What is Motion?

Motion is a behavior-driven motion graphics application used to create stunning imaging effects in real time for a wide variety of broadcast, video, and film projects.

Animate anything, your way

Animate graphics, images, and video clips using any of more than 200 built-in motion, simulation, and camera-move behaviors, such as Spin, Throw, Orbit, Dolly, and more.
Animate the traditional way, using keyframes to create precise timing effects.
Animate individual parameters of graphics and images—such as position, scale, and opacity—to make your visuals oscillate, wriggle, sync to music, dance randomly, and more.
Build sophisticated particle systems to unleash animated swarming effects in 2D or 3D space.
Boost production value by choosing ready-to-use animated content from a library of more than 1,300 professionally designed graphics.

Set your text in motion

Create polished text and then set it in motion to construct effects both simple (lower-thirds and credit rolls) and complex (animated sequences).
Build and animate 3D text with realistic texture, lighting, and shading.

Blow minds, not budgets, with cinematic visual effects

Build stunning visual effects and film looks using one or more of nearly 300 filters such as Glow, Strobe, Slit Scan, and Bleach Bypass.
Create advanced compositing and color key effects (green screen and blue screen).
Stabilize camera shake or create complex motion-tracking effects such as match moving and corner-pinning.
Retime footage to create high-quality slow-motion or fast-motion effects.

Add depth to your production

Orchestrate fluid 3D motion graphics for show intros, bumpers, commercials, or title sequences.
Import and reorient 360° video, then apply effects and integrate titles or other graphics to create 360° Motion projects or 360° templates for Final Cut Pro X.
Create vibrant high-dynamic-range (HDR) content and effects using your Pro Display XDR as a professional HDR reference monitor, or view HDR content on standard-dynamic-range displays using automatic tone-mapping.

Design next-level graphics effects

Draw shapes, transparency masks, and gesture-based paint strokes to build advanced art compositions, then animate them using behaviors or keyframes. You can also rotoscope masks with keyframes to create traveling mattes.
Build complex patterns of repeating elements using the powerful replicator tool, then animate the resulting collages in 2D or 3D space.
Maximize your compositions with royalty-free content, such as vector artwork, animated design elements, image generators, and high-resolution images.

Integrate seamlessly with Final Cut Pro X

Create custom effect, transition, title, and generator templates for use in Final Cut Pro. You can also use Motion to customize the effects, transitions, titles, and generators that ship with Final Cut Pro.
Use rigging to map multiple parameters to a single control (for example, a slider that simultaneously manipulates size, color, and rotation of text) in Motion compositions or in templates exported to Final Cut Pro.

Export and share everywhere

Export your masterpiece (or working copy) for use in other apps, publish it to video-sharing websites, or optimize it for viewing on Apple devices such as iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV.

Note: For a complete list of topics covered in this user guide, click the Table of Contents at the top of the page.

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