Who knew you can make an animated GIF with *convert*

Another thing that comes up infrequently so it is hard to remember! This method of creating an animation from a set of individual images as frames is one of the easiest I have ever seen. (Get out of here FFMPEG!)

ImageMagick’s convert animation example command #

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convert -delay {centiseconds} -loop {loop-n-times} *.png output.gif

Here is an output made with convert from .png frames using a 25 centisecond frame advancement time.