Motion 4 (plug-in) After Effects Tutorial

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Motion 4 (plug-in) After Effects Tutorial - Complete Guide

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Holmes Motion

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@animomotiongraphics7289 2 жыл бұрын

This is bookmarked for me for so many projects where I need a quick reminder of what Motion can do. I use some parts daily but there is So. Much. Stuff. Here that I.dont use regularly that I know I will be able to use over the course of a year, and the time this plug in saves is insane. Thanks for your work putting this together my man - subscribed!

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you find it useful !

@Danbg 5 ай бұрын

I know this video is old but it's the same for me

@theChefnut Жыл бұрын

This was SO helpful! I cannot believe that on the developers ACTUAL WEBSITE they have ZERO information about Motion 4.

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful!

@posterboyvicky Жыл бұрын

my jaw was on the floor all the time while watching the video! instantly bought the plugin! wish I'd knew about it earlier

@Clk9057 Ай бұрын

haha same, game changer after game changer here!

@MrPada143 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sooo happy Motion 4 is out!!!!!

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

So am I ! What’s your favourite tool ?

@nikyabodigital 6 ай бұрын

Wow ! I also see it's much more efficient and smoother to operate compared to the last version! Well done!

@bearimo2867 2 жыл бұрын

God I love Motion. Absolutely essential plug in and still unbelievable value. Now the best hands down most used plugin daily for AE for me

@trinhlam2497 Жыл бұрын

Thank you a lot for the break down. Still my favorite plug in since Motion 2, your update is amazing !!!!

@espley123 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Pacing, vibes, information density all spot on 👍

@rickardbengtsson Жыл бұрын

A beast indeed - need to bookmark and come back to this video every once in a while to remember what all the cool buttons do hah

@schnudiesounds Жыл бұрын

Should have mentioned this years ago, as a long term user. Awesome Work, Mister ;-) thx

@artemtsenev Жыл бұрын

This plugin like After Effects inside of After Effects. It is so huge and useful!

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@funk2eat1 2 жыл бұрын

Layer > Create > Create Shapes from Text is how you've always outlined text in After Effects

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

Mind blown. I never knew this. Thank you !

@florisgagesteijn1530 Жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion actually, I think I havent seen a single new thing. But it's quite a hassle to learn all these weird tricks. I guess the UI of AE has allot to improve on and it is allot easier to learn with this plugin.

@NawazAlamgir Жыл бұрын

I had no idea this was out, there's been no mention in the community or on twitter! Thanks for posting, I lost my original purchase so will have to buy again, I've been using this since v2!

@abdullahaljalil5218 Жыл бұрын

Appreciate this comprehensive explanation of the plug in capabilities Deserve to be followed bro 👍

@kaffyyy Жыл бұрын

Big thanks for the explanation!!! this is an AE must buy plugin for sure!

@donttellhimpike2043 2 жыл бұрын

Great summary. Thanks and subbed

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

Happy animating !

@NusrathUllah Жыл бұрын

Amazing Update, this is my favorite plugin of AE

@alifhughes 2 жыл бұрын

yes mate, keep them coming!

@vijisrangoli 5 ай бұрын

This video is information overload... cannot believe single plugin can do so much lol

@cordel_ringani 2 жыл бұрын

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!!!🥰🤩

@designquicktime4216 8 ай бұрын

Thank you I subscribed just because of this video

@carfox1860 Жыл бұрын

Incredible video! Thanks!!

@AlexandreSoma Жыл бұрын

So many functions that it is like learn AF all over again...

@motiondesignberlin10243 Жыл бұрын

Great overview - thanks!

@captincaution 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Thank you so much

@HolmesMotion 3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@DotLine416 Жыл бұрын

Great vid And plugin Thanks!!!

@mathieupicard897 2 жыл бұрын

Really nice! Do you know if the effects will still work if co-workers that don't have the plug-in, open up a backup project made with Motion 4?

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

In my experience yes. Because the plug in just adds expressions to the layers, which will work independently of the plug-in being installed

@mathieupicard897 2 жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion thanks!

@bearimo2867 2 жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion agreed I've never had any issues with any of the applied effects so far, another bonus of Motion!

@aaana3 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video - thank you :)

@pitik Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tutorial. This is a monster tool and I think It should be into AE. In my opinion there is a missing tool... creating LOOPS easily with one click.

@longnguyen203 Жыл бұрын

How to pin a favorate tool to the plugin's home screen?

@blanquitito 2 жыл бұрын

If you update doesnt show, try manual install. worked for me

@divergent4060 Жыл бұрын

After Effects 2020 works great

@schahzaad84 2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@kishiallebone4073 10 ай бұрын

Thank you bro!

@sarmediart4260 Жыл бұрын

Thanx for Discount 👌👌👌👍

@GarrickEnright 2 жыл бұрын

Did they ditch the quick presets for curves? I have to click 3 buttons now instead of 1? Tell me I'm missing something?

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean for the easing presets ?

@ShafiqFaizal 2 жыл бұрын

I was spending quite a bit of time figuring this out. Why did they change it? It's less intuitive this way IMO. Edit: According to their release notes, they'll bring back the ease presets shortcut to the home menu and adding on other features related to easing. That's cool!

@garnishstudio3567 Жыл бұрын

@@ShafiqFaizal @Garrick Enright Do you know if they've updated this? I still have trouble smoothly using the new easing presets with motion 4 relative to motion 3. I still can't figure out how to tweak the easing data that already exists on the keyframes, rather than overwriting it.

@jbb1798 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@sebasmoreno25 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for the breakdown! I loved Motion 2, and finde necessary Motion 3 for my workflow... but I feel it's a bit too much now. I'd like to know how many of those option you've used constantly.

@garnishstudio3567 Жыл бұрын

Indeed. I find myself confused about some of the UI coming from motion 3, and have trouble for example detecting what kind of easy ease data already exists on keyframes. I find myself overwriting the keyframe data, rather than being able to come back to a keyframe and make subtle tweaks, which is pretty disruptive for me. Update: NVM, I figured it out. You have to click on the signal icon in the Ease Graph window when some keyframes are highlighted -- then it will show the current easing data.

@GoldenCoastGTA Жыл бұрын

This is all very overwhelming, I guess I'll have to run myself a teaching course at some point!

@user-oq6de8sd6y Жыл бұрын

Great & Thanks !

@captaincustard2115 Жыл бұрын

thanks Man!!!!

@nedschi 9 ай бұрын

Yesterday I bought Motion 4. Today I accidentally deleted the easing presets. How do I get them back? I would also like to create new easing curves. For example 90,90. But this is displayed to me as [0.9,0,0.1,1]. With this square brackets. But I want it to say 90,90. Like in your example at 0:57. How does it work?

@dr.designer7498 Жыл бұрын

Thanks ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

@MauriceLeenen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@rpkgraphiks9011 2 жыл бұрын

Just WOW!

@ronnykhalil 2 жыл бұрын

Thank yooooou!

@LenaMilize Жыл бұрын

Powerful.

@w0mblemania Жыл бұрын

This was very interesting, thank you. Can animations created with these effects -- such as Burst or Orbit -- be exported as Lottie files?

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

They add expressions to your layers which AFAIK Lottie does not currently support. But you could bake expressions to frames and maybe that would work ?

@w0mblemania Жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion Cheers.

@user-sx3iv5fh1b 3 ай бұрын

Can this be the BEST motion extension ever??

@HolmesMotion 3 ай бұрын

Possibly !

@feelthemusic434 5 ай бұрын

you almost look like Ryan Gosling hehe

@bryonymorganPP Жыл бұрын

Could you help? I'm trying to create a colour palette with brand colours - but I can't figure out how to type in hex codes. I type and hit Enter, but the colour doesn't change. Any help, rather than using colour picker? :)

@machinebeat130 Жыл бұрын

I think you could just load swatch in to it and use it from there. Haven't tried yet. But using AE with cc cloud and colours just suck.. I generally hate the color picker in AE..

@mehdisalehani3715 Жыл бұрын

i have the motion v 4 package but when i run the script it doesn't do anything , also i don't know if it supports after effects 2020

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Their website states it only supports 2021 or later

@mehdisalehani Жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion yeah i checked and mine is 2021, still the same thing happens

@rigidhammer7376 Жыл бұрын

this is a tutorial that needs behind the scene 😅

@timaging Жыл бұрын

is there a way to get orbit to work on a wide ellipse and not just a circle?

@SusuSkayllker Жыл бұрын

Obrigada

@sophiemulders Жыл бұрын

i cant seem to figure out how to copy keyframes ( trimpath keyframes) to 7 other layers with the clone tool. i know you need to select the keyframes you want to copy but how do i say where to copy them to.... ( same place in time line just to the other layers)

@eugenedementev9883 Жыл бұрын

Hi! Didn't get how delay features work ^( Don't know why but layers moving from their started postions (if im try to using at this properties). But in general im want to make delay at trim paths animations - not working for me.

@petrholusa5855 Жыл бұрын

Hi there, are there shortcuts like crop comp to objects, cut timeline to layers, mostly like mobar2 functions? Thanks.

@mavishuanginnyc 8 ай бұрын

Can someone tell me how do i change the default null color? My preference is set correctly and I do see the three null color options in Motion 4 but I have no idea how to change it!

@melbendigo 4 ай бұрын

If I use Burst or Excite in a project, will the effect still be there on a computer that doesn't have Motion4 installed? Thanks!

@thomasvangeel1594 2 жыл бұрын

Love Motion, but is it me? Or is their Group Function totally buggy?

@KowitaG Жыл бұрын

Is there a way to make it "bounce"? - I'm thinking like a twitch alert

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

You could try using 'jump', keyframe the y position so it jumps up a little and bounces back down. Experiment with the max bounces etc. Then loopOut the keyframes so it repeats

@MrPondo17 2 жыл бұрын

Why they not added an offset Layers/Keyframes ?(( Like in Motion Tools 2

@bryanschumacker5417 4 ай бұрын

What about vector? That is not working for me.

@radkookie Жыл бұрын

How does one import easing libraries?

@mrfenandes 2 жыл бұрын

I'm finding the easings really ropey, they don't always seem to apply and require multiple attempts, sometimes just don't apply at all... Is anyone else finding this?

@machinebeat130 Жыл бұрын

Same here.. You have to click multiple times.. But the presets are such a timesaver!

@mrfenandes Жыл бұрын

@@machinebeat130 Seems to be sorted with latest update. Yeah definitely a great plugin to have!

@iranboos Жыл бұрын

❤

@iamYork_ 2 жыл бұрын

I wish motion 4 gave us the option to turn it back to version 3... haha... Best plugin for Ae 100%... been using it since v2 I love all the features but find myself really using about 7 features non-stop and the rest almost never... Great overview though... Sometimes I forget it offers so much...

@nedschi 9 ай бұрын

Could you tell what 7 features these are?

@iamYork_ 9 ай бұрын

@@nedschi it updated again recently but the feature i have pinned that i use most would be "clone" for my key frame just for basic ins and outs... A lot of simple features that can be simulated with ease but clicking a button as opposed to manually doing it again again and again... Mostly organizing like sort, rename... When I work on projects with seemingly endless assets, especially when it is handed to me in a sloppy pipeline... text break... trim to keys was a new one i noticed which helps... Easing presets i have customized for quickness too... A lot of the dynamics, colour palettes etc. i never touch... Every project i work on is different but organization short cuts are my favourite... I'm aure everyone uses the extension differently... I'm away on holiday so cant name them all off the top of my head but when im back in the lab Monday I can give you more specifics...

@nedschi 9 ай бұрын

@_iamYork Cool. Thank you very much for the reply. I just bought Motion 4. And it will take some time to figure out which feature is usefull.

@iamYork_ 8 ай бұрын

@@nedschi it as an amazing script... probably something i use in every project in some way... It definitely does a lot more too that I dont use too...

@iamYork_ 8 ай бұрын

@@nedschi im back in the lab and the tools I keep pinned are "Reverse, Null, Grab, Sort, Blend, Rename, Clone, trim, trim to keys and stagger... Blend i cant remember last time I used and trim also... But all of the others i use regularly...

@francis9506 Жыл бұрын

when i use the pin plus tool the pin's nulls gets placed way off from the puppetpins placement. anyone know how to fix this?

@MarriedBikelife Жыл бұрын

can these work on regular mask and clones and rotobrushes for music vids

@tvchris 2 жыл бұрын

The correct answer to the question, "If you could only install one After Effects plugin what would it be?"

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

It’s not even an exaggeration 😅

@satoroeip07 Жыл бұрын

when i appley delay , a message show up : " not all selected properties on the same layer " any solution for that !

@sponspring Жыл бұрын

Is there a tool to stagger layers randomly? If you have say 50 layers and want to have them start between 0-25 frames?

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Keep, check out the Skew plugin, I have a video on my channel about it

@kingdesignerr 4 ай бұрын

will it support after effects 2020

@WillianWTF 10 ай бұрын

right but how to install?

@davidgense331 Жыл бұрын

Hey, what are the shortcuts to swap stroke and fill?

@davidgense331 Жыл бұрын

because at 2:39 you said there are shortcuts for it

@teabagNBG Жыл бұрын

is the price for liftetime or is it subscribtion? are there also align options?

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Yes lifetime ! And I don't think there are align options

@dungnguyen3458 Жыл бұрын

does this work with AE 2020? I'm considering buying without upgrading to 21 and 22 cause those at the moment seem a bit buggy

@johnmoore3435 Жыл бұрын

It didn't work with my AE 2020 version. Everything installed fine but when I opened the extension the panel was just blank white and it stayed like that no matter what I did. I eventually upgraded to AE 2022 and it worked fine. Maybe it will work for you but I don't think there was a problem with my pc I think it was a compatibility issue.

@ryuzaki23mj 10 ай бұрын

opened after effects 2024 today and my motion 4 is no longer working, please help

@HolmesMotion 10 ай бұрын

Hmmm it's working on my 2024. Can you update the plugin?

@ryuzaki23mj 10 ай бұрын

@@HolmesMotion honestly I don't know how I update it manually, most of the time motion 4 updates itself

@LightspeedTutorials Жыл бұрын

Where did the BOUNCE preset go? While Motion4 looks cool on the outside, I find it over-complicated & un-intuitive , packed with unnecessary proprietary features that don't translate down to vanilla AE and missing critical functions. Why do I need to swift thru garbage features like preset comps, control timeline etc: it all can be and IS done withing the app itself! I think the dev team got lost of misguided by some stupid CEO decision here.

@TheYahn Жыл бұрын

Can I add multiple folders onto my Ignored files/folders? If so how, pls? I tried using commas, semi colons, spaces no spaces and now I've run out of ideas, but the field does state folderS, and the manual mentions nothing of the sort :)

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Can you describe in more detail what you mean ? Can't you just rename nested subfolders to also start with 'ignore'?

@TheYahn Жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion hey thanks for your reply :) The sort feature opens a tab with fields where you put the names of the folders where it should sort file types. The last input is basically asking which folders the ‘remove unused’ or ‘remove old folders’ functions should avoid: it’s another text field and it works as expected when typed in the name of one folder; but what if I want more than one folder to be ignored in the whole sorting process? I tried typing in two existing folder names and separating them with whatever code syntax I could think of, but the function breaks completely that way and the sort doesnt avoid either of them. Thanks again, great content btw!

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

@@TheYahn in the last field, you don't have to type in the exact name of the folder. If you type 'cats' into that field, then ANY folder that contains the name cats won't be touched. So why dont you add cats the beginning of the folder name for the multiple folders you want to be ignored ?

@TheYahn Жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion ohh, that's how it works. I somehow missed that.. I also needed to untick the "remove unused" switch to get it to actually not touch my folders, to which I have added a # to their name and am referencing them that way. Thanks a bunch!

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

@@TheYahn you're welcome !

@markmccormick8142 Жыл бұрын

Does this work in CC2019?

@tonybp 2 жыл бұрын

OMG!!!

@melbendigo Жыл бұрын

Here's a dumb question. Once I install it, how do I access the panel? I don't see it in any menu. Thanks!

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Window -> Extensions-> Motion 4 (if it's installed correctly) :)

@melbendigo Жыл бұрын

@@HolmesMotion Ah, there it is! ;) Thank you so much! And thanks for the great video, btw!

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

@@melbendigo you are most welcome :)

@imiy Жыл бұрын

They could just make their own software

@mazenmotion Жыл бұрын

Is motion 4 support After Effects 2020?

@HolmesMotion Жыл бұрын

Currently only 2021 or later

@divergent4060 Жыл бұрын

After Effects 2020 works great

@brutallyremastered4255 Жыл бұрын

That maudlin music on loop. ffs

@mahavatarTopG Жыл бұрын

Bgm name

@yeswr4335 2 жыл бұрын

Hey discount don't work ?

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

It should be, Just remember you have to go all the way to checkout before it applies the discount !

@RTd_LY Жыл бұрын

hmm

@raunar.7036 Жыл бұрын

OMG

@benreiter7218 Жыл бұрын

Thumbs up for wishing for the Sort tool for bedroom in real life. I'm with you. Select all room comps in house.aep

@SKDJDDMDM 2 жыл бұрын

discount code?

@HolmesMotion 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, just use the link in the description, it should navigate you to the website, add Motion 4 to your kart and when you get to checkout it should automatically add the discount before purchase!