Newspaper Effect

Wondering how youtube channels do this cool effect? Do it for free with this repository in seconds!

Examples

Created using the example images, Keyword: Area 51, Cropped Cropped Offset: 200 and Image Duration set to 0.3.

example.mp4

Loops through each images and transcribes your news posts via pytesseract
After transcribing it searches for your entered keywords and creates a cropped image of it centered (if the title has enough height to the top of the page)
Using moviepy it creates the video with a delay of 0.3 seconds between each image

Install the project using git clone

$ git clone https://github.com/OGMatrix/Newspaper-Effect.git

After that you have to install the required pip libraries using

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

When it is done with installing you can open the setup.bat. After its finished you have finished setting up the project!

First you have to collect as much images as you want from the news pages in English
ATTENTION:
- It is recommended that the title has a specific height from the top of the page
- It is recommended to take the sreenshots in F12 and ALT + DRUCK and then copy it into images directory
- It is recommended that before the headline in the newspaper there is no text that includes your keyword
After collecting the images you can start the project with
python main.py
When you start it you are prompted to configure your video
- Keyword (Phrase): Enter the keyword of the news headline, that you want to focus in the output video.
- Cropped Offset: Enter the offset you want to get (how much of the image is shown around the keyword). (Recommended is 250 or 200, which is also used in the example video)
- Image Duration: The duration between the images in the video in seconds. (Recommended is 0.3)
- Output File: Enter the name of the file. (It is saved with this name)
After it says that its finished your final video is saved in the output directory with the name you entered.
You have to try and find the settings that fit to you!