[FFmpeg-user] PNGs with transparent pixels to GIF

[Tom Sparks]

On 24/12/2020, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am So., 20. Dez. 2020 um 07:17 Uhr schrieb Tom Sparks
> <tomasparks.ts at gmail.com>:
>>
>> On 20/12/2020, vallance via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
>
>> > I'm trying to create a GIF from an image sequence of PNGs with
>> > transparent
>> > pixels, but these transparent pixels convert to black in the resulting
>> > GIF.
>> > I'm using the following command :
>> >
>> > $ ffmpeg -i toile4-4-%d.png -framerate 12 toile4.webm
>> >
>>
>> Imagemagick is more suited to creating animated gifs
>
> I was under the impression that FFmpeg contains particularly useful
> algorithms to produce high-quality animated gifs, is that also true for
> ImageMagick?
>

ImageMagick has some very good Color Quantization and Dithering
methods[1][2] and animation modes[3] that ffmpeg dose not have/support
(as far as I know)

[1]: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/
[2]: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/video/
[3]: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/

> Merry Christmas, Carl Eugen
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