Galea - Merge video clips into 1 video with transitions

Galea is a simple, open source, command line programme to merge various video transitions together

Examples

These motorbike videos have been created with Galea.

Download

The code is hosted on github. just download and run ./galea.py. Download the latest zip file here

Usage

Galea was created because I felt most video editing software was too complex, especially when I just want to stitch some videos together, so I tried to make Galea use sensible defaults and not require much thinking.

You can call it with just:

galea.py video1.mp4 video2.mp4 video3.mp4

And it will produce a file called video.ogg with each file stiched together with a 0.5 second transition between the lot.

Options

Usage: galea.py [options]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT_FILENAME, --output=OUTPUT_FILENAME
                        prefix for filename to save output to
  -l TRANSITION_LENGTH, --transition-length=TRANSITION_LENGTH
                        Length in seconds of transition (default: 0.5)
  -t TRANSITION_TYPE, --transition-type=TRANSITION_TYPE
  -m MUSIC, --music=MUSIC
                        File to use as music backingtrack. default: no music
  -s MUSIC_START, --music-start=MUSIC_START
                        Start the music file playing at this point, not the
                        start of the music
  -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
                        Type of video format output
  -v MUSIC_VOLUME, --music-volume=MUSIC_VOLUME
                        Multiply the music volume by this. 1.0=leave same
                        (default), 0.5=half as loud

Video Formats

By default it creats a OGV file, at a video high bitrate, i.e. the file will be quite large. You probably want to convert that to a smaller file. I used the OGV as a decent intermediate file format, and didn't want to lose any quality, so I didn't change the options.

Etymology

'galea' is the latin for helmet

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