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Can i please get peoples opinions on After Effects and Combustion?
Hello Everyone.
I hope this post doesnt break any forums rules, if it does i seriously dont mean to.
I am a 3rd year (final year) Student in the UK doing Film Production Techniques BSc(hons) and i am Just starting my dissertation.
My title was “Post Production techniques in a short film” and it is time for me to actaully start my report and investigation. My tutor set me an example investigation “view to investigating AFX and combustion and maybe comparing them” and i like the sound of this.
The problem and reason i am here??? i have never used combustion, I have only used after effects in all of my works.What are peoples opinions on these 2 compositing software packages? regardless of money (the university has both on campus) Is one program better at one thing than another? does one program have certain limitations that can be a problem? are they more or less the same program and its down to personal taste and money?
the report has to be 15,000 words or there abouts, im just asking for peoples opinions on the software, hopefully some proffesionals in the industry could give me a few pointers. Im not asking for people to do the work for me, im just asking for opinions and seeing if its worth while me doing a comparrasion between both.
Thank you for your time.
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2 Replies
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I found Combustion to be GREAT for rotoscoping. You have a lot of control over individual vertices. That’s about all I know about Combustion. I don’t think After Effects has the same rotoscope abilities but I’m not sure.
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Combustion has a much better tracker, the paint in combustion has more options, like painting on an alpha channel with blending modes, you can pull apart individual vertices in combustion masks to feather them, combustion is node based. Other than that AE and combustion yield quite similar results in my opinion.
Pete
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