Thanks for the feedback. While creating these, I always felt like I could have put more effort into removing the credits to make them imperceptible. But I am glad to hear that the simple blur job was effective enough.

Nice work with the OC!! It’s very smooth and something I’d expect to see in highqualitygifs

And it was!

https://quokk.au/c/high_quality_gifs/p/599185/when-you-see-someone-who-actually-puts-time-and-effort-into-practicing-the-same-kind-of-art

Are you saying that the credits were well obscured and that you couldn’t even tell that something was blurred? Or that you had a difficult time being able to discern what is even going on in the GIF? I made these from scratch, so I am absolutely open to any constructive criticism to help me improve my technique.

(And please don’t say Kdenlive. Have you ever tried to add a simple effect like blur to a part of a video? It’s super cumbersome.)

What is your issue with blur? As long as you understand the intuitive “everything is an effect” methodology that Kdenlive follows, blurring a portion of the screen is straightforward. Note these clips in which I had blurred the credits appearing onscreen so they do not clash with the captions I added. Add a blur effect, then a crop effect.

I do not know Ruby, but Python has a lot of syntactic sugar that, if one becomes used to and proficient with it, makes writing much faster than other languages I know (including JavaScript).

Python is by far the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language I know

Maintainable? I have not ever had to work with any large Python projects, but from what I have heard, maintenance is a large pain point.