pyPreviewGenerator is a python module you can use to generate short previews of your videos. Like you have made a short documentry for your school and you want to create a short preview to post on instagram, so you can quickly generate the preview using this script, it's super easy to use, and so much faster than doing it by video editors.

you can both clone this repository or install it using pip, both instructions are below;

• installing using pip

  pip install pyVideoPreviewGenerator

you can checkout modules pip page here.

• Clone & Install

1. clone repo
2. run below command to install requirements:
3. change terminal directory to cloned directory
4. run: pip install .
5. you're ready to go!

first you need to import the module

from pyPreviewGenerator import pyPreviewGenerator

then to generate run below function

from pyPreviewGenerator import pyPreviewGenerator
pyPreviewGenerator.generate_preview(filePath = "videos/test.mp4",   
                                    startRange = 50, #as second   
                                    endRange = 350, #as second   
                                    introRange=(0,50), # pick intro from 0 to 60 seconds of input video as intro - default = None   
                                    outroRange= (351,400), # pick outro from 351 to 400 seconds of input video as outro - default = None  
                                    miniClipsCount=3, # define how many parts your video split into - default = 3   
                                    fadeEffectBetweenClips= 1 , # define fade effect duration for between scenes as seconds - default = 1  
                                    fadeEffectPadding = -0.5,  # define padding between scenes - default = -0.5   
                                    exportPath = None # define export path - default = 'preview.mp4' next to input video  
                                    )

first install module using pip, then in cmd or Terminal

for help : python -m pyPreviewGenerator.pyPGCLI --help

example :

python -m pyPreviewGenerator.pyPGCLI --filepath "videos\test.mp4" --startrange 65 -e 390 -i 0 65 -o 390 410 -m 4 -d 1 -p -0.5 -x "videos\pre_test.mp4"

@soroushamdg made it.

License attached to files(MIT License)

if you found a bug, catch it and throw it in issues section