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Someone on another site referred me here when i asked if anyone knew a freeware program that can edit animated gifs. Im trying to reduce the number of frames in a gif to make the size smaller, but all the online editors do not work as the gif is 25mb large.

Im looking at the site but i cant figure out what i should download. I tried downloading the binary release, but i got a program that seems to have no functions. I took a look at the convert command line tool, but there is no actual download on that page, just some instructions. I downloaded both the magick.net program interface and imagemagickapp but all i got was a .dll and no actual .exe file.

Someone please tell me which program i need to download in order to remove frames from a animated gif and how to do it. I was trying to find one that would automatically remove a certain number of frames spread out all over the gif instead of having to manually remove frames individually from 200+ frames...

I don't know if ImageMagick can easily do what you want.

It would help if you said what operating system you use (Linux, Windows, whatever). The binary downloads page is http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php

Im on windows, i downloaded the binary release but i dont know what im supposed to do with it, the display program seems to have no functions at all....

The display program does only that. It isn't an editor.

The main editing program is "convert.exe". It isn't interactive. You type a command, the program runs and (usually) makes an output file, and that is that.

See:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... ptions.php

Gimp (gimp.org) can open animated gifs as layers that you can delete/change the timing of then output it as an animated gif again.

edit: Gimp also can show you a preview of the animation, *I think* its under filter/animation/playback, but not positive since I don't have 2.8 where I am atm. Gimp actually has some decent tools for simple animations.

Im looking at the list of command line options but im afraid i dont see anything about removing frames....

Ive used GIMP before, unfortunately i found it very confusing, especially the layers bit. Would rather not try it again. Would you happen to have any other ideas on how to reduce file size for a animated gif?

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/

If you want to delete frames from an animation see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... php#delete
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#delete
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... essing.php