video-download-cut-split

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Requirements

This script requires the followings:

• youtube-dl
• ffmpeg
• (python)

The listed programs must be installed and inserted into the path environement variable.

This script have been tested only on Window's Ubuntu subsystem, but should work fine on any OS, if not, please report it.

Introduction

This is a very simple python script designed for gathering material for producing face sets starting from videos.

This script allows you to automatize the downloading, cutting and splitting process.

All you have to do is browse for videos you want to use, save the URL and write down the time at the start and end of the pieces you need from those videos.

Once you have all you can insert everything into the vids.json file. I made one just as a demonstration using Nic Cage interviews.

The all you have to do is to move inside the script directory and type

python video_download_cut_split.py

This will start the downloading and cutting process. All the results will be inside the downloaded and cutted directories.

For splitting all the videos into single frames type

python video_download_cut_split.py --split-frames

Type python video_download_cut_split.py --help for more options.

The vids.json file

The vids.json file will contain all the informations needed for the downloading and cutting process.

Here's the content of the default vids.json file containing pieces of Nic Cage's interviews.

[
	{
		"name": "nic1",
		"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caxMBk1__-Y",
		"chuncks": 
			[
				{
					"start": "00:00:50.0",
					"end": "00:01:10.0"
				},
				{
					"start": "00:01:50.0",
					"end": "00:01:54.0"
				},
				{
					"start": "00:02:41.0",
					"end": "00:02:50.0"
				},
				{
					"start": "00:03:07.0",
					"end": "00:03:19.0"
				}
			]
	},
	{
		"name": "nic2",
		"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRvDarJsHA",
		"chuncks":
			[
				{
					"start": "00:00:11.0",
					"end": "00:00:56.0"
				},
				{
					"start": "00:01:01.0",
					"end": "00:01:48.0"
				},
				{
					"start": "00:01:53.0",
					"end": "00:02:24.0"
				}
			]
	}
]

You can add as many videos as you want and as many chuncks as you want.

The URL can be from any site supported by youtube-dl.