Best All round compositor for max work

[Sketchrender]

Apart from photoshop.

 

Stills mostly.

 

Combustion.......the last update was 2008. any reason why?

 

What would people suggest for max and vray work.

 

thank you

 

phil

[Peter M. Gruhn]

I'm curious to see how the compositor in 2011 is received.

[Macer]

Yeah, I'm hoping that compositor in 2011 will be suitable for replacing my combustion/premier pro workflow. Haven't had a chance to have a play yet. I'm going to download the manual and have a good read over the next week or two.....

[Sketchrender]

Ok thats great if i had 2011 max but i don't and from what i read so far seems a bit buggy.

 

So is that why did not develope combustion any further they were planning on building it in to max do you think.

 

And back to my origiginal question, whats the best in your opinion.

I need to get on and learn one ?

 

Thanks

 

phil

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Correct me if I am wrong...

 

Composite = Compositing of renderpasses, compositing of rendered effects, color correction and grading.

 

Combustion = Compositing of renderpasses, Motion Graphics, color correction and grading.

 

Aftereffects = Motion Graphics, some compositing, color correction and grading. Output format

 

Premiere = Video Editing, color correction and grading.

 

And unless Autodesk changed something from Toxik, you will still only have a series of frames coming out of Composite. Not a movie file.

[Sketchrender]

Correct me if I am wrong...

 

Composite = Compositing of renderpasses, compositing of rendered effects, color correction and grading.

 

Combustion = Compositing of renderpasses, Motion Graphics, color correction and grading.

 

Aftereffects = Motion Graphics, some compositing, color correction and grading. Output format

 

Premiere = Video Editing, color correction and grading.

 

And unless Autodesk changed something from Toxik, you will still only have a series of frames coming out of Composite. Not a movie file.

 

 

 

Ok I take your point on this one.

 

All I use at the moment is Photoshop, so what else do you have in your work flow for post production.

 

Whats worth buying ?

 

phil

[Macer]

Hmmm... I was hoping that it would do it all! Well I guess it may replace combustion in my workflow? Maybe I'll try installing a free copy of Autodesk Cleaner that I got from a rep last year to see how it compares to authoring from Premier Pro. Another workflow I was thinking of is Max to After Effects to Premier Pro, as I was lucky enough to get the full Adobe CS4 master suite at work a month or so ago, but haven't had time to try out all the functions yet.

 

@ Philip, Combustion still provides a very effective tool for the price, but it depends how much you have to spend, as well as what else it can be used for. If you generate additonal passes in max and you are only working in stills there aren't really any benefits over photoshop, IMHO. If you are working on animations then the rpf file type and combustion can play really well together giving you an easy yet effective work flow when combined with an encoding tool (such as PP). At least that is what I use, but I'm sure others have there own preferences?