Motion State

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

Set the two states, customize the timing and easing curve, 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.

The Motion State Panel Browse and apply presets, and manage clips from the panel.

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, transition delay, or Manual progress control
Continuous motion at constant per-second rates, with no end state
Timing that can extend into Premiere transitions instead of stopping at the cut
Preset, Bezier, Spring, and Bounce easing modes
Motion blur
State A/B controls for transform, crop, stroke, and shadow
Position, scale, rotation, and opacity transform controls
Basic 3D tilt, swivel, and spin with perspective
Crop-based reframing, content offset and content scale, and edge feathering
Rounded and squircle-style corners
Solid or gradient strokes
Gradient stroke animation and glow controls
Drop shadows

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)
Continuous (constant per-second rates, no end state)

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.

Continuous mode is useful for motion that never arrives — endless spin, slow drift, and creeping zoom across the full clip.

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’s in and/or out points, so animations 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

The Motion State panel

Motion State installs a companion panel for Premiere, alongside the effect. Open it from Window > UXP Plugins > Motion State.

The panel includes 105 built-in presets you can apply to a clip with one click, tools to save and organize your own presets, and a Manage tab for previewing, copying/pasting attributes, batch-updating, and editing Motion State clips across a sequence.

The panel can also bake a clip’s animation into native Premiere effects, so a project can be handed to an editor who does not own Motion State. See Bake to Native Effects.

The panel requires Premiere version 25.6 or newer. See The Motion State Panel to get started.

Docs and feedback inside Motion State

Open the Motion State options/setup icon in Premiere to access the Register dialog. From there, you can open these docs or send feedback directly from the plugin.

Feedback submissions include optional email, feedback type, message, plugin version, host app, and platform so support has enough context to investigate.

Where it appears in Premiere

After installation, Motion State appears in Premiere under:

Video Effects > Jake In Motion > Motion State