find all video files by extensions and collect the files into one folder

find_n_collect_video_files.py

# Binh Nguyen, Feb 15, 2020
'''
Moving files with movies or images to a designated folder
Useful to  collect large files (movies) to one places
'''
import fnmatch
import os
import shutil

movies = ['*.mov', '*.avi', '*.AVI', '*.MOV', '*.mp4', '*.MP4']
rootFolder = '/path/to/root/folder'
targetFolder = '/path/to/collection/folder'
matches = []
print('Starting...')
for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(rootFolder):
    for extensions in movies:
        for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, extensions):
            _path = os.path.join(root, filename)
            matches.append(_path)
            _new_path = os.path.join(targetFolder, filename)
            shutil.move(_path, _new_path)
            print('Moving {} to {}'.format(filename, _new_path))
# print(matches)
print('Done.')