🔒 Exporting a video to a different folder

[quick hawk]

I'm pretty new to Python, so I hope this isn't too confusing. I'm using a module called Moviepy and I'm trying to export a video to a folder within the folder that the python script is in. If that made no sense, here is the folder structure:

VideoCreator |-- VideoCreator.py |-- BackgroundClips | |-- input.mp4 |-- OutputVideos | |-- output.mp4

Here is my current code:

# input video
clip = VideoFileClip("Video_Test_4k.mkv").subclip(50,60)

# random example text
txt_clip = TextClip("Example Text",fontsize=70,color='white')

# Overlay the text clip on the first video clip
video = CompositeVideoClip([clip, txt_clip])

# export video
video.write_videofile("Video_Test_4k_edited.mp4")

Right now, this script takes a video within the VideoCreator folder and exports it within the same folder. What I want it to do is pull a video from BackgroundClips, edit it within VideoCreator.py, and export it to OutputVideos. I'm not sure if this is something that can be done within python or if it takes something directly from the module itself, but I read the documentation for this method (https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/ref/VideoClip/VideoClip.html?highlight=write_videofile#moviepy.video.compositing.CompositeVideoClip.CompositeVideoClip.write_videofile) and couldn't find anything. Thanks!

[viscid valley]

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[vestal mason]

you could pass an absolute path to filename instead of just the relative file name if the method will accept that

eg. /path/to/VideoCreator/OutputVideos/xyz.mp4
or just OutputVideos/xyz.mp4 might work

[quick hawk]

okay ill try that out

[quick hawk]

that worked :) thanks

[sage parrot]

relative paths (paths that don't start with a /) are relative to the cwd; you can use the __file__ variable to get the path to the current file instead

[quick hawk]

no idea why i didnt think of that haha

sorry im quite new to python and don't really understand those terms, do you have an example?

i know i got it working but no harm in learning more

[sage parrot]

and combine that with pathlib to make your life easier

from pathlib import Path

current_file = __file__  # this is a string containing the absolute path to the current python script
script_directory = Path(current_file).parent  # this is the folder containing the script you're currently running; in your code that'd be `VideoCreator`
output_directory = script_directory / 'OutputVideos'
output_video = output_directory / 'video.mp4'

video.write_videofile(str(output_video))  

[quick hawk]

ohh okay i understand

thanks for the help :)

[viscid valley]

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