# Motion Reviews **Vendor:** Apple **Category:** [Video Effects Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/video-effects) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About Motion Motion features a familiar interface that lets you easily create titles, transitions, and effects for Final Cut Pro. ## Motion Reviews ### 1. I use it for the flexible meeting offerings **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patti B. | Co-Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Motion?** I love that I can send a link to someone that shows preferred times and available times they can meet with BOTH my business partner and me. I also like the permanent links I can set up that allow someone to use their special meeting link over and over again. **What do you dislike about Motion?** It really wants to cram my day in with activities if I let it. I would like it if I could say, "I only want to do so much deep work in a day vs light work, and have so many breaks." If I let it set my entire schedule, I'd never get to pee. **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** So I'm not sure why I had to select Video Effects for an application focusing on productivity. Maybe G2 has something else in mind? I love the flexibility of the calendar scheduling and that when I want to set up my own meeting with my business partner, I can see the optimal times on his calendar. ### 2. Amazing software, but app compatibility is lacking. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt C. | Digital Content Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Motion?** Motion is so incredibly easy to use, and its integration with Final Cut Pro is awesome. I love the interface and hower powerful it is. Creating my own titles and motion graphics is a pleasure. **What do you dislike about Motion?** It does NOT integrate with Adobe files very well. With After Effects, I can pull in Illustrator files and work with the layers. I can then update the AI files and my AE projects will update. Motion does not work with other files well at all and it is a huge detriment to my workflow, so I have to use AE for those projects. **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating titles and motion graphics with Motion for Final Cut Pro projects is a dream. The integration is seamless and the UI is so much better than After Effects. I am faster and save time creating my own custom work. ### 3. With a learning curve but so cool to create animations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafa V. | Tutor Excellence Program, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Motion?** I can make for example perfect title animations for social media publications **What do you dislike about Motion?** Not so easy to start with, you need to use some tutorial, but then is really useful **Recommendations to others considering Motion:** Is a little bit expensive, but finally worth it! **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating beatiful and customized animations for almsot everityhing in video, perfectly supported with Final Cut Pro X ### 4. Motion is just the animation tool I was looking for **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben K. | Audio engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Motion?** I found the layout and interface of motion to be very user-friendly and intuitive. I also like that the interface is consistent with all of the other programs in the apple lineup so jumping right in was easy. **What do you dislike about Motion?** I have run into several instances where motion crashes for an unknown reason. So if you don't get in the obsessive habit of always saving you can lose your work. **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** Motion has allowed me to create custom video graphics that make the work I do stand out from the standard stock options. The way that motion seamlessly integrates with FCP X is one of the greatest benefits. ### 5. Motion Success **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danny G. | Media Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Motion?** I like that Motion has a user interface that is easy to use and understand. The interface is built very similar to that of Final Cut which makes it very nice when needing to switch between the two applications to achieve different effects. With Motion you are able to achieve the (as the name states) motions that you aren't able to achieve with Final Cut. **What do you dislike about Motion?** I think the one downfall to Motion which has gotten better is the time it takes to render and save videos. Especially with the videos that have a lot of movement to them which creates a larger file size. Also it seems that the compression you receive with Motion isn't to the degree of the compression you get with other pieces of software like Final Cut or even the dreaded iMovie. **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** This gives us an additional tool to use for video editing and gives us the ability to quickly move between the two that we use which is Motion and Final Cut. They both can use the same add-ons which makes it nice when needing to match videos with smilier editing additions. There are times when our creative team asks us to do things you may only see in larger commercial types of production, however we can usually accomplish it using Motion. ### 6. Apple Motion Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kim E. | Accountant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Motion?** This gives us something that works directly with Final Cut and uses the same codecs. We are able to easily move items back and forth as needed. AS the name suggests Motion is fantastic for adding dramatic motions and graphics to any video. **What do you dislike about Motion?** The rendering time and process can be cumbersome and time consuming at times depending on the graphics and video being used. **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to have more than one person working on videos at a time. One person could be working on anything that requires special graphical effects and another one can work on just getting clips organized. Then when ready they are able to combine the finished videos to create one video. ### 7. Motion Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caleb B. | Design Engineer, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2020 ### 8. You need this program! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo B. | Content Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Motion?** After Effects was hard for me to pick up, but for the affordable cost & tons of feature Apple Motion is a breeze. If your preferred video editor is FCP you have to have this! **What do you dislike about Motion?** I would like to see more functionality with exporting/importing to FCP. For now I'll finish a project in motion then I can do specific cuts & audio editing in FCP. **Recommendations to others considering Motion:** For $50 this program is a steal! - Motion graphics is the spice your clients are looking for! **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is a quick program to pick up & I've made lyric videos with AM ### 9. Motion is a apple program that everyone must try **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert G. | Commercial Producer, Editor, Videographer, GFX artist, Promotions Producer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Motion?** after countless hours looking for a program that can fit our needs, motion is a great program that helps you create cool effects and GFX that can help your production quality tremendously **What do you dislike about Motion?** what I like about Motion is the price, I should be cheaper to use, and that the things are menus are hidden, so we can use it and really get good at the idea of having it in our arsenal **Recommendations to others considering Motion:** I recommend more templates for users, and more advanced tutorials **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** the benefits that help us is that, things are clear and content if you want to change something, its easy, and music that we like can all be played back to back giving us freedom to choose what ever we want ### 10. Motion works pretty well but it is missing some key features. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vinicius R. | Lead Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Motion?** Apple Motion works pretty well with Final Cut Pro X, my mainly video edit software. Using both programs let me create great templates that makes my life way easier while editing. Another great point is that the interface looks a lot like FCPX, so it is very intuitive for professionals like me. **What do you dislike about Motion?** I fell Motions can bring some of the effects from Final Cut Pro, once I needed to recreate the "bad tv" effect since it just doesn't exist in Motion. Also I miss a lot some key features that I can find on After Effects, mainly for complex annimations. I know that there are some tolls for that but they are not intuitive. Another problem that I found using Motion was on sharing my projects: I couldn't find a way to let people with older versions of Final Cut Pro use my presets... I would love to see ways to export for any Final Cut Pro X version. Last but not least, some times while I am editing my templates on Final Cut, I find the app crashing, it cleary happen because of the file I created on Motion, but I can't figure out how to fix that; most of the times I find myself exporting twice to check if the second file will be out of crashes. **Recommendations to others considering Motion:** My company just didn't switch to Motion, cause we still needing to use After Effects for some creations. But we would love to use just one software. **What problems is Motion solving and how is that benefiting you?** While working at HeyCheff I needed to create some video presentations of our products. At that time, Motion allowed me make some templates for titles and simple animations that I could use across all my campaing, it saved me time and I also could share it with my partners that were editing videos as well. - [View Motion pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/motion/reviews/motion-review-4293059?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-05+00%3A41%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=241cdc97-5508-42aa-801b-e0e7ebd6e550&secure%5Btoken%5D=52f751d6d647b9308d963f921dd286c953ff0ab403486c9b756067750c8e29bd&format=llm_user) ## Motion Features **Compatibility** - Integrations - Operating System - Format Compatibility **Functionality** - Text Animation - Rotoscoping - Visual Effects - Motion Tracking **Project Management** - Content Library - Team Review **Generative AI** - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Video - AI Text-to-3D **Agentic AI - Video Effects** - Multi-step Planning ## Top Motion Alternatives - [Blender](https://www.g2.com/products/blender/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (304 reviews) - [Fusion](https://www.g2.com/products/fusion/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (13 reviews) - [Adobe After Effects](https://www.g2.com/products/adobe-after-effects/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,055 reviews)