Motion 2 contains more than 130 GPU-accelerated filters and effects in its Library to use in your projects, including 16 brand new filters. Here's a look at what these new filters can do for you.
Extrude—Simulates depth in an object with an alpha channel by creating an object "front" and "back," offsetting them, and extruding the edges so that they connect.
Indent—Gives a shiny, bump-mapped appearance to an image, with raised and flat areas.
Refraction—Creates a glass-distortion effect on an image, with an optional height map.
Relief—Creates a 3D height map by using the color values of an object or height map to calculate height vertices.
Basic 3D—Allows you to rotate an object on the X, Y, and Z axes, and set its position and perspective.
Prism—Blurs and refracts an image as if seen through a prism, creating a rainbow effect.
Channel Swap—Substitutes the color value of a channel with that of either a selected channel or its inverse. If you select Blue from Red, the blue value in the object will match the red value across the entire object. Channel Swap can be used in a variety of ways, including simply inverting an object's alpha channel.
Gradient Colorize—Colorizes an image using color values instead of position to determine the application of the colors in the gradient.
Vectorize Color—Makes an object appear as multicolored polygons. It substitutes four colors over the entire color range of the object.
Earthquake—Creates an animated displacement effect on an object, adjusting its position as if it was being shaken by an earthquake.
Matte Magic—Erodes and feathers matte edges.
Vignette—Simulates the light fall-off and corner blurring in images as seen through some camera lenses.
Random Tile—Tiles an object in an irregular pattern with circular panels.
Scrub—Moves a virtual playhead around a clip, allowing you to change the timing of the clip without moving it in the Timeline. You can also use this filter to create a freeze frame. Additionally, it allows you to animate the offset parameter, often with interesting results. Try adding the Scrub filter to a clip, then applying the Randomize behavior to the Frame offset with the "Offset from" parameter set to Current Frame.
Trails—Draws light or dark motion trails that follow an object's movement. This is only effective with moving images.
Reduce Banding—Adds a small amount of noise to the pixels of an object, often used to soften the banding seen on 8-bit images with subtle gradients. This filter used to be called Noise Dither.
Bonus Filters—You can download three additional new filters by registering your copy of Motion. You can register by launching the application or registering online. Once registration is complete, go here to download the additional filters. These new filters are: