Merge images to a slideshow saved as a video, in python

create_slideshow_video.py

from moviepy.editor import *
from pathlib import Path

from subprocess import check_output
import os
import argparse
import json


def run(cmd, echo=True, shell=True, printOutput = True) -> str:
    """ Runs a command, returns the output """    

    if echo:
        print(cmd)
    output = check_output(cmd, shell=shell).decode("utf-8") 
    if printOutput:
      print(output)
    return output

img_clips = []

#accessing path of each image
imgs = (
"Superfrog.png","Superfrog2.png","Superfrog.png"
)


img_clips.append(ImageClip(imgs[0]).set_duration(0.5))
img_clips.append(ImageClip(imgs[1]).set_duration(1))
img_clips.append(ImageClip(imgs[0]).set_duration(0.5))
#concatenating slides
video_slides = concatenate_videoclips(img_clips, method='compose')
#exporting final video
video_slides.write_videofile("output_video.mp4", fps=10)

run('ffmpeg -i output_video.mp4 -vf "fps=10,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -loop 0 output.gif')