In this article we will see how we can stack multiple video file clips in MoviePy. MoviePy is a Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations on videos and GIF’s. Unlike concatenating of multiple videos clips in stacking all the video files get played at the same time like images in the collage.
Note : The clips do not need to be the same size. If they aren’t of same size they will all appear centered in a clip large enough to contain the biggest of them
In order to do this we will use clips_array method
Syntax : clips_array(clips)
Argument : It takes list of video file clips as argument
Return : It returns VideoFileClip object
Below is the implementation
Python3
# Import everything needed to edit video clipsfrom moviepy.editor import *# loading video dsa gfg intro video and getting only first 5 secondsclip1 = VideoFileClip("dsa_geek.webm").subclip(0, 5)# rotating clip1 by 90 degree to get the clip2clip2 = clip1.rotate(90)# rotating clip1 by 180 degree to get the clip3clip3 = clip1.rotate(180)# rotating clip1 by 270 degree to get the clip4clip4 = clip1.rotate(270)# list of clipsclips = [[clip1, clip2], [clip3, clip4]]# stacking clipsfinal = clips_array(clips)# showing final clipfinal.ipython_display(width = 480) |
Output :
Moviepy - Building video __temp__.mp4.
Moviepy - Writing video __temp__.mp4
Moviepy - Done !
Moviepy - video ready __temp__.mp4
Another example
Python3
# Import everything needed to edit video clipsfrom moviepy.editor import *# loading video dsa gfg intro video# getting subclip as video is large# adding margin to the videoclip1 = VideoFileClip("Lazyroar.mp4").subclip(0, 5).margin(10)# getting clip2 by mirroring over x axisclip2 = clip1.fx(vfx.mirror_x)# getting clip3 by mirroring over y axisclip3 = clip1.fx(vfx.mirror_y)# getting clip 4 by resising the clipclip4 = clip1.resize(0.60)# clips listclips = [[clip1, clip2], [clip3, clip4]]# stacking clipsfinal = clips_array(clips)# showing final clipfinal.ipython_display(width = 480) |
Output :
Moviepy - Building video __temp__.mp4.
MoviePy - Writing audio in __temp__TEMP_MPY_wvf_snd.mp3
MoviePy - Done.
Moviepy - Writing video __temp__.mp4
Moviepy - Done !
Moviepy - video ready __temp__.mp4
