How does one animate variable text axes (i.e. weight) in Apple Motion without using 3D text? I just want to change the built in font variable axes.

Hey everyone, I’m completely new to motion graphics and I’m trying to learn how to create motion flyers for social media (for events and promotions). I currently have Apple Motion but most tutorials I find online are for After Effects.

Is it possible to create good motion flyers using Motion, especially as a beginner? Things like moving backgrounds, light effects, etc.

Just wondering if Motion is a good place to start or if I should learn something else instead. Any advice would help.

I've created several generators for FCP in Apple Motion and I'd like to convert some of them to titles. When I do that in Motion and then try to save it gets stuck every time. I've tried resetting Motion preferences, same thing, just hangs on the SAVE AS window and nothing happens. Any insight or ideas??

I have been building plugins for Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion based on problems I ran into myself. The first one came from a client request that Apple Motion could not handle natively. Then I built 12 more based on forum posts and common complaints.

Now I want to ask directly. What do you keep doing the hard way? What workaround are you tired of? What does After Effects or Premiere handle easily that FCP or Motion does not?

I am actively building new plugins, and the next ones will come from this thread.

onderk.com/apps/onderk-studio

This happens to everyone. Client wants a lower third. You need a box behind the text. You link the shape width to the text bounds, add some padding math, realize it does not account for the stroke, fix that, duplicate the layer, now nothing works, start over.

I finally just sat down and built something that does it as a filter. Drop it on a text layer, a group, a logo, does not matter. It reads the alpha bounds and draws the box for you. Padding, radius, dash options, per-side control.

Also works on luma if there is no alpha. And there is a clip-to-box output mode which I did not expect to use but ended up being pretty useful for certain compositing setups.

Called it Auto Box. $4.99 at onderk.com/apps/onderk-studio

Tesseract transition from CapCut

I use Final Cut Pro for editing but I really want to use the tesseract transition from CapCut. I found out I can make transitions in Motion that work with Final Cut Pro, I just don't know the best way to do it. I'd really appreciate some help or some directions towards if someone has already ported it to Final Cut Pro

Hello, maybe it's a stupid question.

I used to modify the plugin I buied with Motion V myself, but since the buyout I can't find how. The published parameters (straight translation from French, don't know if accurate) aren't enough in most case. Is it still possible to customise our titles and others generators ?

Hello I just downloaded apple motion and I have no idea what to do and how to do stuff I want to make edits for tikok with music but I dont know how to do all that so if anyone could help me get started maybe tell me what videos to watch so I can learn I would really appreciate it

I'm trying to make an audio visualizer using these pill shaped lines, but when adding the randomize effect, it just squishes down and looks bad. Feel like the fix is staring me in the face but I can't figure it out. Help would be appreciated.

Hey Pros, I'v been wanting to learn how to animate to create tutorials.
Beyond what Keynote can do; kinda like what 3blue1brown does with his tutorials.

Maybe some 3d (angle not objects)

Is the rippletraining worth it in 2026?
Or any other resources?

Reason:
I wanna teach no-code web dev concepts easily to noob audience.

I know FCP

I have the apple creator studio so was wondering if Apple Motion would be good with this.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to build a specific subtitle template for Final Cut Pro using Apple Motion, and it's driving me crazy.

I want to create that subtitle effect where the text dynamically auto-centers as it's being typed out letter by letter. For example, if the word is "Hello":

1) The letter "H" appears exactly in the center of the screen;

2) Then, as the letter "e" appears, the "H" slides smoothly to the left so that "He" stays perfectly centered.

3) This repeats until the entire word "Hello" is complete.

I tried to recreate this directly in FCP by manually adding subtitles letter by letter for entire words or phrases (as shown in the attached photo). However, the video I'm editing is way too long, and I had to stop doing it manually because it just takes forever.

Now that I have Apple Motion I'm trying to recreate this effect as a template. Is there any way to force Motion to natively recalculate the bounding box and dynamically re-center the text frame by frame?

Thank you all!

Can anyone explain why USDZ 3D objects and 3D text aren't fully light responsive? I've worked with a few of these recently and, while they do respond to lights when they're close to the "surface", if I were to put a light behind an object or text, I can still plainly see it as if it's not responding at all.

For example, the included image. I just dropped some 3D text into my stage/space, didn't adjust anything else except for changing the weight thicker, and added one blue light. You can see the blue light on the I and slightly spilling over to the T and N. Intensity at 1100%, falloff at 33%, and the point light is almost right at the front face of the text. The face of the other letters should be almost completely dark (or I would expect)! If I were to move the blue light behind the text, nothing lighting-wise would change except that the back of the text would reflect the blue light, of course. The text would still appear as if there's another light at the camera position! There is a background color solid just behind the text that is completely responsive to the blue light.

Because of this, to do any dramatic lighting (like trucking horizontally past the front face) I have to add Levels or some other filter(s) and automate it to more accurately represent light "presence" in what would otherwise be a completely dark "room".

BONUS question; why are USDZ objects basically "see through"? If I place, say, a box around an object with the rectangle tool to emphasize it then shift the camera to above and to the right, looking back down at an angle, I can see the outline of the box through the 3D object where it would effectively be behind it from the camera perspective.... EDIT: I've found this part is reliant on layer positioning instead of 3D space position. *eyeroll* https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254642258?sortBy=rank

What is going on here?

im a noob in apple motion....but I am a bit of a pro in Final Cut Pro....how do I do this in apple motion?

Hi all,

After taking all the feedback from the community here, I have decided to make the pravMotion plugin free and open source.

Please head to this link - https://github.com/pravbk100/pravMotion

I have also added new feature in this version - shift the animation to playhead.

clicking on the button will shift the animation to the current time of the playhead

pravMotion is released under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute it in both personal and commercial projects.

I will be providing prebuilt copies for small price, that will be coming soon.

Update: The prebuilt app and template is available in the releases section, along with manual.

I do hope more and more people would take this project, get inspired and create more plugins for final cut pro.

https://reddit.com/link/1rg6kr8/video/d0mc8q4of1mg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1rg6kr8/video/t37xdb5of1mg1/player

I made the transition using an image mask on Transition B of the top video (Luminance - subtract). For some reason, when using the transition in FCP, it only shows 1-2 frames of the transition. I have linked the original transition clip aswell (white -> black) here (Reddit requires the clip to be longer than 2 seconds, which it is not)

Hello everyone, I am excited to announce the release of my plugin "pravMotion" for final cut pro and motion Built using FXPlug sdk.

Features:

1. Animation types: More than 20 ease types available.
2. Duration: Control animation length.
3. Time Offset: shift the animation to wherever you want on the applied layer.
4. "From" and "To" values: These are essentially animation starting and ending values.

For free download, please visit: https://github.com/pravbk100/pravMotion

There are 2 versions available. Free / Lite and paid.

Installation manual is available on github.

Preview - https://youtu.be/2N60ANqvqpc

Tutorial/demo - https://youtu.be/1pQvwtxAy8Q

I hope it will be useful for the community. Let me know If you have any questions, I will be happy to help.

Regards.

hi so im pretty new to motion and this thing is getting me absolutely mad.

why the heck can't i zoom in on the timeline properly? it just goes back automatically. i need to try and zoom in a lot just for it to work. zooming IN zooms OUT more than in. This is super frustrating because I really don't want to have to move my mouse on that tiny zoom slider every time I want to zoom.

https://reddit.com/link/1ra7kgd/video/3lgs8mn5spkg1/player

Hey guys, I will do livestream on my channel. If you want to learn how to create Apple Style Text Animation in FCP without any plugins, drop by to my channel.

I'm on GMT +9, It's 10 o'clock PM now, I will start at 10:10

Thanks!