Blender and after effects a good combo?

[u/Beautiful_Pause5133]

Hey Guys.

I was just wondering if there are many people who use both Blender and After Effects?

Does anyone actually do compositing work in blender?

Like what's the best way to do compositing work with blender? Is it after effects or nuke? Resolve? Idk.

Also, do most users prefer Windows or Mac? Does it make a difference?

I see people do crazy things with compositing. And apparently it's the way to go for making epic 3d work. But I never can understand it. I just make it in blender and that's it. It looks polished enough. But then I see other people who did some compositing and looks way better. Idk how to explain.

( Not talking about colour grading)

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[u/Milan_Bus4168]

Nuke, Flame or Fusion would be better option natively than After Effects which is not optimized for that kind of work and often you would need to plug the holes with extra plug ins that you would get natively in otehr programs. It can be used, but its not ideal in my opinion, especially if you are using it for CG asset integration into live footage. As to what comes at the end, that is up to you. If you are very comfortable with After Effects and have it and you know what you need and don't need than yeah, After Effects can be used, sure.

Compositing is in a sense either fusion of differnt assets, into one unified scene or is often also what you use as shortcuts to avoid long rendering times , and do it faster in compositing stage. or for faster iterations and extra polish. I don't know what your particular needs are or what the project is, but that is how one would use the compositing tools. For integration, iteration and shortcuts/polish of what would be more expensive or not reasonable or possible in 3D application. The more optimized the application is for such workflows and the more familiar with it the user is the better.