Blender VS. After Effects VS. Fusion: VFX Compositor Comparison

Have you used davinci resolve? If so, would you say it is a good way to prepare for nuke. ( when it comes to compositing)

What should I learn? After effects or fusion? Which is best. Please somebody tell me 🙏

I found blender a bit cumbrsom , AE is the easiest to use. DF I've useds since v2...but Nuke its far superior as I've been using nuke for many years. I still used DF and AE regularly. but if I have a choice, I default to nuke.

Thanks for the valuable thought

After effects really sucks in 2023 tbh, blender & Fusion team ♥

In response to the Fusion playback,

Fusion has auto proxy and render caching for nodes. Thisb speeds up performance. Also you want to disable HQ and MB for better playback.

Fusion studio has these settings as clearly visible togglable buttons.
But in fusion page, it is hidden behind a right click menu.

Hey man Thnks for this! are you planning to create some video tutorial about Fusion in the future?

Music at the start?

Has anyone actually used Fusion studio 18? It's meant to compete with the likes of Blender.. I have yet to see anyone who has purchased it, it costs $295 and is the stand-alone version of what you get inside Davinchi resolve. (but no the same thing)

From what I know Resolve is BAD on linux and I don't have a gpu anyway so blender i guess

In finally blender its just made for 3d
Its legend to vs after effects

Wowwww!

im new to this and i wasn't sure if DaVinci resolve is worth buying the studio version compared to after effects or final cut! thanks for the video! now i just gotta shell out that 300 bucks and get to learning!😡👍🏾

Blender is getting a realtime compositor in next update and hopefully in coming updates there will be features to hand animate stuff.

Very helpful overview and comparison. Not many of these comparison videos but very helpful for those of us who use one or the other and, from time to time, wonder about the current sets of features or a performance comparison. Your landscape of these, especially using a single project done in each, makes the important visual comparison also easy to grasp. Thanks.

Personally, I wouldn't say it's a con to have the node properties on a different windows, among all the software I think only blender has info on the node, so yeah and also I don't think previewing in fusion is slow, AE by default works with 8 bit but fusion works with 32 bit float.

Btw you can click on any node and press 1/2 to preview them on the first or second view or you can click and flick to preview it as well.

Terrific overview. Blender's compositor gets a lot of hate from Nuke users. I personally love it. We did a film last year and brought in former ILM nuke artists for the comp work. Blender EXR files with cryptomatte worked flawlessly in Blender and Natron, but failed to work in Nuke. Very frustrating. I ended up doing the comp for the most complicated shot in Blender because it was easier to get the shot done there than Nuke. Fusion is a step up from Blender, and having Fusion Reactor expands the toolset nicely. I don't like that you can't see the inputs/outputs on the Fusion nodes like you can in Blender. Bringing in a multi-layer EXR into Blender makes it easy to see what channels are available. Not so in Nuke, Natron or Fusion. I also don't like that so many things are hidden in Fusion behind a right click in some obscure part of the interface. But its tight integration into Resolve makes Fusion a really natural choice for post work on films.

Hmmm nice choice for me is blender and I will like to see a suit up vfx more like ironman or any other one

Thanks for sharing! I have been using Fusion and in general love it. Look forward to seeing your next videos, thanks for ypur work

Blender and Fusion works fine for me! But the exr exports from blender are not accurate. Often wrong Color space! 🤔Png works! Can somebody help?

i don t think After effect is faster than Fusion ( or Nuke ) , it's more fast in your example because you have After effect in 8bit and fusion in 32bit float.

Cntrl, shift + click will Solo your node in Blender

Did you ever try Natron, the free and open source compositor?

I am very new to this subject and for me Blender is the best option as its free. So in your opinion is Blender easier to learn than the other options? They all look great to me

Certainly, it was useful, I was thinking about moving to Fusion or maybe hitfilm for compositing.
Thanks a lot for this video.

Please vid on fusion vs nuke for composting

Among the 3 I use fusion primarily, I started with AE and then moved to Fusion, it's the best middle ground because it has better mograph tools than Nuke and not $10k and it has a better workflow than AE for VFX because its node based, now that I'm used to node-based workflow, I can't go back lol. Layers seem like a waste of time to me now. I even do my photoshop in Fusion because it's so flexible. Also were you using resolve 15? I think you should use the latest version as there have been many updates to resolve and fusion.

Great overview!