diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux/scripts/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux/scripts/environment.yml
index 2234683a497..1e49def1635 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux/scripts/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux/scripts/environment.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies:
     - future
     - cloudpickle
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - tqdm
     - pytest
     - pytest-cov
diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux_distributed/scripts/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux_distributed/scripts/environment.yml
index 76160f7a16a..d2d833b4ad9 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux_distributed/scripts/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux_distributed/scripts/environment.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies:
     - future
     - cloudpickle
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - tqdm
     - pytest
     - pytest-cov
diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_envpool/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_envpool/environment.yml
index 74a3c91cf06..b15b949ecbf 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_envpool/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_envpool/environment.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies:
     - future
     - cloudpickle
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - pytest-cov
     - pytest-mock
     - pytest-instafail
diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_gym/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_gym/environment.yml
index d30aa6d0f91..edca0978673 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_gym/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_gym/environment.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies:
     - future
     - cloudpickle
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - tqdm
     - pytest
     - pytest-cov
diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_robohive/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_robohive/environment.yml
index 873d19ad0c8..e4366928c02 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_robohive/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux_libs/scripts_robohive/environment.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies:
     - future
     - cloudpickle
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - tqdm
     - pytest
     - pytest-cov
diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux_olddeps/scripts_gym_0_13/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux_olddeps/scripts_gym_0_13/environment.yml
index 042a447a1e1..d55b2091483 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux_olddeps/scripts_gym_0_13/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux_olddeps/scripts_gym_0_13/environment.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies:
     - cloudpickle
     - gym[atari]==0.13
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - tqdm
     - pytest
     - pytest-cov
diff --git a/.github/unittest/linux_sota/scripts/environment.yml b/.github/unittest/linux_sota/scripts/environment.yml
index f7dddbc5e3c..12b16ccb54e 100644
--- a/.github/unittest/linux_sota/scripts/environment.yml
+++ b/.github/unittest/linux_sota/scripts/environment.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dependencies:
     - future
     - cloudpickle
     - pygame
-    - moviepy
+    - moviepy<2.0.0
     - tqdm
     - pytest
     - pytest-cov
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index abcf7349192..633637ac462 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ make of torchrl:
 pip3 install tqdm tensorboard "hydra-core>=1.1" hydra-submitit-launcher
 
 # rendering
-pip3 install moviepy
+pip3 install "moviepy<2.0.0"
 
 # deepmind control suite
 pip3 install dm_control
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 75a2486815e..823ec307052 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ def _main(argv):
         ],
         "dm_control": ["dm_control"],
         "gym_continuous": ["gymnasium<1.0", "mujoco"],
-        "rendering": ["moviepy"],
+        "rendering": ["moviepy<2.0.0"],
         "tests": ["pytest", "pyyaml", "pytest-instafail", "scipy"],
         "utils": [
             "tensorboard",
diff --git a/sota-check/README.md b/sota-check/README.md
index 0529e091b50..f67245bd851 100644
--- a/sota-check/README.md
+++ b/sota-check/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export MUJOCO_GL=egl
 conda create -n rl-sota-bench python=3.10 -y 
 conda install anaconda::libglu -y
 pip3 install --pre torch torchvision --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu121
-pip3 install "gymnasium[accept-rom-license,atari,mujoco]" vmas tqdm wandb pygame moviepy imageio submitit hydra-core transformers
+pip3 install "gymnasium[accept-rom-license,atari,mujoco]" vmas tqdm wandb pygame "moviepy<2.0.0" imageio submitit hydra-core transformers
 
 cd /path/to/tensordict
 python setup.py develop
diff --git a/sota-implementations/multiagent/README.md b/sota-implementations/multiagent/README.md
index 1f9921e6bab..2adacca74af 100644
--- a/sota-implementations/multiagent/README.md
+++ b/sota-implementations/multiagent/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Install vmas and dependencies:
 
 ```bash
 pip install vmas
-pip install wandb moviepy
+pip install wandb "moviepy<2.0.0"
 pip install hydra-core
 ```