PDPlayer for final compositing?

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I've been using Chaos Group's PDplayer for my final compositing. I've used Combustion in the past but i think it's a overkill for basic architectural animations. Does anyone else use PDPlayer? The price difference is reason alone to go with PDplayer.

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Tom,

 

I've been wondering the same. You find PDplayer sufficient for architectural animations? What is you're opinion so far? Or do you recommend buying after effects?

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Wim,

 

PDplayer has been more then enough for us. But we are not an animation studio by any means. We typically do not have more than 5 composited layers and we have not rendered out frames higher than 720x1080. But PDplayer cannot do it all alone. We found a relatively cheap workflow.

 

We use PDplayer for compostiting and we output each individual frame.

We then use Quicktime Pro to compile the frames creating 1 animation file per camera pass.

We then use Corel Video Studio for the video editing and compressing.

 

Like I said, we find ourselves doing 1 animation per year so there proabaly are cheaper more streamlined workflows. But this is the one that we got to work for us. Each application is intuitive and cheap.