I put way too much work into this for a shitpost. Did all the editing with ffmpeg for some stupid reason.
If you're interested...
## This is a lot easier since I'm not dealing with audio
# Download the source video
wget https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-26-2016/cjRcwx.mp4 -O homer-brain-float-away.mp4
# Scale up the tiny MP4 from the GIF site
ffmpeg -i homer-brain-float-away.mp4 -vf scale=960:540 homer.mp4
# I want to splice the bit of Flanders talking from the middle onto the beginning. Start at 6 seconds and copy 1.5 seconds of the source video into a new file.
ffmpeg -i homer.mp4 -ss 6 -t 1.5 homer2.mp4
# Concatenate the extracted bit onto the beginning
ffmpeg -i homer2.mp4 -i homer.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v] [1:v] concat=n=2:v=1 [v]" -map '[v]' homer3.mp4
# Create a .srt subtitle file with the dialog
cat <<EOF > homer3.srt
1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000
VENDOR:
SEO this, SEO that.
2
00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,400
MY BRAIN:
Screw this, pal.
You're on your own.
3
00:00:06,700 --> 00:00:09,500
VENDOR:
And even more about
SEO.
00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:11,999
VENDOR:
Thoughts?
EOF
# Burn in the subtitles
ffmpeg -i homer3.mp4 -vf "subtitles=homer3.srt" -c:v libx264 -crf 20 homer_finished.mp4
# Convert the mp4 to a GIF
ffmpeg -i homer_finished.mp4 homer_finished.gif
