/auto-editor

Auto-Editor: Effort free video editing!

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Auto-Editor is a command line application for automatically editing video and audio by analyzing a variety of methods, most notability audio loudness.


Before doing the real editing, you first cut out the "dead space" which is typically silence. This is known as a "first pass". Cutting these is a boring task, especially if the video is very long.

auto-editor path/to/your/video.mp4

Installing

pip3 install auto-editor

See Installing for additional information.

Cutting

Change the pace of the edited video by using --frame_margin.

--frame_margin will including small sections that are next to loud parts. A frame margin of 8 will add up to 8 frames before and 8 frames after the loud part.

auto-editor example.mp4 --frame_margin 8

Exporting to Editors

Create an XML file that can be imported to Adobe Premiere Pro using this command:

auto-editor example.mp4 --export_to_premiere

Similar flags exist also for:

  • --export_to_resolve for DaVinci Resolve.
  • --export_to_final_cut_pro for Final Cut Pro.
  • --export_to_shot_cut for ShotCut.

More Options

List all available options:

auto-editor --help

Use --help with a specific option for more information:

auto-editor --scale --help
  --scale
    scale the output media file by a certain factor.

    type: float_type
    default: 1

Auto-Editor is available on all platforms

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Copyright

Auto-Editor is under the Public Domain but contains non-free elements. See this page for more info.

Issues

If you have a bug or a code suggestion, you can create a new issue here. If you'll like to discuss this project, suggest new features, or chat with other users, you can use the discord server.