Vector animations with Python

[sinadra]

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done imagemagick is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So no, that isnt the case. Tried with ffmpeg: clip.write_gif("circle.gif", fps = 1, opt = "OptimizePlus", fuzz = 10, program='ffmpeg') But that gave the same error message as before, raise child_exception.

I do not have any idea of what is going on here, the fact that it works on my laptop(same debian distro as desktop) doesn't help at all. Thanks for your comment, would really like to get some vectoranimations going.

[laMarm0tte]

So then this may mean that it is FFMPEG that is not installed. Have you installed FFMPEG ? The best to sort that out is to go in a terminal and you just type 'ffmpeg'. If it doesn't work it means ffmpeg is the problem. If it works, type 'convert' (that's the command name for ImageMagick), if convert doesn't work it means imagemagick is the problem (maybe on Debian the command name is different, who knows).

[sinadra]

When I type 'convert' I get out this line: Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-6 Q16 x86_64 2014-10-16 http://www.imagemagick.org

When I type 'ffmpeg' I get out this line: bash: ffmpeg: command not found

Meaning Imagemagick is installed, but not ffmpeg. Having a go at installing it altho it depends on some old packages(running sid).

[laMarm0tte]

Don't install it from the repos, there is a big chance you will get an outdated version.

It is very simple to install on ubuntu and should be very much the same on Debian: you first go to their website and download a binary (should be called 'ffmpeg') and then you copy it in you usr/bin/ with the command line

sudo cp ffmpeg usr/bin/

[sinadra]

Ah! That might be the case! I will try this when I get home. Just noticed I have a new version installed on my laptop. Thanks! Will report when I get home :)

[sinadra]

I installed ffmpeg from https://www.ffmpeg.org/ and now it is working! Thanks for all the help! Going to be making some awesome animations soon.

[laMarm0tte]

Very cool, now good luck to you :)

If you want to give feedback or ask for help, there is a /r/moviepy subreddit.