Combustion vs. After Effects
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- T_65
I work for a motion graphics company so I am very familiar with after effects. We just got a hold of a copy of Combustion wich is floating around the office. I have heard it can do amazing things and is pretty much Discreets version of After Effects. Does anybody here have any experience with Combustion and any recomendations on wether it's worth learning in this industry?
- Kes0
If you're using AE, i don't know exactly why you'd bother relearning another compositor. It has a better particles engine though, and i find it is more stable. But it's UI will take some mastering if you're used to AE. I also think it is more stable and got more juice than AE. And also it has better compatibility with Discreet's other software, like 3D Max, Inferno, Flint, Flame etc..
Some features are more intuitive, and it comes boxed with more plugins and filters and shit, that you have to pay extra for in AE.
- chossy0
learn it many strings to your bow and all that, combustion good for compositing and lots of blurs etc., thing is though, if you have motion and aftereffects, and commotion you are pretty much set, think of what a client asks for and what you want to do then buy the programs that you need, I'm TV company.
- chossy0
oh I did mean to say commotion by the way.
- soda0
ha ha ha@chossy
- soda0
oh and Kuz... good points too, although I did think you would be blacker?
- Hym0
"Discreets version of After Effects"
what a yuck comparison, Combustion is the desktop variant of Discreets professional compositing tools, Flame and Flint which were already industry standards before Adobe seriously got into video.
an advantage to knowing combustion is that it will make the switch to flame etc pretty easy if you ever have to do that and of course the integreation to other discreet and 3d applications
but an AE guru can achieve pretty much the same as Combustion, personally i think combustion will just let it do faster with the better workflow
currently i'm on 2 projects in Digital Fusion which is also great but i wouldn't change for a couple fancy features.
- raiden0
i've used combustion and AE interchangeably in my past projects.
why CB fares better than AE:
- a real 3d camera (unlike AE)
- better memory management
- elegant UI, similar to flame
- combustion is based of Flame
- real F curves (unlike AE)
- keying, trackingwhy AE is better than CB:
- continuous rasterize vector
- easy to use UI
- easier workflow
- good for motion graphics
- better ram previews (i think)so that's the gist of it...
- raiden0
oh, wait. AE also has motion blurring integrated, unlike in CB where it's a special operator. so this is another plus AE has over CB.
- raiden0
on the topic of compositing programs:
why is it that there's more choice of compositing programs than there is in 2d graphics packages like Photoshop (which i find isn't "the" best solution, while very good, but despite a lack of any real alternatives..)? adobe monopolizes that end, while compositing and 3d apps gives users more choice.
???
- Hym0
Raiden
Corel, Paint Shop Pro, Gimp, FireworksPhotoshop is just currently the best at that stuff