RE: [Sheflug] Producing Animations

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11-Jun-03 Chris Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Nicola.
>>
> I have seen Image magik "do" all images in a folder (or just those that
> match the pattern you type) into a avi/mpeg from a command line.  This
> takes the tedium out of it but you have to be willing to use command
> line. I'm presuming it could convert this to another format if you
> wished.
> 
> Can't remember what the command line was but it gives you a place to
> start looking.  GIMP may also have command line options for this, not
> sure though.

One of the components of ImageMagick is the program 'animate' which
displays a set of image files in sequence:

  animate [ options ...] file [ [ options ...] file ...]

Excerpt from 'man animate':

EXAMPLES
       To animate a set of images of a cockatoo, use:

            animate cockatoo.*

       To animate a cockatoo image sequence while using the Stan-
       dard Colormap "best", use:

            xstdcmap -best
            animate -map best cockatoo.*

       To animate an image of a cockatoo without a border cen-
       tered on a backdrop, use:

            animate +borderwidth -backdrop cockatoo.*

with options for "delay", "pause" (before repeat), ... , flavour of
crisps and brand of lager, ...

Ted.


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