Easiest/Fastest way to slow down a .gif animation without it looking jerky?

[emilio911]

Right now a have a .gif animation of 40 frames of 150ms each. The animation is simple: the image fades in and then fades out.

I want to slow down the animation.

If I change it to 300ms, it becomes very jerky! (150ms was already borderline)

What is the easiest way to fix that with Photoshop?

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome to PSG

What is your frame delay time? If it's 0, then bump it up.

 

[emilio911]

Hello and welcome to PSG

What is your frame delay time? If it's 0, then bump it up.

Hi there! The frame delay is 150ms (0.15s). If I put 0.3s it becomes jerky.

What I did now is that I duplicated all the frames. Can I change the brightness of these duplicated frames one by one?

 

[IamSam]

Can you upload the GIF?

 

[emilio911]

For this one the frame delay is 0.1s

 

[IamSam]

Do you have the GIF that you started the thread about? The one you mention in post #1?

 

[IamSam]

In the "test" GIF above (post#5) the frame delay time is set to "no delay" and not 0.1



Do you know how to change the frame delay?

 

[emilio911]

sorry, here is the right one (0.15s delay -- could be better, but not as choppy as 0.3s. however, it's not slow enough)

 

[emilio911]

here is one with a 0.3s delay (choppy)

 

[IamSam]

Adding frames or tweening between frames is about all you can do. For me personally, I never use frame animation anymore, I use the video timeline.

 

[emilio911]

tweening between frames

Alright! How do you go for tweening between frames? When I select two frames and use the "Tween..." function I get a third frame that is lighter than the two selected (and not in-between)...

Also, can I convert this frame animation to a video timeline? (I can't open the video timeline like they do in tutorials. My "timeline" window is a frame animation window and won't change. Is this normal?)

 

[IamSam]

Alright! How do you go for tweening between frames? When I select two frames and use the "Tween..." function I get a third frame that is lighter than the two selected (and not in-between)...

Not sure.............it's literally been years since I used the tween function that I would have to play with it to help you out there.

Also, can I convert this frame animation to a video timeline?

Yes.

 

[emilio911]

Yes.

I have photoshop CS6 and I don't see it (and this tutorial says I should be able to see it: https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-use-the-new-timeline-panel-in-photoshop-cs6--psd-16515 ).

This is what I see:

 

[IamSam]

That's because you only have one layer in your layers panel, you would need at least one more and probably many more. All the layers needed to make the animation.

 

[emilio911]

That's because you only have one layer in your layers panel, you would need at least one more and probably many more. All the layers needed to make the animation.

Alright! I added two more layers, and I still can't make it work :/

 

[IamSam]

OK, hold on...........let me fire up CS6.

 

[IamSam]

OK........works fine in CS6 even with one layer.............not sure why your is not working.

 

[IamSam]

Start from scratch.
Open your test image
You should see a window in the center of the thimeline panel that looks like this....


Change it to "Create Video timeline"


Then click it.

 

[emilio911]

You should see a window in the center of the thimeline panel that looks like this....

Negative!, as soon as I open a file, my "timeline" window looks like this:



Maybe it's because I have the 64-bit version on Windows .... https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1155391

but thanks for your help! much appreciated! cheers!

 

[IamSam]

JUst one last question............is the test image a GIF file or a JPG file when you open it? I don't think a JPG would show up in the timeline until you added it there, whereas a GIF file would be visible in the timeline.