Tempo is the number of frames per second that Director tries to play. You can control tempo by using the Score tempo channel or the puppetTempo method.
Director tempo settings control the maximum speed at which the playhead moves from frame to frame. The tempo doesn't affect the duration of any transitions set in the transition channel, nor does it control the speed at which a sound or digital video plays. Tempo settings don't always control animated GIFs; for more information, see Using animated GIFs.
Settings in the tempo channel can also make a movie pause and wait for a mouse click or key press. For information about making a movie wait for a cue point in a sound or video, see Synchronizing media.
For simple movies, using the tempo channel is often the best way to define tempos. For more sophisticated control of the speed of a movie, use the puppetTempo method to control tempo.
You can't make a movie go faster than the computer allows. Many factors can make movies play more slowly than the specified tempo, such as the following:
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