EditMedia

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: mps.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to edit a video to generate a new video. Editing actions may include:

Simple editing: Simple video editing such as clipping and splicing
1.1 Clipping a file to generate a new video
1.2 Splicing multiple files to generate a new video
1.3 Clipping multiple files and then splicing the clips to generate a new video
Compositing: Composing a new video as required
2.1 Adding different tracks (video, audio, subtitles) or elements (video, image, audio, text, empty)
2.2 Image: Adding, scaling, rotating, or mirroring an image
2.3 Audio: Adjusting volume and adding audio effects such as fade and reverb
2.4 Video: Adding transition effects, changing playback speed, splicing and clipping videos, adding subtitles, playing videos picture-in-picture, separating audio from videos, adding animation effects, etc.

A maximum of 20 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name	Required	Type	Description
Action	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: EditMedia.
Version	Yes	String	Common Params. The value used for this API: 2019-06-12.
Region	No	String	Common Params. This parameter is not required for this API.
FileInfos.N	Yes	Array of EditMediaFileInfo	Information of input video file.
OutputStorage	Yes	TaskOutputStorage	The storage location of the media processing output file.
OutputObjectPath	Yes	String	The path to save the media processing output file. Note: For complex compositing tasks, the filename can be up to 64 characters long and can only contain digits, letters, and special characters -_
OutputConfig	No	EditMediaOutputConfig	The output settings for a video clipping task.
ComposeConfig	No	ComposeMediaConfig	The settings for a video compositing task. Note: If this parameter is not empty, the task is a video compositing task. Otherwise, the task is a video clipping task.
TaskNotifyConfig	No	TaskNotifyConfig	Event notification information of task. If this parameter is left empty, no event notifications will be obtained.
TasksPriority	No	Integer	Task priority. The higher the value, the higher the priority. Value range: -10–10. If this parameter is left empty, 0 will be used.
SessionId	No	String	The ID used for deduplication. If there was a request with the same ID in the last three days, the current request will return an error. The ID can contain up to 50 characters. If this parameter is left empty or an empty string is entered, no deduplication will be performed.
SessionContext	No	String	The source context which is used to pass through the user request information. The task flow status change callback will return the value of this field. It can contain up to 1,000 characters.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Description
TaskId	String	Video editing task ID, which can be used to query the status of an editing task.
RequestId	String	The unique request ID, which is returned for each request. RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Clipping a file to generate a new video

Input Example

https://mps.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=EditMedia
&FileInfos.0.InputInfo.Type=COS
&FileInfos.0.InputInfo.CosInputInfo.Bucket=TopRankVideo-125xxx88
&FileInfos.0.InputInfo.CosInputInfo.Region=ap-chongqing
&FileInfos.0.InputInfo.CosInputInfo.Object=/movie/201907/WildAnimal.mov
&FileInfos.0.StartTimeOffset=60.0
&FileInfos.0.EndTimeOffset=120.0
&OutputStorage.Type=COS
&OutputStorage.CosOutputStorage.Bucket=TopRankVideo-125xxx88
&OutputStorage.CosOutputStorage.Region=ap-chongqing
&OutputObjectPath=/clip_result/clip_WildAnimal.{format}
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "6ca31e3a-6b8e-4b4e-9256-fdc700064ef3",
        "TaskId": "125xxx88-EditMedia-bffb15f07530b57bc1aabb01fac74bca"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

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Command Line Interface

Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code	Description
FailedOperation.InvalidMpsUser	Operation failed: unauthorized MPS user.
InternalError	Internal error.
InvalidParameter	Parameter error.