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I'm attempting to work with gifs i have recorded from my screen, but TVP seems to have trouble with them. It'll display every frame of the full image at whatever speed I scrub, but it won't play this 866x419 232 frame file faster than .8 fps, so I'm guessing there's a problem somewhere. Using windows 11 on my fastest machine.

Have you tired to modify the FPS setting?

Yes thanks. The FPS field turns red with an exclamation mark for any setting above 0.8.

Hm hm ... seems like some GIF setting is borked. Do something which changes the images (like adding a pixel in each), then save under a different name and try to modify that new project?

Thanks SlowTiger. Next time I"ll try that if I have to. I ultimately worked around the gif and maybe can avoid them in the future.

While on the topic of GIFS , does anyone have any tips on optimized settings for export to GIF in TVPaint ? I notice with an image sequence or .MP4 imported into TVPaint which is then exported ot GIF , the exported GIF is much larger than the source .MP4 file (even if the .MP4 was 1080p resolution and I downscale the GIF to 360p) .

For example, recently I had an .MP4 file that is 1 MB , imported to TVPaint , then exported as a GIF. The GIF file exported from TVPaint is 9.8 MB . Is there a way to optimize the GIF export settings to avoid the file size increasing so much ?

If you haven't already done so, you can try decreasing the amount of colors in the export window. Default is 256, but oftentimes you can get away with something as low as 72 before the color degradation becomes unacceptable. As you decrease the colors, the preview window will show the changes so you can get an idea of how the final render will be before actually exporting. But still, for me, GIF export has always been a trial-and-error process.

If you can get away with a choppier clip, you can decrease the frame rate. Decrease the export FPS and select the "Stretch to Framerate" option (and also leave Time Interpolation OFF).