Avid Media Composer 7.2

[Michael Phillips]

I will let others who have more experience with AvidFX speak to that comparison, but Media Composer on its own cannot do what After Effects offer in VFX creation. It can do a subset, and most likely a small subset if one were to count. AvidFX (Boris product) adds more control over VFX creation and will get you much closer to After Effects and may in your case be all that you need.

Michael

[Stacy Lincoln]

AVID and Boris cannot replace After Effects. You can do some fun stuff with AVID FX and Boris Effects, but they are not the same as After Effects. Get both.

[Shane Ross]

They are two COMPLETELY different things. One is a non-linear editing application (Avid Media Composer) and the other is compositing software used for effects creation, compositing, graphics…but not editing (After Effects).

Get both. You’d never edit a project with AE, and compositing and content creation in Avid is…well…not all that great.

Shane
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[Nick Griffin]

I agree with all that’s been said here… BUT if you can delay getting into After Effects until you’ve had adequate time to learn Media Composer it will benefit your learning curve for both.

What’s not often discussed is that there is a fundamentally different approach to the way many things are handled in Avid FX/Boris and After Effects. Perhaps it was the fact that I started with After Effects, I found that there was a lot to un-learn and re-program the way my brain reacted when attempting the move to the Boris environment.

[Bob Rowley]

Thanks guys for all your comments.
I probably didn’t explain myself to well but I got the right info. So thanks to all that responded
Regards
Bob Rowley