How can I bring a vector image to Apple Motion. EPS or SVG?

Hello all!


I'm really excited to be able to bring vectors into motion and animate them. Sounds like a terrific idea to me. I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLj3M0pDOfk


The result of this video is made in After Effects. But I abandoned the Adobe tools and switched to Motion and my vector art program is Affinity Design. How to do this in Motion? I found a workaround video, but I would have to invest in more programs. The right thing in my view would be for motion to import EPS and SVG, two of the most popular vector formats.


Thank you guys!

MacBook Pro (M1, 2020)

Posted on Jun 23, 2023 06:45 AM

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Posted on Jun 23, 2023 08:48 AM

I agree that it would be great if Motion could import svg.

With eps, you should be able to convert to pdf and import it, keeping it all in vector form, but this would not let you do the sort of animation, because it would be just one item - scalable, sure, but not with separate parts you can manipulate.


I know it is not what you'd like to hear, but the svg workflow using Pixelmator Pro is really amazing. You can open an SVG, export as a Motion project while keeping separate entities as their own Motion objects, thus having the ability to animate them individually.

(On a sidenote: I just realized that it is fairly easy to do create svg programmatically, as the svg format is just text in a particular xml dialect, with fairly clear syntax for creating geometric entities... how did I miss that?)


As you are invested in the Affinity products (which also seem to be great programs), maybe they can offer similar capabilities at some point (or perhaps they already do, I don't know).


The bottom line is, with the help of Pixelmator Pro, you can easily bring svg into Motion, and then animate it.


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Jun 23, 2023 08:48 AM in response to amoraleite.com

I agree that it would be great if Motion could import svg.

With eps, you should be able to convert to pdf and import it, keeping it all in vector form, but this would not let you do the sort of animation, because it would be just one item - scalable, sure, but not with separate parts you can manipulate.


I know it is not what you'd like to hear, but the svg workflow using Pixelmator Pro is really amazing. You can open an SVG, export as a Motion project while keeping separate entities as their own Motion objects, thus having the ability to animate them individually.

(On a sidenote: I just realized that it is fairly easy to do create svg programmatically, as the svg format is just text in a particular xml dialect, with fairly clear syntax for creating geometric entities... how did I miss that?)


As you are invested in the Affinity products (which also seem to be great programs), maybe they can offer similar capabilities at some point (or perhaps they already do, I don't know).


The bottom line is, with the help of Pixelmator Pro, you can easily bring svg into Motion, and then animate it.


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