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how to solve ValueError in moviepy?


I am making a video with subtitle using moviepy in python 3.6.

from moviepy.video.tools.subtitles import SubtitlesClip
from moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip import VideoFileClip
generator = (lambda txt: TextClip(txt, font='Georgia-Regular', fontsize=24, color='white'))
subtitles = SubtitlesClip("sub.md", generator)
myvideo = VideoFileClip("video.mp4")
final = CompositeVideoClip([myvideo, subtitles])
final.write_videofile("final.mp4", fps=myvideo.fps)

i am geting an error:

self.duration = max([tb for ((ta,tb), txt) in self.subtitles])
ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence

Solution

  • Look at this sample code to see if there are hints you can derive corrections from. I also dropped a link to the GitHub error repo for moviepy.

    def add_text_to_movie(movie_fol, movie_name, out_movie_name, subs, fontsize=50, txt_color='red', font='Xolonium-Bold'):
            from moviepy import editor
        
            def annotate(clip, txt, txt_color=txt_color, fontsize=fontsize, font=font):
                """ Writes a text at the bottom of the clip. """
                txtclip = editor.TextClip(txt, fontsize=fontsize, font=font, color=txt_color)
                cvc = editor.CompositeVideoClip([clip, txtclip.set_pos(('center', 'bottom'))])
                return cvc.set_duration(clip.duration)
        
            video = editor.VideoFileClip(op.join(movie_fol, movie_name))
            annotated_clips = [annotate(video.subclip(from_t, to_t), txt) for (from_t, to_t), txt in subs]
            final_clip = editor.concatenate_videoclips(annotated_clips)
            final_clip.write_videofile(op.join(movie_fol, out_movie_name))
    

    https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/issues/283