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
• AI-powered Magnetic Mask automatically tracks and isolates people, objects, and shapes in any footage
• Change focus points or the depth effect for video shot in Cinematic mode on iPhone
• 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
• Unrivaled speed and efficiency with optimizations for the latest generation of Apple silicon
System Requirements: macOS 15.6 or later, 8 GB of memory (16 GB recommended), Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), 4.7 GB of available disk space.
Some features require internet access; fees may apply.
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It's been my professional workhorse
Lorenzo876
This is an amazingly capable and FAST app that allows me to tackle professional motion graphcs projects much faster and smoother than with After Effects. Although AE has more features, you can do 80% or more of what AE does in Motion in a fraction of the time. Thankfully, a few of the gaps in Motion's featureset have been filled in by vendors like MotionVFX for things like 3D tracking and the Puppet tool. I can't say enough good things about how much time this app has saved me, and it is by no means just a consumer app. I have delivered 100s of professional projects using Motion. If you do motion graphics and visual effects, you should defintely give this app a try. You'll save huge amounts of time on up to 80% of your typical motion graphics work tasks.
The Current State of Motion
CT251
From a distance Motion looks profesional and capable, as if it can be used as a program for motion graphics, but when you take a closer look and use it for only a few hours, you start to discover things. I've been using Motion for over a year and I've always wanted to say this. Firstly, Motion is very outdated. It's visibly obvious that the developer moved there attention to other programs and never looked back. There are so many unnecessary buttons that either do something no one will ever need, or simply doesn't work at all. It's like they copy and pasted Final Cut Pro, tweaked a few things, released it, and then never looked at it again. The output options are so terrible, that if you export a video at the default settings, it'll look like a pixelated mess, so every project you have to choose between exporting it as a video that looks like it was made in 2003, or a video file that's so large you need an extra hard drive for it alone. Secondly, navigation is an absolute nightmare. Every scroll either moves too slow or too fast, and I am still trying to figure out how to zoom in and out with a trackpad. Final Cut Pro figured it out years ago, why is Motion so behind? Navigating the keyframe editor is also a mess. Nothing ever fits in the window, and when I try to simply zoom out, all my keyframes are no longer visible, and I have to go on a scavenger hunt trying to find my lost keyframes. I don't know how much more I can take of this app. I really hope Apple decides to finally update it as soon as possible.
Almost reliable
Brainsilo
It's a useful and well-thought-out piece of software, and the price won't kill you. If it wasn't made by Apple, it could be perfect. But Apple doesn't bother to perfect anything. Instead, they just make software to sell hardware. As such, each iteration of Motion is buggy as hell, and requires constant updating to new versions, which require new OSes. It breaks down like this: Every few updates requires updating to a new OS. And every few OSes, require a whole new machine to run it on. Because the software isn't what they're laser-focused on, Motion often isn't exactly reliable. At this writing, in fact, the spinning bach ball is up and I'll have to do a hard quit and restart — losing whatever progress I've made since the last save.This software can be used to do amazing things. Just know that the $49 price tag is a canard. It will cost you much more in money, and also in time making sure you have the exact same machine running the exact same version on the exact same OS everywhere you work. Personally, I would pay $700 for this software if I didn't have to play these update games.
This is the video editor for most people
Passepartout
tl;dr if you're a high-end sophisticated user who doesn't care about long-form content, you probably want Motion over FCPX.BUT, if you're an entry-level user who feels imprisoned by iMovie's (excessive) simplicity, but don't plan to make long-form content, also consider upgrading to Motion over FCPX, since (aside from handling long, complex projects) Motion is actually more capable than FCPX and 1/6 the price.(And if you do want to work in long form content, but don't want to be restricted to Macs or buy into Adobe's subscription model, consider HitFilm, which can be had for free, and scales up as far as you'd like.)If you're not making long-form content with lots of footage to pick from, chances are you don't need Final Cut Pro X (or whatever).If you're an Adobe user, then Motion is After Effects to FCPX's Premiere. Motion runs on top of FCPX's engine, which means that it fits perfectly into FCPX workflows and benefits from all the hardware acceleration that benefits FCPX.When Apple switched from selling FCP as a standalone product in a box (bundled with Motion) to the current (much, much cheaper) model (i.e. FXPX), I already used Motion much more than FCP. So I skipped FCPX, got Motion, and have received free updates and new features for ten years.(Make no mistake, if I needed FCPX again, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.)I use Motion primarily for short videos, title stings, and compositing 3d rendered animations with live footage (mostly for fun). The first is something Motion does just as well as FCPX, while the others are things FCPX would send you to Motion to do.Since iMovie was streamlined (some would say dumbed-down) to being a single-track sequencer with transitions, Motion also makes a fantastic replacement/upgrade (if you're not daunted by the added complexity).
• AI-powered Magnetic Mask automatically tracks and isolates people, objects, and shapes in any footage
• 3D text is now dramatically faster on Apple silicon, with Metal-powered improvements to playback and rendering
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