Troubleshooting

Use this page if Motion State does not appear or does not behave as expected.

Controls look wrong after updating to 1.1.0

Motion State 1.1.0 changed the effect’s parameter layout, and Premiere caches that layout between launches. If controls appear missing, mislabeled, or in the wrong place after updating, reset the cache once:

1. Quit Premiere.
2. Hold Shift while Premiere starts.
3. Tick Reset plugin loading cache.
4. Continue starting Premiere.

This is a one-time step per machine. Your projects and their Motion State settings are not affected. See Installation and Activation.

Motion State does not appear in Premiere

Try these checks:

1. Confirm the plugin installer completed successfully. See Installation and Activation.
2. Quit and reopen Premiere.
3. Search the Effects panel for Motion State.
4. Confirm you are using a supported version of Premiere.
5. If needed, launch Premiere while holding Shift and choose to reset the plugin loading cache.
6. If needed, restart your computer and reopen Premiere.

On macOS, native video effects commonly install into Adobe’s shared MediaCore plugin folder:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/

Motion State does nothing on a text, shape, or graphic clip

If you apply Motion State to a text, shape, or other graphic clip and nothing animates, it is almost always the effect order.

In Effect Controls, Motion State must sit above the Shape or Text entry for that clip. If it landed below the graphic content, drag it up above it — the animation will then work.

Applying a preset from the Motion State panel places the effect correctly for you, so this only comes up when you drag the effect on manually.

The Motion State panel does not appear

The panel is opened from:

Window > UXP Plugins > Motion State

If it is not listed there:

1. Confirm you are on Premiere 2025 version 25.6 or newer. The panel requires 25.6+, even though the effect itself works on earlier 2025 releases.
2. Confirm the Motion State installer completed. The panel is installed by the same installer as the effect.
3. Quit and reopen Premiere.
4. If you installed the panel manually and Creative Cloud warned about a third-party plugin, approve it and reopen Premiere. The bundled installer does not trigger that warning.

Oversized footage will not move across the frame

If your footage is larger than the sequence on any axis, Motion State transforms it only within its own frame — not across the sequence canvas.

The most visible case is a vertical clip in a horizontal sequence: Position moves the shot inside its own tall frame, but you cannot slide it across the wider sequence frame.

Workarounds:

• Scale the footage down first so it fits inside the sequence, then use Motion State.
• Use Transfer Motion in the panel, which pulls your existing native framing into Motion State. On oversized footage it deliberately leaves Position on native Motion, so you keep native positioning and gain Motion State’s crop, corners, and stroke.

Bake did not carry everything, or refused a clip

Bake recreates the animation with native Premiere effects. Stroke, glow, and corner smoothness have no native equivalent and are dropped. Edge feather, motion blur, and 3D perspective are carried approximately. The bake report names both per clip.

Bake refuses a clip entirely if it uses Manual mode, has Extend to Transitions on, is time-remapped or speed-changed, is an adjustment layer, or uses Basic 3D with an off-center anchor point.

If Bake reports nothing was changed, one clip in the selection blocked the batch — bakes are all-or-nothing so you never end up with a half-converted sequence. Fix the cause and retry.

If the report says a required effect is missing, your Premiere installation does not ship one of the effects that clip needs — most often Rounded Crop, which Bake uses for crop, corner radius, and feather. Nothing is changed in that case.

Motion State is rendering slowly

Check which renderer is actually running. Open the Setup/options icon in the Motion State effect header and read the renderer line in the Register dialog.

If it reads CPU - GPU unavailable: followed by a reason, Motion State declined the GPU and Premiere is using the much slower CPU path. The reason text says why. Common causes:

• The machine has an AMD or Intel GPU, which Motion State does not accelerate on Windows.
• On macOS, Motion State is installed in both the system and per-user plugin folders. Remove one copy and restart Premiere.

Include the full renderer line if you contact support. See Platform Support.

There are diagonal bars over my clip

That is the Motion State watermark, and it means this computer has not been activated yet. It is not a render fault, a GPU problem, or anything wrong with the clip.

Activate the computer with your license key and the watermark clears immediately — no restart, and nothing about your clip’s settings changes. See Installation and Activation.

If you believe this computer is already activated:

• Open the panel and check the tab bar. A Not activated badge there confirms it is not.
• Open the License dialog from the panel’s ☰ menu, or the effect’s Setup/options icon, and click Re-check.
• If you have activated Motion State on two other computers, this one cannot activate until you deactivate one of them. See Machine limit.

Activation does not work

If activation fails:

• Confirm the license key was copied correctly
• Check your internet connection
• Try again on a less restrictive network
• Retry from the panel’s License dialog, or the effect’s Setup/options icon
• Contact support with your order email and operating system

If the panel’s License dialog says the Motion State effect is not responding, the panel and the effect are installed but the effect has not loaded. Restart Premiere, and if it persists, reinstall Motion State so both halves are on the same version. You can always activate from the effect’s Setup/options icon in Effect Controls instead.