MoviePy – Resizing Video File

Difficulty Level : Basic
Last Updated : 01 Aug, 2020

In this article we will see how we can resize video file clip in MoviePy. MoviePy is a Python module for video editing, which can be used for basic operations on videos and GIF’s. Resizing video file means. Image/frame interpolation occurs when you resize or distort your frame of vdideo from one pixel grid to another. Video resizing is necessary when we need to increase or decrease the total number of pixels, whereas remapping can occur when you are correcting for lens distortion or rotating an video.

In order to do this we will use resize method with the VideoFileClip object

Syntax : clip.resize(n)

Argument : It takes float value i.e multiplier

Return : It returns VideoFileClip object

Below is the implementation

# Import everything needed to edit video clips 
from moviepy.editor import *
  
# loading video dsa gfg intro video and getting only first 5 seconds 
clip1 = VideoFileClip("dsa_geek.webm").subclip(0, 5) 
  
# getting width and height of clip 1 
w1 = clip1.w 
h1 = clip1.h 
  
print("Width x Height of clip 1 : ", end = " ") 
print(str(w1) + " x ", str(h1)) 
  
print("---------------------------------------") 
  
  
# resizing video downsize 50 % clip2 = clip1.resize(0.5) 
  
# getting width and height of clip 1 
w2 = clip2.w 
h2 = clip2.h 
  
print("Width x Height of clip 2 : ", end = " ") 
print(str(w2) + " x ", str(h2)) 
  
print("---------------------------------------") 
  
  
  
# showing final clip 
clip2.ipython_display(width = 480) 

Output :

Width x Height of clip 1 :  854 x  480
---------------------------------------
Width x Height of clip 2 :  427 x  240
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Moviepy - Building video __temp__.mp4.
Moviepy - Writing video __temp__.mp4

                                                                                                                       
Moviepy - Done !
Moviepy - video ready __temp__.mp4

Another example

# Import everything needed to edit video clips 
from moviepy.editor import *
  
# loading video gfg 
clip = VideoFileClip("geeks.mp4") 
  
# getting subclip 
clip1 = clip.subclip(0, 7) 
  
# getting width and height of clip 1 
w1 = clip1.w 
h1 = clip1.h 
  
print("Width x Height of clip 1 : ", end = " ") 
print(str(w1) + " x ", str(h1)) 
  
print("---------------------------------------") 
  
  
# resizing video downsize 50 % clip2 = clip1.resize(0.5) 
  
# getting width and height of clip 1 
w2 = clip2.w 
h2 = clip2.h 
  
print("Width x Height of clip 2 : ", end = " ") 
print(str(w2) + " x ", str(h2)) 
  
print("---------------------------------------") 
  
  
  
# showing final clip 
clip2.ipython_display() 

Output :

Width x Height of clip 1 :  656 x  404
---------------------------------------
Width x Height of clip 2 :  328 x  202
---------------------------------------
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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