[magick-users] Creating animated gifs - memory shortage

[martin.suklitsch at uni-graz.at]

Hi there!


Currently I'm trying to create some animated GIF with quite a big set of GIFs, but I'm
running out of memory. So I hope that you guys know some trick to subsequently add a
frame/GIF to an existing animGIF in a loop? Specifically I'm trying to create a loop
of satellite images.

After reading through the manual on the web I first tried this:

convert -compose Screen \
   200804220730.gif      \
   \( 200804220730.gif 200804220800.gif -morph 5 \) \
   200804220800.gif      \
   \( 200804220800.gif 200804220830.gif -morph 5 \) \
   200804220830.gif      \
   -dispose Previous -set delay 1 -layers Optimize testanim.gif

which is working for a small set of images, but not for many (we're speaking of 500+
images here), and I would not know how to create such a command line (for 500+ images)
automatically.

After some trying I figured out that the simple command
convert -compose Screen *.gif -morph 2 testanim.gif
also works, but the memory load is huge.

So, as mentioned above, here's my question: Is there a way to add gifs subsequently 
to an existing animGIF and if so - how?

Any hint is appreciated!


Best regards,
Martin


PS: Sorry if this mail comes twice!