pj8912 / merge-for-shorts

Application to merge two videos suited for youtube shorts, tik tok or instagram reels, built using Flask and Moviepy in python

Merge For Shorts

Support

Functionalities

• Crop a video to shorts format
• Merge videos for shorts

Requirements

• This requires python 3.9 or higher versions

Installation

• Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/pj8912/merge-for-shorts.git

• Create you venv(I use myenv)

• Install dependencies :

pip install -r requirements.txt

Start

• To run the Flask application, you can use the following command:

python app.py 

• Open http://localhost:5000

Working

• This will start the Flask development server and you can access the application by visiting http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.

• The format of the video is any movie or tv series clip at the top and random videogame or life hacks videos at the bottom.

• The application allows users to upload an video file which sits at the top and video game at the bottom which is in the uploads folder - quake_short.mp4 , where two of them are combined to form a single video file which is <= 1 minute. If the video uploaded by the user is greater than a minute it will be reduced to a minute. The progress can be seen on the terminal.

Home

Crop to shorts

Merge video

other example

• Check out this Youtube video
• Family Guy video at the top and quake video at the bottom

Configuration

• You can configure the application by modifying the config dictionary in the app.py file. You can set the location and name of the folder where uploaded files will be saved, as well as the maximum allowed file size.

Contributors

• jp

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Contribution

• The goal of this project is to convert individual videos to shorts format and automate the process of making vertical shorts videos of a certain kind.
• Contributions are always welcome, no matter how large or small. Pull requests are always welcome, and I'll do my best to do reviews as fast as I can.

In the case of a bug report, bugfix or a suggestions, please feel very free to open an issue too.