Need efficient way to color transform parts of animation

[mexitosus]

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!

[Scythe]

If your movie clip is only in one keyframe then it will be removed as soon as the next frame is entered and will be recreated the next time it loops around. If you want it to remember what you've done to it, make sure the movie clip stays on the stage the entire time. If you want it not to be seen, you can move it outside of the window or set its alpha to 0 or use Actionscript to set its visible property to false.