Clip a range of frames from a video and turn them into a gif. PIL/cv2

video-clip-gif.py

import cv2
import random
import pathlib
from PIL import Image

src_path = 'pie.mp4' # Replace with your video
outfolder = 'temp' # Create folder before running

time_per_frame = 5 # Milliseconds? Reduce for faster speed
looping = 0 # 0 is looping for PIL

# File handling
def get_exported_frames(as_PIL=False):
    frames = [f for f in pathlib.Path(outfolder).iterdir() if f.is_file()]
    if as_PIL:
        return [Image.open(f) for f in frames]
    else:
        return frames

# Open video
video = cv2.VideoCapture(src_path)
total_frames = video.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_COUNT)

# Select a range. Random, in this case
randlen = random.randint(5,20)
start = random.randint(0,total_frames-randlen)
end = start+randlen
framerange = range(start,end)

# Read the frames and write to jpgs in out directory
for framenum in framerange:
    video.set(cv2.CAP_PROP_POS_FRAMES,framenum-1)
    res,frame = video.read()
    cv2.imwrite(f'temp/frame-{framenum}.jpg',frame)

# Get all the frames
frames = get_exported_frames(as_PIL=True)

# Export as gif
frames[0].save('out.gif',
               save_all=True,
               append_images=frames[1:],
               duration=time_per_frame*len(frames),
               loop=looping,
              )

# Flush the output directory
for f in get_exported_frames(): f.unlink()