My GIFs are too fast -- cannot change speed

[Satsuma]

Hi, folks! This is my first time posting, but I've spent a while searching the internet for solutions to this problem and have yet to find anything. Here goes:

I've been making GIFs in Photoshop using these steps:

1. import video using the "video frames to layers" option
2. make changes to color, add text, etc.
3. click "convert to video timeline."
4. in the "layers" tab, select all layers, then click "convert to smart object."
5. apply smart sharpen
6. export using "save for web (legacy)"

The problem is that these gifs are far too fast. However, using the "Set Timeline Framerate" option does not solve this. The default is 30 fps. I would assume that if I changed this to 24 fps, fewer frames would be played per second, and thus the gif itself would be longer in duration. This is not the case; the gif remains the same length, with frames having been removed. 

I know that I can set the frame delay before I convert to a video timeline, and while this does have an effect on the end result, unfortunately the options there are not precise enough. .04 seconds is too fast, and .05 seconds is too slow, once the project has been converted (exporting the gif WITHOUT having changed it to a video timeline and smart object is fine; .04 is a great delay in that case. However, that speed is altered when I convert, and I need to convert in order to use smart sharpen efficiently. I don't fancy applying it manually to 197 frames/layers in a row).

This is a LOT of information, but I am hoping to be concise and thorough! I have seen a number of people with this "issue," and a lot of replies that boil down to "that's not what should be happening, so it must not be." Sad to say, it is. Any thoughts?

[JJMack]

Why are you converting all your  layer into a single smart object layer?  Frame animation frames are created by  the composite of visible Layers and their position, opacity int the frame time slot. With a single layer you do not have much to work with. Especially  when the layer you are dealing with is a smart object layer that can not have it  pixels modifies with normal photoshop tools ,.

[Satsuma]

The reason I'm converting is so I can apply smart sharpen to the entire video; otherwise, I have to apply it manually to every single frame (at least, as far as I know; I would be delighted to be corrected!).

[JJMack]

Why did you import frames from a video as a frame animation in the first place you can add text into a video and if you want to change color why are you outputting in Gif formats  its color support is very poor compared to video. Gif will degrade your color.  I just do not understand what you are trying to do.

[Satsuma]

I'm aware of all this, but I am trying to make GIFs. I do not want videos. GIFs fill a totally different niche on the internet and can be inserted into different settings than videos. They autplay and autoloop and are much easier to load, save, and send due to their small size, and many sites that do not support video uploads do support gifs. 

Long story short, my specific internet locale requires GIFs; any help with my initial question regarding speed would be much appreciated!

[JJMack]

You may well need Gif. Still I find that MP4 can be much smaller and smoother then animted gifs and have better color. mp4 vs Gif 

[Satsuma]

Thanks for your input, but the fact of the matter is that the website I am using does not support uploading MP4s for the project I am working on. 

Do you have any advice for the speed/framerate issue?

[Nancy OShea]

Yes.  To slow it down, increase the Delay interval on each frame to 1 or more seconds.  See screenshot.

Hope that helps.

[JJMack]

It seems like you converted your frame animation to a video then encased your video into a smart object. I have no idea how you can  change the frame rate  a smart object layer's object may have. I believe you would need to edit the smarts object layers object's video.. I believe a video plays with a single frame rate.  If you wants some sections to  play for a longer  or shorter time  at the videos rate. You would have needed to address that the in the Frame animation before you converted it to a video.  So those sections would have more or fewer frames based on the delays in the frame animation than they have in the current video.