Compositing in Blender vs Third Party

Is there any benefit of compositing in blender vs another program like Davinci resolve? It seems like a big commitment to do it in blender since it gets baked into each frame. I do see the benefit of doing the glare nodes in blender, but as far as color grading, vignette, etc goes, I am wondering! Thanks! Great course so far! I'm assuming you were just trying to keep everything 100% blender, but wanted to check if there were other benefits :)
  • Omar Domenech replied
    Sticking only to Blender is not necessary, it's better to be software agnostic in my opinion. It's a tool, you use any tool that gets the job done. Blender is a great tool, so Blender we use. I don't think there is benefit per say in Blender versus other softwer's, as far as I know, for compositing Blender is just ok, it's fine, it gets the job done, but there are other tools Like Nuke that are incredible for compositing. But you don't have to get the compositing baked in on every frame, you can render the passes or render the raw images and then do the compositing later on top.
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  • Kent Trammell replied

    There's certainly nothing wrong with doing your compositing outside of Blender. I used to do it when I first started using Blender since I was more familiar elsewhere. But I would argue there's benefit to compositing in Blender. The simple virtue of not having to save out image files was enough for me to give Blender's compositor a go. Then I got hooked on the convenience and capability.

    It seems like a big commitment to do it in blender since it gets baked into each frame

    Understand that you can easily render passes out of Blender and use those in the Compositor for max flexibility (like you would use Nuke or After Effect, or DR). Again, I used to do this in the beginning: always breaking my scenes into render layers and passes. But over time I realized I rarely made any changes to the passes in post. So now I use the compositor as a basic treatment step rather than a significant modification process (as I demonstrate in this course). It is a commitment like you say, but not a terribly consequential one unless it's taking many hours or days to render a sequence. In those cases I will utilize passes and a "proper" composition.

    Does that make sense?

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