vide

A video editing utility for the command line. vide wraps PySceneDetect and FFmpeg behind a small, composable CLI: split a video into scene clips, edit or drop the ones you don't want, and merge the rest back together — all without re-encoding on the merge side.

Requirements

• Python 3.12+
• The ffmpeg binary on your PATH (brew install ffmpeg, apt install ffmpeg, …)

Installation

$ uv tool install vide
# or
$ pip install vide

Usage

Split a video into scenes

Detects scene cuts and writes one clip per scene:

$ vide split-scenes input.mp4 --output /tmp/clips
$ ls /tmp/clips
input-Scene-001.mp4  input-Scene-002.mp4  input-Scene-003.mp4

Merge clips into one video

Concatenates clips in the order given using FFmpeg's concat demuxer with stream copy — instant and lossless, no re-encoding:

$ vide merge-scenes /tmp/clips/*.mp4 --output final.mp4

Because streams are copied, all inputs must share the same codec, resolution, and framerate — always true for clips produced by vide split-scenes from the same source.

Documentation

Full documentation lives in docs/. Build it locally with:

$ make sphinx
$ open docs/_build/html/index.html

Development

$ git clone https://github.com/inkylabsdev/vide.git
$ cd vide
$ uv sync
$ make test

The test suite runs real vide invocations against videos generated on the fly with FFmpeg, and enforces 100% coverage.

Adding a command is a single file: drop a module into vide/commands/ exposing a module-level cli click command, and it is registered automatically.

License

MIT