Changed

• Removed 's' shortcut for search

Fixed

• Layout issues in older After Effects versions

FIXED

• Text input issue on Requests and Bug Report pages

ADDED

• New Tool: Stagger! Align and shift layers
• New Tool: Trim to Keys! Trim layer in and out points to first or last keyframe.
• Motion path polling & recording for Emitter and Canvas
• Pin tools to nav-bar on homepage
• Keyboard shortcut "s" to quickly open Search
• Simple math in input fields
• Randomize Emitter & Canvas categories by CTRL/CMD + clicking them
• Instant login on the login page
• Functionality for Ease in/Ease out icons on easing sliders
• Dragging numeric input fields in Emitter & Canvas
• New Sort toggle to only sort the selected folder
• Show copied colors in Paste button tooltip

CHANGED

• The Sort tool now merges folders if categories have the same folder name
• Updated Palette and Easing styling
• Optimize Emitter & Canvas full-screen (tilde) view
• Improved live polling for large projects

FIXED

• Delay bug where the guide layer would not align with the selected layer
• Scalene Triangle had twice the stroke width
• Fast mode on Text-Break would mess up the anchor points

ADDED

• New Tool: Emitter! Interact & record emitting particles
• New Tool: Snapshot! Make screenshots from your composition
• New Tool: Kinetic! Animate keyframes based on the speed of a target layer
• Drag and re-order Focus groups, pinned tools, palettes and easings
• Fill and stroke parameters for the Shapes tool
• Focus group indicators for visibility, lock and shy
• Invert focus and focus group actions by CMD/CTRL + Click
• Header navigation by scrolling
• Line break mode in the Text break tool
• Poll keyframe influence values for 2 selected keyframes
• Preserve timing parameter for Animo tool
• Randomize seed parameter for the Dynamics tool
• Scroll and keypad interaction for Timeline Scrubbing with Frame Snap
• Show recent tool runs in empty search page
• Toggle through stroke caps by clicking on the Stroke slider icon

CHANGED

• Save Frame Snap to settings
• Show pinned palette on the Color page

FIXED

• Dynamics amount going to -100 instead of -9999

ADDED

• New Tool: Canvas! Generate a custom particle sequence

CHANGED

• More noticable "Save options as default" button
• Show Focus group functions on hover
• Focus and Null tool colors are pulled from After Effects Preferences

FIXED

• Apply texture to layer with existing track matte
• Color slider mouse drift
• Pin+ now works with .ai layers
• "Trim Comp to Workarea" Focus groups bug

FIXED

• After Effects 22.6 bug workaround
• Always show essential tooltips, regardless of UI setting
• Updates to prevent third-party extension conflicts

ADDED

• Auto-update confirmation pop-up
• Edit field to rename composition(s) in the Composition workflow

CHANGED

• Composition now rotates around center of composition when swapping WxH
• Ease-out and ease-in sliders now only set ‘out’ and ‘in’ values, respectively.
• Rounded Focus indicator
• Show full Motion-4 version number in menu

FIXED

• After Effects 22.6 update causing ‘undefined’ errors
• Anchor center to comp issue with parented layer
• Dynamics setting multiple effect controls on single layer
• Easing error after separating dimensions
• Focus groups broke when layers were shifted in timeline
• Focus page scroll container
• Issue attaching Null to time-reversed layers
• Offline mode issues
• Unique vector layer names

ADDED

• Pin Easings and Color Palettes to Home
• Click center pill on easing slider to apply current ease values
• Customize Pinned tools order on Home
• Modifier shortcut to invert 'show tool overlays' preference (cmd/ctrl + click)
• Setting to optionally disable UI component animation

CHANGED

• Null default color moved to UX settings
• Persist frame snap value per session

FIXED

• Crash on empty composition presets
• Tool options menu visibility
• Uncommon Null ‘NaN’ Error

Motion-4 (M⁴) is an overhaul of tools and components in a new modular interface + a secret weapon. All new to M⁴ is a schedule of expansion pack releases. Stay tuned...

ADDED

• Clone tool - mirror and invert modes
• Copy and Paste tools for Color
• ENTER keyboard shortcut to run tools
• Flip tool GUI
• Shapes tool
• Workflows (Timeline, Anchor+ and Composition)
• Custom Texture import
• Default .ASE palettes
• Tool default options
• Unique tool Overlays
• Universal Search

IMPROVED

• Color, Focus, and Home screen layouts
• Mac OS eyedropper selection speed
• Toolbox organization
• Toolbox screen
• UI and UX
• Color swatch aliases
• Error handling
• Panel responsiveness
• Tooltip descriptions

FIXED

• Eyedropper on scaled Windows OS
• Null crash issue
• Remote Login
• Sorting missing content bug

Cheers to an amplified future,

Mt. Mograph dev team

Fixed

• Offline mode
• AE 22.1 & 22.2 Focus error

Added

• Better error handling
• Uninstall support

Updated

• Installer (ExManCmd) to the latest version

Fixed

• Certificate expired error on old AE versions

Added

• Messages and updates notification bubble

Changed

• Auto-updates by default off

Fixed

• Re-add the tooltip
• Revert to the previous Nulltool
• Re-add Menu > About functions

Fixed

• False positive for some virus scanners

Fixed

• Feedback thank you page opening twice

Added

• New backend
• Composition mode for Texture tool

Fixed

• Break tool crash in Fast-mode
• Texture tool crashing After Effects
• Increment Tracer layers
• Increment Vignette layers
• Offline bug

Fixed

• A bug that caused the panel to restart when offline

Fixed

• Tools sometimes not working or effects not loading when used together with Boombox.

Fixed

• Vector tool not working correctly in CC2018

Added

• Vector master effect control

Fixed

• Changed Vignette's default blending mode to Multiply
• Excite and Jump tool not working correctly with some selections

This is another small stability update, in preperation for the major anniversary update.

Fixed

• Falloff not working correctly in some scenarios with Fast mode enabled
• Anchor tool buttons hitbox size increased

This is a stability update, in preperation for the major anniversary update.

Fixed

• Anchor point tool bug with seperated dimensions
• Restart bug when disconnected from the internet
• New color palette not working when having a solid layer selected
• Not being able to change Solid colors independently
• Sort putting items in wrong (Ai & Psd) folder when name was 3 characters long
• Falloff not working correctly on parented layers
• Falloff not working with multiple properties selected over multiple layers
• Easing values not being rounded

Added

• Creating a new color palette with a selection now also picks up Text Stroke and Fills, Solid colors and Fill Effects

Changed

• Improved devices manager
• Decrease contrast on easing presets
• Added automatic reload after update for future updates

Fixed

• Anchor point issue with non-square pixel aspect ratio
• Color wheel overlay issue
• Potential fix for "No active comp" sticking
• Speed improvements
• macOS 10.15.3 support

Security

• Updated all dependencies

Changed

• Devices manager screen improvements

Fixed

• Excite not working on some properties
• Jump not working on some properties
• Blend not working on some properties
• macOS installer issue when username has spaces in name

Added

• Add license key manager to interface options

Changed

• Better error feedback with login

Fixed

• Fix rare login issue

Added

• Search in Color palettes
• Search in Comp option
• License seat manager (shows only when running out of seats)

Changed

• Tool shortcuts to display better

Fixed

• Out of seats error during login
• Login issues in some environments

Added

• More error reporting

Fixed

• Rare login error
• Composition check for Null tool
• Some effects not showing on first run

Added

• More error reporting

Changed

• General UI fixes and improvements

Fixed

• Rare crash on startup for some users
• Crash in some cases when uploading a .ase file
• Some effects not loading properly on first run
• Installer issue

Added

• Ease Preset library (save and browse easy ease values)
• Error reporting in Windows installer
• Better reporting of errors
• Search functionality to Tools screen

Changed

• Location of Home screen panel toggles for Ease sliders, Anchor and the Curve Graph. Now panel preferences are found in the Menu > Interface

Fixed

• Icon stroke size to be same
• Dynamics Hold high seed value error
• Save preferences for Rename sub-menu Serialize and Separator options
• Font scaling with resizing Home screen header text
• Crash when entering non-numbers into color picker number entry fields.
• Crash when uploading an invalid color palette .ase file

Added

• New composition Size preset library with ability to save custom presets.
• OPT-click to Focus to selected layer(s) which will select children.
• Some missing icons to Menu options.
• Delete confirmation when deleting color palettes.
• Crash reports for faster resolving of bugs

Changed

• Homescreen layout now always shows all available sections and shortcuts are smartly placed in the available space.
• Redesigned and added custom presets ability to the FPS and Duration screens.
• General UI tweaks and improvements.

Fixed

• Automatic closing of sub-menu’s after running a tool.
• Eyedropper / Color picker support in 2020 and on macOS Catalina.
• Enable toggle on Jump and Excite.
• Make Falloff names more unique

Fixed

• Resize bug on home screen

Added

• Grab tool to focus page to select same properties in group (or active selection)

Fixed

• Installer problem on some macOS setups

Added

• 3D support for Null tool

Changed

• Added stroke to colors on the palettes page

Fixed

• Timestamp signature on .zxp that caused the install to fail with some setups
• Auto-update not succeeding when motion was in the background or the computer was at sleep
• Retry button not working on unsuccessfull login
• Message images not working on some Windows setups

Added

• Tooltips for all tools

Fixed

• Video support on releases page

Added

• Support for breaking shape layers in break tool

Fixed

• Color picker support on Windows
• Auto update issue on Windows

Changed

• Renamed ai-break to break and added support for breaking shape layers
• Menu and sub screen re-design
• Improved the installation and update procedure for Windows and macOS

Fixed

• Anchor tool not working correctly with seperated dimensions and existing keyframes

Fixed

• Falloff not working on properties of other selected layers

Added

• Video support on release notes page
• Save the last active tab on (small) color screen
• Hover effects on some buttons and the scrollbar

Fixed

• Falloff error on CC2018
• Falloff not working on multiple properties with the same name
• Falloff enable toggle
• Disabling fill and stroke on only the selected layer groups
• Responsive text labels on menu page

Changed

• Default falloff value to 50 instead of 0
• Focus does not change the lock state of layers anymore

Added

• Release notes page
• Hover effects to input fields
• Ability to create new color palette from selected layers

Changed

• Improved falloff speed

Fixed

• Dynamics general functionality
• Color tool not working with keyframes
• Anchor tool not working (with option click) on properties with keyframes

Changed

• Improving falloff speed

Added

• macOS Catalina support
• Eyedropper support in CC 2018
• Dynamics now works on light layers
• New tool: Falloff
• New tool: Break
• New tool: Text break
• Include children in Focus by holding alt/option key
• Color picker works on nested shape layer groups
• Seed option to dynamics tool
• Input field for custom values on duration screen
• Input field for custom values on FPS screen
• Sort option on tools page
• Texture dynamics & delay effects

Fixed

• Crash in CC 2018
• Dynamics issue with seperation
• Rename tool button not being clickable everywhere
• Rename tool seperator added after prefix and before suffix
• Sort tool bug putting some files in the wrong folder

Fixed

• Temp comp not removing automatically

Added

• Time reverse option to Clone tool when holding alt key
• New texture effect control

Fixed

• Dynamics seed issue on Hold type
• Issue with shortcut order counts not displaying correctly
• Saving last used settings for some tools

Changed

• Motion3 icons on various screens

Fixed

• Issues with clone tool

Added

• Seed option to dynamics tool

Changed

• Multi monitor option is now called fast mode option and is changed to off by default (for new users only)

• Fixed a critical bug that would crash the panel when viewing only the shortcuts on the homescreen.

We are very sorry! This bug has caused Motion to stop working for a lot of you. Our software is tested thoroughly before release but this one has slipped through because it was dependant on a user setting, which we unfortunately did not have turned on. We will do our very best to make sure this won't happen again in the future and test our releases even more.

We hope you are enjoying Motion and we are really grateful for your bug reports and suggestions, we keep working on Motion to make sure it is the best it can be!

Cheers, Koen & Matt

Thanks for all the feedback and bug reports!

Most of your reported bugs are fixed in this release and more will come soon.

Enjoy!

Thanks for reporting bugs to us! Here is what's fixed in this release:

• Fixed focus issue with masks
• Fixed texture tool
• Fixed serialize option in rename tool
• Fixed delay remembering comp setting incorrectly
• Fixed null Layers not recognised correctly
• Added space as serialize option to rename tool

Release of v3!

The long awaited Motion is finally here with tons of new screens and goodies.

If you find any Bugs or have any Tool Requests, please submit them via the Menu > Requests or Bugs screens. As more tools and improvements are finished we will push them out via the Auto-Update system.

Enjoy!

Koen, Matt

Release of v3.0!

The long awaited Motion is finally here with tons of new screens and goodies.

If you find any Bugs or have any Tool Requests, please submit them via the Menu > Requests or Bugs screens. As more tools and improvements are finished we will push them out via the Auto-Update system.

Enjoy!

Koen, Matt

Release of v3.0!

The long awaited Motion is finally here with tons of new screens and goodies.

If you find any Bugs or have any Tool Requests, please submit them via the Menu > Requests or Bugs screens. As more tools and improvements are finished we will push them out via the Auto-Update system.

Enjoy!

Koen, Matt