Motion: Animate Effects

Create motion graphics

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Motion is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform*, all in one simple plan. New Features 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 Overview 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 • 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. * Premium content and features in Freeform are not currently available and are expected to be included in the Apple Creator Studio subscription later this year.

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Motion is now part of Apple Creator Studio.

Version 6.0

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Information

  • Seller
    • Apple Inc.
  • Size
    • 4 GB
  • Category
    • Photo & Video
  • Compatibility
    Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
  • Languages
    English and 6 more
    • English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Copyright
    • Copyright © 2026 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
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