MotionSimply special effects.

Motion is the powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D, 3D and 360° titles, fluid transitions and realistic effects in real time. With breathtaking performance, Motion is optimised for Apple silicon and the Apple Neural Engine — letting you create and play back stunning visual effects and motion graphics at incredible speeds.

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Object tracking made easier.

Motion uses machine learning to easily track faces and objects in your scene. Use the Match Move behaviour to mirror their movement and add emitters, replicators, text and shapes to produce realistic results.

Add cinematic flair. After the fact.

Create amazing depth-of-field effects with footage shot in Cinematic mode on iPhone 13.^* Use the Cinematic tool to choose your focus points by clicking in the canvas. Adjust the depth‑of‑field effect instantly using a slider, or use behaviours and keyframes to animate it over time.

Your graphics in Motion.

Designed with editors in mind, the streamlined interface and incredible performance of Motion let you create and play back titles, transitions and effects in real time. Take the guesswork out by seeing your designs without the need to render.

Design in a modern interface that matches the look of Final Cut Pro and puts the focus on your work. Easily locate assets using visual content browsers, then build motion graphics with a logical layers list, full-length timeline and keyframe editor. It’s simple to customise the interface to match the way you work.

Motion is the best way to build effects for Final Cut Pro projects, including titles, transitions, generators, filters and more. Save any effect to make it immediately available in Final Cut Pro, where you can apply adjustments directly in the video editor. And instantly jump back to Motion at any time for more advanced changes.

Create Smart Motion Templates that include USDZ 3D objects and use them in Final Cut Pro. Publish any parameter to a template, or create rigs that let you control a group of parameters with a simple slider, pop-up menu or checkbox. If you set up templates with multiple aspect ratios, Final Cut Pro automatically uses the correct layout based on your footage.

Motion boasts an enormous ecosystem of third-party plug-ins and templates that complement the power of the app. Download tools for enhanced tracking and 3D object creation, or choose from thousands of templates with gorgeous titles, transitions and effects to use as is or customise to fit your project.

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With its modern Metal architecture, Motion uses the power of today’s high-performance GPUs to speed up tasks throughout the app and play back motion graphics in real time as you create them. Combine 3D objects, cameras, lights and emitters with other complex elements, and view your results instantly. And since Motion shares a render engine with Final Cut Pro, you’ll get consistent speed and quality across applications.

3D Objects

Quickly import USDZ 3D models, then easily and precisely adjust their position, rotation and scale using Behaviours or the Keyframe Editor. For even more stunning results, add cameras to a scene or combine objects with emitters, replicators, cameras and more.

Neon Filter

Add an eye-catching glow to any image, shape or text element with the Neon Filter. Enhance the effect even more by animating its intensity with keyframes. Or combine the filter with tracking behaviours to make moving objects really shine.

Optimised for Apple silicon

Create visual effects in the blink of an eye with Motion on Mac Studio. The media engine on M3 Max and M2 Ultra accelerates ProRes playback and export, freeing up the processing power for intensive tasks like rendering particle systems and adding complex behaviours. Using the Apple Neural Engine, Motion can track objects and faces at incredible speeds — even in ultra‑high‑resolution 8K video.

Powerful design tools.

Motion features a real-time design engine that lets you see your work immediately, along with a deep set of tools and content for creating and animating complex motion graphics.

Build brilliant 2D, 3D and 360° compositions by choosing from more than 1,900 Apple-designed, royalty-free graphics — including vector artwork, high-resolution images, animations and 60 USDZ 3D models that come pre-installed in Motion.

Control the timing and position of elements in your animation using intuitive keyframe tools. Use flexible curve interpolation for smooth parameter changes. Draw curves using a freehand tool, or move, stretch and condense groups of keyframes using the Transform box.

Create natural-looking motion without the need for complex calculations using preset behaviours like Gravity, Throw and Vortex. Use Text behaviours that animate letters, words or lines across the screen. Or apply the Overshoot behaviour to easily create spring-loaded animations. You can even combine behaviours for more advanced motion animations.

Create high-quality animated backgrounds with built-in generators — each with parameters to customise the look and style of the animation. Choose from a collection of standard shapes or unique designs. All generators can be used as bump maps or textures on other objects — including 3D text.

A 2D and 3D view of your titles.

Easily create beautiful 2D and 3D titles that you can animate with drag-and-drop behaviours and intuitive text animation tools.

Create text using your favourite fonts and adjust its position, opacity and rotation. Manipulate vector-based characters with pristine sharpness, and apply Text behaviours to add complex word and character animations easily. Motion is built on the CoreText engine, which ensures that glyphs, characters and emoji render correctly every time.

Build 3D titles from scratch, design them with easy-to-use templates or instantly convert any existing 2D title to 3D. Customise your 3D text with over 90 Apple-designed organic and artificial materials — or create your own — and see your results instantly. You can even choose from a variety of lighting rigs or create depth-of-field effects to give your titles an ultra-realistic look that matches the environment perfectly.

Quickly animate text on or off the screen by choosing from more than 100 behaviours including Type On, Blur Out and Text-on-a-Path, which sets your text in motion on a trajectory that angles, bends or twists. You can also create unique animations by moving letters where you want them.

With text generators you can automate tasks that would take hours to complete by hand. Count up and down in sequence, change text randomly, add a timecode sequence and more.

Use Credit Rolls to set up a scroll in just a few steps — even for long lists of production credits. Import a text file or type the credits directly into a Motion project, then use the Scroll behaviour to automatically animate the speed of the credits based on your project length.

Stunning effects.

Just drag and drop to assemble impressive animations, with a choice of more than 200 filters and effects built into Motion. Then fine-tune your work with precise controls.

Use machine learning to automatically detect and track faces or objects within a clip. Attach images, particles, filters, paint strokes or text to create stunning visual effects and motion graphics.

Use realistic particle systems to create effects including smoke and sparkles — or add dazzling details to any animation. Choose from over 200 particle presets or design your own and see your creations in real time. Or, create stunning geometric patterns in 2D or 3D using replicators. Go to the next level by adding 3D objects to both particle systems and replicators.

Choose from over 140 paintbrush presets or design your own using color gradients or QuickTime files. Create pressure-sensitive brushstrokes that paint gradient colors or particle dabs. And easily make vector‑based strokes weave through 3D space.

Image stabilization lets you smooth a bumpy camera move or lock down a shaky shot, without time‑consuming setup. And SmoothCam eliminates jitters and bumps — so it looks like your footage was shot on a tripod while still retaining camera moves like pans, tilts, and zooms.

Create an accurate chroma key in a single step with the easy drag-and-drop Keying filter. If the green- or blue-screen background in your footage is unevenly lit, you can use advanced controls, including an intuitive color wheel, to fine-tune adjustments. Plus, you can play back the results without needing to render.

360° video.
A creative spin on your projects.

Motion features a robust 360 VR motion graphics workflow with real-time visualisation for a VR headset, so you can design 360° titles, generators and filters that perfectly map to your VR scene. Instantly apply those effects to your Final Cut Pro timeline and export a video optimised for YouTube, Facebook and other popular video destinations.

Create 360° titles in 2D and 3D. View them in real time with a VR headset or use the Look Around view to pan across your project in the viewer. 360° titles resize automatically when you move them within your VR scene and can be keyframed to change their look and position over time. Save your work as a 360° Motion template to access it easily in Final Cut Pro.

Design custom 360° graphics or apply bundled effects like 360° blurs, glows and particle systems to add realism to your VR scene. You can even create 360° generators and place any graphic, still, USDZ 3D object or video into a 360° project — then reposition and resize to fit.

3D

Instantly transition from 2D to 3D space by adding a camera or cameras to any 2D project while preserving your 2D groups. Animate and adjust the cameras to create smooth, realistic 3D movement.

Shadows

Set up point lights and spot lights to cast shadows across objects. Fine-tune shadow appearance by specifying colours and edge types. When you set your elements in motion, shadows animate dynamically with the movement of objects and lights.

Reflections

Turn any shape, video plane or paint stroke into a reflective surface. Add blur to soften reflections and use the Falloff feature to fade reflections as the object moves away from the light.

FxPlug

FxPlug is a powerful Apple‑designed plug‑in architecture for filters and effects. Choose from more than 130 built-in FxPlug filters and generators. And explore the thriving ecosystem of third‑party FxPlug effects that work in Motion and Final Cut Pro with custom interfaces and incredible real‑time performance — with FxPlug4 plug-ins enabled for both Intel-based Mac computers and the power of Apple silicon.

Third-party tools to make your workflow flow.

Choose from thousands of custom transitions, titles and motion graphics. Work directly with third-party applications through workflow extensions. Or use third-party tools for advanced tracking, EDL and AAF interchange, and more.

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