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I just bought one of the new Retina Macbook Pro machines - I chose 16GB RAM because that was the most you could get and 750GB SSD and the fastest processor they offered - 2.7 I think.

I'm getting a lot of spinnning beach ball when I run Anime Studio 9, despite not running anything else at the time...

Is this common?

Definitely not. Does it happen with other software too?

No, it seems to only happen with this piece of software and only today.

I copied and pasted the same drawing repeatedly, tweaking each iteration slightly, because I was drawing a long shelve in a warehouse with many boxes on it. In the past, I have found a lot of cutting and pasting can make Anime very slow to respond. However, in this instance, not only did I not copy it that many times but indeed am on this new Mac which is a lot better than my old PC which was only 4GB RAM etc...

How do you duplicate that item? Does it make a difference if you select all points and copy to a new layer, or if you simply duplicate the whole layer? Is there an image file involved?

What I am doing is copying the individual item itself and pasting, sometimes on the same layer and other times I am switching to another layer and re-pasting it there....

More information:

I am operating the MacBook Pro in 'clamshell mode', i.e. with the screen closed and powered by the mains.

It is attached to a 32" monitor which is not switched on right now and then also attached to a Cintiq 24HD pen tablet....

Your power hogging with the graphic card of the laptop via a big monitor and the usb port. I guess like me most people use the desktop to produce animation. Are you able to close the laptop screen down and still use the monitor.

Yes, the laptop screen is fully closed and not being used by the graphics card - and my colleagues and I use Macbook Pros not merely to animate but also edit film... this machine set up in this manner has no problem with 4k material from the canon 1DC camera.

Would the auto save be causing some of this? Just a thought.

Try with only the Cintiq attached. This already should make a difference.

Also switch off the auto save option!

Okay, I have tried both suggestions now... hard to gauge as my day's work is finished, but it will be apparent tomorrow.

I had been thinking it would be okay to use both screens as the macbook is supposed to have no problem driving multiple monitors, but perhaps it's unfair to look at the Cintiq as a monitor - after all it has two leads, going to / from the macbook... I had forgotten all about autosave but it's disabled now.

Many thanks for the wisdom

On a brighter note, I am finding working on the Cintiq a lot nicer than working on my old Intuos.

There is a 'how many points' script somewhere. That could help everybody with the maths.

Do you have the blend morphs window open? That can slow things down, if there are actions.

this hasn't re-occurred - thanks everyone..

@chucky I don't think I use that window

I think I must have just used too many points... I seem to remember the program always slowing for me when I duplicate items repeatedly