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Add text to an animation (a gif) - rich2005 - 01-29-2017
Another look at a question that often comes up.
Adding text to an animation is often a beginners problem.
For three or four layers, text can be added, duplicated and merged layer-by-layer. More that that and there are scripts to automate the process. This demo uses one of those ofn-interleave-layers.py which you can get at ofnuts sourceforge page
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/
This demo shows
. Ofnuts sourceforge page for the plugin.
. Change the color mode from Indexed to RGB
. Unoptimizing the gif (if required) to make all layers canvas size.
. Adding text and set the text layer to canvas size
. Apply the interleave layers plugin
. Optimize the new animation.
duration 6 minutes
Edit: ofn-interleave-layers.zip (currently dated 2020-04-25 ) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/