Several behind-the-scenes functions in Adobe Director are important to the appearance and performance of a movie.

To control the way Director manages colors, it’s important to understand the difference between RGB and index color, and how to assign colors to various elements in your movie. See Controlling color

To control the speed at which your movie plays, use settings in the tempo channel. For more information, see About tempo.

To make scenes in your movie flow together without creating the animation yourself, use predefined transitions. For more information, see Using transitions.

All these features involve using the channels at the top of the Score.