Motion 4+

Simply special effects‪.‬

Apple

    • 4.7 • 22 Ratings
    • $99.99

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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 behaviours and intuitive text animation tools
• Customise 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
• Customise Final Cut Pro titles, effects and transitions by opening them in Motion
• Create Motion Templates with any combination of single parameters and rigs, which let you control a group of parameters with a slider, pop-up menu or tick box in Final Cut Pro
• Use Display Aspect Ratio snapshots to create templates that support multiple aspect ratios

Stunning Effects
• Choose from more than 230 behaviours 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 pre-made objects in the Motion Library

Breakthrough Speed, Quality and Output
• Import wide colour HDR images, view them on supported Mac computers, and export in standard Rec. 709 or wide Rec. 2020 colour space
• Improved performance and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon
• Unrivalled performance with optimisations for the M2 Pro, M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips

System Requirements: macOS 13.5 or later, 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended for third-party effects and plug-ins), Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), 4.7 GB of available disk space.

Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

What’s New

Version 5.7

Motion 5.7 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• See improved results when using the Object Tracker’s all-new machine-learning model to analyse the movement of faces and other objects on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
• Title template backgrounds are now disabled by default.
• Fixes an issue that caused FxPlug-based plug-ins to stop responding when you cancel an analysis.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

Bigredfirecracker ,

Great app for fast MotionGFX

I've been using Motion for many years now and it's become my go to motion graphics app because of its tight integration with FCPX and its speed. There are definately things Apple could improve and I look forward to the next major update but as an Ex fulltime motion graphics designer from both the broadcast and ad agency areas, Motion has a lot to offer.

CjpMans ,

GREAT VALUE - PHENOMENAL PERFOMANCE

Highly underated powerful App. Perfect comoaion to Final Cut Pro and ridiculous value with a one time purchase and no subscription. Be great if the Apple Pro Apps team were as proactive with updates as they were once.. And even better if they dropped the secrecy and enaged the professional community to share future updates and roadmaps. The app might get the credit it deserved then

kaveman ,

Not for the old school.

This version is great, has a great intuitive user interface and everything is very easy to find.

I have encountered no bugs, (I'm sure there maybe some)

I can't rate a brand new Version for lack of Plugins, thats up to the 3rd party plug-in makers, I'm sure they are working very hard to update their plug-ins. The modern FrameWorks that are now finally being used in Motion are far easier to write with, so I think we will see lots of exciting plugins.

There is no dual monitor support, but Apple is headed to the single full screen mode, we have seen that in the Lion, iLife, Xcode, so this is no real surprise.

It seems to me that the old Final Cut Suit require a large amount of training and had a very high bar to entry. The people who have spent that time and money have a large investment in things remaining the same. This Version is not the same! It lowers the entry bar considerably. If you're an old FC user, don't upgrade, because its different. If you are interested in learning motion graphics and want get started then this version is for you. The Titling and Text on path makes it worth the price alone. This will add a lot of profession pazazz and advanced transitions to your iMove projects without the need to front for Final Cut Pro X.

At this price its a steal.

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  • Family Sharing

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

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