

Next the video is converted to a GIF files.īelow two commands would create a GIF file from the same above set of image files.įfmpeg -start_number 1 -i '%d.png' -c:v libx264 out.mp4įfmpeg -i out.mp4 -pix_fmt rgb24 -loop 0 out.gif First it creates an intermediate video file based on set of images. ImageMagick – Convert – Animation Basics Using ffmpegįfmpeg also can be used to create GIF files. infinite sequence.īelow command can create a GIF image ‘animation.gif’ from a set of example 16 images.Ĭonvert -delay 100 -loop 0 image*.jpg animation.gifīelow gif is created after running above command:Ĭonvert provides a wide range of options for the output GIF including resolution, transparency, quality etc.

The ‘loop’ option is the Number of times the GIF animation is to cycle though the image sequence before stopping. The ‘delay’ option is the delay time between two images. Run below command from terminal to create a gif file named “animation.gif” from a set of files named 1.png, 2.png, 3.png…16.png. To do a basic GIF animation, convert needs list of image files and it can be presented with wildcard as well if your images are names such as MyImage1.jpg, MyImage2.jpg…etc. You can run convert from command line using various of its option. Imagemagick image manipulation suite provides the ‘convert’ program which can be used effectively to create animation/GIF images.

Create gif from a set of images Using ImageMagick – Convert This tutorials will focus on various methods of creating GIF from images/videos in Linux. GIF can be created from a set of images Or, from a video clipping. The GIF aka Graphics Interchange Format was introduces on 1987 and became popular in web because of its low size, animation feature and of course portability. This tutorial is the complete collection of everything you need to know for creating a GIF image in Linux.
