RE: [Sheflug] Producing Animations

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:57, Ted.Harding [at] nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
> On 11-Jun-03 Chris Johnson wrote:

> > 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, ...

OK, I've had a look at ImageMagick and have managed to produce an
animation with the command

convert animation*.png animation.gif (can also do mng, avi and mpeg I
think) but I've not managed to work out how to ensure that the animation
isn't looped. The pause option can only be used with the animate command
which I think can only be used to actually play the animation - not to
create it. I could botch it and make duplicate the last frame, and make
the penultimate stay on screen for a while......

Anyway, enough rambling - I've just had a few glasses of wine....

Thanks for the help. 

Nicola.



-- 
Dr. Nicola J. Richmond,
Department of Information Studies,
University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, S1 4DP.

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