparent=True, fromalpha=False, duration=None)[source]¶

Bases: moviepy.video.VideoClip.VideoClip

Class for non-moving VideoClips.

A video clip originating from a picture. This clip will simply display the given picture at all times.

Parameters:	img Any picture file (png, tiff, jpeg, etc.) or any array representing an RGB image (for instance a frame from a VideoClip). ismask Set this parameter to True if the clip is a mask. transparent Set this parameter to True (default) if you want the alpha layer of the picture (if it exists) to be used as a mask.

Examples

>>> clip = ImageClip("myHouse.jpeg")
>>> clip = ImageClip( someArray ) # a Numpy array represent

Attributes:	img Array representing the image of the clip.

add_mask(self)¶

Add a mask VideoClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the clip with a completely opaque mask (made of ones). This makes computations slower compared to having a None mask but can be useful in many cases. Choose

Set constant_size to False for clips with moving image size.

afx(self, fun, *a, **k)¶

Transform the clip’s audio.

Return a new clip whose audio has been transformed by fun.

blit_on(self, picture, t)¶: Returns the result of the blit of the clip’s frame at time t on the given picture, the position of the clip being given by the clip’s pos attribute. Meant for compositing.

close(self)¶: Release any resources that are in use.

copy(self)¶

Shallow copy of the clip.

Returns a shallow copy of the clip whose mask and audio will be shallow copies of the clip’s mask and audio if they exist.

This method is intensively used to produce new clips every time there is an outplace transformation of the clip (clip.resize, clip.subclip, etc.)

cutout(self, ta, tb)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip but skips the extract between ta and tb, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If the original clip has a duration attribute set, the duration of the returned clip is automatically computed as `` duration - (tb - ta)``.

The resulting clip’s audio and mask will also be cutout if they exist.

fl(self, fl, apply_to=None, keep_duration=True)[source]¶

General transformation filter.

Equivalent to VideoClip.fl . The result is no more an ImageClip, it has the class VideoClip (since it may be animated)

fl_image(self, image_func, apply_to=None)[source]¶

Image-transformation filter.

Does the same as VideoClip.fl_image, but for ImageClip the tranformed clip is computed once and for all at the beginning, and not for each ‘frame’.

fl_time(self, time_func, apply_to=None, keep_duration=False)[source]¶

Time-transformation filter.

Applies a transformation to the clip’s timeline (see Clip.fl_time).

This method does nothing for ImageClips (but it may affect their masks or their audios). The result is still an ImageClip.

fx(self, func, *args, **kwargs)¶

Returns the result of func(self, *args, **kwargs). for instance

>>> newclip = clip.fx(resize, 0.2, method='bilinear')

is equivalent to

>>> newclip = resize(clip, 0.2, method='bilinear')

The motivation of fx is to keep the name of the effect near its parameters, when the effects are chained:

>>> from moviepy.video.fx import volumex, resize, mirrorx
>>> clip.fx( volumex, 0.5).fx( resize, 0.3).fx( mirrorx )
>>> # Is equivalent, but clearer than
>>> resize( volumex( mirrorx( clip ), 0.5), 0.3)

get_frame(self, t)¶: Gets a numpy array representing the RGB picture of the clip at time t or (mono or stereo) value for a sound clip

is_playing(self, t)¶: If t is a time, returns true if t is between the start and the end of the clip. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t is a numpy array, returns False if none of the t is in theclip, else returns a vector [b_1, b_2, b_3…] where b_i is true iff tti is in the clip.

iter_frames(self, fps=None, with_times=False, logger=None, dtype=None)¶

Iterates over all the frames of the clip.

Returns each frame of the clip as a HxWxN np.array, where N=1 for mask clips and N=3 for RGB clips.

This function is not really meant for video editing. It provides an easy way to do frame-by-frame treatment of a video, for fields like science, computer vision…

The fps (frames per second) parameter is optional if the clip already has a fps attribute.

Use dtype=”uint8” when using the pictures to write video, images…

Examples

>>> # prints the maximum of red that is contained
>>> # on the first line of each frame of the clip.
>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> myclip = VideoFileClip('myvideo.mp4')
>>> print ( [frame[0,:,0].max()
             for frame in myclip.iter_frames()])

on_color(self, size=None, color=(0, 0, 0), pos=None, col_opacity=None)¶

Place the clip on a colored background.

Returns a clip made of the current clip overlaid on a color clip of a possibly bigger size. Can serve to flatten transparent clips.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the final clip. By default it will be the size of the current clip. color Background color of the final clip ([R,G,B]). pos Position of the clip in the final clip. ‘center’ is the default col_opacity Parameter in 0..1 indicating the opacity of the colored background.

save_frame(self, filename, t=0, withmask=True)¶

Save a clip’s frame to an image file.

Saves the frame of clip corresponding to time t in ‘filename’. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If withmask is True the mask is saved in the alpha layer of the picture (only works with PNGs).

set_audio(self, audioclip)¶

Attach an AudioClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the audio attribute set to audio, which must be an AudioClip instance.

set_duration(self, t, change_end=True)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the duration attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip. If change_end is False, the start attribute of the clip will be modified in function of the duration and the preset end of the clip.

set_end(self, t)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the end attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip.

set_fps(self, fps)¶: Returns a copy of the clip with a new default fps for functions like write_videofile, iterframe, etc.

set_ismask(self, ismask)¶: Says wheter the clip is a mask or not (ismask is a boolean)

set_make_frame(self, mf)¶

Change the clip’s get_frame.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the make_frame attribute set to mf.

set_mask(self, mask)¶

Set the clip’s mask.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip with the mask attribute set to mask, which must be a greyscale (values in 0-1) VideoClip

set_memoize(self, memoize)¶: Sets wheter the clip should keep the last frame read in memory

set_opacity(self, op)¶

Set the opacity/transparency level of the clip.

Returns a semi-transparent copy of the clip where the mask is multiplied by op (any float, normally between 0 and 1).

set_pos(*a, **kw)¶: The function set_pos is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, set_position, instead.

set_position(self, pos, relative=False)¶

Set the clip’s position in compositions.

Sets the position that the clip will have when included in compositions. The argument pos can be either a couple (x,y) or a function t-> (x,y). x and y mark the location of the top left corner of the clip, and can be of several types.

Examples

>>> clip.set_position((45,150)) # x=45, y=150
>>>
>>> # clip horizontally centered, at the top of the picture
>>> clip.set_position(("center","top"))
>>>
>>> # clip is at 40% of the width, 70% of the height:
>>> clip.set_position((0.4,0.7), relative=True)
>>>
>>> # clip's position is horizontally centered, and moving up !
>>> clip.set_position(lambda t: ('center', 50+t) )

set_start(self, t, change_end=True)¶

Returns a copy of the clip, with the start attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If change_end=True and the clip has a duration attribute, the end atrribute of the clip will be updated to start+duration.

If change_end=False and the clip has a end attribute, the duration attribute of the clip will be updated to end-start

These changes are also applied to the audio and mask clips of the current clip, if they exist.

subclip(self, t_start=0, t_end=None)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip between times t_start and t_end, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t_end is not provided, it is assumed to be the duration of the clip (potentially infinite). If t_end is a negative value, it is reset to ``clip.duration + t_end. ``. For instance:

>>> # cut the last two seconds of the clip:
>>> newclip = clip.subclip(0,-2)

If t_end is provided or if the clip has a duration attribute, the duration of the returned clip is set automatically.

The mask and audio of the resulting subclip will be subclips of mask and audio the original clip, if they exist.

subfx(self, fx, ta=0, tb=None, **kwargs)¶

Apply a transformation to a part of the clip.

Returns a new clip in which the function fun (clip->clip) has been applied to the subclip between times ta and tb (in seconds).

Examples

>>> # The scene between times t=3s and t=6s in ``clip`` will be
>>> # be played twice slower in ``newclip``
>>> newclip = clip.subapply(lambda c:c.speedx(0.5) , 3,6)

to_ImageClip(self, t=0, with_mask=True, duration=None)¶: Returns an ImageClip made out of the clip’s frame at time t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

to_RGB(self)¶: Return a non-mask video clip made from the mask video clip.

to_gif(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_gif is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_gif, instead.

to_images_sequence(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_images_sequence is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_images_sequence, instead.

to_mask(self, canal=0)¶: Return a mask a video clip made from the clip.

to_videofile(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_videofile is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_videofile, instead.

without_audio(self)¶

Remove the clip’s audio.

Return a copy of the clip with audio set to None.

write_gif(self, filename, fps=None, program='imageio', opt='nq', fuzz=1, verbose=True, loop=0, dispose=False, colors=None, tempfiles=False, logger='bar')¶

Write the VideoClip to a GIF file.

Converts a VideoClip into an animated GIF using ImageMagick or ffmpeg.

Parameters:

filename: Name of the resulting gif file.
fps: Number of frames per second (see note below). If it isn’t provided, then the function will look for the clip’s fps attribute (VideoFileClip, for instance, have one).
program: Software to use for the conversion, either ‘imageio’ (this will use the library FreeImage through ImageIO), or ‘ImageMagick’, or ‘ffmpeg’.
opt: Optimalization to apply. If program=’imageio’, opt must be either ‘wu’ (Wu) or ‘nq’ (Neuquant). If program=’ImageMagick’, either ‘optimizeplus’ or ‘OptimizeTransparency’.
fuzz: (ImageMagick only) Compresses the GIF by considering that the colors that are less than fuzz% different are in fact the same.
tempfiles: Writes every frame to a file instead of passing them in the RAM. Useful on computers with little RAM. Can only be used with ImageMagick’ or ‘ffmpeg’.
progress_bar: If True, displays a progress bar

Notes

The gif will be playing the clip in real time (you can only change the frame rate). If you want the gif to be played slower than the clip you will use

>>> # slow down clip 50% and make it a gif
>>> myClip.speedx(0.5).to_gif('myClip.gif')

write_images_sequence(self, nameformat, fps=None, verbose=True, withmask=True, logger='bar')¶

Writes the videoclip to a sequence of image files.

Parameters:

nameformat: A filename specifying the numerotation format and extension of the pictures. For instance “frame%03d.png” for filenames indexed with 3 digits and PNG format. Also possible: “some_folder/frame%04d.jpeg”, etc.
fps: Number of frames per second to consider when writing the clip. If not specified, the clip’s fps attribute will be used if it has one.
withmask: will save the clip’s mask (if any) as an alpha canal (PNGs only).
verbose: Boolean indicating whether to print information.
logger: Either ‘bar’ (progress bar) or None or any Proglog logger.

Returns:

names_list: A list of all the files generated.

Notes

The resulting image sequence can be read using e.g. the class ImageSequenceClip.

write_videofile(self, filename, fps=None, codec=None, bitrate=None, audio=True, audio_fps=44100, preset='medium', audio_nbytes=4, audio_codec=None, audio_bitrate=None, audio_bufsize=2000, temp_audiofile=None, rewrite_audio=True, remove_temp=True, write_logfile=False, verbose=True, threads=None, ffmpeg_params=None, logger='bar')¶

Write the clip to a videofile.

Parameters:

filename

Name of the video file to write in. The extension must correspond to the “codec” used (see below), or simply be ‘.avi’ (which will work with any codec).

fps

Number of frames per second in the resulting video file. If None is provided, and the clip has an fps attribute, this fps will be used.

codec

Codec to use for image encoding. Can be any codec supported by ffmpeg. If the filename is has extension ‘.mp4’, ‘.ogv’, ‘.webm’, the codec will be set accordingly, but you can still set it if you don’t like the default. For other extensions, the output filename must be set accordingly.

Some examples of codecs are:

'libx264' (default codec for file extension .mp4) makes well-compressed videos (quality tunable using ‘bitrate’).

'mpeg4' (other codec for extension .mp4) can be an alternative to 'libx264', and produces higher quality videos by default.

'rawvideo' (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of possibly very huge size.

png (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of smaller size than with rawvideo.

'libvorbis' (use file extension .ogv) is a nice video format, which is completely free/ open source. However not everyone has the codecs installed by default on their machine.

'libvpx' (use file extension .webm) is tiny a video format well indicated for web videos (with HTML5). Open source.

audio

Either True, False, or a file name. If True and the clip has an audio clip attached, this audio clip will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie. If audio is the name of an audio file, this audio file will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie.

audiofps

frame rate to use when generating the sound.

temp_audiofile

the name of the temporary audiofile to be generated and incorporated in the the movie, if any.

audio_codec

Which audio codec should be used. Examples are ‘libmp3lame’ for ‘.mp3’, ‘libvorbis’ for ‘ogg’, ‘libfdk_aac’:’m4a’, ‘pcm_s16le’ for 16-bit wav and ‘pcm_s32le’ for 32-bit wav. Default is ‘libmp3lame’, unless the video extension is ‘ogv’ or ‘webm’, at which case the default is ‘libvorbis’.

audio_bitrate

Audio bitrate, given as a string like ‘50k’, ‘500k’, ‘3000k’. Will determine the size/quality of audio in the output file. Note that it mainly an indicative goal, the bitrate won’t necessarily be the this in the final file.

preset

Sets the time that FFMPEG will spend optimizing the compression. Choices are: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo. Note that this does not impact the quality of the video, only the size of the video file. So choose ultrafast when you are in a hurry and file size does not matter.

threads

Number of threads to use for ffmpeg. Can speed up the writing of the video on multicore computers.

ffmpeg_params

Any additional ffmpeg parameters you would like to pass, as a list of terms, like [‘-option1’, ‘value1’, ‘-option2’, ‘value2’].

write_logfile

If true, will write log files for the audio and the video. These will be files ending with ‘.log’ with the name of the output file in them.

logger

Either “bar” for progress bar or None or any Proglog logger.

verbose (deprecated, kept for compatibility)

Formerly used for toggling messages on/off. Use logger=None now.

Examples

>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4").subclip(100,120)
>>> clip.write_videofile("my_new_video.mp4")
>>> clip.close()

`ColorClip`¶

class moviepy.video.VideoClip.ColorClip(size, color=None, ismask=False, duration=None, col=None)[source]¶

Bases: moviepy.video.VideoClip.ImageClip

An ImageClip showing just one color.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the clip. color If argument `ismask` is False, `color` indicates the color in RGB of the clip (default is black). If ismask` is True, `color` must be a float between 0 and 1 (default is 1) ismask Set to true if the clip will be used as a mask. col Has been deprecated. Do not use.

add_mask(self)¶

Add a mask VideoClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the clip with a completely opaque mask (made of ones). This makes computations slower compared to having a None mask but can be useful in many cases. Choose

Set constant_size to False for clips with moving image size.

afx(self, fun, *a, **k)¶

Transform the clip’s audio.

Return a new clip whose audio has been transformed by fun.

blit_on(self, picture, t)¶: Returns the result of the blit of the clip’s frame at time t on the given picture, the position of the clip being given by the clip’s pos attribute. Meant for compositing.

close(self)¶: Release any resources that are in use.

copy(self)¶

Shallow copy of the clip.

Returns a shallow copy of the clip whose mask and audio will be shallow copies of the clip’s mask and audio if they exist.

This method is intensively used to produce new clips every time there is an outplace transformation of the clip (clip.resize, clip.subclip, etc.)

cutout(self, ta, tb)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip but skips the extract between ta and tb, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If the original clip has a duration attribute set, the duration of the returned clip is automatically computed as `` duration - (tb - ta)``.

The resulting clip’s audio and mask will also be cutout if they exist.

fl(self, fl, apply_to=None, keep_duration=True)¶

General transformation filter.

Equivalent to VideoClip.fl . The result is no more an ImageClip, it has the class VideoClip (since it may be animated)

fl_image(self, image_func, apply_to=None)¶

Image-transformation filter.

Does the same as VideoClip.fl_image, but for ImageClip the tranformed clip is computed once and for all at the beginning, and not for each ‘frame’.

fl_time(self, time_func, apply_to=None, keep_duration=False)¶

Time-transformation filter.

Applies a transformation to the clip’s timeline (see Clip.fl_time).

This method does nothing for ImageClips (but it may affect their masks or their audios). The result is still an ImageClip.

fx(self, func, *args, **kwargs)¶

Returns the result of func(self, *args, **kwargs). for instance

>>> newclip = clip.fx(resize, 0.2, method='bilinear')

is equivalent to

>>> newclip = resize(clip, 0.2, method='bilinear')

The motivation of fx is to keep the name of the effect near its parameters, when the effects are chained:

>>> from moviepy.video.fx import volumex, resize, mirrorx
>>> clip.fx( volumex, 0.5).fx( resize, 0.3).fx( mirrorx )
>>> # Is equivalent, but clearer than
>>> resize( volumex( mirrorx( clip ), 0.5), 0.3)

get_frame(self, t)¶: Gets a numpy array representing the RGB picture of the clip at time t or (mono or stereo) value for a sound clip

is_playing(self, t)¶: If t is a time, returns true if t is between the start and the end of the clip. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t is a numpy array, returns False if none of the t is in theclip, else returns a vector [b_1, b_2, b_3…] where b_i is true iff tti is in the clip.

iter_frames(self, fps=None, with_times=False, logger=None, dtype=None)¶

Iterates over all the frames of the clip.

Returns each frame of the clip as a HxWxN np.array, where N=1 for mask clips and N=3 for RGB clips.

This function is not really meant for video editing. It provides an easy way to do frame-by-frame treatment of a video, for fields like science, computer vision…

The fps (frames per second) parameter is optional if the clip already has a fps attribute.

Use dtype=”uint8” when using the pictures to write video, images…

Examples

>>> # prints the maximum of red that is contained
>>> # on the first line of each frame of the clip.
>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> myclip = VideoFileClip('myvideo.mp4')
>>> print ( [frame[0,:,0].max()
             for frame in myclip.iter_frames()])

on_color(self, size=None, color=(0, 0, 0), pos=None, col_opacity=None)¶

Place the clip on a colored background.

Returns a clip made of the current clip overlaid on a color clip of a possibly bigger size. Can serve to flatten transparent clips.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the final clip. By default it will be the size of the current clip. color Background color of the final clip ([R,G,B]). pos Position of the clip in the final clip. ‘center’ is the default col_opacity Parameter in 0..1 indicating the opacity of the colored background.

save_frame(self, filename, t=0, withmask=True)¶

Save a clip’s frame to an image file.

Saves the frame of clip corresponding to time t in ‘filename’. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If withmask is True the mask is saved in the alpha layer of the picture (only works with PNGs).

set_audio(self, audioclip)¶

Attach an AudioClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the audio attribute set to audio, which must be an AudioClip instance.

set_duration(self, t, change_end=True)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the duration attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip. If change_end is False, the start attribute of the clip will be modified in function of the duration and the preset end of the clip.

set_end(self, t)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the end attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip.

set_fps(self, fps)¶: Returns a copy of the clip with a new default fps for functions like write_videofile, iterframe, etc.

set_ismask(self, ismask)¶: Says wheter the clip is a mask or not (ismask is a boolean)

set_make_frame(self, mf)¶

Change the clip’s get_frame.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the make_frame attribute set to mf.

set_mask(self, mask)¶

Set the clip’s mask.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip with the mask attribute set to mask, which must be a greyscale (values in 0-1) VideoClip

set_memoize(self, memoize)¶: Sets wheter the clip should keep the last frame read in memory

set_opacity(self, op)¶

Set the opacity/transparency level of the clip.

Returns a semi-transparent copy of the clip where the mask is multiplied by op (any float, normally between 0 and 1).

set_pos(*a, **kw)¶: The function set_pos is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, set_position, instead.

set_position(self, pos, relative=False)¶

Set the clip’s position in compositions.

Sets the position that the clip will have when included in compositions. The argument pos can be either a couple (x,y) or a function t-> (x,y). x and y mark the location of the top left corner of the clip, and can be of several types.

Examples

>>> clip.set_position((45,150)) # x=45, y=150
>>>
>>> # clip horizontally centered, at the top of the picture
>>> clip.set_position(("center","top"))
>>>
>>> # clip is at 40% of the width, 70% of the height:
>>> clip.set_position((0.4,0.7), relative=True)
>>>
>>> # clip's position is horizontally centered, and moving up !
>>> clip.set_position(lambda t: ('center', 50+t) )

set_start(self, t, change_end=True)¶

Returns a copy of the clip, with the start attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If change_end=True and the clip has a duration attribute, the end atrribute of the clip will be updated to start+duration.

If change_end=False and the clip has a end attribute, the duration attribute of the clip will be updated to end-start

These changes are also applied to the audio and mask clips of the current clip, if they exist.

subclip(self, t_start=0, t_end=None)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip between times t_start and t_end, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t_end is not provided, it is assumed to be the duration of the clip (potentially infinite). If t_end is a negative value, it is reset to ``clip.duration + t_end. ``. For instance:

>>> # cut the last two seconds of the clip:
>>> newclip = clip.subclip(0,-2)

If t_end is provided or if the clip has a duration attribute, the duration of the returned clip is set automatically.

The mask and audio of the resulting subclip will be subclips of mask and audio the original clip, if they exist.

subfx(self, fx, ta=0, tb=None, **kwargs)¶

Apply a transformation to a part of the clip.

Returns a new clip in which the function fun (clip->clip) has been applied to the subclip between times ta and tb (in seconds).

Examples

>>> # The scene between times t=3s and t=6s in ``clip`` will be
>>> # be played twice slower in ``newclip``
>>> newclip = clip.subapply(lambda c:c.speedx(0.5) , 3,6)

to_ImageClip(self, t=0, with_mask=True, duration=None)¶: Returns an ImageClip made out of the clip’s frame at time t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

to_RGB(self)¶: Return a non-mask video clip made from the mask video clip.

to_gif(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_gif is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_gif, instead.

to_images_sequence(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_images_sequence is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_images_sequence, instead.

to_mask(self, canal=0)¶: Return a mask a video clip made from the clip.

to_videofile(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_videofile is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_videofile, instead.

without_audio(self)¶

Remove the clip’s audio.

Return a copy of the clip with audio set to None.

write_gif(self, filename, fps=None, program='imageio', opt='nq', fuzz=1, verbose=True, loop=0, dispose=False, colors=None, tempfiles=False, logger='bar')¶

Write the VideoClip to a GIF file.

Converts a VideoClip into an animated GIF using ImageMagick or ffmpeg.

Parameters:

filename: Name of the resulting gif file.
fps: Number of frames per second (see note below). If it isn’t provided, then the function will look for the clip’s fps attribute (VideoFileClip, for instance, have one).
program: Software to use for the conversion, either ‘imageio’ (this will use the library FreeImage through ImageIO), or ‘ImageMagick’, or ‘ffmpeg’.
opt: Optimalization to apply. If program=’imageio’, opt must be either ‘wu’ (Wu) or ‘nq’ (Neuquant). If program=’ImageMagick’, either ‘optimizeplus’ or ‘OptimizeTransparency’.
fuzz: (ImageMagick only) Compresses the GIF by considering that the colors that are less than fuzz% different are in fact the same.
tempfiles: Writes every frame to a file instead of passing them in the RAM. Useful on computers with little RAM. Can only be used with ImageMagick’ or ‘ffmpeg’.
progress_bar: If True, displays a progress bar

Notes

The gif will be playing the clip in real time (you can only change the frame rate). If you want the gif to be played slower than the clip you will use

>>> # slow down clip 50% and make it a gif
>>> myClip.speedx(0.5).to_gif('myClip.gif')

write_images_sequence(self, nameformat, fps=None, verbose=True, withmask=True, logger='bar')¶

Writes the videoclip to a sequence of image files.

Parameters:

nameformat: A filename specifying the numerotation format and extension of the pictures. For instance “frame%03d.png” for filenames indexed with 3 digits and PNG format. Also possible: “some_folder/frame%04d.jpeg”, etc.
fps: Number of frames per second to consider when writing the clip. If not specified, the clip’s fps attribute will be used if it has one.
withmask: will save the clip’s mask (if any) as an alpha canal (PNGs only).
verbose: Boolean indicating whether to print information.
logger: Either ‘bar’ (progress bar) or None or any Proglog logger.

Returns:

names_list: A list of all the files generated.

Notes

The resulting image sequence can be read using e.g. the class ImageSequenceClip.

write_videofile(self, filename, fps=None, codec=None, bitrate=None, audio=True, audio_fps=44100, preset='medium', audio_nbytes=4, audio_codec=None, audio_bitrate=None, audio_bufsize=2000, temp_audiofile=None, rewrite_audio=True, remove_temp=True, write_logfile=False, verbose=True, threads=None, ffmpeg_params=None, logger='bar')¶

Write the clip to a videofile.

Parameters:

filename

Name of the video file to write in. The extension must correspond to the “codec” used (see below), or simply be ‘.avi’ (which will work with any codec).

fps

Number of frames per second in the resulting video file. If None is provided, and the clip has an fps attribute, this fps will be used.

codec

Codec to use for image encoding. Can be any codec supported by ffmpeg. If the filename is has extension ‘.mp4’, ‘.ogv’, ‘.webm’, the codec will be set accordingly, but you can still set it if you don’t like the default. For other extensions, the output filename must be set accordingly.

Some examples of codecs are:

'libx264' (default codec for file extension .mp4) makes well-compressed videos (quality tunable using ‘bitrate’).

'mpeg4' (other codec for extension .mp4) can be an alternative to 'libx264', and produces higher quality videos by default.

'rawvideo' (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of possibly very huge size.

png (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of smaller size than with rawvideo.

'libvorbis' (use file extension .ogv) is a nice video format, which is completely free/ open source. However not everyone has the codecs installed by default on their machine.

'libvpx' (use file extension .webm) is tiny a video format well indicated for web videos (with HTML5). Open source.

audio

Either True, False, or a file name. If True and the clip has an audio clip attached, this audio clip will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie. If audio is the name of an audio file, this audio file will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie.

audiofps

frame rate to use when generating the sound.

temp_audiofile

the name of the temporary audiofile to be generated and incorporated in the the movie, if any.

audio_codec

Which audio codec should be used. Examples are ‘libmp3lame’ for ‘.mp3’, ‘libvorbis’ for ‘ogg’, ‘libfdk_aac’:’m4a’, ‘pcm_s16le’ for 16-bit wav and ‘pcm_s32le’ for 32-bit wav. Default is ‘libmp3lame’, unless the video extension is ‘ogv’ or ‘webm’, at which case the default is ‘libvorbis’.

audio_bitrate

Audio bitrate, given as a string like ‘50k’, ‘500k’, ‘3000k’. Will determine the size/quality of audio in the output file. Note that it mainly an indicative goal, the bitrate won’t necessarily be the this in the final file.

preset

Sets the time that FFMPEG will spend optimizing the compression. Choices are: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo. Note that this does not impact the quality of the video, only the size of the video file. So choose ultrafast when you are in a hurry and file size does not matter.

threads

Number of threads to use for ffmpeg. Can speed up the writing of the video on multicore computers.

ffmpeg_params

Any additional ffmpeg parameters you would like to pass, as a list of terms, like [‘-option1’, ‘value1’, ‘-option2’, ‘value2’].

write_logfile

If true, will write log files for the audio and the video. These will be files ending with ‘.log’ with the name of the output file in them.

logger

Either “bar” for progress bar or None or any Proglog logger.

verbose (deprecated, kept for compatibility)

Formerly used for toggling messages on/off. Use logger=None now.

Examples

>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4").subclip(100,120)
>>> clip.write_videofile("my_new_video.mp4")
>>> clip.close()

`TextClip`¶

class moviepy.video.VideoClip.TextClip(txt=None, filename=None, size=None, color='black', bg_color='transparent', fontsize=None, font='Courier', stroke_color=None, stroke_width=1, method='label', kerning=None, align='center', interline=None, tempfilename=None, temptxt=None, transparent=True, remove_temp=True, print_cmd=False)[source]¶

Bases: moviepy.video.VideoClip.ImageClip

Class for autogenerated text clips.

Creates an ImageClip originating from a script-generated text image. Requires ImageMagick.

Parameters:

txt: A string of the text to write. Can be replaced by argument filename.
filename: The name of a file in which there is the text to write. Can be provided instead of argument txt
size: Size of the picture in pixels. Can be auto-set if method=’label’, but mandatory if method=’caption’. the height can be None, it will then be auto-determined.
bg_color: Color of the background. See TextClip.list('color') for a list of acceptable names.
color: Color of the text. See TextClip.list('color') for a list of acceptable names.
font: Name of the font to use. See TextClip.list('font') for the list of fonts you can use on your computer.
stroke_color: Color of the stroke (=contour line) of the text. If None, there will be no stroke.
stroke_width: Width of the stroke, in pixels. Can be a float, like 1.5.
method: Either ‘label’ (default, the picture will be autosized so as to fit exactly the size) or ‘caption’ (the text will be drawn in a picture with fixed size provided with the size argument). If caption, the text will be wrapped automagically (sometimes it is buggy, not my fault, complain to the ImageMagick crew) and can be aligned or centered (see parameter align).
kerning: Changes the default spacing between letters. For instance kerning=-1 will make the letters 1 pixel nearer from ach other compared to the default spacing.
align: center | East | West | South | North . Will only work if method is set to caption
transparent: True (default) if you want to take into account the transparency in the image.

add_mask(self)¶

Add a mask VideoClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the clip with a completely opaque mask (made of ones). This makes computations slower compared to having a None mask but can be useful in many cases. Choose

Set constant_size to False for clips with moving image size.

afx(self, fun, *a, **k)¶

Transform the clip’s audio.

Return a new clip whose audio has been transformed by fun.

blit_on(self, picture, t)¶: Returns the result of the blit of the clip’s frame at time t on the given picture, the position of the clip being given by the clip’s pos attribute. Meant for compositing.

close(self)¶: Release any resources that are in use.

copy(self)¶

Shallow copy of the clip.

Returns a shallow copy of the clip whose mask and audio will be shallow copies of the clip’s mask and audio if they exist.

This method is intensively used to produce new clips every time there is an outplace transformation of the clip (clip.resize, clip.subclip, etc.)

cutout(self, ta, tb)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip but skips the extract between ta and tb, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If the original clip has a duration attribute set, the duration of the returned clip is automatically computed as `` duration - (tb - ta)``.

The resulting clip’s audio and mask will also be cutout if they exist.

fl(self, fl, apply_to=None, keep_duration=True)¶

General transformation filter.

Equivalent to VideoClip.fl . The result is no more an ImageClip, it has the class VideoClip (since it may be animated)

fl_image(self, image_func, apply_to=None)¶

Image-transformation filter.

Does the same as VideoClip.fl_image, but for ImageClip the tranformed clip is computed once and for all at the beginning, and not for each ‘frame’.

fl_time(self, time_func, apply_to=None, keep_duration=False)¶

Time-transformation filter.

Applies a transformation to the clip’s timeline (see Clip.fl_time).

This method does nothing for ImageClips (but it may affect their masks or their audios). The result is still an ImageClip.

fx(self, func, *args, **kwargs)¶

Returns the result of func(self, *args, **kwargs). for instance

>>> newclip = clip.fx(resize, 0.2, method='bilinear')

is equivalent to

>>> newclip = resize(clip, 0.2, method='bilinear')

The motivation of fx is to keep the name of the effect near its parameters, when the effects are chained:

>>> from moviepy.video.fx import volumex, resize, mirrorx
>>> clip.fx( volumex, 0.5).fx( resize, 0.3).fx( mirrorx )
>>> # Is equivalent, but clearer than
>>> resize( volumex( mirrorx( clip ), 0.5), 0.3)

get_frame(self, t)¶: Gets a numpy array representing the RGB picture of the clip at time t or (mono or stereo) value for a sound clip

is_playing(self, t)¶: If t is a time, returns true if t is between the start and the end of the clip. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t is a numpy array, returns False if none of the t is in theclip, else returns a vector [b_1, b_2, b_3…] where b_i is true iff tti is in the clip.

iter_frames(self, fps=None, with_times=False, logger=None, dtype=None)¶

Iterates over all the frames of the clip.

Returns each frame of the clip as a HxWxN np.array, where N=1 for mask clips and N=3 for RGB clips.

This function is not really meant for video editing. It provides an easy way to do frame-by-frame treatment of a video, for fields like science, computer vision…

The fps (frames per second) parameter is optional if the clip already has a fps attribute.

Use dtype=”uint8” when using the pictures to write video, images…

Examples

>>> # prints the maximum of red that is contained
>>> # on the first line of each frame of the clip.
>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> myclip = VideoFileClip('myvideo.mp4')
>>> print ( [frame[0,:,0].max()
             for frame in myclip.iter_frames()])

static list(arg)[source]¶: Returns the list of all valid entries for the argument of TextClip given (can be font, color, etc…)

on_color(self, size=None, color=(0, 0, 0), pos=None, col_opacity=None)¶

Place the clip on a colored background.

Returns a clip made of the current clip overlaid on a color clip of a possibly bigger size. Can serve to flatten transparent clips.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the final clip. By default it will be the size of the current clip. color Background color of the final clip ([R,G,B]). pos Position of the clip in the final clip. ‘center’ is the default col_opacity Parameter in 0..1 indicating the opacity of the colored background.

save_frame(self, filename, t=0, withmask=True)¶

Save a clip’s frame to an image file.

Saves the frame of clip corresponding to time t in ‘filename’. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If withmask is True the mask is saved in the alpha layer of the picture (only works with PNGs).

static search(string, arg)[source]¶

Returns the of all valid entries which contain string for the argument arg of TextClip, for instance

>>> # Find all the available fonts which contain "Courier"
>>> print ( TextClip.search('Courier', 'font') )

set_audio(self, audioclip)¶

Attach an AudioClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the audio attribute set to audio, which must be an AudioClip instance.

set_duration(self, t, change_end=True)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the duration attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip. If change_end is False, the start attribute of the clip will be modified in function of the duration and the preset end of the clip.

set_end(self, t)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the end attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip.

set_fps(self, fps)¶: Returns a copy of the clip with a new default fps for functions like write_videofile, iterframe, etc.

set_ismask(self, ismask)¶: Says wheter the clip is a mask or not (ismask is a boolean)

set_make_frame(self, mf)¶

Change the clip’s get_frame.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the make_frame attribute set to mf.

set_mask(self, mask)¶

Set the clip’s mask.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip with the mask attribute set to mask, which must be a greyscale (values in 0-1) VideoClip

set_memoize(self, memoize)¶: Sets wheter the clip should keep the last frame read in memory

set_opacity(self, op)¶

Set the opacity/transparency level of the clip.

Returns a semi-transparent copy of the clip where the mask is multiplied by op (any float, normally between 0 and 1).

set_pos(*a, **kw)¶: The function set_pos is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, set_position, instead.

set_position(self, pos, relative=False)¶

Set the clip’s position in compositions.

Sets the position that the clip will have when included in compositions. The argument pos can be either a couple (x,y) or a function t-> (x,y). x and y mark the location of the top left corner of the clip, and can be of several types.

Examples

>>> clip.set_position((45,150)) # x=45, y=150
>>>
>>> # clip horizontally centered, at the top of the picture
>>> clip.set_position(("center","top"))
>>>
>>> # clip is at 40% of the width, 70% of the height:
>>> clip.set_position((0.4,0.7), relative=True)
>>>
>>> # clip's position is horizontally centered, and moving up !
>>> clip.set_position(lambda t: ('center', 50+t) )

set_start(self, t, change_end=True)¶

Returns a copy of the clip, with the start attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If change_end=True and the clip has a duration attribute, the end atrribute of the clip will be updated to start+duration.

If change_end=False and the clip has a end attribute, the duration attribute of the clip will be updated to end-start

These changes are also applied to the audio and mask clips of the current clip, if they exist.

subclip(self, t_start=0, t_end=None)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip between times t_start and t_end, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t_end is not provided, it is assumed to be the duration of the clip (potentially infinite). If t_end is a negative value, it is reset to ``clip.duration + t_end. ``. For instance:

>>> # cut the last two seconds of the clip:
>>> newclip = clip.subclip(0,-2)

If t_end is provided or if the clip has a duration attribute, the duration of the returned clip is set automatically.

The mask and audio of the resulting subclip will be subclips of mask and audio the original clip, if they exist.

subfx(self, fx, ta=0, tb=None, **kwargs)¶

Apply a transformation to a part of the clip.

Returns a new clip in which the function fun (clip->clip) has been applied to the subclip between times ta and tb (in seconds).

Examples

>>> # The scene between times t=3s and t=6s in ``clip`` will be
>>> # be played twice slower in ``newclip``
>>> newclip = clip.subapply(lambda c:c.speedx(0.5) , 3,6)

to_ImageClip(self, t=0, with_mask=True, duration=None)¶: Returns an ImageClip made out of the clip’s frame at time t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

to_RGB(self)¶: Return a non-mask video clip made from the mask video clip.

to_gif(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_gif is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_gif, instead.

to_images_sequence(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_images_sequence is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_images_sequence, instead.

to_mask(self, canal=0)¶: Return a mask a video clip made from the clip.

to_videofile(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_videofile is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_videofile, instead.

without_audio(self)¶

Remove the clip’s audio.

Return a copy of the clip with audio set to None.

write_gif(self, filename, fps=None, program='imageio', opt='nq', fuzz=1, verbose=True, loop=0, dispose=False, colors=None, tempfiles=False, logger='bar')¶

Write the VideoClip to a GIF file.

Converts a VideoClip into an animated GIF using ImageMagick or ffmpeg.

Parameters:

filename: Name of the resulting gif file.
fps: Number of frames per second (see note below). If it isn’t provided, then the function will look for the clip’s fps attribute (VideoFileClip, for instance, have one).
program: Software to use for the conversion, either ‘imageio’ (this will use the library FreeImage through ImageIO), or ‘ImageMagick’, or ‘ffmpeg’.
opt: Optimalization to apply. If program=’imageio’, opt must be either ‘wu’ (Wu) or ‘nq’ (Neuquant). If program=’ImageMagick’, either ‘optimizeplus’ or ‘OptimizeTransparency’.
fuzz: (ImageMagick only) Compresses the GIF by considering that the colors that are less than fuzz% different are in fact the same.
tempfiles: Writes every frame to a file instead of passing them in the RAM. Useful on computers with little RAM. Can only be used with ImageMagick’ or ‘ffmpeg’.
progress_bar: If True, displays a progress bar

Notes

The gif will be playing the clip in real time (you can only change the frame rate). If you want the gif to be played slower than the clip you will use

>>> # slow down clip 50% and make it a gif
>>> myClip.speedx(0.5).to_gif('myClip.gif')

write_images_sequence(self, nameformat, fps=None, verbose=True, withmask=True, logger='bar')¶

Writes the videoclip to a sequence of image files.

Parameters:

nameformat: A filename specifying the numerotation format and extension of the pictures. For instance “frame%03d.png” for filenames indexed with 3 digits and PNG format. Also possible: “some_folder/frame%04d.jpeg”, etc.
fps: Number of frames per second to consider when writing the clip. If not specified, the clip’s fps attribute will be used if it has one.
withmask: will save the clip’s mask (if any) as an alpha canal (PNGs only).
verbose: Boolean indicating whether to print information.
logger: Either ‘bar’ (progress bar) or None or any Proglog logger.

Returns:

names_list: A list of all the files generated.

Notes

The resulting image sequence can be read using e.g. the class ImageSequenceClip.

write_videofile(self, filename, fps=None, codec=None, bitrate=None, audio=True, audio_fps=44100, preset='medium', audio_nbytes=4, audio_codec=None, audio_bitrate=None, audio_bufsize=2000, temp_audiofile=None, rewrite_audio=True, remove_temp=True, write_logfile=False, verbose=True, threads=None, ffmpeg_params=None, logger='bar')¶

Write the clip to a videofile.

Parameters:

filename

Name of the video file to write in. The extension must correspond to the “codec” used (see below), or simply be ‘.avi’ (which will work with any codec).

fps

Number of frames per second in the resulting video file. If None is provided, and the clip has an fps attribute, this fps will be used.

codec

Codec to use for image encoding. Can be any codec supported by ffmpeg. If the filename is has extension ‘.mp4’, ‘.ogv’, ‘.webm’, the codec will be set accordingly, but you can still set it if you don’t like the default. For other extensions, the output filename must be set accordingly.

Some examples of codecs are:

'libx264' (default codec for file extension .mp4) makes well-compressed videos (quality tunable using ‘bitrate’).

'mpeg4' (other codec for extension .mp4) can be an alternative to 'libx264', and produces higher quality videos by default.

'rawvideo' (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of possibly very huge size.

png (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of smaller size than with rawvideo.

'libvorbis' (use file extension .ogv) is a nice video format, which is completely free/ open source. However not everyone has the codecs installed by default on their machine.

'libvpx' (use file extension .webm) is tiny a video format well indicated for web videos (with HTML5). Open source.

audio

Either True, False, or a file name. If True and the clip has an audio clip attached, this audio clip will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie. If audio is the name of an audio file, this audio file will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie.

audiofps

frame rate to use when generating the sound.

temp_audiofile

the name of the temporary audiofile to be generated and incorporated in the the movie, if any.

audio_codec

Which audio codec should be used. Examples are ‘libmp3lame’ for ‘.mp3’, ‘libvorbis’ for ‘ogg’, ‘libfdk_aac’:’m4a’, ‘pcm_s16le’ for 16-bit wav and ‘pcm_s32le’ for 32-bit wav. Default is ‘libmp3lame’, unless the video extension is ‘ogv’ or ‘webm’, at which case the default is ‘libvorbis’.

audio_bitrate

Audio bitrate, given as a string like ‘50k’, ‘500k’, ‘3000k’. Will determine the size/quality of audio in the output file. Note that it mainly an indicative goal, the bitrate won’t necessarily be the this in the final file.

preset

Sets the time that FFMPEG will spend optimizing the compression. Choices are: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo. Note that this does not impact the quality of the video, only the size of the video file. So choose ultrafast when you are in a hurry and file size does not matter.

threads

Number of threads to use for ffmpeg. Can speed up the writing of the video on multicore computers.

ffmpeg_params

Any additional ffmpeg parameters you would like to pass, as a list of terms, like [‘-option1’, ‘value1’, ‘-option2’, ‘value2’].

write_logfile

If true, will write log files for the audio and the video. These will be files ending with ‘.log’ with the name of the output file in them.

logger

Either “bar” for progress bar or None or any Proglog logger.

verbose (deprecated, kept for compatibility)

Formerly used for toggling messages on/off. Use logger=None now.

Examples

>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4").subclip(100,120)
>>> clip.write_videofile("my_new_video.mp4")
>>> clip.close()

`CompositeVideoClip`¶

class moviepy.video.compositing.CompositeVideoClip.CompositeVideoClip(clips, size=None, bg_color=None, use_bgclip=False, ismask=False)[source]¶

Bases: moviepy.video.VideoClip.VideoClip

A VideoClip made of other videoclips displayed together. This is the base class for most compositions.

Parameters:

size

The size (height x width) of the final clip.

clips

A list of videoclips. Each clip of the list will be displayed below the clips appearing after it in the list. For each clip:

The attribute pos determines where the clip is placed.

See VideoClip.set_pos
The mask of the clip determines which parts are visible.

Finally, if all the clips in the list have their duration attribute set, then the duration of the composite video clip is computed automatically

bg_color

Color for the unmasked and unfilled regions. Set to None for these regions to be transparent (will be slower).

use_bgclip

Set to True if the first clip in the list should be used as the ‘background’ on which all other clips are blitted. That first clip must have the same size as the final clip. If it has no transparency, the final clip will have no mask.

The clip with the highest FPS will be the FPS of the composite clip.

add_mask(self)¶

Add a mask VideoClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the clip with a completely opaque mask (made of ones). This makes computations slower compared to having a None mask but can be useful in many cases. Choose

Set constant_size to False for clips with moving image size.

afx(self, fun, *a, **k)¶

Transform the clip’s audio.

Return a new clip whose audio has been transformed by fun.

blit_on(self, picture, t)¶: Returns the result of the blit of the clip’s frame at time t on the given picture, the position of the clip being given by the clip’s pos attribute. Meant for compositing.

close(self)[source]¶: Release any resources that are in use.

copy(self)¶

Shallow copy of the clip.

Returns a shallow copy of the clip whose mask and audio will be shallow copies of the clip’s mask and audio if they exist.

This method is intensively used to produce new clips every time there is an outplace transformation of the clip (clip.resize, clip.subclip, etc.)

cutout(self, ta, tb)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip but skips the extract between ta and tb, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If the original clip has a duration attribute set, the duration of the returned clip is automatically computed as `` duration - (tb - ta)``.

The resulting clip’s audio and mask will also be cutout if they exist.

fl(self, fun, apply_to=None, keep_duration=True)¶

General processing of a clip.

Returns a new Clip whose frames are a transformation (through function fun) of the frames of the current clip.

Parameters:

fun: A function with signature (gf,t -> frame) where gf will represent the current clip’s get_frame method, i.e. gf is a function (t->image). Parameter t is a time in seconds, frame is a picture (=Numpy array) which will be returned by the transformed clip (see examples below).
apply_to: Can be either 'mask', or 'audio', or ['mask','audio']. Specifies if the filter fl should also be applied to the audio or the mask of the clip, if any.
keep_duration: Set to True if the transformation does not change the duration of the clip.

Examples

In the following newclip a 100 pixels-high clip whose video content scrolls from the top to the bottom of the frames of clip.

>>> fl = lambda gf,t : gf(t)[int(t):int(t)+50, :]
>>> newclip = clip.fl(fl, apply_to='mask')

fl_image(self, image_func, apply_to=None)¶: Modifies the images of a clip by replacing the frame get_frame(t) by another frame, image_func(get_frame(t))

fl_time(self, t_func, apply_to=None, keep_duration=False)¶

Returns a Clip instance playing the content of the current clip but with a modified timeline, time t being replaced by another time t_func(t).

Parameters:	t_func: A function `t-> new_t` apply_to: Can be either ‘mask’, or ‘audio’, or [‘mask’,’audio’]. Specifies if the filter `fl` should also be applied to the audio or the mask of the clip, if any. keep_duration: `False` (default) if the transformation modifies the `duration` of the clip.

Examples

>>> # plays the clip (and its mask and sound) twice faster
>>> newclip = clip.fl_time(lambda: 2*t, apply_to=['mask', 'audio'])
>>>
>>> # plays the clip starting at t=3, and backwards:
>>> newclip = clip.fl_time(lambda: 3-t)

fx(self, func, *args, **kwargs)¶

Returns the result of func(self, *args, **kwargs). for instance

>>> newclip = clip.fx(resize, 0.2, method='bilinear')

is equivalent to

>>> newclip = resize(clip, 0.2, method='bilinear')

The motivation of fx is to keep the name of the effect near its parameters, when the effects are chained:

>>> from moviepy.video.fx import volumex, resize, mirrorx
>>> clip.fx( volumex, 0.5).fx( resize, 0.3).fx( mirrorx )
>>> # Is equivalent, but clearer than
>>> resize( volumex( mirrorx( clip ), 0.5), 0.3)

get_frame(self, t)¶: Gets a numpy array representing the RGB picture of the clip at time t or (mono or stereo) value for a sound clip

is_playing(self, t)¶: If t is a time, returns true if t is between the start and the end of the clip. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t is a numpy array, returns False if none of the t is in theclip, else returns a vector [b_1, b_2, b_3…] where b_i is true iff tti is in the clip.

iter_frames(self, fps=None, with_times=False, logger=None, dtype=None)¶

Iterates over all the frames of the clip.

Returns each frame of the clip as a HxWxN np.array, where N=1 for mask clips and N=3 for RGB clips.

This function is not really meant for video editing. It provides an easy way to do frame-by-frame treatment of a video, for fields like science, computer vision…

The fps (frames per second) parameter is optional if the clip already has a fps attribute.

Use dtype=”uint8” when using the pictures to write video, images…

Examples

>>> # prints the maximum of red that is contained
>>> # on the first line of each frame of the clip.
>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> myclip = VideoFileClip('myvideo.mp4')
>>> print ( [frame[0,:,0].max()
             for frame in myclip.iter_frames()])

on_color(self, size=None, color=(0, 0, 0), pos=None, col_opacity=None)¶

Place the clip on a colored background.

Returns a clip made of the current clip overlaid on a color clip of a possibly bigger size. Can serve to flatten transparent clips.

Parameters:	size Size (width, height) in pixels of the final clip. By default it will be the size of the current clip. color Background color of the final clip ([R,G,B]). pos Position of the clip in the final clip. ‘center’ is the default col_opacity Parameter in 0..1 indicating the opacity of the colored background.

playing_clips(self, t=0)[source]¶: Returns a list of the clips in the composite clips that are actually playing at the given time t.

save_frame(self, filename, t=0, withmask=True)¶

Save a clip’s frame to an image file.

Saves the frame of clip corresponding to time t in ‘filename’. t can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If withmask is True the mask is saved in the alpha layer of the picture (only works with PNGs).

set_audio(self, audioclip)¶

Attach an AudioClip to the VideoClip.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the audio attribute set to audio, which must be an AudioClip instance.

set_duration(self, t, change_end=True)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the duration attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip. If change_end is False, the start attribute of the clip will be modified in function of the duration and the preset end of the clip.

set_end(self, t)¶: Returns a copy of the clip, with the end attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. Also sets the duration of the mask and audio, if any, of the returned clip.

set_fps(self, fps)¶: Returns a copy of the clip with a new default fps for functions like write_videofile, iterframe, etc.

set_ismask(self, ismask)¶: Says wheter the clip is a mask or not (ismask is a boolean)

set_make_frame(self, mf)¶

Change the clip’s get_frame.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip instance, with the make_frame attribute set to mf.

set_mask(self, mask)¶

Set the clip’s mask.

Returns a copy of the VideoClip with the mask attribute set to mask, which must be a greyscale (values in 0-1) VideoClip

set_memoize(self, memoize)¶: Sets wheter the clip should keep the last frame read in memory

set_opacity(self, op)¶

Set the opacity/transparency level of the clip.

Returns a semi-transparent copy of the clip where the mask is multiplied by op (any float, normally between 0 and 1).

set_pos(*a, **kw)¶: The function set_pos is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, set_position, instead.

set_position(self, pos, relative=False)¶

Set the clip’s position in compositions.

Sets the position that the clip will have when included in compositions. The argument pos can be either a couple (x,y) or a function t-> (x,y). x and y mark the location of the top left corner of the clip, and can be of several types.

Examples

>>> clip.set_position((45,150)) # x=45, y=150
>>>
>>> # clip horizontally centered, at the top of the picture
>>> clip.set_position(("center","top"))
>>>
>>> # clip is at 40% of the width, 70% of the height:
>>> clip.set_position((0.4,0.7), relative=True)
>>>
>>> # clip's position is horizontally centered, and moving up !
>>> clip.set_position(lambda t: ('center', 50+t) )

set_start(self, t, change_end=True)¶

Returns a copy of the clip, with the start attribute set to t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

If change_end=True and the clip has a duration attribute, the end atrribute of the clip will be updated to start+duration.

If change_end=False and the clip has a end attribute, the duration attribute of the clip will be updated to end-start

These changes are also applied to the audio and mask clips of the current clip, if they exist.

subclip(self, t_start=0, t_end=None)¶

Returns a clip playing the content of the current clip between times t_start and t_end, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’. If t_end is not provided, it is assumed to be the duration of the clip (potentially infinite). If t_end is a negative value, it is reset to ``clip.duration + t_end. ``. For instance:

>>> # cut the last two seconds of the clip:
>>> newclip = clip.subclip(0,-2)

If t_end is provided or if the clip has a duration attribute, the duration of the returned clip is set automatically.

The mask and audio of the resulting subclip will be subclips of mask and audio the original clip, if they exist.

subfx(self, fx, ta=0, tb=None, **kwargs)¶

Apply a transformation to a part of the clip.

Returns a new clip in which the function fun (clip->clip) has been applied to the subclip between times ta and tb (in seconds).

Examples

>>> # The scene between times t=3s and t=6s in ``clip`` will be
>>> # be played twice slower in ``newclip``
>>> newclip = clip.subapply(lambda c:c.speedx(0.5) , 3,6)

to_ImageClip(self, t=0, with_mask=True, duration=None)¶: Returns an ImageClip made out of the clip’s frame at time t, which can be expressed in seconds (15.35), in (min, sec), in (hour, min, sec), or as a string: ‘01:03:05.35’.

to_RGB(self)¶: Return a non-mask video clip made from the mask video clip.

to_gif(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_gif is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_gif, instead.

to_images_sequence(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_images_sequence is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_images_sequence, instead.

to_mask(self, canal=0)¶: Return a mask a video clip made from the clip.

to_videofile(*a, **kw)¶: The function to_videofile is deprecated and is kept temporarily for backwards compatibility. Please use the new name, write_videofile, instead.

without_audio(self)¶

Remove the clip’s audio.

Return a copy of the clip with audio set to None.

write_gif(self, filename, fps=None, program='imageio', opt='nq', fuzz=1, verbose=True, loop=0, dispose=False, colors=None, tempfiles=False, logger='bar')¶

Write the VideoClip to a GIF file.

Converts a VideoClip into an animated GIF using ImageMagick or ffmpeg.

Parameters:

filename: Name of the resulting gif file.
fps: Number of frames per second (see note below). If it isn’t provided, then the function will look for the clip’s fps attribute (VideoFileClip, for instance, have one).
program: Software to use for the conversion, either ‘imageio’ (this will use the library FreeImage through ImageIO), or ‘ImageMagick’, or ‘ffmpeg’.
opt: Optimalization to apply. If program=’imageio’, opt must be either ‘wu’ (Wu) or ‘nq’ (Neuquant). If program=’ImageMagick’, either ‘optimizeplus’ or ‘OptimizeTransparency’.
fuzz: (ImageMagick only) Compresses the GIF by considering that the colors that are less than fuzz% different are in fact the same.
tempfiles: Writes every frame to a file instead of passing them in the RAM. Useful on computers with little RAM. Can only be used with ImageMagick’ or ‘ffmpeg’.
progress_bar: If True, displays a progress bar

Notes

The gif will be playing the clip in real time (you can only change the frame rate). If you want the gif to be played slower than the clip you will use

>>> # slow down clip 50% and make it a gif
>>> myClip.speedx(0.5).to_gif('myClip.gif')

write_images_sequence(self, nameformat, fps=None, verbose=True, withmask=True, logger='bar')¶

Writes the videoclip to a sequence of image files.

Parameters:

nameformat: A filename specifying the numerotation format and extension of the pictures. For instance “frame%03d.png” for filenames indexed with 3 digits and PNG format. Also possible: “some_folder/frame%04d.jpeg”, etc.
fps: Number of frames per second to consider when writing the clip. If not specified, the clip’s fps attribute will be used if it has one.
withmask: will save the clip’s mask (if any) as an alpha canal (PNGs only).
verbose: Boolean indicating whether to print information.
logger: Either ‘bar’ (progress bar) or None or any Proglog logger.

Returns:

names_list: A list of all the files generated.

Notes

The resulting image sequence can be read using e.g. the class ImageSequenceClip.

write_videofile(self, filename, fps=None, codec=None, bitrate=None, audio=True, audio_fps=44100, preset='medium', audio_nbytes=4, audio_codec=None, audio_bitrate=None, audio_bufsize=2000, temp_audiofile=None, rewrite_audio=True, remove_temp=True, write_logfile=False, verbose=True, threads=None, ffmpeg_params=None, logger='bar')¶

Write the clip to a videofile.

Parameters:

filename

Name of the video file to write in. The extension must correspond to the “codec” used (see below), or simply be ‘.avi’ (which will work with any codec).

fps

Number of frames per second in the resulting video file. If None is provided, and the clip has an fps attribute, this fps will be used.

codec

Codec to use for image encoding. Can be any codec supported by ffmpeg. If the filename is has extension ‘.mp4’, ‘.ogv’, ‘.webm’, the codec will be set accordingly, but you can still set it if you don’t like the default. For other extensions, the output filename must be set accordingly.

Some examples of codecs are:

'libx264' (default codec for file extension .mp4) makes well-compressed videos (quality tunable using ‘bitrate’).

'mpeg4' (other codec for extension .mp4) can be an alternative to 'libx264', and produces higher quality videos by default.

'rawvideo' (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of possibly very huge size.

png (use file extension .avi) will produce a video of perfect quality, of smaller size than with rawvideo.

'libvorbis' (use file extension .ogv) is a nice video format, which is completely free/ open source. However not everyone has the codecs installed by default on their machine.

'libvpx' (use file extension .webm) is tiny a video format well indicated for web videos (with HTML5). Open source.

audio

Either True, False, or a file name. If True and the clip has an audio clip attached, this audio clip will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie. If audio is the name of an audio file, this audio file will be incorporated as a soundtrack in the movie.

audiofps

frame rate to use when generating the sound.

temp_audiofile

the name of the temporary audiofile to be generated and incorporated in the the movie, if any.

audio_codec

Which audio codec should be used. Examples are ‘libmp3lame’ for ‘.mp3’, ‘libvorbis’ for ‘ogg’, ‘libfdk_aac’:’m4a’, ‘pcm_s16le’ for 16-bit wav and ‘pcm_s32le’ for 32-bit wav. Default is ‘libmp3lame’, unless the video extension is ‘ogv’ or ‘webm’, at which case the default is ‘libvorbis’.

audio_bitrate

Audio bitrate, given as a string like ‘50k’, ‘500k’, ‘3000k’. Will determine the size/quality of audio in the output file. Note that it mainly an indicative goal, the bitrate won’t necessarily be the this in the final file.

preset

Sets the time that FFMPEG will spend optimizing the compression. Choices are: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo. Note that this does not impact the quality of the video, only the size of the video file. So choose ultrafast when you are in a hurry and file size does not matter.

threads

Number of threads to use for ffmpeg. Can speed up the writing of the video on multicore computers.

ffmpeg_params

Any additional ffmpeg parameters you would like to pass, as a list of terms, like [‘-option1’, ‘value1’, ‘-option2’, ‘value2’].

write_logfile

If true, will write log files for the audio and the video. These will be files ending with ‘.log’ with the name of the output file in them.

logger

Either “bar” for progress bar or None or any Proglog logger.

verbose (deprecated, kept for compatibility)

Formerly used for toggling messages on/off. Use logger=None now.

Examples

>>> from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
>>> clip = VideoFileClip("myvideo.mp4").subclip(100,120)
>>> clip.write_videofile("my_new_video.mp4")
>>> clip.close()

Classes of Video Clips¶

VideoClip¶

VideoFileClip¶

ImageClip¶

ColorClip¶

TextClip¶

CompositeVideoClip¶

`VideoClip`¶

`VideoFileClip`¶

`ImageClip`¶

`ColorClip`¶

`TextClip`¶

`CompositeVideoClip`¶