To bet (someone) credits to navy beans meant to put up something of high value against an equal number of relatively worthless items. Metaphorically, it indicated one's strong belief that the statement which followed was true.
A Federation variation on "dollars to doughnuts", this referred to wagering something of value against something relatively worthless – in other words, "I'll bet you anything…"
In 2267, DeSalle was willing to bet credits to navy beans that using USS Enterprise's impulse engines to crash the starship into a force field surrounding them could at least manage to put a dent in it, if not break through it. (TOS: "Catspaw")
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
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.
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:
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
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?
Ok, this isn't right in a lot of ways, but I am desperate. Things are, in fact, very bad for me. I'm working on making a web comic: https://fosswars.thecomicseries.com/
Ongo Gablogian does already sound like an alien name