Documentation: https://www.scenedetect.com/docs
Github Repo: https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/
Install: pip install --upgrade scenedetect (or scenedetect-headless for servers)
Packages: scenedetect (CLI + opencv-python), scenedetect-headless (CLI + opencv-python-headless), and scenedetect-core (library only, minimal dependencies, bring your own OpenCV variant). All provide the same scenedetect module – install only one.
PySceneDetect is a tool for detecting shot changes in videos, and can automatically split videos into separate clips. PySceneDetect is free and open-source software, and has several detection methods to find fast-cuts and threshold-based fades.
For example, to split a video: scenedetect -i video.mp4 split-video
You can also use the Python API (docs) to do the same:
from scenedetect import detect, AdaptiveDetector, split_video_ffmpeg
scene_list = detect('my_video.mp4', AdaptiveDetector())
split_video_ffmpeg('my_video.mp4', scene_list)Licensed under BSD 3-Clause (see the LICENSE file for details).
Copyright (C) 2014 Brandon Castellano. All rights reserved.
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