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I'm trying to get animated GIFs to work with Wagtail CMS. I've followed the instructions to install Wand (and the ImageMagick dependency) but Wagtail doesn't seem to recognize it and instead just converts GIFs to PNGs.

Is there a step I'm missing?

Noah Manger
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  • Just to note that once you install the correct versions of Wand an ImageMagic you MUST upload a new gif file to test. If wagtail has already converted a gif to PNG, it will keep using the PNG file. – MagicLAMP Aug 29 '17 at 09:02

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I don't know if you have found this yet but it sounds like a similar issue:

https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/issues/2505

I've just installed Wand 0.4.4 and "ImageMagick 6.9.3-6 Q16 x86_64 2016-02-28" (using brew) and been able to upload and view an animated gif. I have Wagtail 1.9.

Richard Giddings
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Wand currently doesn't work with Image Magick 7 so you have to install version 6.x. This is what I did to get it working on OSX Sierra:

brew install imagemagick@6
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick@6/6.9.9-7/lib/libMagickWand-6.Q16.dylib /usr/local/lib/libMagickWand.dylib

You might need to change the version in the symbolic link target.

The solution is from this Stack Overflow post.

Mark Horgan
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