Motion 4+

Simply special effects‪.‬

Apple

    • 4.1 • 28 Ratings
    • $69.99

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Description

Designed for video editors, Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time.

2D and 3D Titles
• Import 360° media and design 360° titles, generators, and effects
• Build 3D titles from scratch, design them with easy-to-use templates, or instantly convert any existing 2D title to 3D
• Easily create beautiful titles that you can animate using more than 100 drag-and-drop behaviors and intuitive text animation tools
• Customize 3D titles to create endless looks with over 90 Apple-designed 3D materials including metal, wood, and stone surfaces

Motion Graphics for Final Cut Pro
• Save any title, effect, transition or generator and access it directly in Final Cut Pro
• Customize Final Cut Pro titles, effects, and transitions by opening them in Motion
• Create Motion Templates with any combination of single parameters and rigs, that let you control a group of parameters with a slider, pop-up menu, or checkbox in Final Cut Pro
• Use Display Aspect Ratio snapshots to create templates that support multiple aspect ratios

Stunning Effects
• Choose from more than 230 behaviors for natural animation without keyframes
• Create an accurate chroma key in a single step with the Keying filter
• Change focus points or the depth effect for video shot in Cinematic mode on iPhone 13 (requires macOS Monterey)
• Design your own particle emitters or choose from 200 presets for real-world effects like smoke and sparkles
• Use professional masking tools to quickly draw and adjust control points for rotoscoping
• Automatically detect, track, and match the movement of faces or objects using machine learning
• Choose between different tracking analysis types
• Add the Neon filter to easily add a neon glow to text, shapes, video, stills, and more
• Harness an ecosystem of third-party FxPlug plug-ins for tasks like advanced tracking, advanced motion graphics, and more

Effortless 3D
• Transition from 2D to 3D space by adding cameras
• Create 3D scenes within a 360° project for ultra-realistic 360° environments
• Set up realistic shadows that animate dynamically with the movement of cameras and lights
• Turn any shape, video plane, or paint stroke into a reflective surface in 3D space
• Import third party USDZ objects or use one of 60 premade objects in the Motion Library


Breakthrough Speed, Quality, and Output
• Import wide color HDR images, view them on supported Mac computers, and export in standard Rec. 709 or wide Rec. 2020 color space
• Improved performance and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon
• Workstation-class performance with optimizations for the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips on the new MacBook Pro


System Requirements: macOS 11.5.1 or later, 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing), Metal-capable graphics card, 1GB of VRAM recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing, 4.7GB of available disk space (3.5GB app, 1.2GB supplemental content).

Some features require Internet access; fees may apply.

What’s New

Version 5.6.3

• Includes stability and performance improvements

Ratings and Reviews

4.1 out of 5
28 Ratings

28 Ratings

*Altivec ,

Excellent Software

I always found the previous version of motion a little too complex, even to do the simplest of things. This version has come a long way in simplifying what is a very huge and complex piece of software. The ability to create modifiable templates for FCPX is unbelievable. I would have given this five stars but their is a but. I can not fathom how they can do something so briliant as the way they incorporated FCPX templates, yet they were not able to do a simple "send clip to motion" in FCPX to do a basic composition round trip. The work flow to do this consists of exporting your clip out of FCPX, import it in Motion, do your effects, export it as a quicktime movie, import it back into FCPX, re apply any FCPX effects, timing changes, etc… It really makes you think twice about how badly you want to add an effect to that clip in order to go through the process. Fix that Apple and you will get a five star from me.

Profartiste ,

Quite impressive !

I just started using it, 3 days ago, and I just can’t believe my eyes how loaded it is.
It has a huge library of stuff… ready for action ! Unbelievable.
Like always, for a new software, I’m redoing the manual to really understand everything.
After that, I always write my own recipes that I have experimented and verified myself !
All in all, I would say that in 2 months… I should have mastered it !
It will be a great addition to Final Cut Pro X.
The only thing that I have seen so far, that I don’t like… is the lack of parameters for the Replicators.
All in all, it is a marvelous piece of software… well worth the asking price !
The new version has more power than ever… it is just fantastic !
For special effects and originality, it is 1000 times more powerful than Final Cut Pro X.
But, there is no way that I would make a full-featured film with Motion.
I sure prefer Final Cut Pro X, for a long film… but, together… they are quite a pair !

MD Sleep ,

Optical Flow retiming no longer working

Installed the new version of Motion on my new iMac and optical flow retiming no longer works. No matter the settings or the source file, it gives me a "Optical flow analysis for clip failed due to an I/O error.” message. Very frustrating and I can’t find any good info online. It’s also much less stable than any version of Motion I have used before. I have had to force quit a bunch. I have been using Motion and optical flow retiming for years and have never had problems until now.

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  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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