animate(1) General Commands Manual animate(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

animate - animates an image or image sequence on any X server.

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

[**magick animate** \[*options*\] *input-file*](#magick)

# [OVERVIEW](#OVERVIEW)

The **animate** program is a member of the [ImageMagick(1)](/man/os/imagemagick-7/ImageMagick.1) suite of tools. Use it to animate an image or image sequence on any X server.

For more information about the animate command, point your browser to file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/animate.html or https://imagemagick.org/script/animate.php.

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Image Settings:  
\-alpha option on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy  
transparent, extract, background, or shape  
\-authenticate value decrypt image with this password  
\-backdrop display image centered on a backdrop  
\-colormap type Shared or Private  
\-colorspace type alternate image colorspace  
\-decipher filename convert cipher pixels to plain pixels  
\-define format:option  
define one or more image format options  
\-delay centiseconds display the next image after pausing  
\-density geometry horizontal and vertical density of the image  
\-depth value image depth  
\-display server display image to this X server  
\-dispose method layer disposal method  
\-dither method apply error diffusion to image  
\-filter type use this filter when resizing an image  
\-format "string" output formatted image characteristics  
\-gamma value level of gamma correction  
\-geometry geometry preferred size and location of the Image window  
\-gravity type horizontal and vertical backdrop placement  
\-identify identify the format and characteristics of the image  
\-immutable displayed image cannot be modified  
\-interlace type type of image interlacing scheme  
\-interpolate method pixel color interpolation method  
\-limit type value pixel cache resource limit  
\-loop iterations loop images then exit  
\-matte store matte channel if the image has one  
\-map type display image using this Standard Colormap  
\-monitor monitor progress  
\-pause seconds to pause before reanimating  
\-page geometry size and location of an image canvas (setting)  
\-quantize colorspace reduce colors in this colorspace  
\-quiet suppress all warning messages  
\-regard-warnings pay attention to warning messages  
\-remote command execute a command in an remote display process  
\-repage geometry size and location of an image canvas (operator)  
\-respect-parentheses settings remain in effect until parenthesis boundary  
\-sampling-factor geometry  
horizontal and vertical sampling factor  
\-scenes range image scene range  
\-seed value seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers  
\-set attribute value set an image attribute  
\-size geometry width and height of image  
\-support factor resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp  
\-transparent-color color  
transparent color  
\-treedepth value color tree depth  
\-verbose print detailed information about the image  
\-visual type display image using this visual type  
\-virtual-pixel method  
virtual pixel access method  
\-window id display image to background of this window

Image Operators:  
\-channel mask set the image channel mask  
\-colors value preferred number of colors in the image  
\-crop geometry preferred size and location of the cropped image  
\-extent geometry set the image size  
\-extract geometry extract area from image  
\-monochrome transform image to black and white  
\-resample geometry change the resolution of an image  
\-resize geometry resize the image  
\-rotate degrees apply Paeth rotation to the image  
\-strip strip image of all profiles and comments  
\-thumbnail geometry create a thumbnail of the image  
\-trim trim image edges

Image Sequence Operators:  
\-coalesce merge a sequence of images  
\-flatten flatten a sequence of images

Miscellaneous Options:  
\-debug events display copious debugging information  
\-help print program options  
\-log format format of debugging information  
\-list type print a list of supported option arguments  
\-version print version information

In addition to those listed above, you can specify these standard X resources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -foreground, -iconGeometry, -iconic, -name, -mattecolor, -shared-memory, or -title.

By default, the image format of \`file' is determined by its magic number. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). Specify 'file' as '-' for standard input or output.

Buttons:  
1 press to map or unmap the Command widget

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[ImageMagick(1)](/man/os/imagemagick-7/ImageMagick.1)

# [COPYRIGHT](#COPYRIGHT)

**Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/license.html or https://imagemagick.org/license/**

Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00 ImageMagick

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Document: animate(1) from imagemagick-7 7.1.2.34-r0 (Chainguard OS)
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