MoviePy – Concatenating multiple Video Files
Last Updated :
31 Oct, 2021
In this article, we will see how we can concatenate 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. In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of “snow” and “ball” is “snowball”, similarly concatenating multiple videos clips means that they will get played one after another and act as a single video file.
Note: The clips do not need to be the same size. If they aren’t of the 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 concatenate_videoclips method
Syntax : concatenate_videoclips(clips)
Argument : It takes list of video file clips as argument
Return : It returns VideoFileClip object
Below is the implementation
Python3
from moviepy.editor import *
clip = VideoFileClip( "dsa_geek.webm" )
clip1 = clip.subclip( 0 , 5 )
clip2 = clip.subclip( 60 , 65 )
final = concatenate_videoclips([clip1, clip2])
final.write_videofile( "merged.webm" )
final.ipython_display(width = 480 )
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Output :
Moviepy - Building video __temp__.mp4.
Moviepy - Writing video __temp__.mp4
Moviepy - Done !
Moviepy - video ready __temp__.mp4
Another example:
Python3
from moviepy.editor import *
clip = VideoFileClip( "dsa_geek.webm" )
clip1 = clip.subclip( 0 , 5 )
clipx = VideoFileClip( "geeks.mp4" )
clip2 = clipx.subclip( 0 , 5 )
clips = [clip1, clip2]
final = concatenate_videoclips(clips)
final.ipython_display(width = 480 )
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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
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