Putting GIF in beamer [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to add a GIF and I have the following error:

I tried different ways but nothing works:

1. \animategraphics - I get a long list of weird errors, and yes I have the images in png format
2. \multiinclude - it put every image on a different page instead of doing a GIF out of the images.
3. i tried converting to a video, still no luck

The code:

\documentclass{beamer}    
\usepackage{multimedia}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \movie[loop]{\includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{imagine-0}}{gif3.gif}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

I also tried:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{animate}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \animategraphics[loop,width=12cm]{10}{gif3-}{0}{12}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

it doesn't work.

Answer 1

A quite robust solution is to convert the gif into a sequence of images. As you wrote correctly, each image is then placed separately on a page -- but observe that the frame number does not change. Switching from page to page can also been done automatically, e.g., using the command animategraphics from the package animate.