Dec 05 2022 Crossfading in MoviePy

Taking a cue from Simon Willison, a TIL (today I learned) about the moviepy library.

The library is very useful, but sometimes I have difficulty finding documentation on how to do specific things. For example, recently for NaMoGenMo I wanted to crossfade between 2 clips.

Suppose you have two 10-second video clips, and you want to cross-fade from clip A to clip B over 3 seconds. So clip A starts playing at 00:00, starts fading out at 00:07, and is completely faded out at 00:10. Clip B starts playing at 00:07, immediately starts fading in, and is finished fading in at 00:10. How you could accomplish that:

overlap = 3
final_clip = CompositeVideoClip([
    clip_a.crossfadeout(overlap),
    clip_b.set_start(clip_a.duration - overlap).crossfadein(overlap)
])