# Optimizing Animated GIFs and Playback Speed

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 13, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/optimizing-animated-gifs-and-playback-speed/224237 "2004-01-13T06:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/optimizing-animated-gifs-and-playback-speed/224237/1 "2004-01-13T06:08:06Z")

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Two animated GIFs ([this one](http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dbh6j/lj/20.gif) and [this one](http://www.people.virginia.edu/~dbh6j/lj/ralph.gif)) that I created using JASC Animation Shop 3.04 aren’t working correctly.

That is, when I created them, I set both to have a delay of 3/100 sec (33 fps). In preview, they looked fine – nice and smooth. Even exporting as an AVI kept the framerate. When I saved them as animated GIFs, however, they turn out jumpy, as you can see.

In testing, anything with a framerate in that area turned out jumpy when saved as an animated GIF.

Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can fix it, either using Animation Shop 3.04 or another (free) program?

Thanks! 🙂