What is the best special effects/visual effects software?

[Peter Tan]

Hi,
Competitors to After Effects include The Foundry's Nuke; combustion, Toxik, and Smoke; Appel's shake and Motion; eyeon fusion; Boris RED; and the entry-level FXHome, Cine FX
For me i like After Effects but i'm confused.
So please can you help to choose the best software to buy it; you know i can't buy all of them.

[yea]

use what ever your comfortable with . after effects is a great piece of software . but you should download some demos and see what floats your boat

[The]

Compositing software to look at: After Effects, Nuke, Fusion nowadays. Choose between these. Combustion and Shake are dead. Rest is not that popular and serious.
Try every three of them and choose. It'll be the best.

[Gravy]

Please use the search function. This question is asked on a monthly if not weekly basis.

Here's it short and sweet, if you want to:
Composite: Nuke
Motion Graphics: After Effects

[andrewhake]

MS Paint. . .