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