# Economy animation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/economy-animation/173017>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 20, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/economy-animation/173017 "2005-12-20T13:33:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oli\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f05b48/32.png) [@Oli\_G](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Oli_G)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/economy-animation/173017/1 "2005-12-20T13:33:03Z")

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Just curious here… i’m animating ten characters over 4500 frames each, with their heads, arms etc moving n boppin around.

I originally pasted the bodyparts in, converted to a movie clip before animating. But for the last few i’ll just use the grouped objects.

My question is, when I manually tween them, copy/paste etc on the timeline, are they treated as the one group (as a movie clip is) or does flash create additional groups, thereby adding to the number of vectors within the movie?

I’m just wondering whether or not I can be lazy and not convert the groups to symbols, but rather just animate the groups as is.

cheers