ImageMagick and transparent background for animated gif

Question

I have an animation as a batch of .png files (100 files). The background is transparent in the source .png files. I want to convert them into a single animated gif. I have tried

Answer 1

The solution is here:

http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=2601

The magic keyword seems to be “dispose” and calling the following fixed the problem:

convert -dispose 2 screencapture-*.tga screencapture.gif