moviepy is awesome

[Netherdrake]

I would like to express a sincere gratitude to Zulko and all contributors to moviepy.

I remember first using moviepy about 8 months ago, and it was a bit of the struggle back then.

The library's stability has improved substantially (this time it 'just works'), new features are awesome and the documentation is much much better.

I can't believe I managed to solve a pesky video editing automation problem in just one afternoon.
This library has just made our life infinitely better. Thank you all again!

[mgaitan]

👍 a well deserved not-a-bug report ❤️

[Zulko]

Thanks guys !

8 months ago MoviePy was about 8 months old you gotta give it time to improve :)

The stability gain is due in part to people reporting/patching bugs on their OS, and in part to the use of ImageIO, which can download/install the ffmpeg binaries across all platforms. Following my last blog post I got many people who tried to reproduce my examples, including python beginners, and it all worked (well, 90% of it), that's really an improvement !

The documentation lacks one big thing I think: a cookbook with recipes for the most common uses. That would help more people getting started.

Cheers !

[mgaitan]

The documentation lacks one big thing I think: a cookbook with recipes for the most common uses. That would help more people getting started.

For example, I dream with get something like the animoto's transitions fx, like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJwpVGx7G0

is there something close to it done with moviepy? would it be possible?

[Zulko]

@mgaitan That would be possible, but not trivial as there is a lot of maths involved (or even 3D effects ?).

For transitions there is the transfx module, which has been one of my first focuses in moviepy but that I have abandonned since, so it's quite small at the moment. I'm still not sure what the best way to deal with transitions would be, but certainly something like this:

new_clip = (clip1.concatenate_with(clip2, my_transition1, **transition_args)
                 .concatenate_with(clip3, my_transition2, **transition_args)
                 ... etc.)

I am also thinking of making a class to make transitions easier. But I don't think that will be ready before some time.

[keikoro]

I think this can be closed. Should this get turned into an official wish list item/feature request/..., it would probably be best to create a new issue for it.