agentskillexchange MoviePy Python Video Editing Library
MoviePy is a Python library for video editing — cuts, concatenations, title insertions, compositing, and custom effects. It reads and writes all common audio and video formats including GIF, powered by FFmpeg under the hood.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Intall moviepy with pip install moviepy. For additional installation options, such as a custom FFMPEG or for previewing, see this section. For developmen...
- The online documentation (here) is automatically built at every push to the master branch. To build the documentation locally, install the extra dependencies via pip install "moviep...
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [ is a Python library for video editing: cuts, concatenations, title insertions, video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, a...
- MoviePy can read and write all the most common audio and video formats, including GIF, and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux, with Python 3.9+.
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Example
In this example we open a video file, select the subclip between 10 and
Load file example.mp4 and keep only the subclip from 00:00:10 to 00:00:20
Source: https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zulko/moviepy/HEAD/README.md