moviepy gif loop finder

makegifs.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Taken from http://zulko.github.io/blog/2015/02/01/extracting-perfectly-looping-gifs-from-videos-with-python-and-moviepy/

import os
import sys

import moviepy.editor as mp
from moviepy.video.tools.cuts import FramesMatches

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print "makegifs.py <video file>"
    sys.exit(1)

clip = mp.VideoFileClip(sys.argv[1])
name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(sys.argv[1]))[0]
scenes = FramesMatches.from_clip(clip.resize(width=120), 5, 2)
selected_scenes = scenes.select_scenes(2, 0.5, 4, 0.5)
os.mkdir(name)
selected_scenes.write_gifs(clip.resize(width=270), name)

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