Common Use Cases
Motion State can animate anything the effect is applied to without keyframes.
Use it on video clips, images, text, graphics, adjustment layers, or any other clip types.
If you’re new to the workflow, read State-based Animation first, then follow the Quick Start.
Reframing
Section titled “Reframing”Use a shorter duration and strong easing for quick, noticeable movements.
Good for:
- Zoom-ins on a sepcifc detail
- Gentle zoom-ins/outs for emphasis
- Quick, reaction-style motion
Use Transform Controls for the movement and Crop and Shape Controls when you need a framed layout.
Slow animations
Section titled “Slow animations”Use a longer duration and softer (or linear) easing for slower animations.
Good for:
- Subtle motion on static photos (pan-and-scan)
- Slow dolly-in during a longer explanation
See Timing and Easing for duration, alignment, and easing controls.
Fullscreen to picture-in-picture
Section titled “Fullscreen to picture-in-picture”Animate from a fullscreen State A to a cropped picture-in-picture State B.
This is useful for tutorials, screen recordings, presentations, talking-head layouts, and social edits where a clip needs to move into a designed frame.
Use Crop and Shape Controls for the frame, Transform Controls for placement, and Stroke Controls for the edge styling.
Revealing text or graphics
Section titled “Revealing text or graphics”Apply Motion State to text or graphics to reveal items in sequence.
For example:
- Fade in and move up
- Slide in from out of frame
- Scale in subtly
- Bounce in from above
Reuse with Effect Presets
Section titled “Reuse with Effect Presets”Once you build a Motion State setup you like, save it as a Premiere Effect Preset by right-clicking the effect in the Effect Controls panel and choosing Save Preset....
The preset will appear in the Presets folder of the Effects panel, which lets you quickly apply the same motion to future clips without rebuilding the Motion State settings each time.