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.

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.

within the last few weeks something happened (unknown!) and has rendered this fantastic piece of software useless. I've followed all of the available troubleshooting guides (restarts, reinstalls, resetting graphics card, removing externals drives, etc) and still cannot get it to open. It just beachballs, "application is not responding" and asks for me to submit an error report.I'm not familiar with after effects, but I'm getting the feeling its worth a shot since Motion 5 doesnt seem to be working at all.

I use Motion constantly in conjunction with FCPX and the two are extremely powerful together! If you are using FCPX without Motion I highly recommend purchasing it and learning it because it will open up a new world of motion graphics and effects. I love the ability to create templates and effects in Motion and use them right inside of FCPX. Everyone talks about After Effects but, other than 3D camera tracking and the puppet tool, there really isn’t anything I can’t do in Motion that I could in After Effects. In fact, I can do many thing in Motion that require expencive plug-ins to acheive in After Effects. Not to mention Motion is much faster to use and provides far better real time playback. To the Motion team, Keep up the great work!

Nothing works intuitively and this app crashes regularly on apple m1 macs. As a professional your time would be better spent learning the dreadful adobes version of this program. The more I use motion the more I hate it. final cut is ok but this program is an awful companion.UPDATE: This is still an awful program. Feels as if it was an afterthought. Apple could have done alot better if they had focused on ease of use and intuitive design and layout. It feels like it would take a degree in this program to work it properly. Unfortunately, in order to have the proper files for final cut to be able to use extra transitions and titles that can be purchased elsewhere you have to have this program installed and have opened it at least once which is one time too many.

Motion is still a new program for me but I have been using Adobe for over 10 years and wanted a way out for many of those years. This is my go to now for motion design, for me it was the perfect replacement for After Effects. I still cannot believe this program has been around so long an I only just found out about it. Perfect add-on for Final Cut Pro too if you wanted to try your hands at motion design.The BEST part: NO SUBSCRIPTION!

Motion 5 is a good program if you don't have a large set of Effects, Titles and Transition, if you install these in Final Cut they also get install in Motion 5, when that happen and you select to open Motion 5 it take a very long time for the App to respond because in the background it's loading all those Effects, Transitions and Titles, be prepaired to wait between 5 and 20 min before Motion 5 opens - FYI the system I use is Apple Studio Ultra with 128 in ram and 2TB Hard Drive.

RIght after I bought motion, I loved it. It is really simple and easy to use. PLus there is alot of support for the app. My only problem with it is that on my iMac11,1 the app is constantly hanging and locks up unless you relaunch it. This mainly happens with audio analyzing. It says it finished analysing the audio then I press play to see if it worked. 8 out of 10 times motion will just freeze. I have sent apple many crash reports to Apple and i would love if they could fix all the problems people are having with motion freezing, crashing, or hanging.

Been using Motion now for a couple of months and I must say that I've been super happy with the capabilities of what you can create to enhance your video's.Yes you can go and download multiple effects that someone already created, but sometimes the fun aspect comes in where you create it yourself and you can feel proud of yourself with the outcome.I would highly recommend Motion to any beginner and or even advanced video editor.

Incredibly powerful program, but I am one of a few users for whom Motion takes about 7 minutes to start up (ie show the Project Browser) after clicking on the Motion icon in the Dock or double-clicking on the icon in the Finder. This problem has been discussed in the Apple Communities, and a few people have found solutions that work for them, but none of the suggestions solve the problem for me. I've made extensive, detailed reports in Feedback Assistant but have had no progress. (Yes, I know FA is not a support channel.) Extremely frustrating.

As with any software, there is a learning-curve to Motion. My familiarity is with After Effects and there are some quirks with Motion that, once learned, are minor. Speaking from my own experiences, this is NOT a software that you can pick up and learn on the fly while trying to churn-out a project under a time-constraint. You’ll likely get frustrated and blame the software when, in reality, it is a user-error/skill-issue.

This is an OK app. I got this when I was 10 years old because I was beginning to get into visual effects I'm 12 now and I'm mutch better at visual effects. I don't use this app anymore, it's only still on my mac because I like watching some old projects when I'm bored. I would say if your just starting out, don't buy, if your a professional, consider buying. This is really hard to pick up and there isn't really a lot of options in the end. Things like FINAL CUT PRO X or IMOVIE or even ADOBE would probably be in front of Motion. But, it is an app, and so, I give it 2 stars.