You have a background element and a foreground element. Now you want to put them together. How would you do that? Compositing, the act of sticking multiple elements together to create a composite image, is the way to go. You could do this in a basic video editing program, but please don’t. The proper way to do this would be in a dedicated compositing software. There are two main kinds of compositing softwares, Layers or Nodes. Let’s take a look at Node Based Compositing:
Some Node Based Compositing Systems
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- Autodesk Flame
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- The Foundry’s: Nuke(Non commercial version)
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- Natron(Free)
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- Blackmagic Fusion(Free with Davinci Resolve)
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- Blender(Free in-software compositing panel)
3 responses to “Node Based Compositing Explained (Video)1 min read”
this is really insightful! I prefer nodes too.
Great to hear! Are there any topics that you would like to hear about in future? We do have a chapter of the upcoming book fully dedicated to Methods of Compositing and We also speak about some early compositing in the History of VFX.
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