Installation and Activation

Install Motion State

1. Close Premiere (and After Effects).
2. Run the Motion State installer for your operating system.
3. Reopen Premiere.
4. Open the Effects panel.
5. Find Motion State under Video Effects > Jake In Motion.

The installer also installs the companion Motion State extension, which you open from Window > UXP Plugins > Motion State. See The Motion State Panel.

Updating from an earlier version

Reset the plugin cache once after updating to 1.1.0

Motion State 1.1.0 changed the effect’s parameter layout. Premiere caches that layout, so the first launch after updating needs a one-time reset or the controls may not load correctly.

1. Install Motion State 1.1.0 with Premiere closed.
2. Hold Shift while Premiere starts.
3. In the dialog that appears, tick Reset plugin loading cache.
4. Continue starting Premiere.

You only need to do this once. Existing projects keep their Motion State settings.

Later updates, including 1.1.1, do not need the cache reset — install with Premiere closed and reopen it as usual.

Version requirements

• Effect: Premiere version 25.0 or newer.
• Panel: Premiere version 25.6 or newer.

The Motion State effect may work on older versions of Premiere, but it has not been tested. The extension is UXP format, and requires version 25.6 or newer to work. You can still use the effect without the extension. See Platform Support.

For Windows GPU acceleration, use an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support. Windows computers with AMD or Intel graphics use CPU fallback.

See Platform Support for details.

If Motion State does not appear in Premiere, see Troubleshooting.

After Motion State is installed and activated, continue with the Quick Start.

Activate Motion State

Motion State uses a license key to unlock the plugin after purchase. Until this computer is activated, a watermark is rendered over any clip with Motion State applied — diagonal bars plus a message explaining how to activate.

First, find your license key in your receipt email or by visiting Lemon Squeezy. Then activate from either the panel or the effect — both do the same thing, and either one activates this computer for both.

From the panel

Added in 1.1.1. Nothing needs to be applied to a clip, so this is usually the quickest way.

1. Open the panel from Window > UXP Plugins > Motion State.
2. Click the Not activated badge in the panel’s tab bar, or choose License from the ☰ menu.
3. Paste your license key.
4. Click Activate.

The badge disappears once this computer is activated.

From the effect

1. Apply Motion State to a clip in Premiere.
2. In Effect Controls, click the small Setup/options icon in the Motion State effect header. The dialog is Motion State’s Register dialog.
3. Paste your license key.
4. Click Activate.

Once activated, Motion State remembers this computer.

The Register dialog also includes:

• Docs — opens these Motion State docs.
• Send Feedback — opens a native feedback form for general feedback, bug reports, or feature requests.
• Renderer — which renderer actually produced the last frame.

Checking which renderer ran

The Register dialog reports the renderer so you can confirm whether Motion State is using your GPU:

What it shows	What it means
GPU (CUDA)	Hardware accelerated on an NVIDIA GPU
GPU (Metal)	Hardware accelerated on macOS
CPU - GPU unavailable: …	Running on the CPU fallback, with the reason the GPU declined
not yet rendered	No Motion State frame has rendered yet — play or scrub the clip first

If you see the CPU fallback and expected GPU acceleration, include that whole line when you contact support. See Platform Support.

Machine limit

A Motion State license can be active on a maximum of 2 computers at the same time.

If you need to move Motion State to another computer, deactivate the old computer first — from the panel’s License dialog, or from the effect’s Setup/options icon — or manage the order from Lemon Squeezy.

Offline use

After Motion State has been activated, it can continue working for a limited time without an internet connection.

You will need an internet connection to activate, deactivate, or refresh license status.