write_gif failing

[ajmagat]

Hey Guys,

I'm trying to follow the first part of the tutorial here http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/01/23/making-animated-gifs-from-video-files-with-python/ but can't seem to get it working.

I realize there have been updates since the writing of the article, but was wondering if I was just possibly doing something wrong, or if the write_gif functionality isn't working / has some dependencies I am unaware of.

Thanks for any help

from moviepy.editor import *
clip = (VideoFileClip("frozen_trailer.mp4").subclip((1, 22.65), (1, 23.2)).resize(0.3))

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-822a7eb596ad> in <module>()
----> 1 clip.write_gif("small_gif.mp4")

<decorator-gen-170> in write_gif(self, filename, fps, program, opt, fuzz, verbose, loop, dispose, colors, tempfiles)

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/moviepy/decorators.pyc in requires_duration(f, clip, *a, **k)
     52         raise ValueError("Attribute 'duration' not set")
     53     else:
---> 54         return f(clip, *a, **k)
     55 
     56 

<decorator-gen-169> in write_gif(self, filename, fps, program, opt, fuzz, verbose, loop, dispose, colors, tempfiles)

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/moviepy/decorators.pyc in convert_masks_to_RGB(f, clip, *a, **k)
     20     if clip.ismask:
     21         clip = clip.to_RGB()
---> 22     return f(clip, *a, **k)
     23 
     24 @decorator.decorator

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/moviepy/video/VideoClip.pyc in write_gif(self, filename, fps, program, opt, fuzz, verbose, loop, dispose, colors, tempfiles)
    460         if program == 'imageio':
    461             write_gif_with_image_io(self, filename, fps=fps, opt=opt, loop=loop,
--> 462                                     verbose=verbose, colors=colors)
    463 
    464         elif tempfiles:

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/moviepy/video/io/gif_writers.py in write_gif_with_image_io(clip, filename, fps, opt, loop, colors, verbose)
    283     quantizer = 'wu' if opt!= 'nq' else 'nq'
    284     writer = imageio.save(filename, duration=1.0/fps,
--> 285                           quantizer=quantizer, palettesize=colors)
    286 
    287     verbose_print(verbose, "\n[MoviePy] Building file %s with imageio\n"%filename)

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/imageio/core/functions.pyc in get_writer(uri, format, mode, **kwargs)
    150 
    151     # Return its writer object
--> 152     return format.get_writer(request)
    153 
    154 

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/imageio/core/format.pyc in get_writer(self, request)
    169             raise RuntimeError('Format %s cannot write in mode %r' % 
    170                                (self.name, select_mode))
--> 171         return self.Writer(self, request)
    172 
    173     def can_read(self, request):

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/imageio/core/format.pyc in __init__(self, format, request)
    205             self._request = request
    206             # Open the reader/writer
--> 207             self._open(**self.request.kwargs.copy())
    208 
    209         @property

TypeError: _open() got an unexpected keyword argument 'duration' 

[devonhk]

Try something like this

from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip

clip = VideoFileClip(media_path).subclip(
    t_start=1,   # time in seconds
    t_end=3
).resize(.40)
clip.write_gif('test.gif')

This works for me

[cvn]

I just had this same problem. It was the output file extension. Changing small_gif.mp4 to small_gif.gif would fix the error above.

[keikoro]

@ajmagat, did you mange to fix this with the info provided here?

@pydo Could you summarise what you did to fix this? Is this something that could/should be added to the documentation so usage is clearer?

[ghost]

No response in 23 days, so closing issue.