Export to gif bug ?

[D.T. Nethery]

Bug (?) report-

Recently as I was making some walk cycle gifs to post in one of my online animation classes I noticed in TVP 11 (on Mac OS , 64bit) when I export animation at 24 FPS to a .gif that the frame rate on the .gif is changed to 25 FPS. Animation at 12 FPS in TVP 11 exported to .gif file is 12.5 FPS.

Has anyone else noticed this ?

[Paul Fierlinger]

I don't think you can ever have incremental control over the frame rate of GIFs. i believe the same GIF will play at different rates depending on other circumstances.

[Elodie]

It also depends on your OS and your browser (if you put it on the internet).

[slowtiger]

A GIFs frame rate isn't measured in FPS but in 1/100 seconds duration per frame, and doesn't have to be consistent over all frames. So I think there might be a glitch in the conversion algorithm.

(There used to be GIFbuilder for Mac which gave great control over all those aspects. Sadly I haven't found any alternative for OSX ever.)