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Comparing actual speed with tempos you've set

It's good practice to test the performance of your movie on a system similar to what your users have. Make sure the movie plays well on the slowest systems likely to be used.

The tempo you've set and the actual speed of a movie both appear in the Control Panel.

To compare the actual speed of a movie with the tempos you've set:

1 | Play the movie from start to finish, then rewind it to the beginning.
2 | Use the Step Forward button to step through the movie frame by frame,
3 | In each frame, compare the tempo setting shown in the Control Panel with the actual speed shown there.
| If you haven't recorded the actual speed of a movie in a particular frame, the Control Panel displays two dashes (--).