How do I crop an animated gif using ImageMagick?

imagemagick crop animated-gif
jimmetry picture jimmetry · Dec 26, 2012 · Viewed 20.1k times · Source

There's plenty of information about cropping images, but attempting to crop (or trim) animations produces strange results. Sometimes they flicker, or come with extra frames, or some frames crop correctly and others become offset. How do I prevent all this from happening?

Answer

jimmetry picture jimmetry · Dec 26, 2012 
convert input.gif -coalesce -repage 0x0 -crop WxH+X+Y +repage output.gif
  • Animated gifs are often optimised to save space, but imagemagick doesn't seem to consider this when applying the crop command and treats each frame individually. -coalesce rebuilds the full frames.
  • Other commands will take into consideration the offset information supplied in the original gif, so you need to force that to be reset with -repage 0x0.
  • The crop itself is straightforward, with width, height, x offset and y offset supplied respectively. For example, a crop 40 wide and 30 high at an x offset of 50 = 40x30+50+0.
  • Crop does not remove the canvas that it snipped from the image. Applying +repage after the crop will do this.

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