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Version: 0.12

Create a Movie

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a movie with Etro.

What is a Movie?​

The movie is the main object that you'll use to compose and render your video. It uses a list of layers and a list of effects to render the video to a <canvas> element and an audio context. You can also record the movie to a Blob.

Import Etro​

To get started, you'll need to import Etro into your project. You can do this by importing the etro module:

import etro from 'etro';

Create a Canvas​

Next, you'll need to create a canvas element to render your movie to. You can do this by creating a new HTMLCanvasElement:

const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');

Then, you can add the canvas to the DOM:

document.body.appendChild(canvas);

Create the Movie​

Now, you can create a new etro.Movie instance:

const movie = new etro.Movie({
  canvas,
})

Next​

Now that you have a movie, you can add layers.