Python for Quick, Useful Multimedia Manipulation: Anecdotes from a Python Programmer
One of Python's many killer features is that a programmer can organically create snippets of code, and coherently join them into larger collections of module code. In this presentation, I describe and demonstrate relatively simple Python tools -- for image, video, and audio manipulation -- that I use every day at work and outside work.
- automatically cropping out whitespace in images (surprisingly easy to do).
- creating movies from a sequence of generated images.
- conversion of movie clips, either files or YouTube clips, into animated GIFs (useful where the online service does not allow for video animations from movie files, such as GitHub or Read the Docs).
If there's time or interest, I can even describe and demonstrate how to retrieve and label music you might find, all within Python.
Demonstrations live in the demonstrations subdirectory, each demonstration is its own directory within demonstrations, and each demonstration has its own README.rst. Here are the four directories with description.
autocropping_images: autocropping a PNG image and a PDF image.movie_image_demos: converting a sequence of images into an MP4 file.movie_gif_demos: converting an MP4 file and a YouTube clip into animated GIFs.making_music_youtube: using a tool, howdy_music_songs, that takes metadata from MusicBrainz and the YouTube clip using youtube-dl, into an M4A file.