Nodes Are Better Than Layers - DaVinci Resolve Fusion Vs. After Effects Compositing

This is WHY I THINK nodes are better than layers. I tried my very best to show how convenient these guys are. I hope it helps. When it's all said and done it comes down to preference, but the more I work with Nodes, the more I like 'em.

[lifewithlani]

The most efficient thing is that everything is done in Resolve. You don't have to port stuff out to other programs and port it back. You want to work on monographs, you do it on the Fusion page. You want to edit your sound design, you do it in on the Fairlight page. No need to port to After Effects or Audition. You have the edit and cut page to make other adjustments to your clips. This ability to do everything inside one program is a major time saver.
Nodes are much easier to follow than layers. One look and you what is going on.

[AudioGlitch]

In the beginning of the video i saw your animation and thought: damn looks neat. So i looked at the nodes and it took me all of five seconds to see how it works. Even though i haveny seen or used some of the nodes you used. I love nodes. They make so much more sense to me. Thingy goes in, stuff gets added, thingy comes out differently.

[BrunoReisVideo]

This is awesome!! Node evangelization is what we need

[MeinVideoStudio]

Love it. When i Made my Switch to Resolve it was just mindblowing how procedural working with nodes is

[Wes_Jones]

I just made the jump to Resolve from Premiere and finished my first project. I gotta say, it was a slow start but I'm beginning to love Resolve. Nodes for the win AND no more dynamic link. Sorry Adobe, we have been together for many years but I have found someone else.

[Tekkerue]

One thing to add is that you can also group nodes together and collapse them to hide a lot of the complexity when looking at your full node graph. Just like you have 10 layers visible with all of the effects hidden in the layers, you could also put everything into 10 groups (or even less if you want) and hide all of the effects. Then you'd expand the groups as you need to work on something specific.

[TechBasement]

I am rather new to resolve and the nodes logic, although it seemed hard at first, is a lot more efficient. Thank you for your videos.

[chhayachauhan]

Resolve is basically Adobe premiere pro, after effects and audition all in one software.

[ilovecubes]

Hello Casey, Thank you for this video that was EXACTLY what I was rolling around in my head, after I UN-installed ALL my Adobe apps, um just yesterday. ( But the frustration with $/ I'm tired of paying nonstop for software has been building for years) I really can see what you mean "A little more on the front end, but far better visualization of what's going on"... Agreed! If I opened up a complex AE animation over a week old, I would spend plenty of time in 're-orientation' mode and clicking on a million layers to figure out everything. Thank you again!!

[PaulJBurns]

Nodes are far more logical and time saving than layers. Cheers and regards.

[SocratesAlexander]

4:40 But at the beginning, we can use an adjustment layer and make two sliders, one for color and one for thickness. We parent the first ellipse layer's thickness and color property to this adjustment layer so that when we duplicate it, all the copies get their property value from the adjustment layer. Thus, we can avoid the problem.

[AllThingsFilm]

Great examples of the strengths and benefits of nodes over layers.

[ryanstockall]

I’ve always avoided fusion because I found AE to be confusing enough - this was 🤯

[ashishjatiani]

Can you kindly make a more in-depth tutorial on how you used the background node in this video and connected it to several other nodes. There are very few good davinci learning channels and yours is one of the best. I didn't really get the several connections. Thanks

[nafeesnamedit]

Hey man, please make some videos on motion graphics also! Please!

[PressRecord]

What I'm getting from your video is that, if one is comfortable with the Object Oriented concepts of _inheritance_ and _propagation, _ nodes allow for not only quick modification of base attributes, but the potential *reuse* of part or all of a comp in a completely different context, with a minimum of fuss.

[StrangerObjects]

Once mastered, your setups are superior to layered stuff. I work with Cinema4D and Blender3D, but blender shader nodes are superior. Thanks for the video casey, you're doing a great job on Fusion!

[sundaylee]

You can do colors more efficient in after effects, the way you show in the video is most simple method, the problem is as you mentioned is that it is a pain in the ass to change something. Experienced ae user probably will take other routes to do this, like expression control to link multiple layers' color property to a single null object plays as a controller.

Same thing applies to the matte applied to multiple layers, you can use advance techniques to achieve it, so it would be easier to change afterwards.

For complicated MG animation I still recommend layer system over node system, it would be a nightmare for node system to do some of my big MG projects.

Both system have their pros and cons, otherwise After Effects with its outdated layer system should be long gone.For compositing 3D animation though, I highly recommend node system.

[RobertShaverOfAustin]

I never got far with After Effects. I'm totally sold on nodes. *SUGGESTION:* Make a video that shows us how to create node groups that are reusable. That would include how/where to store these building blocks, how to build this reusable block so it is easy to understand and how do document them so they are understandable to someone that has never used that block. As a retired programmer, I'm also interested in scripting for Resolve/Fusion, so anything about that would be helpful. Things like what kind of tasks are worth writing code to implement? This is a great channel. I'm glad I *SUBSCRIBED.*

[Fierlyt]

I was sold on nodes the second I realized, after having dealt with AE comps with roughly 300 layers (most of which were duplicates of lower layers for effects like the circle in the video. Repeated lyrics, for example.), I could fit it all on my screen instead of having a scroll bar that goes for miles. I used to use pre-comps to save screen space so I could mentally keep track of dozens of layers for a short 10-15 second section of a video. I haven't had the chance to work with nodes and groups yet on my projects, but it feels like it will save me the mental capacity it cost me to keep track of layers over the duration of a video project.