animated gifs wont play at the correct speed!

[Jim]

Hello.
I've spent some time creating animated gifs if the popular Jasc program
'Animation Shop 3'.
I've set the frame durations to various lengths. But the shortest are 2
hundredths of a second. So a series of these frames should play at 50 frames
per second.
The gifs look fine in Animation shop. However when I try to play them using
PowerPoint 2003 they play too slowly. Powerppoint seems to be ignoring the
frame duration I've set and just appears to give each frame a duration of
around 10 hundredths/sec. The same thing happens in Internet Explorer. This
is not a resource issue as I'm using a fairly new computer and don't have
other applications running. Powerpoint is not skipping frames it is just not
playing the short durations frames at the correct rate.
Can anyone help here? I'd like my animations to play at the correct speed.
Thanks.

 

[Sonia]

I'm not too surprised to hear this, though it is new news. I've got
Animation Shop 3 and PowerPoint 2003 here, so if you want to send me one of
them I can test to see whether I get the same results. My email address is
sonia at soniacoleman dot com.

 

[Sonia]

Thanks for sending me the file. I do see the same behavior you describe
when I play the file in PowerPoint 2003 and in Windows Media Player 9. I
suspect that they just can't handle the frame rate that you have set.

You could convert it to an AVI, but you will lose your transparent
background and the background will become black.

 

[Adam Crowley]

I know this isn't an answer but the truth is that the eye can't detect that
many frames per second ...video is 25 frames per second and film 30...is it
possible in your case to reduce the frame rate in Animation Shop (i.e. use
fewer frames for the same duration of animation).

 

[Sonia]

PowerPoint seems only able to display at about 10 frames per second. I
tried reducing Jim's file to 25 and it still plays at about 10/sec.

 

[Jim]

PowerPoint seems only able to display at about 10 frames per second. I
tried reducing Jim's file to 25 and it still plays at about 10/sec.

It looks like the same is true with Web browsers, bothe IE and Netscape.
They seem only to be a able to display an animation at a max rate of 10
frames per sec. Does anyone know for definite if this is true?