How to install ImageMagick with Anaconda on windows 64bits?

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As @furas said the best way to save an animation is to save it as an MP4 file with ffmpeg and then to open cmd.exe and type: ffmpeg -i C:\my_path\animation.mp4 C:\my_path\animation.gif.

From Python we can do:

import os
os.system("ffmpeg -i C:\\my_path\\animation.mp4 C:\\my_path\\animation.gif")
# \\ allows to bypass any ascii issue because for example in python "\a" means "\x07" and "\\a" means "\a"
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French engineering student and Physics/Computer science enthusiast

Updated on June 04, 2022

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  • Loïc Poncin
    Loïc Poncin almost 2 years

    I downloaded ImageMagick file for Windows 64bits ImageMagick-7.0.4-4-Q16-x64-dll.exe (Link) and I installed it.

    I am using Anaconda and I get the following error:

    C:\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\animation.py:784: UserWarning: MovieWriter imagemagick unavailable
      warnings.warn("MovieWriter %s unavailable" % writer)
    

    Does anybody know a channel for Anaconda where there is the ImageMagick package for win64 ?

    PS: For example here is a channel called kalefranz with the ImageMagick package but for Linux 64bits only (https://anaconda.org/kalefranz/imagemagick)