Motion
By Apple
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Description
Designed for video editors, Motion 5 lets you customize Final Cut Pro titles, transitions, and effects. Or create your own dazzling animations in 2D or 3D space, with real-time feedback as you work.
Breakthrough Speed and Quality
• New 64-bit architecture supports deeper, multilayered effects for use in Final Cut Pro.
• ColorSync-managed color pipeline produces accurate, consistent color across applications.
• Shared Render Engine provides consistent quality with Final Cut Pro and Compressor.
• Rendering uses floating-point, linear-light color space for exceptionally realistic results.
• Motion taps the GPU on the graphics card for high-speed rendering and exporting.
Editor-Friendly Design Tools
• Work fast using a single-window interface with a familiar look and feel.
• Customize Final Cut Pro titles, effects, and transitions by opening them in Motion.
• Create Smart Motion Templates with simple controls for making changes as you edit.
• Build stunning 2D and 3D compositions with more than 1900 Apple-designed elements.
• Make adjustments to any parameter during playback and instantly see results.
Easy Animated Text and Titles
• Design dramatic text effects with complete control over position, opacity, rotation, and more.
• Animate text instantly by choosing from more than 200 text behaviors such as Type On.
• Build a credit roll by importing a text file; the Scroll behavior optimizes the speed for you.
• Move, scale, or rotate a single character with the Adjust Glyph tool.
• Ripple text one character, word, or line at a time with the Sequence Text behavior.
Stunning Effects
• Choose from more than 230 behaviors for natural-looking motion without programming.
• Enhance your 2D or 3D animations with more than 130 filters using the FxPlug 2 standard.
• 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 new Keying filter.
• Apply the Linking behavior to make parameters for one object animate related objects.
• Use SmoothCam to eliminate camera jitters, and image stabilization to smooth bumpy shots.
Effortless 3D
• Transition from 2D to 3D space by adding a camera or cameras to any 2D project.
• 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.
• Highlight or de-emphasize various objects by defining a range of focus.
• Track objects or groups of objects with the Camera Framing behavior.
Quick, High-Quality Output
• Export projects to Apple devices and popular websites such as Vimeo and YouTube.
• Choose to output the ProRes 4444 format for uncompressed quality at small file sizes.
System Requirements: 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, 256MB of VRAM, display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher, 2GB of disk space. Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or OS X Lion v10.7.2 or later.
Some features require Internet access; fees may apply. Blu-ray recorder required for burning Blu-ray discs.
What's New in Version 5.0.3
This update improves overall stability and performance including:
• Improves loading time for projects
• Improves performance of text editing in the Canvas
• Fixes issues with Fill Opaque enabled in images converted to Drop Zones
• Resolves a stability issue that could occur when deleting all characters with the Transform Glyph tool
• Corrects the pixel aspect ratio display of Anamorphic clips
The update is recommended for all users of Motion 5
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Customer Reviews
Much Better
After being burdened with performance issues in 5.0.2, I was skeptical of quickly adopting another upgrade, yet excited at the prospect that most of these issues had been fixed. So, I upgraded, opened it, and spent 20 minutes piling on images, repilcators, particle emitters and buckets of keyframes. To my delight, there wasn't a single hiccup. It performed beautifully. Frame rates were much better than I would have expected as well. Very happy with this upgrade. Looking forward to my next Motion project.
Cautiously Optimistic
I was really scared about upgrading this when I saw the reviews about stability. But for whatever reason, I went for it anyway. I've got a pretty hefty project coming up so I spent this weekend doing simple tasks to learn the ropes. Occassionally, key commands stop working and it seems like it really bogs down. I was used to seeing real time render but when an effect I created was really slow, I thought I had done something wrong, only to discover it was actually chugging out frame by slow frame. I'd have to save and quite and re-open several times during the day to kill whatever was bogging it down.
I'm also a little disappointed in the library. Okay for $49 what was I expecting. I guess my disappointment REALLY stems from not being able to import older libraries from previous versions of FCS. Maybe there's a way to do it, but click-and-drag sure didn't work. I just need some more time to see if there's a way to import all the older libraries.
Edit: Reducing my rating to two stars. I worked on my first major project in Motion and would have to shut down the program every 30 minutes. That's not counting the beach balls I'd get about every 10-15 minutes, some of which required a Force Quit and loss of work. It got to where I hit cmd-S after every single edit. This easily added hours to my day that I really didn't have. I sent every single crash report to Apple. This stability issue really needs to be fixed.
I don't understand why FCP X has "autosaving" but Motion doesn't. I didn't realize this until I lost about 2 hours of work on the first crash. I was so upset I could have thrown my Mac across the room and shot it.
Edit for 5.0.3: As my new title says, I'm cautiously optimistic this version fixed the crashing and beach balling bugs. I worked on a small project and did not have any issues on the scale of the prior version.
When it works, it's a fantastic program.
Motion's an amazing program. And $50 is a killer price. Affordable and powerful…in theory.
I've had a lot of trouble running it on my Core i7 iMac w/ 2GB Video Memory and 16GB RAM.
Problems include trouble previewing, editing, and exporting projects that only include text and a few simple shapes…no images. It's so slow on my current project (even with settings turned down) that it's not really usable. It also is refusing to export even a still frame.
I've also had extensive trouble with particle systems and replicators. Usually the entire program crashes. Other times, after spending an hour or so rendering, it'll give me a Quicktime error at the very end of the export, and the export fails.
I've deleted preferences, reinstalled the app, fixed disk permissions, tried running it under a different login, simplified my project, removed all particles and replicators, reset the PRAM, run hardware diagnostics (at the Apple store), etc. It just seems buggy.
If Motion would run smoothly, I'd give it 5 stars, and praise it to everyone. I'm tempted to give it 1 star, but I so much love what it can *supposedly" do that I can't bear to give it only 1 star.
Seriously, though. More fixes, please, Apple! It just isn't workable at 5.0.3
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- $49.99
- Category: Video
- Updated: Apr 10, 2012
- Version: 5.0.3
- Size: 1.15 GB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2011-2012
Requirements: OS X 10.6.8 or later, 64-bit processor
