When this community makes more shitposts out of a 60-second advert than a full-length feature film

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

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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.
- Yes, I make these with Kdenlive! I have been putting off finishing the tutorial I have been working on creating, but in short:
  Import video into Kdenlive
  Use Title Clips to add text
  Use various Effects (mainly Transform) to animate the text
  Render as MP4
  Use ffmpeg to convert the MP4 to WEBP or GIF
  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:
  
  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
  
  Wow. Detailed steps plus a script, you have my gratitude 🙏
  
  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

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