Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

i have imagemagick 6.3.7 installed on a debian distro. timelapseguest@timelapse:~$ convert /scratch/tmp*.jpg -evaluate-sequence mean foo.jpg convert: unrecognized option `-evaluate-sequence'. and now i just discovered that all the tmp*.jpg files i was trying to average were bogus files and i feel em...

timelapseguest@timelapse:~$ convert /scratch/tmp*.jpg -average foo.png convert: missing an image filename `foo.png'. i've used this line on other machines and not gotten an error. this is really confusing me... tried it with a bunch of different convert stuff and always getting this same error wher...

cool.

thanks!

i still don't quite understand all the subtleties as the examples in the usage seem to be for the composite command with 2 input images rather than the convert command with 3 input images. but it works great for me now!

and i'm assuming more will make itself clear to me in time.

i meant

composite -compose Dst_In -gravity center stripesHORZ.gif image1.jpg temp1.png
composite -compose Dst_Out -gravity center stripesHORZ.gif image2.jpg temp2.png

so not a typo problem as far as i know...

i made some stripes with this command: convert -size 1x100 pattern:gray50 -scale 640x480\! stripesHORZ.gif composite -compose Dst_In -gravity center stripesHORZ.gif image2.jpg temp1.png composite -compose Dst_Out -gravity center stripesHORZ.gif image2.jpg temp2.png convert temp1.png temp2.png -compo...

thanks!

i've used this command and it works great. convert -delay 20 -loop 0 foo*.gif animatedfoo.gif so if i have foo1, foo2 ... foo20, then i get a 20 frame movie. this is great if frame 20 lines up with frame 1 but what if not? i would like to go 1 to 20 and then go back to 1. so a 39(or 40) frame animat...