[4K] One Rat Spinning to the Free Bird Solo 10 HOURS (FIXED)

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long description time:

true no seam
this low-effort video has the most effort put into it
none other can compete

Time spent actually fixing the video was about 2 days from start to finish.
Ratfix (link below) took about an hour for Jeffrey to write
Image editing after that took an additional hour (90% of that time ended up being a waste)
Audio editing took 10 minutes (I saved some of the files from the original so I just mixed the audio better in one section)
FFmpeg "debugging" took probably 5 hours total
(I used FFmpeg instead of copy/pasting in a video editor, which would have saved time if I knew how to use it better)
FFmpeg video and audio exports took 15 minutes each
Combining the two took an additional 15 minutes
Entire video was uploaded on 8/22/22
Upload to youtube (on school wifi again) took a little less than 2 hours (roughly an hour and 51 minutes)
Note: processing is on youtube's side
SD processing took about 3 days
HD and 4K processing took about a week
Trailer took about 15 minutes to audio-edit and 30 minutes to video-edit
(trailer:    • Rat Video Trailer  )
originally premiered on 8/27/22 12pm EST

final file size: 60 GB
final file length: 1 hour, 1 minute, and 56 seconds

fun stats:
the song loops exactly 162 times
the rat does roughly 6627 cycles of spinning (first-frame-to-last-frame)

Song: Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
   • Free Bird  

Dwevy, the original creator of the spinning rat meme:
   / dwevy  
the first spinning rat meme made by the same guy:
   • rainbow six rat  

true original gif:
https://tenor.com/view/rat-spinning-3...
modified/cleaned gif that I made (w/ the help of Jeffrey):
https://spiritaxolotl.github.io/redir...

HUUUUGE thanks to "Jeffrey" for writing the ratfix script and for general help/consulting when making this video.
Another thanks to "oat" for helping me figure out FFmpeg.

ratfix script:
https://github.com/QuantumCoded/rat-fix

original 10-hour video I made:
   • One Rat Spinning to the Free Bird Sol...  
original rat video I made:
   • ONE RAT Meme Extended  

ffmpeg commands I ended up using:
video:
ffmpeg -i ratspin_noaudio.mp4 -c copy -t 10:01:56 video.mp4
audio:
ffmpeg -i freebird.wav -c copy -t 10:01:56 audio.ogg
combining video/audio:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.ogg -c:v copy -c:a aac -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 -shortest output.mp4

I probably could have done all that with a single command but whatever
My problem (and main time-waster) was getting the audio to go alongside the video, because whenever I exported the video, you couldn't hear anything, and when importing into audacity, it said it had empty audio, which puzzled me. What ended up happening was that when I exported the rat gif as an mp4, Premiere Pro attached an empty audio track to it because I forgot to uncheck a box, so I had to remap the audio exports with the "-map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0" section. That was not fun to figure out.
My second mistake is that I kept exporting the full 10 hour videos expecting them to come out without mistakes, but I always had problems with something, so I ended up waiting for the full 10-hour videos to export (which took about 15 minutes) to figure out what was happening. What I could've done instead was to export a 5-minute video (which would take a few seconds to export) and then once that was working, do the full 10-hour one. I'll know for next time though, if there even is a next time.
One more little annoying thing is that I actually wanted the video to be in 8K if you can believe it! However something happened during the FFmpeg encoding and it became something like 5K, which will now only show up as 4K on youtube. I'm planning on eventually making an unlisted 8K video that's just a single loop though. Just not a full 10 hour one cuz it'll probably be too large of a file.
Edit: it exists.    • One Rat Spinning to the Freebird Solo  

If I were to redo this video (which I won't), there's a few things I would do differently:
1. Sync the rat spinning speed to the original one. For this video I kinda just half-assed it and now it's slightly slower than it should be.
2. Use Nearest-Neighbor interpolation and export the gif in 4K or 8K instead of scaling up the original in premiere pro. Now it's got some blurry edges.
3. Do 5 minute FFmpeg exports instead of 10 hour ones. Waiting for the exports wasted so much of my time when figuring out what was going wrong.
4. If the filesize didn't exceed 128 gigabytes, get it to export in 8K. I think I forgot to configure a setting in FFmpeg and it went from 8K to around 5K.

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