Platform Support

Motion State is a native Premiere effect for macOS and Windows.

Supported apps

Motion State is built for Adobe Premiere.

It may appear in other Adobe apps that scan the shared plugin folder, but Motion State is only designed, tested, and supported in Premiere.

macOS support

Motion State supports macOS through Apple’s Metal graphics system.

Supported Mac hardware:

Apple silicon Macs
Intel Macs with Metal support

Intel Mac support is best-effort. Motion State is built as a universal Mac plugin, but most testing is done on Apple silicon.

Windows support

Motion State supports Windows in Premiere.

For GPU acceleration on Windows, Motion State requires an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support.

Windows computers with AMD or Intel graphics can still use Motion State through the CPU fallback renderer, but performance will be slower than on supported NVIDIA/CUDA systems, especially with high-resolution footage, motion blur, glow, large strokes, or multiple Motion State clips.

What is not supported

Motion State does not currently provide Windows GPU acceleration for:

AMD GPUs
Intel integrated graphics
DirectX-only acceleration
OpenCL acceleration

Those systems use CPU fallback instead.

What affects performance

Performance can vary based on:

Operating system
GPU support
Footage resolution and codec
Sequence resolution
Bit depth
Motion blur settings
Glow settings
Stroke width and gradient cycling
Number of Motion State effects visible at once

If playback feels slow, lower Premiere’s playback resolution while editing, disable motion blur until final review, or render/export a short test section.

For more details, see Rendering and Quality and Troubleshooting.