MuviMaker

MuviMaker is a package that generates moving images from a sound file. It uses

• librosa to analyses soundfiles,
• gizeh to generate vector graphics
• moviepy to produce movie files

Structure

The code uses tkinter to create a GUI. Running muvi_maker/main.py will start it.

The GUI part of the code can be found in muvi_maker/editor while the core functionality is located in muvi_maker/core.

Central objects

• ProjectHandler : The central object handling the book keeping, making sure all parts play together well in terms of framerate etc, see muvi_maker/core/project.py.
• Sound: An object that analyses a sound file, providing e.g. its volume, chroma, spectrogram etc, see muvi_maker/core/sound.py
• Picture: An object that produces the frames. Various attributes can be triggered by Sounds, see muvi_maker/core/pictures/
• Video: The object combining various Sounds to make the final video file, see muvi_maker/core/video.py

Installing MuviMaker

To be able to use moviepy the library ffmpeg has to be installed on your system. If it is not you can simply execute:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install frei0r-plugins

• Only using MuviMaker:

You can install MuviMaker via pip

pip install muvimaker

• Working with the source code:

If you want to get the source code and work with it, you can clone the repository:

 git clone git@github.com:JannisNe/muvi_maker

You will have to add the installation directory to the PYTHONPATH to be able tu use the code:

export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/moviemaker

All requirements can be install via pip:

pip install -r ./requirements.txt