Re: [Gimp-user] GIF animation automation and revert diff

[Bgs <bgs bgs hu>]

 Ok... just to clarify. It seems there are no ideas so I actually do 
have to develop it myself... :)

Bests
Bgs


On 10/09/2012 09:58 PM, Bgs wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> I've been playing a bit with GIF animations and there are two things 
> I'd like to do but haven't found any trivial solution for.
>
> 1) I have a background type of layer and several smaller ones. I want 
> to make an animation where these additional layers appear and 
> disappear. The hard way to animate this is to duplicate the background 
> and merge in all variations I want and create an animation from that. 
> This has three drawbacks: a) It's a rather long handiwork to do it b) 
> by default it produces a full-frame animation that needs to be 
> optimized c) the default differential optimization might not produce 
> the best result in terms of size.
>
> My question for the more experienced ones is: Is it possible to script 
> creation of such images without creating a full fledged plugin? 
> Example: I have background and layer1 through layer8 as small 
> overlaying layers. I want to create a blinking/glowing effect by 
> turning on and off layer1-8 in a random(like) way. Let's say I create 
> a dozen of such layer on/offs and cycle the result as a GIF animation.
>
> 2) Once I created an optimized GIF animation (differential) is there 
> an easy way to convert it back to a full-frame layer structure? (This 
> has practical sense for example with a couple of frames taken from a 
> video).
>
> Thanks
> Bgs
>
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