Adjusted code as per Drugsosos suggested

main.py

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ from video_creation.background import (
     get_background_config,
 )
 from video_creation.final_video import make_final_video
-from video_creation.final_video import change_background_resolution
 from video_creation.screenshot_downloader import download_screenshots_of_reddit_posts
 from video_creation.voices import save_text_to_mp3
 
@@ -39,7 +38,6 @@ print_step(f"You are using v{__VERSION__} of the bot")
 
 def main(POST_ID=None):
     cleanup()
-    change_background_resolution()
     reddit_object = get_subreddit_threads(POST_ID)
     length, number_of_comments = save_text_to_mp3(reddit_object)
     length = math.ceil(length)

utils/settings.py

@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ import toml
 from rich.console import Console
 import re
 
-from typing import Tuple, Dict
+from typing import Tuple, Dict, Union
 
 from utils.console import handle_input
 
 
 console = Console()
-config: dict | None = None  # autocomplete
+config: Union[dict, None] = None  # autocomplete
 
 
 def crawl(obj: dict, func=lambda x, y: print(x, y, end="\n"), path=None):

video_creation/final_video.py

@@ -19,13 +19,6 @@ from utils.videos import save_data
 from utils import settings
 
 console = Console()
-W, H = 1080, 1920
-
-
-def change_background_resolution():
-    global W
-    global H
-    W, H = settings.config["settings"]["background"]["width"], settings.config["settings"]["background"]["height"]
 
 
 def name_normalize(name: str) -> str:
@@ -66,6 +59,11 @@ def make_final_video(
     # except (TypeError, KeyError):
     #    print('No background audio volume found in config.toml. Using default value of 1.')
     #    VOLUME_MULTIPLIER = 1
+    W: int = settings.config["settings"]["background"]["width"]
+    H: int = settings.config["settings"]["background"]["height"]
+
+    if not W or not H:
+        W, H = 1080, 1920
     print_step("Creating the final video 🎥")
     VideoFileClip.reW = lambda clip: clip.resize(width=W)
     VideoFileClip.reH = lambda clip: clip.resize(width=H)