Manage Clips

The Manage tab is a cockpit for working with the Motion State clips already in your sequence. It gives you a live preview, copy/paste between clips, batch updates across a sequence, and a full parameter editor — without leaving the panel.

To open the panel, see The Motion State Panel.

Select a clip that has Motion State applied, then click ↻ Refresh to load it into the Manage tab.

Clip actions

The Clip actions section at the top of the side column holds the six actions that apply to the selected clips. It follows the effect’s lifecycle: put it on, reset it, pull existing motion in, convert to and from native, take it off.

Action	What it does
Apply	Adds Motion State to selected clips that don’t have it
Reset All	Returns every parameter to its default
Transfer Motion	Pulls the clip’s native Motion and Opacity into Motion State
Bake	Recreates the animation using native Premiere effects
Unbake	Reverses a bake and restores the live effect
Remove	Takes Motion State off the clips

The section is collapsible, and remembers whether you left it open.

Apply Motion State

Apply adds the effect to every selected clip that does not already have it, in a single undo. It places the effect correctly on text, shape, and other graphic clips, so you don’t have to reorder it by hand. Clips that already have Motion State are skipped.

Transfer Motion

Transfer Motion copies a clip’s existing native Motion (Position, Scale, Rotation) and Opacity into Motion State’s State A and State B, then resets native Motion to defaults.

Use it when a clip is already framed the way you want and you’d rather build on that layout than rebuild it. It also fixes unwanted cropping on footage that was scaled to fit, because moving the transform into Motion State means crop, corners, and stroke relate to the fitted clip rather than the original raster.

If the clip does not have Motion State yet, Transfer Motion applies it first.

Note

On footage larger than the sequence, Transfer Motion deliberately leaves Position on native Motion. See Oversized footage.

Bake and Unbake

Bake recreates the animation using native Premiere effects so the project can be opened by someone without the plugin. It requires an activated license and a selection, and it cannot carry every Motion State feature. See Bake to Native Effects for the full picture.

Live preview

The Preview area plays the selected clip’s transition on a loop, so you can watch the A → B animation while you edit. Drag the divider below it to resize the preview, and use the drag-to-state control to scrub between State A and State B.

Copy and paste between clips

Copy/Paste works like Premiere’s Paste Attributes, but scoped to Motion State:

1. Select a clip and click Copy to hold all of its Motion State settings.
2. Select the clip (or clips) you want to change. If a target clip does not have Motion State, pasting applies the effect first, then writes the values.
3. Choose what to include — Transform, Crop, Stroke, Shadow — with the Include checkboxes.
4. Paste:
   • All — everything at once (both states, Transition, and Anchor) in a single undo.
   • A → A, A → B, B → A, B → B — paste one state’s values onto a chosen state, so you can mirror or cross-map states.
   • Transition — timing, easing, and motion blur only.
   • Anchor — the Anchor Point only.

Batch update a sequence

Batch update pushes one clip’s look across every matching clip in the sequence:

1. Select a Motion State clip.
2. Click Find matching to find every clip in the sequence using the same Motion State setup.
3. Click Update matching to overwrite those clips with the selected clip’s current parameters.
4. Click Select in timeline to select the matching clips in Premiere.

This makes it easy to tweak one clip and roll the change out to a whole sequence of similar clips.

Edit parameters

The Parameters editor shows State A and State B side by side, so you can set the start and end values for a property without hunting through Effect Controls. Scrub numbers, toggle checkboxes, pick colors, and set points directly in the panel — every edit is a single undo in Premiere.

Use ↺ Reset All in Clip actions to return every parameter to its default, or the per-row reset to revert a single control.

Move values between states

The editor has transfer and swap arrows at three levels, all aligned in one column:

• Per row — copy or swap a single property between State A and State B.
• Per section — swap just Transform, Crop, Stroke, or Shadow.
• Whole state — swap State A and State B entirely, from the master A/B header.

Each is a single undo, and includes parameters that are currently hidden by another control.

The arrows gray out when no clip is loaded, and in Hold and Continuous modes, where only one state is in play.