Motion 4+

Simply special effects‪.‬

Apple

    • 4.7 • 317 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 (requires macOS Monterey or later)
• 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
• Unrivaled performance with optimizations for the M3 Pro, M3 Max and M2 Ultra chips


System Requirements: macOS 14.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), 4.7GB of available disk space.

Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

What’s New

Version 5.9

Motion 5.9 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Install third-party Media Extensions to support playback and compositing of more video formats. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.)
• Includes stability and performance improvements.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
317 Ratings

317 Ratings

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 !

UnPeturbed ,

Can't work without it!

I've been using Motion for about 14 years, and with the advent of FCPX, it has been invaluable to creating repeatable content for plug-ins in this editing software, allowing me consistant results, without ever leaving the editor. Round tripping while honing results is easy, quick and produces excellent results. It's rendering engine is fast and for the most part plays back complicated animations in real-time, and allows editing during playback. It's an awesome tool.

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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  • Identifiers

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

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

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