Motion 3

Motion 3 takes the complexity out of 3D by extending the 2D tools you already use. With its intuitive interface and rich toolset, the only limit is your imagination. Send particles exploding through space. Swing cameras around an object with breathtaking ease. Squiggle a vector-based paint stroke in 3D through the cosmos. Motion 3 lets you create 3D motion graphics with drag-and-drop ease, startling performance, and unprecedented color fidelity.

Intuitive Real-Time Design Environment

Start animating right away with the easy-to-use tools and intuitive interface in Motion 3. You can see the results in real time as you work, and even adjust animation settings on the fly during playback. Be spontaneous. Explore. Experiment. Play. Just drag a behavior to the Canvas to set an object in motion, without any need to write expressions or manipulate keyframes. When you’re ready for more control, a single click opens a full Timeline, Inspector, or Keyframe Editor for making precise adjustments.
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3D Motion Graphics Done Right

Create motion graphics in 3D space without learning a brand-new interface. The integrated 3D multiplane environment in Motion 3 is a natural extension of the 2D tools you already use. All of the familiar Motion features, such as particles, Replicator, text behaviors, and motion paths, extend into three dimensions with ease.
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Breathtaking Filters and Effects

Motion 3 comes with more than 150 GPU-accelerated filters and effects — including Aura, Light Rays, Dazzle, and Glass Distortion filters — that you can use to move your projects from so-so to spectacular. And filters are just the beginning.

Automatically match the move of an object to a moving point in a video clip. Use SmoothCam to smooth the movement of a shaky shot without affecting standard camera moves like pans, zooms, and dollies. Achieve crystal-clear slow motion with new retiming behaviors and modify the settings with revolutionary drag-and-drop ease. Motion 3 works behind the scenes to make the setups easy and the results impressive.
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Time-Saving Features

Motion 3 handles a number of media management tasks automatically and helps speed you to creative work with an extensive library of Apple-designed graphic elements. Deep integration with the Final Cut Studio family saves time by letting you drag and drop Motion projects into other applications without rendering. Editable master templates make it easy for editors to swap out video and update text right in Final Cut Pro. Motion 3 even supports interchange with common Adobe tools.
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3D Motion Graphics Done Right.

Motion 3 makes it easy to create 3D motion graphics without learning a new interface or writing expressions. Building on its intuitive interface for 2D compositing, Motion extends into a third dimension with an integrated 3D multiplane environment. Freely mix 2D and 3D groups to quickly achieve the results you want.

3D multiplane environment

Motion 3 makes it child’s play to fly through 3D space, with behaviors that let you drag and drop to set up cameras that dolly, truck, and orbit around a scene or move from layer to layer. You can even set up multiple cameras and cut between angles to create dynamic multicamera animations.

Create additional drama by animating directional, point, or spot lights with control over light intensity, falloff, color, and more. Easily create your own 3D paths as you move objects through space. With 2D and 3D compositing intelligently integrated in a flexible, intuitive interface, Motion takes you into new dimensions of creativity. Watch the QuickTour

Integrated 3D toolset

Do what you do best, then do it even better in 3D. The 2D features you already use have been extended to 3D space. Use particles, Replicator patterns, paint, text behaviors, and motion paths — along with composited images — to create a unified 3D design. Set up dazzling particle systems to explode and travel in 3D space. Group patterns of repeating elements created with Replicator and fly a camera around them, or have other 3D layers animate through the replicated patterns.

Choose a 3D behavior to send objects rocketing around 3D space. To create astonishing title sequences, just apply a 3D text behavior; the Text Sequence behavior produces wavelike animations through characters, with full 3D rotation and positioning changes. If you’re in a gestural frame of mind, use pressure-sensitive brush strokes in the new paint feature and animate the strokes through 3D space.