This repositories contains Python scripts that take a set of pictures and an audio track and turn them into a slideshow video.
It works by utilizing the Python libraries Pillow to resize images while keeping the image ratio and MoviePy to create video clips and render the video with the audio track.
Create a virtual environment.
python3 -m venv path/to/your-env
Activate your virtual environment. On Windows:
your-env\Scripts\activate.bat
On Unix or MacOS:
source your-env/bin/activate
Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements
MoviePy utilizes ImageMagick to create text images. Go to https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php and download and install the ImageMagick version compatible with your operating system. If you are on Windows, you will have to edit the moviepy/config_defaults.py file, which should be inside your virtual environment Lib folder, to include the path to your ImageMagick installation.
IMAGEMAGICK_BINARY = "C:\\Program Files\\ImageMagick_VERSION\\magick.exe"
Place your images on the folder images\original and the audio track on folder song. If you want a certain order in which images appear on the video, rename the files so that the alphabetical order matches your desired order.
After that, run the app.py script.
python app.py
After you run it, it will prompt you to provide some parameters. They are the video title that will show up at beginning of the video, what resolution do you want the video to be, and the length of the audio track in seconds.
There are many parameters when doing the final render of the video. You may want to check them at VideoClip.write_videofile and set to your preferences on the write_video function in MakeVideo.py
def write_video(video, bitrate = "16000k", threads = 1, filename = "video", preset = "ultrafast", fps = 24, codec = "mpeg4"):
video.write_videofile(f'{filename}.mp4', fps = fps, codec = codec, threads = threads, preset = preset, bitrate = bitrate)You can customize more your title card in the create_title_text_clip function in TitleText.py. For example, you may want to change the RGB color.
def create_title_text_clip(text, frame_color = (16, 78, 139)):Below is a list of possible future features that could be implemented to this repository. You are also welcomed to contribute with features not listed below.
- Automatically find the length of the audio file.
- Support for more than one audio file.
- Add transitions. Fade-in/ Fade-out.