videodb

VideoDB Documentation

videodb

VideoDB Documentation

VideoDB Documentation

Quick Start Guide

Ref: Subtitle Styles

video.add_subtitle(SubtitleStyle()) function supports many parameters for styling your captions or subtitles according to your brand and guidelines. You can create your own

Typography and Style

Color and Effects

Positioning and Margins

Text Transformation

Borders and Shadow,

This document provides an API Reference to the parameters of SubtitleStyle function.

Checkout

Guide: Subtitles⁠

to dive deep into the outputs of these parameters

⁠

Import

Import SubtitleStyle from VideoDB module

from videodb import SubtitleStyle, connect

conn = connect()

coll = conn.get_collection()

video = coll.get_video("MY_VIDEO_ID")

video.add_subtitle(

SubtitleStyle(

font_name = <>,

font_size = <>,

spacing = <>,

....

....

)

)

⁠

SubtitleStyle

This function supports following parameters for styling 👇

font_name

The name of the font to use for the subtitles.

Default: "Arial"

Type: str

info

Checkout List of

Supported Fonts⁠

⁠

font_size

The size of the subtitle text in points.

Default: 18

Type: float

primary_colour

The color of the main subtitle text in &HBBGGRR or&HAABBGGRR format. Checkout

Color Format⁠

for the details.

Default: "&H00FFFFFF" (white)

Type: str

secondary_colour

The color used for secondary effects like karaoke

Default: "&H000000FF" (red)

Type: str

info

Checkout

Color Format⁠

for the format details.

outline_colour

The color of the text outline.

Default: "&H00000000" (black)

Type: str

info

Checkout

Color Format⁠

for the format details.

back_colour

The background color of the subtitle box

Default: "&H00000000" (black)

Type: str

info

Checkout

Color Format⁠

for the format details.

bold

Indicates if the subtitle text is bold.

Default: False

Type: bool

italic

Indicates if the subtitle text is italicized.

Default: False

Type: bool

underline

Indicates if the subtitle text is underlined.

Default: False

Type: bool

strike_out

Indicates if the subtitle text has a strikethrough.

Default: False

Type: bool

scale_x

The horizontal scale of the subtitle text in percentage.

Default: 1.0 (100%, no scaling)

Type: float

scale_y

The vertical scale of the subtitle text in percentage.

Default: 1.0 (100%, no scaling)

Type: float

spacing

Space between characters in pixels.

Default: 0

Type: float

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