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This GIF is from the new Section 31 film. The advert is the Paramount+ promotional clip released last week, which is a crossover between Star Trek and Spongbob: https://lemmy.world/post/28662901

Alternate sizes/qualitiesLow quality GIF (376.3 KB):
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Low quality WEBP (167.7 KB):

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High quality WEBP (1.5 MB):

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Full quality MP4 (786.8 KB):

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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

One is worthy of our shitposts. The other is not.

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Edit: finally found the gif I intended

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[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

Any thoughts on the various sizes/qualities in the post body here? When it comes to the version to post, I figure that the best middle ground between high quality and low file size is the one I labeled as "Low quality WEBP". What file size should I aim for?

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I keep hit a creative wall with the Sponge Trek crossover.

I know there's a Castle Bravo=>Bikini Bottom / Omega Particle meme to be made, but I can't find it.
Or something about Quimp the Ferengi and SpongeBob both being voiced by Tom Kenny.
And I'm sure there's some pedantic point to me made about Patships fart drive and impulse engine exhaust...

But I keep coming up dry

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

Wow, he voiced a lot of Lower Decks characters

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Kenny

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

When a 60 second advert has higher quality and more thought put into it than a feature length film

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

One is a freely available ad, the other is a feature length movie requiring a subscription.

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What's this from and what advert is being referenced? Sorry for my ignorance.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 5 points 13 hours ago

This GIF is from the new Section 31 film. The advert is the Paramount+ promotional clip released last week, which is a crossover between Star Trek and Spongbob: https://lemmy.world/post/28662901

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Goddamn, this is like peak-Reddit-era-quality. What was the user's name back then? He was famous for his text-overlay gifs...

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

editingandlayout? heroofwar?

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

One of those folks, could've been u/dragonfeatherz too. There were/are a bunch of em from r/HighQualityGifs.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago

THE HOOF!! Man that was a time to witness.

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is this sorta stuff doable with free software? If so, can you point me in the right direction? I definitely have some scenes with this treatment in mind.

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, I make these with Kdenlive! I have been putting off finishing the tutorial I have been working on creating, but in short:

  1. Import video into Kdenlive
  2. Use Title Clips to add text
  3. Use various Effects (mainly Transform) to animate the text
  4. Render as MP4
  5. Use ffmpeg to convert the MP4 to WEBP or GIF
  6. Use gifski and gifsicle to further compress the GIF (the WEBP is fine as-is)

Here is a bash script that I wrote to use ffmpeg/gifski/gifsicle to convert all MP4 files in the current directory:

bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#prerequisites:
#  ffmpeg
#  gifski
#  gifsicle

# creates animated images out of all MP4 files
# in the working directory, as well as creating
# a thumbnail out of one frame
# if argument passed to script, the thumbnail
# will be created out of that frame, but none of
# the animated files will be created

# pass an argument to this script to specify
# which frame to use as the thumbnail
# if none passed, use default
if [[ $1 == "" ]]; then
    frame=0.85
else
    frame=$1
fi

# frame passed must be decimal < 1.0 and >= 0.0
if ! ([[ $frame =~ 0\.[0-9]+ ]]); then
    echo frame passed: $frame
else
    # loop through all MP4 files in directory
    for file in *.mp4
    do
        # only proceed if file found
        if [[ $file != *"*"* ]]; then
            # create paths
            input_path=$(pwd)/"$file"
            output_path_animated=${input_path%.*}.webp
            output_path_animated_low=${input_path%.*}-low.webp
            output_path_gif=${input_path%.*}.gif
            output_path_thumb=${input_path%.*}_thumb.webp

            # determine the exact frame to use as thumbnail
            frames_total=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -count_packets -show_entries stream=nb_read_packets -of csv=p=0 "$input_path")
            thumb_frame=$(awk -vnumber="$(awk -v var1=$frames_total 'BEGIN { print (var1 * '$frame') }')" -vdiv="1" 'function ceiling(x){return x%1 ? int(x)+1 : x} BEGIN{ print ceiling(number/div) }')

            # if argument had been passed to script, skip creating
            # animated images and ONLY create thumbnail
            if [[ $1 == "" ]]; then
                #full webp
                ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -vcodec libwebp -lossless 0 -loop 0 -preset default -an -fps_mode passthrough -vf "fps=25, scale=-1:500" -quality 80 "$output_path_animated"
                #low webp
                ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -vcodec libwebp -lossless 0 -loop 0 -preset default -an -fps_mode passthrough -vf "fps=15, scale=-1:270" -quality 10 "$output_path_animated_low"
                #low gif
                ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -f yuv4mpegpipe - | gifski --quiet --height=270 --fps 10 --quality=50 --lossy-quality 50 -o "$output_path_gif" -;gifsicle -O3 --lossy=200 --colors 256 -o "$output_path_gif" "$output_path_gif"
            fi
            #thumb
            ffmpeg -y -hide_banner -loglevel error -i "$input_path" -vf "select=eq(n\,$thumb_frame), scale=-1:270" -c:v libwebp -quality 50 "$output_path_thumb"

            echo $input_path
        else
            echo MP4 not found
        fi
    done
fi

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Dang I may have to take a look at this, I always used Blender in the past but that's a pretty heavy lift at times

[–] MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. Detailed steps plus a script, you have my gratitude 🙏

[–] SatyrSack@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Another helpful resource would be gif-template.kdenlive from my 30 Rock GIF repo below. This will not work exactly as you need, as that project file is made for a 1920x1080 source video and Section 31 is 1920x800 or whatever. But if you are new to Kdenlive, it might help you understand effects and keyframes.

https://codeberg.org/saworden/30-rock-gifs