Defining the file order for ImageMagick convert

Question

I have a bunch of PNG files named foo<bar>.png I wish to convert to TIF animation. <bar> is a number varies from 0 to 25 in leaps of five. ImageMagick place foo5.png last in the animation while it is supposed to be second. Is there a way, apart from renaming the file to foo05.png to place it in the right place?

Answer 1

You just give the order of your PNG files as they should appear in the animation. Use:

foo0.png foo5.png foo10.png foo15.png foo20.png foo25.png

instead of

foo*.png

After all, it's only 6 different file names which should be easy enough to type:

convert                                                      \
  -delay 10                                                  \
   foo0.png foo5.png foo10.png foo15.png foo20.png foo25.png \
  -loop 0                                                    \
   animated.gif