Motion State

Motion State is a native Adobe Premiere video effect that lets you animate a clip between two visual states — State A and State B — without keyframes.

Set the two states, choose how the transition should animate, and Motion State handles the rest.

Install and Activate Motion State Install the plugin, find it in Premiere, and activate your license.

Quick Start Apply the effect, set parameters, and animate.

Platform Support Check supported Mac and Windows hardware.

State-Based Animation Understand the Motion State workflow.

Timing and Easing Control direction, alignment, duration, easing, and more.

Common Use Cases Quick zooms, pan and scan, picture-in-picture, and text/graphic reveals.

What Motion State does

Motion State lets you animate between two states of a clip with controls for:

Transition direction
Start of clip, end of clip, or full-duration animation alignment
Duration-based timing or Manual progress control
Preset, Bezier, Spring, and Bounce easing modes
Motion blur
Position, scale, rotation, and opacity transform controls
Crop-based reframing and content offset control
Rounded and squircle-style corners
Solid or gradient strokes
Gradient stroke animation and glow controls

Animation modes

Motion State can animate between states using several patterns:

A to B
B to A
A to B to A (aligned to both ends of a clip)
B to A to B (aligned to both ends of a clip)
Hold A (No animation)
Hold B (No animation)
Manual (0%-100% progress value)

Hold modes are useful when you need to maintain one state’s transformations across multiple clips.

Manual mode is useful when you want to keyframe Transition Progress yourself. You can expose this property on the clip itself and animate directly on the timeline.

No keyframes required

Motion State is designed to make simple movement fast and easy.

You define the states, choose the timing, and adjust the easing. The animation stays tied to the clip, so repeated layouts are faster to build and easier to revise.

Common use cases

Motion State is great for all kinds of animation, including:

Zoom ins and zoom outs
Pan and scan movement around the frame (Ken Burns effect)
Fullscreen to picture-in-picture crops
Revealing text or graphics

Where it appears in Premiere

After installation, Motion State appears in Premiere under:

Video Effects > Jake In Motion > Motion State