I had to use ffmpeg from within python once and gave ffmpeg-python a shot. It works very nicely for a lot of things, but had some limitations that made me write a very lightweight, somewhat OO wrapper around ffmpeg filters. Using it to e.g. generate a silent colored screen with text on it looks something like this: https://gist.github.com/Felk/975c096083e8434a8b5823173f8b22f...

Are there already existing, more polished wrappers around ffmpeg that include enough escape hatches to be able to fully leverage everything ffmpeg supports? I probably just didn't search and evaluate options long enough.