Bash Script to automate convert-ing of a folderful of JPGs into an animated GIF
I frequently use ImageMagick to convert screencaps (themself extracted using ffmpeg) into GIF animation.
The command for ImageMagick is nothing short of a veeery convoluted and hairy gobbledegook. For example:
convert -verbose -delay 12 *.jpg -resize 540x540 -ordered-dither o8x8,6 \( -clone -4 -set delay 18 \) -swap -5 -delete -1 \( -clone -3 -set delay 24 \) -swap -4 -delete -1 \( -clone -2 -set delay 30 \) -swap -3 -delete -1 \( -clone -1 -set delay 36 \) -swap -2 -delete -1 -layers Optimize vadercape_7_540.gif
Life’s too short, and such a convoluted command line is easy to make a mistake in.
So I wrote togif.sh to ease the job.
It runs perfectly in Cygwin, and I see no reason why it can’t run on Linux.
It’s an Open Source script, released under Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0 (MPL 2.0).