Apple Motion

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.

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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 behaviors and intuitive text animation tools
  • Customize 3D titles to create endless looks with over 90 Apple-designed 3D materials including various metal, wood, and stone surfaces
  • Vector-based characters scale, skew, and rotate with pristine sharpness, while the modern engine in Motion lets you design in real-time

Motion Graphics for Final Cut Pro

  • Save any title, effect, transition or generator and access it directly in Final Cut Pro
  • Customize Final Cut Pro titles, effects, and transitions by opening them in Motion
  • Create Smart Motion Templates with any combination of single parameters and rigs, which let you control a group of parameters with a simple slider, pop-up menu, or checkbox in Final Cut Pro
  • Save any 360° motion graphic and access it immediately from the effects browser in Final Cut Pro
Motion for Mac - project manager

Stunning Effects

  • Choose from more than 230 behaviors for natural-looking motion without keyframes
  • Use advanced color grading filters like the color wheels, color curves and hue/saturation curves
  • Track a moving object in a video clip with the point tracking and match move feature
  • Create an accurate chroma key in a single step with the Keying filter
  • Use SmoothCam to eliminate camera jitters and image stabilization to smooth bumpy shots
  • Create your own paintbrushes and 3D strokes or use one of 140 brush presets
  • Design your own particle emitters or choose from 200 presets for real-world effects such as smoke and sparkles
  • Choose a circle or rectangle mask or use the bezier and freehand mask tools to quickly draw and adjust control points for rotoscoping
  • Use the intuitive keyframe tools in Motion for precise control of the timing and position in your animation
  • Apply 360° effects including blurs, glows, and more
  • Add the Tiny Planet filter when adding 360° video to a non-360° project to create interesting spherical looks
  • Harness a thriving ecosystem of third-party FxPlug plug-ins with custom interfaces 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
  • Track objects or groups of objects with drag-and-drop ease by applying the Camera Framing behavior
  • Selectively define focus as an object moves in 3D space
  • Turn any shape, video plane, or paint stroke into a reflective surface in 3D space

Breakthrough Speed, Quality, and Output

  • Import wide color images, view them on supported Mac computers, and then export in standard Rec. 709 or wide Rec. 2020 color space
  • Export standard or 360° projects to Apple devices and publish directly to YouTube and Vimeo
  • Send to Compressor to access advanced options for custom encoding like HEVC

System Requirements:

macOS 10.13.6 or later, 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended for 4K editing, 3D
titles, and 360° video editing), OpenCL-capable GPU graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, 256MB of VRAM (1GB recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing), 4.7GB of available disk space (3.5GB app, 1.2GB supplemental content).

Some features require Internet access; fees may apply. Blu-ray recorder required for burning Blu-ray discs. Video output to VR headset requires Mac computer with discrete graphics running macOS High Sierra. 27-inch iMac with Radeon Pro 580 graphics recommended.

Download & buy

Buy this app from Mac App Store here.