Hm, thanks for the tip off. I knew it was coming sometime with all of the pressure from other comping apps. I'll probably download it and use it some just to learn an industry standard piece of software.

I never made a thread for it, but I guess I'll mention that Blackmagic Design bought up Eyeon, the company that created Fusion. Fusion is far less well known than Nuke now days, but it is a node compositor that is probably on par in terms of power and performance. Anyway, Blackmagic Design released Fusion for free a couple of months ago: Blackmagic Design Fusion. The only real limitations versus the full 1000$ version are no network rendering, stereoscopic tools, or output over 4K. You can even use it commercially.

I've been using Fusion for projects for some time now, and while the learning curve will be steepish if you have never used a node compositor before (and is greatly exacerbated by the lack of good tutorials and stuff online about it), it is definitely high end software capable of pretty much anything you want. Personally speaking, as someone who formerly used the Blender node compositor for everything, Fusion is a step way, way up in terms of performance and power...

Um, yeah. Its only been used on nearly every movie made for the last 5 years or so...