[Python] Error importing VideoFileClip from moviepy : AttributeError: 'PermissionError' object...

I'm using jupyter notebook. I have also tried from anaconda console as well.

Tried importing with both the ways shown below

from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip

from moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip import VideoFileClip


Both of them gave me same error. Full trace is below

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-10-9afa9d6e87c4> in <module>()
6 import glob
7 import math
----> 8 from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
9 from moviepy.video.io.VideoFileClip import VideoFileClip

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\editor.py in <module>()
20 # Clips
21
---> 22 from .video.io.VideoFileClip import VideoFileClip
23 from .video.io.ImageSequenceClip import ImageSequenceClip
24 from .video.io.downloader import download_webfile

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\VideoFileClip.py in <module>()
1 import os
2
----> 3 from moviepy.video.VideoClip import VideoClip
4 from moviepy.audio.io.AudioFileClip import AudioFileClip
5 from moviepy.Clip import Clip

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\VideoClip.py in <module>()
18
19 import moviepy.audio.io as aio
---> 20 from .io.ffmpeg_writer import ffmpeg_write_image, ffmpeg_write_video
21 from .io.ffmpeg_tools import ffmpeg_merge_video_audio
22 from .io.gif_writers import (write_gif,

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\video\io\ffmpeg_writer.py in <module>()
13 DEVNULL = open(os.devnull, 'wb')
14
---> 15 from moviepy.config import get_setting
16 from moviepy.tools import verbose_print
17

C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\moviepy\config.py in <module>()
49 success, err = try_cmd([FFMPEG_BINARY])
50 if not success:
---> 51 raise IOError(err.message +
52 "The path specified for the ffmpeg binary might be wrong")
53

AttributeError: 'PermissionError' object has no attribute 'message'


Python version info

Python 3.5.2 |Anaconda custom (64-bit)| (default, Jul 5 2016, 11:41:13) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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Running ffmpeg -version in a console gives me

ffmpeg version N-83507-g8fa18e0 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 5.4.0 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-dxva2 --enable-libmfx --enable-nvenc --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmodplug --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenh264 --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib
libavutil 55. 47.100 / 55. 47.100
libavcodec 57. 80.100 / 57. 80.100
libavformat 57. 66.102 / 57. 66.102
libavdevice 57. 2.100 / 57. 2.100
libavfilter 6. 73.100 / 6. 73.100
libswscale 4. 3.101 / 4. 3.101
libswresample 2. 4.100 / 2. 4.100
libpostproc 54. 2.100 / 54. 2.100


I'm running 64 bit version of Windows 10.

I can't find any solution anywhere and its driving me crazy! Seems like its not finding the ffmpeg binary but I have put it in C:\ffmpeg\bin and added this to path environment variable. Followed the instruction from here.

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