As a Colorado native (my home state) I think I speak for most Colorado natives that we are very proud of our state! What do you all think of the cover image? I tried to add some of the best parts of Colorado to my cover image. Colorado flag blue is to represent the Colorado beautiful sky. The gold for our beautiful sunny days, and Colorado means red and we have beautiful read rocks and our iron.

Part 6 of 6 | Overall, I am quite impressed? What do you think? If anyone is a fan of my home state please feel free to use the animation.
#kdenlive #ffmpeg #gemini

Part 5 of 6 | With my animated WebM file exported from @kdenlive I then used the amazing open source tool FFMPEG to change the animation to an animated GIF and to crop it to a 3:1 ration for a Mastodon cover image. `
```sh
ffmpeg -i input.webm -vf "fps=10,scale=600:-1:flags=lanczos,crop='min(iw,ih*3)':'min(ih,iw/3)',split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen=max_colors=32[p];[s1][p]paletteuse=dither=bayer:bayer_scale=3" output.gif
```
#ffmpeg #kdenlive #gemini

Part 4 of 6 | After editing animation with Kdenlive on my Pop OS! desktop (🖕Windows and no way I'm paying an extra $1000.00 just for my computer to have an Apple logo) I exported as a WebM animated file.
#kdenlive #ffmpeg #gemini

Part 3 of 6 | While still in Flow, I asked Gemini to animate the scene, which over all did a great job. However, half way through the scene, Gemini had the skier defy physics and the skier started skiing up the mountain. I used the amazing open source software @kdenlive to cut the scene. Which worked out well as Mastodon has a 2MB limit on cover images.
#kdenlive #ffmpeg #gemini

Part 2 of 6 | In Flow, I asked for another image, with the same type of style and concept. Which Flow created the attached image which the animation was based on.

Part 1 of 6 | What do you think of my cover image? I used Gemini to create an image representing Colorado. I gave it some specific instructions like I wanted the Colorado flag, train, copper, lead, white water rafting down the Arkansas river, snow skier skiing down the slopes. Over, all I liked it. I then moved over to Google Labs "Flow"
#kdenlive #ffmpeg #gemini

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