Apple Motion 5 updates since October 2016

Here is a rundown of the new features added to Apple Motion 5 since 2016.

For details on stability improvements and issue fixes, visit Apple’s Motion release notes.

October 27, 2016:

Motion 5.3

• Wide colour
• Improved Link parameter behavior
• Align To behavior
• Improved 3D text

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.3

April 13, 2017:

Motion 5.3.2

• Fill filter

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.3.3

December 14, 2017:

Motion 5.4

• 360° VR motion graphics support
• Convert the current Motion document to be a Motion project, Final Cut Pro generator, Final Cut Pro title, Final Cut Pro effect, or Final Cut Pro transition
• Overshoot parameter behavior
• Filters for different photographic looks
• Import, playback, and editing of HEVC video clips and HEIF photos

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.4

April 9, 2018:

Motion 5.4.1

• ProRes RAW

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.4.1

November 15, 2018:

Motion 5.4.2

• Advanced color grading – colour wheels, colour curves, hue/saturation curves
• Custom LUT filter
• Comic filter
• Tiny Planet filter – for displaying 360° spherical video in non-360° projects

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.4.4

March 21, 2019:

Motion 5.4.3

• Detects media files that may be incompatible with future versions of macOS after Mojave and converts them to a compatible format

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.4.6

October 7, 2019:

Motion 5.4.4

• HDR projects

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.4.7

August 25, 2020:

Motion 5.4.6

• 3D objects
• Stroke filter
• Square and vertical presets available as display aspect ratio snapshots in the Project Inspector

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.4.9

November 12, 2020:

Motion 5.5

• Export HLG high-dynamic-range projects with Dolby Vision 8.4 metadata for optimised playback on Apple devices
• Avid DNxHR/DNxHD®

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.5

March 4, 2021:

Motion 5.51

• Auto-Shrink option in Text Layout tab of the Inspector to automatically reduce text size to fit in a paragraph, scroll, or crawl layout

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.5.2

October 18, 2021:

Motion 5.6

• Object tracker
• Cinematic mode video clips
• Neon filter

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.6

April 12, 2022:

Motion 5.6.1

• Sliced Scale filter
• Object tracker improvements

Introduced on the same day as Final Cut Pro 10.6.2