# Need efficient way to color transform parts of animation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-efficient-way-to-color-transform-parts-of-animation/299610>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 8, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-efficient-way-to-color-transform-parts-of-animation/299610 "2009-11-08T02:32:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![mexitosus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mexitosus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mexitosus)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-efficient-way-to-color-transform-parts-of-animation/299610/1 "2009-11-08T02:32:28Z")

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I’m new to this forum, so if this question has already been asked, then I apologize. I can’t seem to find a situation quite like this which makes me believe I’m looking in the wrong places. I’m somewhat new to Flash so bear with me.

My situation: I have a looping animation that contains multiple keyframes, and each keyframe contains a movieclip symbol I want to apply a color transformation to through actionscript. When I apply the color transformation once to the symbol, it works the first time around. But when the animation loops and plays again, the color transformation is gone. If I apply the color transformation at every keyframe each time in code, I can only display a few instances of the animation before the FPS suffers. Is there an efficient way to apply a color transformation once and have it stick? :h:

Thanks!