Adding emoji with moviepy

[justswim]

Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to add emoji characters with TextClip. For example, rendering something like this: 😅😂😂😂 on top of a video.

I tried adding a text clip with the proper unicode characters, but they show up as question marks.

Thanks in advance for your help

[Zulko]

Not unless you use a specific emoji font. You can also load your emojis as images using ImageClip.

[Yash17Agrawal]

@Zulko @justswim can you list the font type for emoji because all the available solutions suggest converting to bytes and then using it. I don't want to use ImageClip for now. So can you please suggest the font type.

[justswim]

I was never actually able to get this to work. I think there is an underlying issue with ffmpeg which prevents emojis from being supported.

[notanotherbrick]

Wondering if this worked for anyone now?

[makiisthenes]

Anyone found a solution to this? or is it a problem forever to be forgotten and lost :(((

[mrhosein]

MS Word displays emojis with font 'Segoe-UI-Emoji'. When I set the font of my clip to this, it was able to display the emoji's but not with colours.

For example:
txt = TextClip(temp_comment, font = 'Segoe-UI-Emoji', fontsize = 44)

[makiisthenes]

MS Word displays emojis with font 'Segoe-UI-Emoji'. When I set the font of my clip to this, it was able to display the emoji's but not with colours.

For example:

txt = TextClip(temp_comment, font = 'Segoe-UI-Emoji', fontsize = 44)

Thanks for this!

[kaka1909]

For those who are still finding solutions to add colorful emoji to video, here is a demo.

The prequistes:

1. install Pilmoji: pip install -U pilmoji
2. download a colorful emoji font, like Noto Color Emoji

The solution:

1. Draw an image based on emoji and emoji font.
2. Make an image clip

The code to mix-in an emoji to a video:

    def make_emoji_image(emoji, font_path, font_size):
        emoji_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, font_size)
        text_size = emoji_font.getsize(emoji.strip())
        image = Image.new("RGBA", text_size, (0, 0, 0, 0))
        with Pilmoji(image) as pilmoji:
            pilmoji.text((0, 0), emoji.strip(), (0, 0, 0), emoji_font)
        return np.array(image)
    
    video_clip = VideoFileClip("/path/to/your/video")
    emoji_clip = ImageClip(make_emoji_image("😜", "/path/to/your/emoji/font", 48), duration=10).set_start(0)
    result = CompositeVideoClip([video_clip, emoji_clip])
    result.write_videofile("/path/to/output")

[tyler239]

The solution of @kaka1909 works fine, but not for apple emojis :( . I tried to just use the apple emoji font from https://github.com/samuelngs/apple-emoji-linux but it did not work. It raises an "OSError: invalid pixel size". Anyone trying to work with apple emojis ?

[benjamenharper]

For those who are still finding solutions to add colorful emoji to video, here is a demo.

The prequistes:

1. install Pilmoji: pip install -U pilmoji
2. download a colorful emoji font, like Noto Color Emoji

The solution:

1. Draw an image based on emoji and emoji font.
2. Make an image clip

The code to mix-in an emoji to a video:

    def make_emoji_image(emoji, font_path, font_size):
        emoji_font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, font_size)
        text_size = emoji_font.getsize(emoji.strip())
        image = Image.new("RGBA", text_size, (0, 0, 0, 0))
        with Pilmoji(image) as pilmoji:
            pilmoji.text((0, 0), emoji.strip(), (0, 0, 0), emoji_font)
        return np.array(image)
    
    video_clip = VideoFileClip("/path/to/your/video")
    emoji_clip = ImageClip(make_emoji_image("😜", "/path/to/your/emoji/font", 48), duration=10).set_start(0)
    result = CompositeVideoClip([video_clip, emoji_clip])
    result.write_videofile("/path/to/output")

this worked.. was ready to jump