Media & tools

Add anything to your captions

Emojis, icons, and your own footage, all without leaving the panel. On Pro, stock photos, video, and audio join them. Batch tools handle the busywork.

MotionCaption · Media
Emojis

Emojis without leaving your editor

All 3,857 emoji live in the panel. Click one and it lands on the caption under the playhead, timed to match.

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Frequently Used
Smileys & Emotions
223 more in the panel
People
94 more in the panel
Animals & Nature
205 more in the panel
Food & Drink
112 more in the panel
Travel & Places
105 more in the panel
Activities & Events
98 more in the panel
Objects
244 more in the panel
Symbols
243 more in the panel
Flags
252 more in the panel
User Emojis

Your own emoji images show up here. Pick their folder in Settings.

Composition Aurora Reel
sparkles

This sky is unreal

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Aurora Reel
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2Stayed up all night
3This sky is unreal
4Worth every minute
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Click any emoji to add it to the caption. In Google Animated, hover one to see it move.

Pin

Placed on the caption

It goes above the caption by default. In After Effects, the Pin menu can also put it between words or below the line.

Three styles, six skin tones

Google, Google Animated, and X. Pick a skin tone once and every hand and person in the grid follows it.

[Emoji] sparkles Outlines

Shape layers in After Effects

X emojis come in as native shape layers. Recolor them, scale them with no blur, and animate them like any vector.

Icons

17,300+ built-in icons, ready to use

All 13 icon libraries live in the panel. Pick a color, pick an icon, and it lands under your caption.

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Composition City Reel
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City Reel
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1sunset_city.mp4

Select an icon, then click it again to import it. Change its color in the filter menu first.

Icons Category

13 libraries in one menu

Shapes, Font Awesome, Bootstrap, Tabler, and nine more. Pick one in the filter menu and search it by name.

Recolor before you import

Pick a color and the whole grid repaints. The icon comes into your comp already in that color.

Star _shapes

Comes in as a shape layer

In After Effects the icon lands as a native shape layer, timed to the selected caption or the one at or after the playhead. Otherwise it runs two seconds.

Your media

Your own clips and images

Import your footage and photos under your captions.

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Composition Shoot Reel
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Shoot Reel
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1golden_hour_shoot.mp4

Hover a clip to play it. Select it, then click it again or press Import.

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Hover to play it

Point at a clip and it plays right in the panel, with its length in the corner.

Importforest_rails.mp4

Timed for you

Press Import and the clip is timed to the selected caption, or the one at or after the playhead. Otherwise it runs two seconds.

Project, folders, and saved

Browse your open project, the folders you add in Settings, and the stock files you already downloaded.

Stock

Stock photos, video, and audio

On Pro, search Pexels, Pixabay, and Openverse from inside the panel.

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Select a media for details
Composition Aurora Reel
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Aurora Reel
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1aurora_night.mp4

Select a result and press Import to download it. Open the Audio tab for Openverse.

PexelsPixabay

Pexels and Pixabay

On Pro, search photos and videos in the panel. Pick one and import it, and the file downloads for you.

Openverse

Openverse sound and music

Search Creative Commons sound effects and music, preview them, and import them at the playhead.

Saved

Kept for next time

Everything you import stays on disk, and shows up under Saved when you need it again.

Grab

Pull media from a link

Turn videos from supported sites into footage and captions for your project.

MotionCaption · Grab
Paste media links (one per line)

Paste one link or a list

Paste links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and more, one per line. Pick Video, Audio, or Image.

Formatmp4 Qualityhighest

Format and quality

Video comes as mp4 or mov, at the highest quality or 1080p, 720p, or 480p. Audio comes as mp3 or wav.

Into your timeline, or captions

Each download lands at the playhead. Transcribe it to captions, or start a comp that matches its size and frame rate.

Tools

Batch tools for the repetitive caption work

Fix timing, keyframes, and layers across every caption at once in After Effects. In Premiere, render caption tracks and bring them straight back.

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Presets
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Composition Night Reel

This city never sleeps

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Night Reel
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Run a tool and watch the timeline. Click a layer name to select it first. Reset puts the comp back.

Timing

Timing

Trim captions back to their own timing, extend them, overlap them by a few frames, or close every gap in one click.

Texts

Texts

Pre-compose captions, add a parent null per caption, split text into characters, words, or lines, or flip the layer order.

Keyframes

Keyframes

Move keyframes to a layer's in or out point, set how long they run, or repeat a pattern at every caption's start.

Selection

Selection

Select the same property on every text layer, or pick keyframes by number.

Animation

Animation

Stick any layer to the box that highlights each word, so it follows along.

Render Tracks

Render tracks in Premiere

Render caption tracks to MP4, MOV with alpha, or a PNG sequence, and import the file back into your project.

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Easing editor

One easing curve across your keyframes

Open the easing editor to shape the timing of your keyframes in a single curve graph. Start from a preset like ease or overshoot, or drag your own curve. Elastic and Bounce modes build spring and bounce timing for you.

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