well-designed, gets bogged down sometimes

Im a multimedia producer, and I use Motion for the usual: compositing effects and keyed images/video for larger projects, creating short animations, and making more specialized titles than Final Cut can manage. And for this, Motion works great. Its powerful, intuitive if you use Final Cut X, and usually pretty quick on my late 11 MacBook Pro.

However, I also use it for a relatively demanding purpose on the side. I do music production, and for simple animated music videos, I use the audio-modified behavior to the programs limit, at least on my admittedly not brand-new machine. At worst, Ive had upwards of twenty objects, all being transformed by different frequencies, and almost everything I tried to do in the application caused it to hang for about five seconds. The one star off isnt for this alone, its also because it obviously hasnt been updated for Yosemite, and the lack of any recent optimizations are only exacerbating the issues I have.

If you have an iMac, Mac Pro, or any newer MacBook Pro, you should be fine, but just be aware that some things you can do with it will be considerably more taxing than others.

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