• Adobe After Effects

  Fusion & AE?

  Posted by Jimmy Brunger on March 9, 2007 at 10:29 am

  Howdy,

  Just a quick question about Fusion and if anyone on here uses it combined with AE?

  I’m a big AE fan and use that with PS every day. We’re in a transition at my facility where we’re looking at new kit and workflows and recently got a visit from the guys at Eyeon, showing us Fusion 5.1.

  Now I’m very happy with AE, built up a healthy set of plugins and just got my head around Zaxwerks, but we don’t tend to do much heavy compositing at the moment, though it is something we want to get into as we’re getting a Smoke as our new NLE for it’s effects capabilities…Flame is a bit out of reach budgetwise and Shake is on the way out and not Windows compatible, so what I’m asking is would Fusion replace AE as my main tool in that it can do everything AE can + mad compositing and VFX? Or is AE still way ahead in speed and functionality for mograph stuff? (our main staple at the moment)

  I guess I’m just wondering how well the 2 work together, if at all, and if there is room for both.

  bit of a ramble as usual, but any thoughts/experiences shared would be great.

  Thanks,
  Jim.

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  Robert Houghton

  March 9, 2007 at 11:51 pm

  The last time I played with Fusion was in ’99 so my knowledge is a bit limited. I do remember that it was a fantastic keyer back then (much more so than AE). After looking at Eyeon’s website, it looks like a good mature product to add to a toolkit. My only hesitation would be to check out Combustion as well since that also is reputed to be a good compositing app.

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  Jimmy Brunger

  March 12, 2007 at 2:42 pm

  Thanks Robert,

  I’ve got Combustion 3 and I really can’t get on with the workflow and UI and apart from a couple of features (better roto & tracking + raytracing) it’s not upto AE for what I do anyway. Fusion on the other hand seems to have alot of very powerful 3D capabilities and is fully multithreaded by the sounds of it, meaning you could get an almost Flame-rivalling speed of working.

  There’s no doubt it’s very powerful, I just wondered if it could take over AE for more graphics-based work or whether there is a place for both.

  Any other takers?

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