Is there a good package for editing videos in R?

Package Use Questions
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1

I’m looking for a package to cut, trim and convert video files. Of course, I can do it using ffmpeg, but I just wanted to check if there are any existing solutions in R to do it, maybe a wrapper for ffmpeg that I didn’t find?

2

Have you tried magick https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/magick/

It can read video as a set of frames. Then you can edit each frame. Checkout the vignette to get started https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/magick/vignettes/intro.html

3

I’ve actually just come up against this problem myself. My solution was to write an R script that would pass the arguments I wanted to and call ffmpeg via system() with something like


  system(paste(
    "c:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\ffmpeg.exe -accurate_seek -ss ", 
    target.time, 
    "  -i ", 
    target.video,
    " -frames:v 1  -q:v 2 c:\\video\\",
    target.name,
    ".bmp -y ", sep=""))
4

thanks @samclifford - yeah, for any advanced video editing better to use ffmpeg

5

There’s also https://github.com/swarm-lab/videoplayR, which provides bindings to the OpenCV C++ computer vision library.