Motion
Motion turns a finished comic page into a video. Panels arrive one at a time, the camera moves inside them, speech bubbles appear in reading order, and the page assembles itself into the layout you composed. You do not animate anything by hand.
How a page becomes a film
Motion reads the page you already made. Each panel arrives large enough to fill the frame, holds while its dialogue is read, then flies to the spot you gave it in the layout. Panel after panel, the page builds itself in front of the viewer until it is the page you drew.
Because it is driven by the page rather than by a separate timeline, changing the comic changes the film. Move a panel, rewrite a line, swap an image, and the next play reflects it.
Shapes it exports in
| Format | Size | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Portrait | 1080 x 1920 | TikTok, Reels, Shorts |
| Landscape | 1920 x 1080 | YouTube and anything widescreen |
| Square | 1080 x 1080 | Feed posts |
The file you get is an MP4, encoded in your browser rather than on a server, so nothing is queued and nothing is uploaded to be rendered.
Several pages, one film
You can also render a run of pages as a single film. Each page assembles itself, then pulls back and away as the next one starts empty, so a chapter exports as one video.
The preview plays one page at a time. Several pages together is a render, so you watch that one back in the finished file rather than in the editor.
What you need
Playing a film works anywhere. Writing the video file needs a browser that can encode video itself, which most current desktop browsers can. You do not have to work out whether yours does: the render button is simply unavailable, and says so, when it cannot.
What it costs
Motion is included on every paid plan. Building a film, playing it back and exporting the MP4 do not cost ink, however many times you render. Free accounts see Motion in the editor with an upgrade prompt.