Turning a sequence of photos into a Gif

[deburg0]

Please consider my GIF of a Variegated Fritillary searching for a flower on a Gomphrena. I would like to create a pipeline for the process of turning frames from a sequence shoot into a GIF.

Using the Hugin Interface, I had good success manually adding control points. However, for macro images it may be difficult to automate this process because a large portion of the frame is unfocused, and the main object is moving and changing shape.

Is there a way to give an alignment tool a set of control points which it uses to find the corresponding points on the next frame. Then, that frame becomes the anchor for the next frame?

I think the Hugin command-line tool "align_image_stack" has an option for pairwise alignment, but the automatic detection of CPs does not work well for a macro image with a moving subject. And the Hugin interface does not seem to support pairwise alignment.

Possibly, could someone point me to a tutorial on how to use the VIGRA library in Python to perform image registration?

Best,

Don Burgess