Skip to main content

Python based script to generate mini previews of your videos, like tutorials or ...

Project description

header_image

pyPreviewGenerator

pyPreviewGenerator is a python module you can use to generate short previews of your videos. Like you have made a short documentry for your school and you want to create a short preview to post on instagram, so you can quickly generate the preview using this script, it's super easy to use, and so much faster than doing it by video editors.

Installation

you can both clone this repository or install it using pip, both instructions are below;

  • installing using pip

    pip install pyVideoPreviewGenerator

you can checkout modules pip page here.

  • Clone & Install
  1. clone repo
  2. run below command to install requirements:
  3. change terminal directory to cloned directory
  4. run: pip install .
  5. you're ready to go!

Usage

1 - Using module in your python code

first you need to import the module

from pyPreviewGenerator import pyPreviewGenerator

then to generate run below function

from pyPreviewGenerator import pyPreviewGenerator
pyPreviewGenerator.generate_preview(filePath = "videos/test.mp4",   
                                    startRange = 50, #as second   
                                    endRange = 350, #as second   
                                    introRange=(0,50), # pick intro from 0 to 60 seconds of input video as intro - default = None   
                                    outroRange= (351,400), # pick outro from 351 to 400 seconds of input video as outro - default = None  
                                    miniClipsCount=3, # define how many parts your video split into - default = 3   
                                    fadeEffectBetweenClips= 1 , # define fade effect duration for between scenes as seconds - default = 1  
                                    fadeEffectPadding = -0.5,  # define padding between scenes - default = -0.5   
                                    exportPath = None # define export path - default = 'preview.mp4' next to input video  
                                    )

2 - Using module as CMD or Terminal Application

first install module using pip, then in cmd or Terminal

for help : python -m pyPreviewGenerator.pyPGCLI --help

example :

python -m pyPreviewGenerator.pyPGCLI --filepath "videos\test.mp4" --startrange 65 -e 390 -i 0 65 -o 390 410 -m 4 -d 1 -p -0.5 -x "videos\pre_test.mp4"

License

@soroushamdg made it.

License attached to files(MIT License)

Issues

if you found a bug, catch it and throw it in issues section

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

pyVideoPreviewGenerator-1.0.4.tar.gz (4.5 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page