# My movie is getting slower and slower

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-movie-is-getting-slower-and-slower/208253>\
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**Created:** [November 27, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-movie-is-getting-slower-and-slower/208253 "2006-11-27T00:12:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-movie-is-getting-slower-and-slower/208253/1 "2006-11-27T00:12:55Z")

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At this rate, it will come to a complete halt altogether at any time now.

I am thinking it has something to do with my highly inefficient (or nonexistent) code, as I’ve been forced to do things kind of old school to achieve the effects I want, not having been able to find answers to problems I’ve been having with AS.

edit:  
Can’t delete the post, but anyways, I deleted what I thought might be the culprit and the whole shebang sped up dramatically. :pleased: It was a large animated square in the background - just a shape - that moved through roughly 125 frames repeatedly. It had a complex mask - a shape with approximately 2000 vertices - that it showed through.

It took me like nearly 2 hours to make the whole thing and it looked really cool. I thought that because it was all vector graphics and shapes that there wouldn’t be a performance hit. I guess I was wrong :whistle:

\<sheepish grin\> \<-where’s the smiley for that?