Combustion or After Effects

[Kevlareditor]

Hmmm, if you can have only one get AE. It’s alot faster and more stable on the Mac than Combustion. Neither of them integrate very much with Final Cut unless you get Automatic Duck. I do like having Combustion for it’s keyers, color correction and the edit operator. Also to me it’s just less “fiddly” to use. BTW get Motion if you have the bucks. If nothing else, it’s a great type engine that integrates very well with FCP.

[Walter Biscardi]

AE integrates really well with FCP using the Automatic Duck Pro Importer for AE. Cut a timeline in FCP then open that timeline in AE. Very tight integration and creates an awesome workflow.

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[David Roth weiss]

Chris,

As a Combustion user myself (and former Edit user too), I can’t imagine not having Cumbustion in my kit, and I think you will also feel that way. There is absolutely no advantage whatsoever for a Combustion user to switch over to After Effects — neither Combustion nor AE integrates with FCP without Automatic Duck, so I think its a moot point. If you are like me, you will find that Motion’s integration with FCP will fulfill many of your needs, and so using Combustion without integration may do the job, and you may not even need to spend the dough on Automatic Duck.

Good luck, you like FCP a lot after you wrap your brain around it…

DRW

[Hector Silva]

I would say go with what you know. No sense spending time on relearning if you can’t perceive the payoff later on down the road.

On that note, I had heard that a large number of the Combustion development team left Discreet. That team was scooped up to help build an app called Motion. That, along with the late development of version 4 for Mac, make me cautious about the future of this software. The payoff down the road may be that you want to be working in an app that will be supported in the years to come.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Chris Jenkin] “I know Combustion really well and don’t really want to start again and learn After Effects.”

That sounds, to me, like your answer right there.

Arnie
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