RED

After Effects Pro

Combustion

Integration with NLE Systems from 14 manufacturers

Standalone Effects Creation

RED

After Effects Pro

Combustion

3D Text

Map 2D text to 3D Shapes

Auto rolls/ crawls/fade/zoom

Multiple strokes/shadows (drop, cast, solid)

Export stroked text to Flash

Style Palette

Multiple styles per word/line/page

Kerning, Tabs, and Word Wrap

Editable preset title animations

Natural Media procedural texture generation for 2D and 3D text

Preset and custom materials (metal, glass, etc.), reflection maps for 3D text

Animate words or individual letters

Map video to text

Native vector text

Create text and convert to outlines

Animate and morph text outlines

Type-On for one-click animation of multiple parameters

Import EPS outlines/text

Paint-On Text Effects

RED

After Effects Pro

Combustion

Animated, mixable Composite modes, with brightness/contrast controls

3D Compositing with Lights, Cameras

Intersect planes in 3D space

Intersect spheres and planes in 3D space

Intersect extruded shapes in 3D space

Vector Paint

Vector paint with multiple strokes and shadows

Fully animated paint strokes

Vector paint with fill

Save paintbrushes with combinations of strokes and fill

Spline primitive shapes

Extrude stoked paths, spline primitives and other vector objects

Animate stroke, fill and bezier points of imported EPS files

Extrude imported EPS Files

Rotoscoping

Unlimited vector masks per layer

PixelChooser for built-in filter masks

Motion Tracking / Image Stabilization

Self-Animating Fire, Rain and Snow

Fully Featured Gradient Editor

Export to FLASH

Particle Systems and 3D Particles

Velocity Remap

Audio preview and playback

Luma/Chroma Key

Make Alpha Channel

Matte/Alpha cleanup

Import Photoshop layers

Import Illustrator layers

Third-Party AE Plug-In Support

Effects Library Browser for editable preset effects