# Spreading out slow operations

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spreading-out-slow-operations/294088>\
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**Created:** [August 8, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spreading-out-slow-operations/294088 "2009-08-08T03:01:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tekkan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tekkan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Tekkan)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spreading-out-slow-operations/294088/1 "2009-08-08T03:01:27Z")

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lets say I want to apply a colortransform to a movieclip with a large 5000x5000 bitmap in it. this operation is slow. is there any way to spread this operation out over multiple iterations?