vidgear VS moviepy

My experience that played out over the last few weeks lead me to a similar belief, somewhat. For rather uninteresting reasons I decided I wanted to create mp4 videos of an animation programmatically, from scratch.

The first solution suggested when googling around is to just create all the frames, save them to disk, and then let ffmpeg do its thing from there. I would have just gone with that for a one-off task, but it seems like a pretty bad solution if the video is long, or high res, or both. Plus, what I really wanted was to build something more "scalable/flexible".

Maybe I didn't know the right keywords to search for, but there really didn't seem to be many options for creating frames, piping them straight to an encoder, and writing just the final video file to disk. The only one I found that seemed like it could maybe do it the way I had in mind was VidGear[1] (Python). I had figured that with the popularity of streaming, and video in general on the web, there would be so much more tooling for these sorts of things.

I ended up digging way deeper into this than I had intended, and built myself something on top of Membrane[2] (Elixir)

[1] https://abhitronix.github.io/vidgear/

I've been googling and reading for a while but I'm very unsure about which tools I need, which tools will help me achieve what I want the easiest way. What about (pylivestream)[https://pypi.org/project/pylivestream/] for example? Will this do the job for me? What about a lower level approach including (pyopencv)[https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/]? What about a higher level approach using (vidgear)[https://github.com/abhiTronix/vidgear], which seems promising but I don't feel confident in assessing if it's the tool I really need?

Vidgear and new deffcode library are my best. I bet you don't know none of them. But they're pretty awesome when it comes to video-processing and stuff.

Yes, fortunately I already resolved it in my previous(popular) library called vidgearthrough its WriteGear API: https://abhitronix.github.io/vidgear/latest/gears/writegear/compression/overview/

Code: https://github.com/abhiTronix/vidgear

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VideoClip.set_layer functionality was added in https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/pull/1176 but when I try to use it I get this error:

Moviepy was used to connect video and audio track.

I'm pretty sure Moviepy can do something like this.

For those of you who will try to figure this out, I have a couple notes. First, this doesn’t appear to be the only bug in cutout. If one tries to cut out X length of video, then the new rendered video will have X length of audio removed from the end. In other words, if I remove 3 seconds of film somewhere in the media, the resulting movie will have 3 seconds of silence at the end, although the video at the end is still intact. Thankfully, this can be fixed by going into the moviepy library, into “decorators”, and on line 43 under “def apply_to_audio(f, clip, *a, **k):”, change it from “newclip.audio = f(newclip.audio, *a, **k)” to “newclip.audio = f(clip.audio, *a, **k)”. By the way, I didn’t come up with this fix, these guys did.

This app leverages these powerful libraries: - yt-dlp: video downloader - moviepy: video trimmer/merger - click: CLI app creator - rich / rich-click: CLI app styler

The pip will be used to install and use Moviepy.