[magick-users] Animated GIF stop/start question

[Anthony Thyssen]

Glenn Linderman on  wrote...
| On approximately 10/29/2007 10:11 AM, came the following characters from 
| the keyboard of Scott:
| > On Monday 29 October 2007 9:38:06 am rhubarbpie at poetworld.net 
| > wrote:
| >> I've generated drawn images using PerlMagick and combined them
| >> into an animated looping GIF.  However, is there a way to
| >> generate the GIF with a stop/freeze/pause option(s)?  In
| >> explanation, the GIF shows a moving part and being able to
| >> stop and review an individual frame would be helpful.  This
| >> may be a standard feature of animated GIFs of which I'm
| >> unaware.
| >>
| >> If the above isn't possible, is it possible to generate the
| >> GIF to advance manually?
| > 
| > GIF animations are not interactive. There may be software that 
| > lets you do what you want, but I'm not aware of any program that 
| > does that. You can set the timing on individual frames of the 
| > animation so that it pauses at particular points for a specified 
| > time, but beyond that, I don't think you will find what you want 
| > in GIF.
| 
| But can't IM be used to split the animation into individually viewable 
| frames?
| 
| Like Scott writes, most animated-gif display software won't allow 
| interaction, but I would think that there would be animated-gif 
| creation/editing software that might allow such interactions.
| 
YES... use +adjoin to tell IM not to save a multi-image sequence into
a single image file format.

See IM Examples, Animation Basics...
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/#study

For this and many other methods of separating, viewing, and studing
animations.

The IM Examples script  gif2anim   is designed not only to separate an
animation into separate frames, but also save a '.anim' file that can be
used to re-create the animations exactly from the saved images.

   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/#sequence

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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