A reconstitution of 15th century dancing¶
And now for something very silly…
"""
Result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7HJrsEYFg
This is how we can imagine knights dancing at the 15th century, based on a very
serious historical study here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCvOC2VwDc
Here is what we do:
0. Get the video of a dancing knight, and a (Creative Commons) audio music file.
1. Load the audio file and automatically find the tempo.
2. Load the video and automatically find a segment that loops well
3. Extract this segment, slow it down so that it matches the audio tempo, and make
it loop forever.
4. Symmetrize this segment so that we will get two knights instead of one
5. Add a title screen and some credits, write to a file.
This example has been originally edited in an IPython Notebook, which makes it
easy to preview and fine-tune each part of the editing.
"""
import os
import sys
from moviepy import *
from moviepy.audio.tools.cuts import find_audio_period
from moviepy.video.tools.cuts import find_video_period
# Next lines are for downloading the required videos from Youtube.
# To do this you must have youtube-dl installed, otherwise you will need to
# download the videos by hand and rename them, as follows:
# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCvOC2VwDc => knights.mp4
# https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkY3Ek9VPtg => frontier.mp4
if not os.path.exists("knights.mp4") or not os.path.exists("frontier.webm"):
retcode1 = os.system("youtube-dl zvCvOC2VwDc -o knights")
retcode2 = os.system("youtube-dl lkY3Ek9VPtg -o frontier")
if retcode1 != 0 or retcode2 != 0:
sys.stderr.write(
"Error downloading videos. Check that you've installed youtube-dl.\n"
)
sys.exit(1)
# ==========
# LOAD, EDIT, ANALYZE THE AUDIO
audio = (
AudioFileClip("frontier.webm")
.subclip((4, 7), (4, 18))
.audio_fadein(1)
.audio_fadeout(1)
)
audio_period = find_audio_period(audio)
print("Analyzed the audio, found a period of %.02f seconds" % audio_period)
# LOAD, EDIT, ANALYZE THE VIDEO
clip = (
VideoFileClip("knights.mp4", audio=False)
.subclip((1, 24.15), (1, 26))
.crop(x1=500, x2=1350)
)
video_period = find_video_period(clip, start_time=0.3)
print("Analyzed the video, found a period of %.02f seconds" % video_period)
edited_right = (
clip.subclip(0, video_period)
.speedx(final_duration=2 * audio_period)
.fx(vfx.loop, duration=audio.duration)
.subclip(0.25)
)
edited_left = edited_right.fx(vfx.mirror_x)
dancing_knights = (
clips_array([[edited_left, edited_right]])
.fadein(1)
.fadeout(1)
.with_audio(audio)
.subclip(0.3)
)
# MAKE THE TITLE SCREEN
txt_title = (
TextClip(
"15th century dancing\n(hypothetical)",
font_size=70,
font="Century-Schoolbook-Roman",
color="white",
)
.margin(top=15, opacity=0)
.with_position(("center", "top"))
)
title = (
CompositeVideoClip([dancing_knights.to_ImageClip(), txt_title])
.fadein(0.5)
.with_duration(3.5)
)
# MAKE THE CREDITS SCREEN
txt_credits = """
CREDITS
Video excerpt: Le combat en armure au XVe siècle
By J. Donzé, D. Jaquet, T. Schmuziger,
Université de Genève, Musée National de Moyen Age
Music: "Frontier", by DOCTOR VOX
Under licence Creative Commons
https://www.youtube.com/user/DOCTORVOXofficial
Video editing © Zulko 2014
Licence Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0)
Edited with MoviePy: http://zulko.github.io/moviepy/
"""
credits = (
TextClip(
txt_credits,
color="white",
font="Century-Schoolbook-Roman",
font_size=35,
kerning=-2,
interline=-1,
bg_color="black",
size=title.size,
)
.with_duration(2.5)
.fadein(0.5)
.fadeout(0.5)
)
# ASSEMBLE EVERYTHING, WRITE TO FILE
final = concatenate_videoclips([title, dancing_knights, credits])
final.write_videofile(
"dancing_knights.mp4", fps=clip.fps, audio_bitrate="1000k", bitrate="4000k"
)