Show HN: MergeForShorts – Crop and Merge videos for shorts,reels and TikTok
GitHub - pj8912/merge-for-shorts: Crop and Merge videos for shorts, reels and tiktok
Merge For Shorts

🤝 Support
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⚙️ Functionalities

Crop a video to shorts format
Merge videos for shorts

Requirements

This requires python 3.9 or higher versions
ffmpeg package

⬇️ Installation
Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/pj8912/merge-for-shorts.git

Create and activate your venv (I use myenv)
Install  requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
🏃 Start

To run the Flask application, you can use the following command:



Visit http://localhost:5000

Working


This will start the Flask development server and you can access the application by visiting http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.


Crop to shorts : Upload a video and convert to shorts format 9:16 with just a click!


Merge two videos : The format of the video is any movie or tv series clip at the top and random videogame or life hacks videos at the bottom. Uploaded video file sits at the top and video game at the bottom which is in the uploads folder - quake_short.mp4 , where two of them are combined to form a single video file which is <= 1 minute. If the video uploaded by the user is greater than a minute it will be reduced to a minute. The progress can be seen on the terminal.


Example

Check out this Youtube video
Family Guy video at the top and quake video at the bottom

📸 App Screenshots
Crop video to shorts Format

Merge For Shorts

Configuration


You can configure the application by modifying the config dictionary in the app.py file. You can set the location and name of the folder where uploaded files will be saved, as well as the maximum allowed file size.


Adjust the length of the output clips for either crop or merge in app.py. As mentioned above, the merged-videos output is within a minute. No length limit set for Crop-to-shorts feature.


Contributors

jp

License
This project is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
Contribution


The goal of this project is to convert individual videos to shorts format and automate the process of making vertical shorts videos of a certain kind.


Contributions are always welcome, no matter how large or small. Pull requests are always welcome, and I'll do my best to do reviews as fast as I can.


In the case of a bug report, bugfix or a suggestions, please feel very free to open an issue too.
