How to make a 1-hour gif using Python?-CodePudding

I want to make an 1 hour - long gif which will consist of 60 frames.

I already have built a gif_making function using PIL:

      sortedFiles = sorted(glob.glob('*.png'),key=os.path.getmtime)
      sortedFilesBackwards = sorted(glob.glob('*.png'),key=os.path.getmtime, reverse= True)

      full = []   sortedFiles[:-1]   sortedFilesBackwards[:-1]
      frames = [Image.open(image) for image in full]
      
      frame_one = frames[0]
      frame_one.save(f"{units}{fileName}.gif", format="GIF", append_images=frames,
                  save_all=True, duration=12000, loop=0)

However, when I set the duration = 360 000 (milliseconds = 1 hour), I receive the following error:

struct.error: ushort format requires 0 <= number <= (32767 *2 1)

I work on macOS.

P.S : I think it has something to do with the maximum amount of data within a struct ?

CodePudding user response：

The duration is how long to display each frame for in milliseconds, so you need to set it to 1,000 for each frame to be displayed for a second.

Or set it to 30,000 for each frame to be displayed for 30 seconds and double up your frames.

CodePudding user response：

Set FPS value when you saving your GIF For example:

ani.save('animation.gif', fps=3)

The value you set will lengthen or shorten your gif