Hi Con
Thank you for this. As an AE user since 2009 my first impression of fusion is that it is slow, clunky, and extremely messy, Please help me understand the benifits of fusion as I sincerely want to migrate from Adobe to Resolve as an all in one solution which allows me to give premiere pro, AE and Pro tools the flick. Resolve will save me weeks of post production round tripping. I really really want to start using Fusion in place of After Effects, but to be honest, what I watched you do in about 8 minutes, i can do in 25 seconds in AE. Help me believe :)
@ConFusion 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2
Hey there, first tell me what took you only 40 sec. Then understand that Fusion is a VFX compositor. When it comes to that, it is very powerful. For other stuff, I am afraid Fusion is way more technical than AE. AE is sort of the one-click-make -look-good solution. As Andrew Kramer always wonderfully demonstrates. It is my honest opinion. The benefits are things like working in 32bit float is just default. All tools will work flawlessly in 32Bit. As you know Fusion is also Node-Based, which is a dream to work with. There are so many other reasons but it is difficult to explain. It's like asking, what do you like about this car?Well, you could say, "Its a Ferrari ( NUKE)" or you could say, I just like how it feels when driving it. Has power, lightweight (Fusion)..... Or you can drive Volkswagen (AE) :)
@KaceyBakerFilms6 ปีที่แล้ว
Sure I get what you're saying. Yes that is my largest obstacle finding online education to demonstrate the power of Fusion to the same capacity as what Kramer has done for AE, some one I have been following prior to VCP when he was making amateur tuts for Creative Cow. The 40 sec thing was just a round about way of saying I can key out a background and replace it with a new BG in a few seconds either with layer blur or camera DOP if i opt for a camera. Watching fusion in action seems like a whole lot of messing around, but I know thats just because I don't have the understanding of the power of nodes, I keep getting told they are better than layers. I simply don't have the experience to understand how nodes are better, but that will come with time and experience. Since the release of DVR15 Ive rushed out to cyberland to obtain as much info as possible, and you by far are the most comprehensive I've found so far, easily the AK of fusion :) Thanks.
@maumau1616 ปีที่แล้ว +1
When I started working in Fusion and using nodes, it felt awkward. Using merges to specify the order of videos etc. But when you get used to that and when you have worked a little bit in Fusion you will see the power of nodes. You will love it! I can not imagine ever going back to After Effects, even for Motion Graphics. I tried. And Layers are (even for Motion Graphics) a pain in the ass. Pre-comp this, pre-comp that. It's so terribly annoying! Once you are used to working with nodes, you will wonder how you were ever able to work in AE without freaking out.
Especially if you do VFX work, you just should not use After Effects. No one does and that's for a reason. It's made for MoGraphs. And even there, I like nodes better. VFX is the realm of serious node-based compositors. To understand the power of nodes, you have to work with them. It's just so convenient to re-use any part of the comp in an other part of the comp without pre-comping or any sh*t like that.
Where it gets really ridiculous is, when you try to get back to an old AE comp. Good luck going through the stack of layers, trying to understand, what you've done. In Fusion and Nuke, it's easy. You just look at the node graph and you can see where thinks are going, what's used were, you can add notes for you, underlays to organize the graph. It's just great!
What you call "messy" is the beauty of nodes. Everything is on the table. You can see it all and organize it the way you want. Your flow is as "messy" as you want it to be. So tidy it up. Like your room. Keep it clean. Whereas in AE everything looks tidy at first, but that's just because everything is hidden under all these layers, you have to twirl down to get to what you want to see. Fusion uses your spatial vision and memory, which makes it way easier to locate and remember nodes.
The way a node graph is layed out makes more sense than layer based compositing. The effects and relationships between different components are what make up compositing. These relationships are what's hard to understand. And nodes convey these relationships clearly, whereas layers obscure everything.
Nodes are clearer to read, clearer to understand, easier to manipulate, are more flexible, more powerful, and encourage you to play around more.
Once you have tasted nodes and once you got comfortable with them, you will want them everywhere. I still want a node-based photo-editing software...
I can also not fully describe why I love them so much. It just makes compositing so much more pleasent and fun.
Here's a video about After Effects vs Nuke:
th-cam.com/video/OgvswMcsrps/w-d-xo.html
And here's an interview with Editor/Compositor Alan E. Bell about Fusion and why it's superior to After Effects:
th-cam.com/video/8ov0v5bVa7Y/w-d-xo.htmlm6s
My advice:
Try Fusion for a few weeks. Once it "clicks", you'll love nodes.@Shakudance6 ปีที่แล้ว +1
maumau161 man i like when people rant about AEs precomp! :) But all well said!
