Motion 5Simply 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.

Your graphics in Motion.
Designed with editors in mind, Motion features a streamlined interface that lets you easily create titles, transitions and effects for Final Cut Pro.

Interface

Effects

Templates

Ecosystem

Performance
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 at any time, instantly jump back to Motion for more advanced changes.

Create Smart Motion Templates that let you adjust your motion graphics within 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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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. And since Motion shares a render engine with Final Cut Pro, you’ll get consistent speed and quality across applications.

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Advanced colour grading
Adjust hue, saturation and brightness with the same advanced colour wheels available in Final Cut Pro. Use colour curves and hue/saturation curves in combination with the eye dropper to target and alter specific colour ranges. And precise keyframe controls let you adjust colour corrections over time.

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Custom LUT filters
Easily convert between Rec. 709 and Rec. 2020 colour spaces using camera Look Up Tables (LUTs) in Motion. You can also apply custom LUTs from professional colour grading apps like DaVinci Resolve and popular websites like PremiumBeat to instantly give your graphics a unique look.

360° video.
A new spin on your projects.
Motion features a robust 360 VR motion graphics workflow with real-time output to 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 or share to YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo.

360° Titles

360° Effects
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 or video into a 360° project — then reposition and resize to fit.

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Tiny Planet. A twist on perspective.
Create mind-bending effects with 360° video in non-360° projects. Adjust tilt, pan, roll and field of view for spherical looks and animations. Then apply keyframes for perspective-inverting effects that change over time.

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.

Content Libraries

Keyframe Editing

Behaviours

Generators
Build brilliant 2D, 3D and 360° compositions by choosing from more than 1,900 Apple-designed, royalty-free elements — including vector artwork, high-resolution images and animated design elements.

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 new 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 and 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.

2D Titles

3D Titles

Text Animations

Text Generators

Credit Rolls
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. You can even choose from a variety of lighting effects to give your 3D titles an ultra-realistic look that perfectly matches the environment.

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.

Particles and Replicators

Paint

Tracking

Stabilisation

Chroma Key
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. Replicators let you set up mesmerising, repeating patterns in 2D or 3D space and in 360° scenes, following a geometric shape.

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

Motion suggests the best tracking points so you can quickly create paths to track moving objects in any clip. You can attach images, particles, filters, paint strokes or the control points of a mask to any tracking path.

Image stabilisation 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 colour wheel, to fine-tune the results.

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Comic filter
Give any photo or video a comic book aesthetic. Choose from three styles to instantly create colour, greyscale or monochrome artwork. Then refine the effect by adjusting ink edges, fill and smoothness.

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.

Third-party tools to make your workflow flow.
Choose from thousands of custom transitions, titles and motion graphics. Work directly with powerful applications through workflow extensions in Final Cut Pro. And take advantage of other third-party tools for advanced tracking, EDL and AAF interchange, and more.