Question: Frame delay issue - gif animations on Mac

I have been unable to change the frame delay rate using Photoshop Elements 9 on Mac when trying to create animated gifs. This seems to be a known problem but is there a fix? Does it work on later editions of Elements?

Thanks for this. However, it is rather disappointing that this option was released in PSE9 for Mac even though it didn’t work properly. I spent rather too long trying to get it to work on my Macbook as I knew it worked perfectly well on the PC in the office!

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I have created an animated gif in Fireworks 8 with a frame
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Okay so I've been coding java for some time now and I mostly just make applications for fun.
I usually don't have to get help for coding so this is my first post here...
The current goal I have is a application that displays animations (may turn into a animation editor)
I've tried searching on google alot for the answer but no justice :(
Okay so I have the image loading, a semi-nice gui, the image displays and cycles through the animation.
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Is there anyway to do this? I was reading up and the only solution I found was to read the bytes of the file itself but that would take alot of work and I haven't got a clue on how to do that.
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There have been a couple of threads on this now closed without a solution. I discovered how a somewhat tedious way to get an animated gif into a mac mail msg while seeing the animation in action.
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I need to add (not replace) a static background to ALL existing frames(states) in a fireworks gif animation (with alpha) , the end product gif will be an element in the Edge web animation...details
I have an animated seq of a rotating object that was created in 3ds max and rendered as a png seq with alpha.
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I imported an image that I want to be BEHIND the animated seq on ALL frames. I tried puting it on a sub layer behind, i tried puting it on it's own layer behind, but it ONLY shows on the first frame (state).
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In the save for web dialogue it said "frames 500 of 500" and when it exported the animated Gif it had truncated the length of the animation (as the total length is 875 frames).
Within PS the animation appears till the end.
I played around with frame rates etc, brought it down to 15fps but it would just extend the duration and not be able to get all of the movie exported.
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I tried using AME to encode to Gif animation, but the filesize was huge at 20MB, which negated the point foe Gif.
So is there a 500 frame limitation to exporting gif animations from within Photoshop?
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Seems valid enough to me, insofar as Adobe has a prominent ad across the top. That would *technically* make your post sort of spam-like, Chris.
Seriously, thanks for that link - it made me smile.
But they were all pretty short.
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