Why the loop command for making a short animation from images is not displaying correctly?

[Chemist116]

Hello. I'm trying to make a gif from a set of three different images and the command I'm using is:

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convert -loop 0 -delay 100 image1.png image2.png image3.png out.gif

However the result does not display correctly as it only shows the first and the last image in the sequence, the second which is in between is missing. What am I doing wrong?

I'm using imagemagick for windows (I'm on windows 7).

[fmw42]

try putting -loop 0 at the end before the output.

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convert -delay 100 image1.png image2.png image3.png -loop 0 out.gif

If that does not work, then post your images to some free hosting service and put the URLs here. Also provide your exact IM 7 version as 7.x.x.x.

[Chemist116]

try putting -loop 0 at the end before the output.

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convert -delay 100 image1.png image2.png image3.png -loop 0 out.gif

If that does not work, then post your images to some free hosting service and put the URLs here. Also provide your exact IM 7 version as 7.x.x.x.

Concerning to the version I used this command

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convert -version

and the following was displayed

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C:\Users\Flor>convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.3-2 Q16 x86 2016-01-23 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2015 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Visual C++: 180040629
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI Modules OpenMP
Delegates (built-in): bzlib cairo freetype jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr openexr pangoca
iro png ps rsvg tiff webp xml zlib 

About the images these were:



Then when I tried the command already described the result was this:

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convert -delay 100 image1.png image2.png image3.png image4.png image5.png -loop 0 out.gif

But I don't know why does it make a difference with the command loop at beginning or the end. Is there an alternative?

[fmw42]

Order of settings before operators is important in Imagemagick and more so in IM 7. See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#syntax