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Reputation: 33395

How to extract Nth frame of GIF with cumulative transparencies taken into account

I know I can use imagemagick to explode an animated gif into its constituent frames

convert my.gif my.png

The problem is that all frames except the first contain a lot of transparency, I assume because of some kind of diff compression.

I want the Nth frame as a separate file, as it would appear in the final rendering after all transparent layers after the first frame have been applied. This is a very large (gigabyte) file with 1080p frames, so I don't want to extract them all, only the Nth.

How can I do this? I need a non-interactive solution.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1160

Answers (1)

Mark Setchell
Mark Setchell

Reputation: 207465

Not 100% sure how you expect this to work as there could be more than one GIF frame corresponding to each 1080p frame, so your calculation of N will likely be different from ImageMagick's concept of N. For example, as part of optimisation, ImageMagick may choose to do 2 partial clears of a frame and 2 further overwrites to render a single 1080p frame which will make your values differ by several frames each time that happens.

Anyway, you can try experimenting with the -coalesce option which forces ImageMagick to recreate all the parts necessary to render a full frame, and then deleting surrounding frames.

The least resource intensive option is probably to try and load a single frame:

convert a.gif[784] -coalesce frame784.png

The next least intensive is probably to load all the frames prior to the one you want and not bother loading later ones:

convert a.gif[0-784] -coalesce -delete 0-783 frame-784.png

The most resource-intensive option, but the one most likely to work, is probably to load all frames and then delete unneeded ones:

convert my.gif -coalesce -delete 0-783,785--1 frame784.png

I do not know your data - try them and see.

Upvotes: 1

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