Raspberry Pi Tutorial 13 - Shoot Video with Python

How to make a movie or make a video using Python on your Raspberry Pi. You must have a picamera connected to your Raspberry Pi to be able to complete this tutorial

This video is part of a series of building a practically 'useful' security system using Raspberry Pi to catch the Cookie Thief. I am not a computer scientist, software engineer, programmer or electrical engineer. Everything I cover was self taught using resources I found on the web. I thought it would be great to put together a series of videos that consolidates what I have learned to yield a single resource to cover many interesting topics about the Raspberry Pi! Having said that, due to my relatively little experience, I may have made mistakes or could have done certain things better. If you are aware of such a mistake, please let me know either in the comments or through email!

[oscarbaruffa]

One of the most clear tutorials I've found, thanks!

[MrACP]

Absolutely bloody amazing, thank you so much, could you also do a tutorial on a time lapse as well.

[GeorgeDekker]

Hey man, got my first Pi today. Couldn't wait to get started, so watched all your videos! Before getting it in the mail. Thank your very much for giving me a head start. You've got the best tips for setting the Pi up with a mac and running it. Also I learned the difference between Python 2.7 and 3, which is nice because the starter kit I bought is written in 2.7, so I'm rewriting it in 3 for practice.
With afp:// you can edit your files locally with Sublime Text. Which I find way nicer than with that slow VNC! (I bought a model 1 B rev2 on clearance, €20, - quite nice to get started with.

[saloaviles]

Great video! Say, I am super new into coding, how would you add a line for the output of the file? Since without it just sends it to Desktop.

[nsokoloff]

So I'm pretty new to Python and Raspberry but I have quite extensive experience with HTML and CSS. What I'd like is to program something cool in Python, and then design a GUI using my webdesign knowledge. Is this possible? It seems more fun to press a fun CSS button to trigger something rather then using the terminal to launch stuff. Thanks in advance for your time, great video's very clear.

[cgd]

How do you know what library's you need to import and where is the information listing what is in each? Your videos are helpful but for a beginner like me it is difficult to understand some of this coding, is there a reference lest for coding as well?

[JKFCV]

Can't we directly record as mp4? Like we do in the case of the webcam?

[DanPlaysMc]

Does it record audio as well? If not do you have an idea to make it so that it will record audio and video? Great vid

[adri]

the code is:

from picamera import PiCamera
from time import sleep
#setup camera

with PiCamera() as camera:

sleep(5)
camera.stop_recording()

print("Done.")

[fouziasulthana]

Thanks a lot, Sir, for sharing the process of image capture and video recording. You are working with MAC right.? can use the same commands for Rpi Board?
I'm working with RPi b Model board to capture the image and then send it to my mail and SMS to the specified mobile number.Could you please help me in this regard. Thank You.

[baileysuder]

How do you set up the pi and write a script to record video with audio and then save it to a external hard drive? Like a video camera you can turn on anywhere and then view on a computer later.

[jinno]

Is it okay to use different camera other than picamera?

[informatikatutorial]

hello, i am makeing video cluster do you have some python script that can run video on nodes?

[arnavjaiswal]

Hi this video really helped me and I really need your help . My idea is to start recording video and the file must open the video on bootup and and this whole video must be unlimited.Please help me out with this

[noahorosw]

Okay so I have a question for you ? I want to combine two codes to one . I have a quadcopter (Drone) flight code, and I have a picamera.Picamera code . I want to combine the two as one so when the the quadcopter takes off, and reaches a certain altitude the camera (picamera) turns on, and starts recording video, and when the target alitutude is reached, and the quadcopter starts to descend when it reaches a second altitude say two meters the camera shuts down, stops recording . Can you help me out ? import picamera from time import sleep # Setup the camera with picamera.Picamera() as camera: # Start recording camera.start_recording ("pythonVideo.h264") sleep(5) # Stop recording camera.stop_recording() # The camera is now closed. print("We are going to convert the video.") # Define the command we want to execute. command = "MP4Box -add pythonVideo.h264 convertedVideo.mp4 # Execute our command call([command], shell=True) # Video converted. print("Video converted.") The second code is here . from dronekit import connect, VehicleMode, LocationGlobalRelative from pymavlink import mavutil import time import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('--connect', args = parser.parse_args() # Connect to the Vehicle print 'Connecting to vehicle on: %s' % args.connect vehicle = connect(args.connect, baud=115200, wait_ready=True) # Function to arm and then takeoff to a user specified altitude def print "Basic pre-arm checks" # Don't let the user try to arm until autopilot is ready while not vehicle.is_armable: print " Waiting for vehicle to initialise..." time.sleep(1) print "Arming motors" # Copter should arm in GUIDED mode vehicle.mode = VehicleMode("GUIDED") vehicle.armed = True while not vehicle.armed: print " Waiting for arming..." time.sleep(1) print "Taking off!" # Take off to target altitude # Check that vehicle has reached takeoff altitude while True: print " Altitude: ", #Break and return from function just below target altitude. if print "Reached target altitude" break time.sleep(1) # Initialize the takeoff sequence to 121.92m arm_and_takeoff(121.92) print("Take off complete") # Hover for 120 seconds time.sleep(120) print("Now let's land") I'm not sure where to insert the camera file, and don't know how to run two scripts at one time with a samsung galaxy s8 ? Anything you can give me here I'm sure will help me out ... Thanks Noah Wheeler

[codyquist]

what megapixel are you using? bought a 5mp and... potatoes....

[aperson]

After sudo apt-get install gpac. Not all files can be authenticated but I download anyways. A lot of errors about things I cannot get. MP4Box is not a valid command. How do I convert the .h264 now? I've sudo apt-get upgrade and updated already. I don't know what to do.

[saidasaidi]

hey, thanks for ths tuto can you help me to do the same thing but with a webcam ????

[MrMytubevidmaker]

What if I do not know how long I want to record?

[ayeshaafsari]

hey ..plz provide a
code which includes video streaming with video recording for every 24hrs in python