Moviepy Python Video Editing Library

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name: "MoviePy Python Video Editing Library"
slug: "moviepy-python-video-editing-library"
description: "MoviePy is a Python library for video editing — cuts, concatenations, title insertions, compositing, and custom effects. It reads and writes all common audio and video formats including GIF, powered by FFmpeg under the hood."
github_stars: 14491
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source: "https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy"
category: "Media & Transcription"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
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  github_repo: "zulko/moviepy"
  github_stars: 14491
---

# MoviePy Python Video Editing Library

MoviePy is a Python library for video editing — cuts, concatenations, title insertions, compositing, and custom effects. It reads and writes all common audio and video formats including GIF, powered by FFmpeg under the hood.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Intall moviepy with pip install moviepy. For additional installation options, such as a custom FFMPEG or for previewing, see [this section](https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/getting_started/install.html). For developmen...
- The online documentation ([here](https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/)) is automatically built at every push to the master branch. To build the documentation locally, install the extra dependencies via pip install "moviep...

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![MoviePy page on the Python Package Index](https://badge.fury.io/py/moviepy.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/moviepy/) [![Discuss MoviePy on Gitter](https://img.shields.io/gitter/room/movie-py/gitter?color=46BC99&logo...
- MoviePy (online documentation [here](https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/)) is a Python library for video editing: cuts, concatenations, title insertions, video compositing (a.k.a. non-linear editing), video processing, a...
- MoviePy can read and write all the most common audio and video formats, including GIF, and runs on Windows/Mac/Linux, with Python 3.9+.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- # Example
- In this example we open a video file, select the subclip between 10 and
- # Load file example.mp4 and keep only the subclip from 00:00:10 to 00:00:20

- Source: https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Zulko/moviepy/HEAD/README.md

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