My card, although it is an NVidia, is not up to the job and, my computer being an iMac, I have no upgrade option. IRay is just a non-starter for me, unfortunately. exr files that can show only certain aspects of the scene, those can then be used in a compositor. If you use the Canvasses feature on the Advanced tab of Render Settings with Iray active you can render. It also is limited in it's video compositing, although it is more powerful then many realize even in video with CS6 and beyond. It is an advanced area of computer graphics with it's own learning curve.Īnd yes, Photoshop is in itself a powerful compositor but for still images. As to using DAZ Studio with compositors, there are various techniques but all require some amount of forethought and understanding of the process. But the tools in a full on video compositor are optimized for that task. That's not to say Blender's tools aren't powerful, they are. It's a bit of jack of all, master of none in Blender's case. Blender can do both still image and video compositing, but the features for video compositing toolset are not as defined as those in Blackmagic's Fusion or Natron's.

There are three types of compositors actually, those that are focused on still image post production, those focused on video, and some hybrid.

Besides layering the images, this usually entails color balancing the image so all parts are of a base color family and blend, texture balancing so that we don't have parts that are gritty and parts that are pristene such that we wouldn't find in the image presented (often an issue with mixing photography/video with 3D content) and other such considerations. Perhaps I still don't understand what these programs do.Ī basic definition of compositing, still image or video, is to take disparate pieces of imagery and stitch them together, usually through layering, then (and this is an important part) processing them so they make a seamless whole, so that they all blend together into a single image such that the parts all look like they've always been together. I watched a Blender video and it does look impressive but I don't see how we could use DAZ Studio with an external compositor unless we could export the scene as a whole (as we can do to Blender). I didn't know what compositing was until a couple of days ago.

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