Crop a video in python

Question

I am wondering to create a function which can crop a video in a certain frame and save it on my disk (OpenCV,moviepy,or something like that)

I am specifying my function with parameters as dimension of frame along with source and target name (location)

def vid_crop(src,dest,l,t,r,b):
  # something
  # goes
  # here

left = 1    #any number (pixels)
top = 2     # ''''
right = 3   # ''''
bottom = 4  # ''''

vid_crop('myvideo.mp4','myvideo_edit.mp4',left,top,right,bottom)

Any suggestions and ideas are really helpful

Answer 1

Ok I think you want this,

import numpy as np
import cv2

# Open the video
cap = cv2.VideoCapture('vid.mp4')

# Initialize frame counter
cnt = 0

# Some characteristics from the original video
w_frame, h_frame = int(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH)), int(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT))
fps, frames = cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FPS), cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT)

# Here you can define your croping values
x,y,h,w = 0,0,100,100

# output
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
out = cv2.VideoWriter('result.avi', fourcc, fps, (w, h))


# Now we start
while(cap.isOpened()):
    ret, frame = cap.read()

    cnt += 1 # Counting frames

    # Avoid problems when video finish
    if ret==True:
        # Croping the frame
        crop_frame = frame[y:y+h, x:x+w]

        # Percentage
        xx = cnt *100/frames
        print(int(xx),'%')

        # Saving from the desired frames
        #if 15 <= cnt <= 90:
        #    out.write(crop_frame)

        # I see the answer now. Here you save all the video
        out.write(crop_frame)

        # Just to see the video in real time          
        cv2.imshow('frame',frame)
        cv2.imshow('croped',crop_frame)

        if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
            break
    else:
        break


cap.release()
out.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()