Tutorials

Two lessons for someone who has never used videopython. They are meant to be typed out in order, top to bottom — every step is safe to run and every step produces something you can play back.

Tutorials teach; they do not try to cover the whole API. When you want to accomplish a particular task, switch to the how-to guides; when you want the exact parameters of something, look it up in the reference.

1. Your first edit

Cut a clip, resize it, fade it in, and render it. Then add a second segment and let the plan concatenate them. Core install only — no AI, no GPU.

2. Subtitle a video with AI

Transcribe speech with a local Whisper model and burn word-level subtitles onto the video. Needs pip install "videopython[ai]"; runs on CPU.

What you need

• videopython installed, with FFmpeg on your PATH — see Install.
• One .mp4 file to work with. Any video will do; free clips are available from Pexels if you don't have one. Tutorial 2 needs a video with speech in it.