Shakes

Ten built-in camera shake presets plus unlimited user-saved custom shakes. One click adds a 20-frame adjustment layer above the selected layer with motion tile, displacement, optics compensation, and motion blur pre-wired.

Built-in shakes

Light Shake — subtle hand-held wobble.
Heavy Shake — punchy, useful on impacts.
Zoom Shake — adds a zoom-out flicker.
Rotation — adds a rotational kick.
Smooth Handheld — slower, organic drift.
Warp — heavy lens-warp distortion.
Glitch — sharp horizontal/vertical displacement bursts.
Squeeze — aspect-ratio pulse.
Flicker — exposure flicker on top of shake.
Wave — gentle rolling motion.

Preview panel

Hover any shake button to play a short preview clip in the always-visible preview panel on the right. Mouse-leave resets to the placeholder.

Add Flash on apply

Toggle the Add Flash checkbox in the panel header to automatically add a white flash transition when applying any shake — handy for impact moments. The flash is added at the same point as the shake.

User Shakes

Build a shake of your own on an adjustment layer, then save it for later. See Save a Custom Shake for the step-by-step.

Saved shakes live in {USER_DATA}/MotionLab/saved-shakes.json. Each captures every effect and keyframe on the source adjustment layer, plus its duration.

Reversed layers work correctly

Shakes anchor to the visible start of the selected layer. If the source has negative time stretch (reversed), the shake adjustment still lands at the right point on the timeline.