Motion: Animate Effects

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.

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 behaviours and intuitive text animation tools

• Customise 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

• Customise 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 tick box in Final Cut Pro

• Use Display Aspect Ratio snapshots to create templates that support multiple aspect ratios

Stunning Effects

• Choose from more than 230 behaviours 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 pre-made objects in the Motion Library

Breakthrough Speed, Quality and Output

• Import wide colour HDR images, view them on supported Mac computers, and export in standard Rec. 709 or wide Rec. 2020 colour space

• Unrivalled speed and efficiency with optimisations 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), 5.2 GB of available disk space. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.