Install on macOS

Updated October 24, 2026

The Butter Motion app installs the plugin into Premiere for you, there's no separate plugin download.

Before you start

Quit Adobe Premiere Pro if it's open. You'll reopen it at the end.
Make sure your Mac meets the system requirements.
Make sure you have room: it needs about 1.2 GB free at minimum, more for a bigger download.

Steps

Download the Butter Motion app for macOS from your account's Downloads page. It's a .dmg file.

The Download page in the account area: the macOS card with the download button, version and size

Open the .dmg and drag Butter Motion into Applications.

Open Butter Motion from Applications.

The app opens on a Sign in screen. Click Sign in via browser, approve this computer in the browser tab that opens, and come back to the app.

Click Install. The app downloads and sets up the plugin inside Premiere, moving through stages from Downloading to Starting.

The Install Butter Motion screen in the app: step 2 of 4 and the Install button

When the app shows Everything's ready, restart Adobe Premiere Pro. The panel only appears after a full restart of Premiere.

Check that it worked

After installing, open the panel in Premiere:

Open the panel in Premiere via Window → Extensions → Butter Motion. Since you signed in inside the app, the panel should already be signed in. If it isn't, use its own Sign in via browser button, see Sign in & connect a device.

If the panel doesn't show up, quit Premiere completely and reopen it. If it's still missing, see Panel missing in Premiere.