Real-time 2-D as well as 3-D graphics compositing application Motion now contains 3-D shadows with reflections among adjustable color, shadow, opacity, plus more; depth of field capabilities with a Focus camera behavior for drawing interest to heartrending items in 3-D space; as well as innovative text with titling tools, such as a new Adjust Glyph tool for altering characters with a new Scroll Text behavior for automatically animating credit rolls.

Motion also adds a Bad Film filter for giving footage a historical appearance; the identical simple export options, ProRes 4444 support, with Multi-Touch motion support as Final Cut Pro 7; as well as support the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator.