Should I get Motion 5?

Considering getting motion 5 but just checking that it has some essentials for me.
1. Colour removal on clips and replacing with background, basically for greenscreen stuff
2. Adding animations to clips, not just for adding titles, but importing gifs or animations too lay over the top of the clip.
3. Addition of at least 2 sound layers at the same time, for having many sound effects and music at the same time.
4. How much better is it than iMovie?
Help appreciated.
Thanks

jamden, motion 5 is a genus program though at the present Very Slow. We are running this program on a mac pro running 14 gig and the video card is an ATI Radeon HD 5870 one of the biggest for this machine , running at 64 bit with snow lepoard 10.6.8 2x2.8 Guad Core Intel Zeon ,,,,,,,, and still she drags. But at the price range you can't
beat it. There is something it can be used for, but for heaver projects, she needs alot of grouth. My councel is to buy it for the 50 bucks and give it a go and see if it can meet your needs. Theres enough in it for 50 bucks to help some at this point. So hoping they upgrade the matrics because it can become a monster program in time.

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Motion does work on a macbook pro, coz I'm doing it right now! Do you have the intel version? Think it should work on older versions though.
that log file looks like it is trying to find the server for registration, for After effects? Not sure that has anything to do with Motion not booting up.
have you done the usual trashing of preferences and pList files?
regards
adam

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