Efficient Way To Use animationImages on UIImageVIew - ios

Question

I have a 15 second animation in my app that is currently way too inefficient to be workable as it uses 1.5GB of RAM.
Am I using the animation properties of UIImageView incorrectly? Perhaps there is a different solution. All I want is for it to loop for a certain duration.
There will be improvements I can make to the 539 images to make them more efficient, but they still need to be retina size etc. Currently it is 30fps.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
_animationFrames = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (long l = 0; l < 540; l++) {
NSString *frameNumber = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:#"AnimationFrames-%04ld", l];
UIImage *frame = [UIImage imageNamed:frameNumber];
[_animationFrames addObject:frame];
}
UIImageView *animation = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
animation.animationImages = _tutorialFrames;
animation.animationDuration = 14;
[self.view addSubview: animation];
[animation startAnimating];
}

Answer 1

Thanks to Mirko Brunner's comments I discovered that I could use an embedded movie rather than play the animation through UIImageView, though I ended up going with AVPlayer rather than MPMoviePlayer.
#import "VideoViewController.h"
#import AVFoundation;
#interface VideoViewController ()
#property (weak, nonatomic) AVPlayer *avPlayer;
#property (weak, nonatomic) AVPlayerLayer *avPlayerLayer;
#end
#implementation VideoViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
[self avPlayer];
[self.avPlayer play];
}
- (AVPlayer *)avPlayer {
if (!_avPlayer) {
NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle]
URLForResource: #"Video" withExtension:#"mp4"];
_avPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:url];
_avPlayerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:_avPlayer];
_avPlayerLayer.frame = self.view.layer.bounds;
[self.view.layer addSublayer: _avPlayerLayer];
_avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(playerItemDidReachEnd:)
name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification
object:[_avPlayer currentItem]];
}
return _avPlayer;
}
- (void)playerItemDidReachEnd:(NSNotification *)notification {
AVPlayerItem *p = [notification object];
[p seekToTime:kCMTimeZero];
}