ImageMagick: Command-line Tools: Animate

Use the animate program to animate an image sequence on any X server. See Command Line Processing for advice on how to structure your animate command or see below for example usages of the command.

Example Usage

We list a few examples of the animate command here to illustrate its usefulness and ease of use. To get started, lets animate an image sequence in the GIF format:

  animate movie.gif

To animate a directory of JPEG images, use:

  animate *.jpg

You can find additional examples of using animate in Graphics from the Command Line. Further discussion is available in More Graphics from the Command Line and Examples of ImageMagick Usage.

Option Summary

The animate command recognizes these options. Click on an option to get more details about how that option works.

Option	Description
-alpha	activate, deactivate, reset, or set the alpha channel
-antialias	remove pixel-aliasing
-authenticate value	decrypt image with this password
-backdrop	background color
-background color	background color
-border geometry	surround image with a border of color
-bordercolor color	border color
-channel type	apply option to select image channels
-clip	clip along the first path from the 8BIM profile
-clip-path id	clip along a named path from the 8BIM profile
-coalesce	merge a sequence of images
-colormap type	Shared or Private
-colors value	preferred number of colors in the image
-colorspace type	set image colorspace
-comment string	annotate image with comment
-compress type	image compression type
-contrast	enhance or reduce the image contrast
-crop geometry	preferred size and location of the cropped image
-debug events	animate copious debugging information
-decipher filename	convert cipher pixels to plain
-define format:option	define one or more image format options
-delay value	animate the next image after pausing
-density geometry	horizontal and vertical density of the image
-depth value	image depth
-despeckle	reduce the speckles within an image
-display server	get image or font from this X server
-dispose method	layer disposal method
-dither	apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to image
-edge radius	apply a filter to detect edges in the image
-endian type	endianness (MSB or LSB) of the image
-enhance	apply a digital filter to enhance a noisy image
-extract geometry	extract area from image
-filter type	use this filter when resizing an image
-flatten	flatten a sequence of images
-flip	flip image in the vertical direction
-flop	flop image in the horizontal direction
-frame geometry	surround image with an ornamental border
-gamma value	level of gamma correction
-geometry geometry	preferred size or location of the image
-help	print program options
-identify	identify the format and characteristics of the image
-immutable type	prohibit image edits
-interlace type	type of image interlacing scheme
-interpolate method	pixel color interpolation method
-label name	assign a label to an image
-limit type value	pixel cache resource limit
-log format	format of debugging information
-map filename	transform image colors to match this set of colors
-mattecolor color	frame color
-monitor	monitor progress
-monochrome	transform image to black and white
-negate	replace every pixel with its complementary color
-page geometry	size and location of an image canvas (setting)
-profile filename	add, delete, or apply an image profile
-quantize colorspace	reduce image colors in this colorspace
-quiet	suppress all warning messages
-raise value	lighten/darken image edges to create a 3-D effect
-regard-warnings	pay attention to warning messages.
-remote command	execute a command in an remote animate process
-resample geometry	change the resolution of an image
-resize geometry	resize the image
-respect-parenthesis	settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary.
-roll geometry	roll an image vertically or horizontally
-rotate degrees	apply Paeth rotation to the image
-sample geometry	scale image with pixel sampling
-sampling-factor geometry	horizontal and vertical sampling factor
-scene value	image scene number
-segment values	segment an image
-seed value	seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
-set attribute value	set an image attribute
-sharpen geometry	sharpen the image
-size geometry	width and height of image
-strip	strip image of all profiles and comments
-transparent-color color	transparent color
-trim	trim image edges
-update seconds	detect when image file is modified and reanimate
-verbose	print detailed information about the image
-version	print version information
-virtual-pixel method	access method for pixels outside the boundaries of the image
-visual	animate image using this visual type
-window id	animate images to background of this window
-window-group id	exit program when this window id is destroyed