I want make some collages of animated gifs but facing a couple of small issues. Combining gifs into one video or bigger gif is difficult because gifs can have different speeds/fps. Even each frame in a gif can have a different duration.
Sofware like PixiEditor and Pencil can import gifs but they basically separate the gif into its individual frames and play it back based on the project's fps/speed. I'd have to do a lot of editing after import to remedy this.
Natron is/was by far the most flexible approach as it can import gifs (thanks to ffmpeg-based import) and it has all the other tools for adding effects. However, I find it to be glitchy with gifs and there's not really anyone developing it atm so I can't rely on it in the future.
Friction is also another contender but it currently doesn't support transparent gifs (bug report https://github.com/friction2d/friction/issues/697 ).
Kdenlive can do this but I hate using it.
So, is there other open source linux-compatible software that I can use to make gif collages that respect the fps of each gif?
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