CVideo

🎬 CVideo is a video builder tool. It uses a configuration file to read the sequence of commands and creates a video.

⚙️ Installation and usage

git clone https://github.com/surajkareppagol/cvideo.git
cd cvideo

python3 -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

python3 src/main.py [config-file]

👷 Config format

@ metadata

= name: Circles and rectangles
= background: #c17261
= width: 1280
= height: 720

@ timeline

@@ 00:00:00 - 00:00:05

> item: shape
  + shape: circle
  + cx: 600
  + cy: 12
  + radius: 400
  + speed: 2
> item: shape
  + shape: rectangle
  + x: 600
  + y: 12
  + width: 400
  + height: 200
  + speed: 2

@@ 00:00:06 - 00:00:10

> item: shape
  + shape: rectangle
  + x: 600
  + y: 12
  + width: 400
  + height: 200
  + speed: 6
> item: shape
  + shape: text
  + x: 600
  + y: 12
  + text: CVideo - Config to Video
  + speed: 4

• Format is divided into two sections metadata and timeline
• This sections are preceded with @ and time slots are preceded with @@.
• Nested item starts with > with all the child items +.

☰ Available shapes and options

Metadata

• Name
• Background color
• Width
• Height

Timeline

• Shapes
  • Circle
  • Rectangle
  • Text
• speed (integer, default: 2)

✨ Features

• Create svg via SVG class
• Easy to use API
• Uses ffmpeg so multiple video formats available
• Easy to use configuration format

✅ To do

• Add more features to configuration file
• Add more parser rules to configuration file
• Add more elements to SVG class