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Nicholas Tindle 85b6520710 feat(blocks): Add video editing blocks (#11796)
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This PR adds general-purpose video editing blocks for the AutoGPT
Platform, enabling automated video production workflows like documentary
creation, marketing videos, tutorial assembly, and content repurposing.

### Changes 🏗️

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**New blocks added in `backend/blocks/video/`:**
- `VideoDownloadBlock` - Download videos from URLs (YouTube, Vimeo, news
sites, direct links) using yt-dlp
- `VideoClipBlock` - Extract time segments from videos with start/end
time validation
- `VideoConcatBlock` - Merge multiple video clips with optional
transitions (none, crossfade, fade_black)
- `VideoTextOverlayBlock` - Add text overlays/captions with positioning
and timing options
- `VideoNarrationBlock` - Generate AI narration via ElevenLabs and mix
with video audio (replace, mix, or ducking modes)

**Dependencies required:**
- `yt-dlp` - For video downloading
- `moviepy` - For video editing operations

**Implementation details:**
- All blocks follow the SDK pattern with proper error handling and
exception chaining
- Proper resource cleanup in `finally` blocks to prevent memory leaks
- Input validation (e.g., end_time > start_time)
- Test mocks included for CI

### Checklist 📋

#### For code changes:
- [x] I have clearly listed my changes in the PR description
- [x] I have made a test plan
- [x] I have tested my changes according to the test plan:
- [x] Blocks follow the SDK pattern with
`BlockSchemaInput`/`BlockSchemaOutput`
  - [x] Resource cleanup is implemented in `finally` blocks
  - [x] Exception chaining is properly implemented
  - [x] Input validation is in place
  - [x] Test mocks are provided for CI environments

#### For configuration changes:
- [ ] `.env.default` is updated or already compatible with my changes
- [x] `docker-compose.yml` is updated or already compatible with my
changes
- [ ] I have included a list of my configuration changes in the PR
description (under **Changes**)

N/A - No configuration changes required.


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> [!NOTE]
> **Medium Risk**
> Adds new multimedia blocks that invoke ffmpeg/MoviePy and introduces
new external dependencies (plus container packages), which can impact
runtime stability and resource usage; download/overlay blocks are
present but disabled due to sandbox/policy concerns.
> 
> **Overview**
> Adds a new `backend.blocks.video` module with general-purpose video
workflow blocks (download, clip, concat w/ transitions, loop, add-audio,
text overlay, and ElevenLabs-powered narration), including shared
utilities for codec selection, filename cleanup, and an ffmpeg-based
chapter-strip workaround for MoviePy.
> 
> Extends credentials/config to support ElevenLabs
(`ELEVENLABS_API_KEY`, provider enum, system credentials, and cost
config) and adds new dependencies (`elevenlabs`, `yt-dlp`) plus Docker
runtime packages (`ffmpeg`, `imagemagick`).
> 
> Improves file/reference handling end-to-end by embedding MIME types in
`workspace://...#mime` outputs and updating frontend rendering to detect
video vs image from MIME fragments (and broaden supported audio/video
extensions), with optional enhanced output rendering behind a feature
flag in the legacy builder UI.
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Co-authored-by: claude[bot] <41898282+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Nicholas Tindle <ntindle@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Otto <otto@agpt.co>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-05 22:22:33 +00:00
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