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For some reason this gif really crawls, so I've put it on a link instead of showing it on the page. Imagine it playing much faster.
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Anyone know why my gifs are so slow and crap?

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Fri 15 Mar 2002, 5:16, archived)

opening it in imageready

reveals it has 884 frames, all at 0.03 of a second duration

You've got tons of duplicate frames...
What are you encoding them with? It doesn't seem to be clever enough to vary the length of frames.

(it took 300Mb to open this in imageready BTW :( )

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chthonic, Fri 15 Mar 2002, 5:31, archived)

Animation Shop

is the culprit. How the heck darn do I merge duplicate frames?

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izb posting occasional messages since 2001, Fri 15 Mar 2002, 5:39, archived)

To be honest

I don't know -
Image Ready is pretty dumb at importing compiled gifs: it just sticks each frame on a layer, which gets very slow after a while.

Does animation shop assume a fixed frame rate anywhere? (ie, where does it get 0.03 sec for the frame duration from?)

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chthonic, Fri 15 Mar 2002, 5:51, archived)

30 fps

my guess is it uses ntsc standard of 30 fps hence 0.03s, try getting a freeware prog like ulead gif animator where you can delete all the duplicates and increase the frame length manually.

(b3tan senseless is slowly getting older, Fri 15 Mar 2002, 5:55, archived)