Jump Cut with Just 2 Lines of Python Code – Video Editing ✕ Programming to Become a Strong Creator

If you've ever edited a video, you may understand.

After all, cutting work is the most time-consuming and troublesome.

If you can do that hourly work in less than 5 minutes,

What a delight.

That kind of joy can be achieved by writing a program.

The most familiar language is Python.

Using jumpcutter, a package of the Python language

I'm going to try video editing.

Before After

Without further ado, let's take a look at Before After.

There are some parts that I don't know what I'm talking about.

There should be no problem because the tempo is transmitted well.

Before

After

Environment

・WSL2

・Jupyter Notebook

jumpcutter GitHub URL

jumpcutter

Just 2 lines of Python code

First, install Jumpcutter.

!pip install jumpcutter

Then run it.

!jumpcutter -i <path of the video you want to cut> -o <path and file name of the video you have finished cutting>

In the author's case

The path looked like this:

In addition, the -m option set the percentage of the maximum value of an audio signal to be considered a silent signal to 10%.

The default is 2% (0.02).

!jumpcutter -i '/mnt/c/Users/Sugi/Downloads/movie.mp4' -o '/mnt/c/Users/Sugi/Downloads/movie.mp4' -m 0.1

By the way, there are the following points to note.

Summary

Video editing is in high demand.

Be more efficient

Also, when thinking about what to do using your knowledge as an engineer

We thought there was a solution like this.

I hope you will give it a try.

Thank you for reading to the end.