vidtoolz-shorts

Create shorts from long form videos

Installation

First install vidtoolz.

pip install vidtoolz

Then install this plugin in the same environment as your vidtoolz application.

vidtoolz install vidtoolz-shorts

Usage

type vidtoolz-shorts --help to get help

usage: vid shorts [-h] [-t TEXT_FILE] [-i [INPUT ...]] [-d TIME] [-st STARTAT]
                  [-r RATIO] [-o OUTPUT]
                  filename

Create shorts from long form videos

positional arguments:
  filename              File containing the list of files or .mp4 file which
                        is used for shorts

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TEXT_FILE, --text-file TEXT_FILE
                        Text file containing comments (default: None)
  -i [INPUT ...], --input [INPUT ...]
                        Text inputs (default: [])
  -d TIME, --time TIME  Duration of shorts in secs (default: 60)
  -st STARTAT, --startat STARTAT
                        Audio startat ex 30s or 1:15 or 1:24:30 (default: 0.0)
  -r RATIO, --ratio RATIO
                        Size Ratio: ex 9/16 (0.5625), 4/5 (0.8) or (default:
                        1.0)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Path to save the trimmed video.

Development

To set up this plugin locally, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd vidtoolz-shorts
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest