Appending an animated gif to a static image

[bertez]

Hi, I have an static jpg image and I want to append an animated gif below the jpg to generate a animated image combining both, this is what I want to achieve:



I'm using this (naive) command:

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convert background.jpg animated.gif -append -loop 0 result.gif

The problem is the result shows the gif splitted frame by frame, like this:



Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[fmw42]

try

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convert background.jpg null: \( animated.gif -coalesce \) -compose over -layers composite -layers optimize result.gif

see https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_ ... ite_single

[GeeMack]

Hi, I have an static jpg image and I want to append an animated gif below the jpg to generate a animated image combining both,...

Here's a command that should give you nearly the result you've described...

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convert background.jpg -alpha set -background none \( animated.gif -coalesce \) \
   -set page "%[fx:u.w]x%[fx:u.h+v.h]+%[fx:t?(u.w-v.w)/2:0]+%[fx:t?u.h:0]" -coalesce \
   null: -insert 1 -layers composite -loop 0 result.gif

First it reads in your background JPG, then reads in your animated GIF and turn it into full frames.

Then it builds a canvas around each image the width of the background image, and the total height of the background plus a GIF frame. It also sets the geometry to locate the animated frames centered at the bottom of the background image.

Next it uses a "null:" separator and "-layers composite" to essentially append each animated frame to the bottom of a copy of the background image.

Then add your "-loop 0", delays, optimizing, etc., and output the finished GIF.

This is in *nix syntax. To use a command like this in Windows, change all the continued-line backslashes "\" into carets "^", and remove the backslash escapes "\( \)" from the parentheses "( )". In a Windows BAT script you'll need to change the single percent signs "%" to doubles "%%".

[bertez]

Thank you very much, both solutions worked fine!

Problem solved!