Animation.

If you were to manually delete "unnecessary" frames where the gaps are not even, you'd be altering the speed of the animation.

Say you had this set up:

Frame1 Frame1 Frame1 Frame1 Frame2 Frame2

• You may assume Frame1 are either exact same frames or few pixel changes.

If you were to delete 3 of the Frame1's and 1 of the Frame2's, you'd be essentially tripling the animation speed (6 frames -> 2 frames; assuming you have already imported with every2frames).

As for the number of frames, the longer the animation is, the more frames will be required in order to capture the entire animations. I'm not sure what else to add here. Also, if you alter the duration of the frame, it will be slower than it should, in turn creating a longer animation with less frames, but inaccurate in terms of the actual animation speed, especially in photoshop (by default, frame durations show as 0.2seconds, but is not 0.2seconds).

Which is where changing the "Time" of each frame takes place. Say if an animation were to have exactly twice the frames, thus half of them are deleted for being duplicates. If the original Time of each frame was .02 seconds, the new time would be .04 seconds.

More or less looking at the actual video, taking note of how much time one loop takes to complete, then filling in the most accurate Time for each frame.

Beat me to the edit: (finding it better to be a bit too fast than a bit too slow, such as if the actual Time-per-frame was .036, .03 would be better than .04)

Which would be a hell of a lot more tedious than it needs to be...

Trading off half a megabyte worth of data for about tripling the amount of work required to create the animation... sounds worth it.

I can do it. Practice, after all, makes humanly perfect.

Then it is. May you upload/link to a base video with these pose specifications? I wish to try it out myself.

That would take me a while to upload; even after cropping out most of the video, the file is still nearly 300mb. And my internet's upload speed is the crappiest there will ever be, yet still eats up my bandwidth.

How long is the video, and for which animation?

In the mean time: It's awfully late for America-based users to be on the wiki right now.

12 seconds. shamala male animation (without the ends cut off)

It's only 11:22 in the west coast...