Animation in Photoshop

Hi, I have made my first animation in photoshop using rotoscoping technique, drawing on top of a quicktime video. I have made a new layer for every frame, and set the limit to every 2 frames. Everything was fine and I was about to export the animation, but noticed that the frame rate was wrong, so I jumped to timeline mode and changed it. I have been rotoscoping every other frame out of 25 fps material, so I was not sure about the frame rate to use for export... 25 or 12,5..? So I tried both settings, but after that, when going back to animation mode, the animation window only shows 13 frames, and there are 35 frames in the footage. I don't seem to be able to get it to show all the frames, even though they appear in the layers panel.
And also when playing back the footage, it only plays back every fourth frame, and when I render it out it also just shows every fourth frame, even though I rotoscoped every other frame. Am I just not understanding the logic? Is it not a good idea to jump back and forth between timeline and animation panel? Can I reset the frames somehow, or just export all the layers as frames?

Hi, thanks for your answer. So it's better not to mess with the fps settings I guess. The default frame rate seems to be 30 for animation timeline, it would be nice to be able to change that though. Also the default for output at least in my country is 25, so there's already a confict. I know I can bring it to AE and change the frame rate, but it's nice to minimize the hassle..
There also seem to be two different approaches to making a rotoscope animation in Photoshop. I followed the one where you import the footage as layers, make the layers into a group, then make another group where you create a new layer per each frame. The other approach is to import the footage as a video layer, then create another blank video layer on top of that, and start making the animation there. That actually seems a more straightforward. Any opinions about these two approaches?

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>i have made a gif animation in photoshop (it is set to
forever), which
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> fine, but when its imported into dreamweaver via the gif
animation import
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> via the gif animation import
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properly
export the animated GIF from Photoshop. When you open that
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>i have made a gif animation in photoshop (it is set to
forever), which
>plays
> fine, but when its imported into dreamweaver via the gif
animation import
> in
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