Motion 0.5.0

4 November 2026

Mostly fixes this time, and there are a lot of them. Here's what's changed since 0.4.1.

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Windows

The wallpaper now shows on Windows 11 24H2 and later. Motion was running, but nothing reached the screen.

In the Inspector, click a value to type it. Return keeps it, Escape leaves it, and a double click puts the default back.

The preview stops drawing when Studio is in the background, so it no longer uses your GPU for nothing.
Deleting something that's in use asks first and tells you what uses it.
If a file is missing, Studio tells you which file and which layer.
Deleting a file warns you that Undo can't bring it back.

Cut, Copy, Paste, Duplicate and Delete work on the editor you're in, not on hidden layers. Rename (F2) and Quit (Ctrl+Q) work too.
Clicks and keys stay in the dialog, menu or page you're using instead of reaching what's underneath.
Return and Escape do what they should in every dialog, and the Start page, timeline and Mixer work from the keyboard.
Renaming something keeps everything that uses it working.
A layer pasted into another scene brings its files with it.
After a crash, your recovered scene has every tab's changes.
Lots of smaller fixes.

You can import several files at once, and Motion tells you how many came in and why the rest didn't.

Setting a scene ends that screen's playlist, and unplugging a screen doesn't move your choices around.
Same on every screen and One across all remember your Different on each screen setup for later.
Deleting a scene takes it off your screens and out of your playlists, and tells you which first.
Motion tells you when a file can't be saved, or when you hit the limit of 200 scenes or 100 playlists.

Time-of-day playlists stay in order, and timer playlists carry on when the clock goes back.
Pause all and Play all pick up from the same scene.
Keyboard fixes: Space no longer deletes a playlist by accident, Return presses what's focused, Escape goes back, and Tab scrolls to what it reaches.
Search shows the right words on each page, and Find a setting no longer shows Weather for everything.
Buttons, chips, search and Home's cards grow with larger text sizes.

Empty, cut-short or fake media files are refused at import, with a plain reason.
The visualizer only listens when Hear is on, and Hear tells you if there's no sound device.