Movie Creator

Movie generation entry point. Allows creation of movies from a jsonConfig at various resolutions.

class movie.creation.movieCreator.MovieCreationFactory(browser, domain, jsonconfig)

Bases: object

Holds expensive-to-create resources necessary to create a movie

make_one_movie_at_resolution(width, height): Create a movie at a specific resolution

classmethod save_and_upload(movie, slug, mp4FileObject, gifFileObject, titleImageFileObject): Saves data to the given movie object and uploads the video and image to the movie model.

exception movie.creation.movieCreator.ProbablyFailedToLaunchBrowser

Bases: Exception

A common error when the browser has an issue.

class movie.creation.movieCreator.SingleMovieCreator(browser, textToSpeechFactory, jsonconfig, size)

Bases: object

Class for creation of a single movie at a single resolution.

make_gif(gifFilename): Creates a gif without titles or captions, just the rounds

make_movie(mp4Filename, staticPngFilename): Create a movie at a specific resolution

Text-to-Speech

Text-to-speech via Amazon Polly.

exception movie.creation.textToSpeech.AudioGenerationFailedException

Bases: Exception

AWS Polly returned an audio generation failure.

exception movie.creation.textToSpeech.AudioGenerationTimedOutException

Bases: Exception

Waited too long without a response

class movie.creation.textToSpeech.GeneratedAudioWrapper(pollyClient, s3Client, text)

Bases: object

To facilitate asynchronous waiting for Polly audio generation. Initializaton spawns the AWS job, and there are various methods to poll for the result. Always checks TextToSpeechCachedFile first.

download_if_ready(toFilename): Download the result if it’s ready. Can only be called once, then deletes the result from S3.

download_synchronously(timeoutSeconds=20): Wait up to timeoutSeconds, waiting for the task to complete. @return a tempfile object: the file will be deleted once the object is destructed.

prefix = 'generated_speech'

region = None

class movie.creation.textToSpeech.TextToSpeechFactory

Bases: object

Holds on to boto clients, initializing an AWS session once and allowing reuses of that session for text-to-speech.

text_to_speech(text): Returns a GeneratedAudioWrapper which you can poll for the result.