Hello!

 I have some Poser animation that I want to turn into a smooth animated .gif. 

 I've rendered a quick loop of 10 frames at 30 FPS to a sequence of images.. brought it into Adobe Fireworks and added text and extra stuff to each image. 

 In the previewer it looks great. But then I render the .gif and view it in my windows picture preview and browser as well.. and it's choppy/slow.

 What am I doing wrong? Is it the FPS setting in Poser?

Ty!

Some GIF viewers and browsers have a limit of 12 frames per second.   I don't know
if this is true for the Windows previewer.

So I should switch my FPS in Poser from 30 to 12? Or would I have to have done that before I created the animation?

Thanks.

I know for sure that Irfanview can show GIFs at the proper speed.  You might
use this for "calibration" if you're not sure which viewer to trust.

It depends on where you want the GIF to be used.  If you want it to show up
in all possible browsers and viewers, you'll need to retime the original
animation so it looks right at 12 FPS in Poser.  (To be sure, you could form
it into an AVI instead of an ani-GIF and look at it that way.)  

But if the ani-GIF will be used in a situation where you can tell people how
to view it, or you can decide how it's viewed, then you can go somewhat faster.

Nowadays it's better to set up a loop as a SWF instead of a GIF.  The SWF
is far more flexible and compatible with browsers.

swf/flv is now web standard for anim.  I prefer 15 fps.
for web-safe colour range with no smooth gradients, gif can provide better compression,
but swf is far better for compression of movies with smooth colour gradations IMVHO.