Slow animated gif export

How do i stop my animated gifs from coming out slower than i
created them? I think it's coming out as 12fps no matter what frame
rate i set it to. The only way i can see to do it (the very, very
hard way) is to have half as many frames, which is a big process to
go and take half of the frames out from each section.
So what's the trick?

josh22 wrote:
> How do i stop my animated gifs from coming out slower
than i created them? I
> think it's coming out as 12fps no matter what frame rate
i set it to. The only
> way i can see to do it (the very, very hard way) is to
have half as many
> frames, which is a big process to go and take half of
the frames out from each
> section.
The trick is to work in 12 fps. That is Gif speed and you
can't bust
it's playback.
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I check exported GIFs in various browsers and XnView viewer.
It's definitely not a preview issue - i have 32Gb of RAM and Nvidia Quadro 4000 GPU on my system.
I believe the issue is with transparency, because i'm able to export GIFs with solid background just fine
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