3d and compositing question

[ThreeDBFX]

Why not DFX?

Well, right off the bat I'll say that permier will be the hardest since it's not a compositing application and has very limited compositing tools. Between After Effects and Combustion, whatever works for ya. Both applications can composite very well, although I tend to think that After Effects is a bit quicker for certain things. I don't have any experience with AE 6 or Combustion 3, but I do with AE 5.5 and Combustion 2.1 and I can tell you that Combustion has much more in the way of compositing, or at least it did prior to AE 6 ( don't know what's in 6) than AE. Things like color correction, keying, much better tracking, etc...

I recomend you get the demos for AE 6, Combustion 3, and Digital Fusion, and play with all of them. They'll all get the job done, it's just a matter of how much you like the workflow in them. I used AE for quite a long time, then switched to Combustion for a while, then back to AE. I have now switched to DFX and I don't plan on lookin back. For me, DFX is the way to go...but that's just me.

Play with all of them....learn what you can, and go down that road.

[Ian Jones]

AE6 now has excellent keying and tracking. I've heard that combustion still has the upper hand on colour correction though...

As for which 3D app you should use... the answer is either. Both are capable of the same things in the right hands.

[Chris]

Before this turns into another bitch-slap-app-war have a look a couple of threads down at the locked thread about after effects 6, thats got a lot of opinions from various people about the capabilities of both apps. Dont use Premiere though, its not the right tool for th job, you want to use Combustion, After Effects, Digital Fusion, Shake or something similar. (I'd pick Combustion because I looooves it my precious! ;) )

[Bingo Little]

Everything depends on what you want to do. IMPO, AE6 is the best solution for smaller projects -- it is light, you have a great number of good plugins available, and it renders well on medium-range workstations (of course, I've bogged down my SGI with AE more than a few times :))

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