HoldingOurOwn wrote:This may be better in the "Hardware & Software" section.
Done and done.
rioforce wrote:I'm looking for a compositor similar to After Effects...
Personally, I've gotten fed up with video compositors, and, usually opt to just do the majority of my effects in GIMP the old fashioned way - frame by frame. It's how the lightsabers were originally created in Star Wars (not in GIMP, but, still frame by frame), and, it allows for so much more intricate and complex editing. For example, chroma keying can be done so much more precisely and accurately if you zoom in and edit every frame. Makes me feel like a traditional 2d animator a bit.
However, I can understand that not many have the time to do this sort of thing - it really does make editing, especially in a large batch of frames back to back, more time consuming than it took in originally taking the pictures in the first place!
I guess it's just a question of time over quality. If your films aren't 4k, and won't be projected or watched on a large screen (even like a television), then, sure, a compositor is a perfect way to get a great end product in little time. But, if you are a bit (or a lot) of a perfectionist, then, frame by frame is the way to go - whether you're editing in GIMP, Photoshop, After Effects, Windows Movie Maker, or Microsoft Paint...
If there's a will, there's a way!