Re:DaVinci Resolve 18
by 35mm on Sunday April 24, 2022 @09:23AM
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What do you use as an After Effects equivalent?
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Like sibling comment mentioned, Fusion. Was using it to deliver advertising video VFX work on the daily for a couple of years, it's great. We were a mixed group of After Effects and Fusion (and many more apps) users and I would say generally you can accomplish the same things with both and some tasks are easier in one or the other.
I would recommend downloading the standalone Fusion Studio though, it's included with a Resolve Studio license (~$300 one-time). Managing anything but the simplest project within Resolve's Fusion page seems like a nightmare. Being able to use a separate app that saves its own files is a much more straightforward workflow. Then check out VFX Connect if looking for more sync between the apps.
You can do a surprising amount without even going into Fusion inside Resolve. But if we need planar tracking etc it’s there and we’ve done it.
Edit: for CG or routine stuff like screen replacement we use a VFX house in Denver but we have done that ourselves in Fusion. Not hard, except that one time a guy with a beard leaned across and obstructed the screen with his beard. Try to avoid that. ;-)