MoviePy

Note

MoviePy recently upgraded to v2.0, introducing major breaking changes, for more info, see the updating guide.

MoviePy (full documentation) is a Python library for video editing: cutting, concatenations, title insertions, video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, and creation of custom effects.

MoviePy can read and write all the most common audio and video formats, including GIF, and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux, with Python 3.7+.

Example

In this example we open a video file, select the subclip between 10 and 20 seconds, add a title at the center of the screen, and write the result to a new file:

# Import everything needed to edit video clips
from moviepy import *

# Load file example.mp4 and extract only the subclip from 00:00:10 to 00:00:20
clip = VideoFileClip("long_examples/example2.mp4").with_subclip(10, 20)

# Reduce the audio volume to 80% of his original volume
clip = clip.with_multiply_volume(0.8)

# Generate a text clip. You can customize the font, color, etc.
txt_clip = TextClip(font="example.ttf", text="Big Buck Bunny", font_size=70, color='white')

# Say that you want it to appear for 10s at the center of the screen
txt_clip = txt_clip.with_position('center').with_duration(10)

# Overlay the text clip on the first video clip
video = CompositeVideoClip([clip, txt_clip])

# Write the result to a file (many options available!)
video.write_videofile("result.mp4")

Maintainers wanted!

MoviePy is always looking for maintainers, and we'd love to hear about developers interested in giving a hand and solving some of the issues (especially the ones that affect you) or reviewing pull requests. Open an issue or contact us directly if you are interested. Thanks!

Installation

For standard installation, see documentation_install.

For contributors installation, see documentation_dev_install.

Documentation

Building the documentation has additional dependencies that require installation.

$ (sudo) pip install moviepy[doc]

The documentation can be generated and viewed via:

$ python setup.py build_docs

You can pass additional arguments to the documentation build, such as clean build:

$ python setup.py build_docs -E

More information is available from the Sphinx documentation.

Contribute

MoviePy is open-source software originally written by Zulko and released under the MIT licence. The project is hosted on GitHub, where everyone is welcome to contribute, ask for help or simply give feedback. Please read our Contributing Guidelines for more information about how to contribute!

You can also discuss the project on Reddit or Gitter. These are preferred over GitHub issues for usage questions and examples.