Thanks a ton. That was encouraging. Just that having to figure out the
options ans switches worries me.
>
> ImageMagick? You're kidding! Let's say you have half a dozen bitmapped
images,
> named frame1.bmp through frame6.bmp (no, you don't have to use those
names!).
>
> You do this:
>
> convert *.bmp final.gif
>
> Where's the complication? :-)
>
> > - create a gif such that when one image transitions into another,
> > there is fade-in effect
>
> For this, you'll need to do a bit of alpha-blending. Not difficult. I
actually
> wrote a cross-fading program not so long ago, for precisely this
purpose. It
> takes a set of .bmp files and a tween rate, and produces bitmap frames
that
> fade from A to B, B to C, C to ..., etc, ... to Z, and Z back to A
again.
> ImageMagick then takes the strain of merging them together into a GIF.
>
> (And before you ask, no, you can't use my cross-fader, unless you're
prepared
> to part with some cash, which strikes me as being rather unlikely. But
it
> really isn't that difficult to write your own. If I can do it...)
>
> --
> Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
> Email: -http://www.
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> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999


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