[SOLVED] Make an animated gif from jpg files in command line

**afbase** · January 8th, 2009

suppose i have a set of images in a directory (image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg,...). how can i make an animated gif that repeats the order (image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg,...) from command line? thanks

**FakeOutdoorsman** · January 9th, 2009

The package imagemagick can do this:

Code:

convert -delay 100 -loop 0 image*.jpg animation.gif

I believe my delay value will wait 1 second before moving to the next frame.

**afbase** · January 12th, 2009

Thanks

**SL666** · May 12th, 2009

Anyone know how to make this more compressed? (currently the result is simular to the included files)

**el_itur** · December 10th, 2010

Originally Posted by SL666

Anyone know how to make this more compressed? (currently the result is simular to the included files)

Mogrify the files first:

Code:

$ mogrify -resample 72x72 -resize 256x256 *.JPG

keep in mind that this will overwrite the original files so it would be wise to do that with a copy

**pony1912** · April 20th, 2013

The quality of gif animation created with ImageMagick is realy good - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFusYizJ-bA

**overdrank** · April 20th, 2013

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