Examples

The clip package includes a few examples. These small programs illustrate various ways the package can be used, in some cases integrating other Python packages.

auto_subtitle.py

• Description:

  An example that uses a speech-to-text library to try to add subtitles to a clip automatically. This example uses vosk because it works offline and provides easy access to timing of individual words.

  Install vosk before running:

  pip install vosk
  

• Features used in this example:

  stereo_to_mono custom_progressbar() from_file slice_clip save_mp4()

• View auto_subtitle.py on github.

bounce.py

• Description:

  An example that creates two videos: one that shows a block of text bouncing around the screen and one with some mesmerizing colors.

• Features used in this example:

  Metrics Clip draw_text draw_text vstack() composite Element save_mp4() scale_alpha Element VideoMode composite save_mp4()

• View bounce.py on github.

text_to_speech.py

• Description:

  An example that uses a text-to-speech library to generate spoken word from a string input.

  Install pyttsx4 before running:

  pip install pyttsx4
  

• Features used in this example:

  draw_text vstack() Align background() join() save_mp4()

• View text_to_speech.py on github.