Blur Filter and Motion Tweens

Hello, I am creating an animation in which about 5 movie
clips that have blur filters move across the screen. One movie clip
starts with a gradient blur filter, and moves up the screen while
the blur disappears. This movie clip seems to slow down everything
completely.
Is there any way to speed this up a bit?
here is a link to my very rough work in progress (note: the
swf is very slow):
swf
Fla
Cheers for any insight!
P

I don't know that I have any good news for you on this one. I
had a similar situation where I wanted to create four 'blurry'
spotlights that roamed the screen along tween paths. What I found
was that having four different shaped 'lights' in stationary
positions, but all contained within a single movie clip with one
blurred filter was my best solution.
What may work for you is putting the five movie clips inside
one movie clip and blurring the 'containing' clip.

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