Imagemagick & Pillow generate malformed GIF frames

Question

I need to extract the middle frame of a gif animation.

Imagemagick:

convert C:\\temp\\orig.gif -coalesce C:\\temp\\frame.jpg

generates

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

convert pour.gif -coalesce -delete 0-3,5-8 frame4.png

Basically, it generates in full, all the frames and then deletes all frames other than from 4.