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 5.0.2
This update improves overall stability and performance including:
• Improved speed and responsiveness of text editing
• Ability to automatically add animation keyframes when recording is disabled
• Keyboard shortcut for re-positioning animation curves or paths
• Ability to adjust the pan and scale of an image in a drop zone
• Enhanced look of the Keyframe editor for easier keyframe viewing and editing
The update is recommended for all users of Motion 5
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Customer Reviews
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5.0.0 - interface and features are great. the library is overwhelming, in a good way. price point is amazing. the performance, however is lacking. crashed on me five times in the last two days, and crashed Finder twice. i'm running Lion on a 4-core MacPro with 8GB RAM and a 1GB graphics card, and this is the only app running.
it's a processor hog. a generator, scrolling text, a few moving images, and everything comes to a screeching hault. it's very hard to be productive. once i finish my current project i will be moving back to AE. i was really hoping that Apple was going to crush Adobe with this release, but it didn't happen. maybe a few updates will fix everything. for $50, i shouldn't be complaining. however, stability in software performance shouldn't be too much to ask for. especially from Apple.
5.0.1 - fixed a lot of bugs for me. still some random crashes and little quirks, but a computer restart will usually take care of any issues. i can run a few different programs along side this and my computer doesn't feel at all sluggish. nice update.
5.0.2 - the pinwheel is back. the program hasn't crashed, but everytime i click on something i get the pinwheel and have to wait a few moments. i checked the Activity Monitor and i'm seeing "Not Responding" pop up quite a bit - processor & RAM are both normal, but my disk read/writes are through the roof. i've gone through Preferences, tried changing the Cache location, done a PRAM reset, repaired disk permissions on my main drive, etc… and still having pinwheel problems. i'll work on it a bit more, but this is seriously cutting into productivity. i should have waited to upgrade.
5.0.2 not good
I can confirm with CirrusBonsai's claim of the spinning pinwheel returning. After upgrading to Motion 5.0.2 everything I click on brings up the pinwheel and I have to wait 60 seconds or more for it to register my input. This is ridiculous Apple. If you put half as much effort into your Pro user apps as you did the iPhone and iPad we wouldn't be having these problems. I guess us Pro users are the 3rd wheel on Apple's bicycle now.
Wonderful But Unstable Program
I love Motion 5, and not just because it only costs $50. It is not as deep as After Effects, of course, but much of what can be done in After Effects can be done MUCH quicker in Motion 5. It is safe to say that Motion 5 can do a great deal more than many people think it can. The interface is wonderful, non obtrusive, intuitive. Behaviors are incredibly useful and the Library provides a generous amount of content to work with and manipulate. Also, even though I sorely miss the "Send to Motion" command which allowed us to send a clip from Final Cut Pro to Motion and back, the ability to publish Motion parameters inside Final Cut Pro X is very, very cool.
However, as with Motion 4, the program has countless freezes and crashes. I am not ready to give up on it, but it has caused SERIOUS delays in my workflow, and I am lucky I haven't gone to the hospital due to the number of times I've found myself banging my head against the wall. All Apple needs to do is address the stability issues and I (along with many, many others) would be very happy with them. New features are always nice, and appreciated. But the thing has to run smoothly in order to use it effectively.
Like I said, I still love Motion (when it works properly). I have only two requests for Apple: 1) address the stability, and 2) bring back "Send to Motion" to Final Cut Pro X. If that would happen Motion 5 would give After Effects a serious run for its money, in a lot of ways.
- $49.99
- Category: Video
- Updated: Jan 31, 2012
- Version: 5.0.2
- Size: 1.09 GB
- Languages: English, French, German, Japanese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2011
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, 64-bit processor
