Question on Animated GIF Timing

I have a weather-type animated GIF, and believe me, it is not
my choice or
idea, but anyway I need to get this working.
Here it is:
http://www.sendto.org/temp/weather-cvia.gif.
In this animation, all the frames are set to 100 but the
timing is not
smooth. No idea why. When I change frame 2 to 50, the timing
seems to me
to be closer to even, but it makes no sense to cut the time
on frame 2 to
have all frames display for equal time. Is anyone else seeing
this?
The source file is here:
http://www.sendto.org/temp/weather-cvia.png
Many thanks,
Tony

Hi Anthony:
Are you testing the playback in a browser? The FW playback -
at one time
anyway - was not a reliable method for previewing.
Have you checked to make sure there are not several frames
identical to
frame 2 in the animation? That too would give the impression
that frame
2 is staying up longer.
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Anthony Bollinger wrote:
> "Linda Rathgeber **Adobe Community Expert - Fireworks**"
<[email protected]>
> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>> The lower the number, the faster and smoother the
animation. It needs more
>> frames to make it really smooth.
>
> Linda! Thanks for the reply!
>
> I sort of get what you are saying . . . but I guess I
don't understand why
> the numbers for each frame don't work. I don't have the
"raw materials" to
> supply frames in between the existing ones, although I
might be able to work
> up something. But let me make sure we are connecting.
>
> I think you are saying the animation takes "jumps" --
that is fine as far as
> what is needed. The whole problem is those jumps are not
even, although I
> have given fireworks identical numbers for each frame.
We slowed the
> animation down so that it would not be so annoying (it
was originally set to
> somewhere around 10 per frame and I changed it to 50,
then 100).
>
> The whole problem with this animation is that frame 2
displays for *longer*
> than the other frames, even though I have told it to
display just as long in
> the PNG file. This must be a bug with either the
exported GIF, the display
> engine, or FW. Looks like the best way to fix it is to
change the frame 2
> value to 50, which is just a hack. I wondered if anyone
has encountered
> this before. There is nothing wrong with the PNG file,
so this has to be a
> bug.
>
> Thanks!
> Tony
>
>

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