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

When a 60 second advert has higher quality and more thought put into it than a feature length film
- One is a freely available ad, the other is a feature length movie requiring a subscription.

One is worthy of our shitposts. The other is not.
Edit: finally found the gif I intended

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 🙏

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
- Wow, he voiced a lot of Lower Decks characters
  https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tom_Kenny

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?

Goddamn, this is like peak-Reddit-era-quality. What was the user's name back then? He was famous for his text-overlay gifs...
- editingandlayout? heroofwar?
  
  THE HOOF!! Man that was a time to witness.
  
  One of those folks, could've been u/dragonfeatherz too. There were/are a bunch of em from r/HighQualityGifs.

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