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Contents 1 The Stats 2 See also Apple Motion Plug-ins 3 Buy Motion 4 Description 5 Intuitive Real-Time Design Environment 6 3D Motion Graphics Done Right 7 Breathtaking Filters and Effects 8 Time-Saving Features 9 Integration with Final Cut Studio 10 Drop Zones 11 Apple-designed graphic elements 12 Media management

The Stats

• Developer: Apple Computer
• Version: 3
• Platform: Mac OS X

See also Apple Motion Plug-ins

Buy Motion

• Apple Final Cut Studio
• Apple Final Cut Studio upgrade from Production Suite
• Apple Final Cut Studio Upgrade From Final Cut Pro

Description

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.

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.

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.

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.

Integration with Final Cut Studio

Easy come, easy go. Motion 3 lets you move projects into and out of other applications in Final Cut Studio without a second thought.

• Final Cut Pro to Motion - When you bring Final Cut Pro sequences into Motion, they retain editable cuts, layers, and retiming effects.

• Motion to Final Cut Studio applications - Drag any Motion project into Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro without exporting or rendering. Instantly see updated motion graphics in either application after you save changes to your project in Motion. Or send your audio to Soundtrack Pro. As soon as you save the updated soundtrack, it appears in Motion.

• Editable Motion 3 master templates - Send Motion 3 master templates to Final Cut Pro complete with drop zones for video and fields for editable text and update them without leaving Final Cut Pro. Watch the QuickTour

Drop Zones

• Integration with other applications - Motion 3 also works smoothly with applications outside Final Cut Studio, including Apple Shake and common Adobe graphics applications.

• Motion 3 and Shake 4 - Send Motion projects to Shake 4, Apple's industry-leading compositing tool, by dropping Motion projects into Shake without rendering; render 32-bit OpenEXR files in Shake to bring stunning film quality back into Motion.

• Adobe file formats - Easily import vector-based Adobe Illustrator files or layered Photoshop graphics. Or use native Motion projects as nested compositions in After Effects 7. You'll be able to work fast and keep your options open thanks to the integration features in Motion 3.

Apple-designed graphic elements

Find quick inspiration and get a jump start on your next motion graphics project. An extensive library of motion graphic elements designed by Apple is available for your use royalty-free right in Motion 3.

Select from a large set of particle systems, including smoke, fire, rain, bubbles, clouds, snow, glittering sparkles, and more. Pick an elegant animated shape, such as calligraphy effects. Or select from a library of stunning high-resolution textural photographs. Use combinations of elements as building blocks for your own creations and modify any element at will. These high-quality elements quickly take care of the basics, so you can let your creativity run free on the rest of the design.

Media management

It's easier than ever to move, pare down, and find the media assets you use to create and modify your Motion projects. The Collect Media function moves all the content associated with a project into a folder. The Unused Media feature discards media not used in your project to minimize your storage requirements.

Use Spotlight keyword searches to drill through your projects down to the layer level to locate just the project you need. Or use the powerful features of Final Cut Server for comprehensive asset management and workflow automation.