Enhancement: loading animated gifs, passing frame range to subclip() about moviepy HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks for the feedback. I fixed (I hope) the GIF reading, now you can read gifs easily using VideoFileClip.

For your second point, I am hesitating. A way you could do that for the moment is as follows:

clip = VideoFileClip("myfile.gif")
fps = 1.0*clip.reader.fps
start_frame, end_frame = 5, 15
start_t, end_t = start_frame/fps, end_frame/fps
cut_clip = clip.subclip(start_t, end_t)

I could add these steps into "subclip". However, the philosophy of MoviePy (which can always change) is that the user doesn't have to care about frames and frame rates, and many clips (like image clips or custom-made clips) don't have a frame rate at all. The only clips which have frame rates are VideoFileClips, but the moment you transform them, for instance with clip.speedx(2), they lose it. So that would create this situation:

clip = VideoFileClip("myclip.mp4")
clip.subclip(frame_start=5, frame_end=15).speedx(2) # works
clip.speedx(2).subclip(frame_start=5, frame_end=15) # doesn't work

I'll think about it.

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Does GIF reading works for you now ? I also recently fixed the transparency. Now you can load gifs with transparent backgrounds with VideoFileClip.

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Yes, works like a charm, thanks.

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