kopfkino

Kopfkino is a library providing syntactic sugar sprinkled on top of MoviePy and AI components, to allow authoring of simple human-friendly video scripts.

🚧 Work in progress, code is coming.

Kopfkino (German, ˈkɔpfˌkiːno) roughly translates to "movie theater of your mind", describing a kind of daydreaming when your imagination produces vivid images right in your head. It addresses the main purpose of this project — give you a convenient way to convert your ideas into movie scripts (which are also Python scripts), for producing e-learning videos and such, using an expressive DSL.

It enables you to concentrate on your content and its timeline, hiding away most of the technical details and quirks of underlying packages doing the grunt work, like MoviePy.

Features

Major functions and use-cases:

• Rough and final cut of your recordings.
• Adding a title screen and end credits.
• Adding subtitles, optionally also converted to audio via an AI voice (TTS / text to speech).
• Using audio loops for background music.

There is an early proof of concept on YouTube, to give you an idea of the end result.

Related Projects & Services

• Open Broadcaster Software (OBS Studio) — Multi-platform software for video recording and live streaming.
• Ideogram — My recommendation for generating still images from a text prompt, to e.g. use in intro and outro sequences of a video.
• MoviePy — 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.
• coqui-ai/TTS — A deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production.
• pydub — Manipulate audio with an easy to use interface.