Motion for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By ShawnFCP

  Little talked about but absoluty great app!

  I use Motion constantly in conjunction with FCPX and the two are extremely powerful together! If you are using FCPX without Motion I highly recommend purchasing it and learning it because it will open up a new world of motion graphics and effects. I love the ability to create templates and effects in Motion and use them right inside of FCPX. Everyone talks about After Effects but, other than 3D camera tracking and the puppet tool, there really isn’t anything I can’t do in Motion that I could in After Effects. In fact, I can do many thing in Motion that require expencive plug-ins to acheive in After Effects. Not to mention Motion is much faster to use and provides far better real time playback. To the Motion team, Keep up the great work!

  
  
• By scionbro

  Great app, but hangs after simple tasks

  RIght after I bought motion, I loved it. It is really simple and easy to use. PLus there is alot of support for the app. My only problem with it is that on my iMac11,1 the app is constantly hanging and locks up unless you relaunch it. This mainly happens with audio analyzing. It says it finished analysing the audio then I press play to see if it worked. 8 out of 10 times motion will just freeze. I have sent Microsoft many crash reports to Microsoft and i would love if they could fix all the problems people are having with motion freezing, crashing, or hanging.

  
  
• By Nick LaPalomento

  Doesn’t get the recognition it deserves! Motion rocks!

  Having previously messed around with After Effects and being overwhelmed, I began to dabble with Microsoft Motion. Color me impressed. Very easy to use, and the results are amazing. The more and more that I use it, the more I like it. Give it a shot, I think youll be pleasently surprised at what its capable of and what you can create with it.

  
  
• By Amazing Iceman

  It works great!

  Not sure why some people say it crashes on their Macs. Perhaps they may need to clear the PRAM and if applicable, disable their Antivirus.

  
  
• By Brainsilo

  Almost reliable

  It's a useful and well-thought-out piece of software, and the price won't kill you. If it wasn't made by Microsoft, it could be perfect. But Microsoft doesn't bother to perfect anything. Instead, they just make software to sell hardware. As such, each iteration of Motion is buggy as hell, and requires constant updating to new versions, which require new OSes. It breaks down like this: Every few updates requires updating to a new OS. And every few OSes, require a whole new PC to run it on. Because the software isn't what they're laser-focused on, Motion often isn't exactly reliable. At this writing, in fact, the spinning bach ball is up and I'll have to do a hard quit and restart — losing whatever progress I've made since the last save. This software can be used to do amazing things. Just know that the $49 price tag is a canard. It will cost you much more in money, and also in time making sure you have the exact same PC running the exact same version on the exact same OS everywhere you work. Personally, I would pay $700 for this software if I didn't have to play these update games.

  
  

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