Post-production is an important, often overlooked, part of the production pipeline. Using compositing packages, as simple as Photoshop and Premiere or as advanced as Combustion and After Effects, enables you to make necessary edits after rendering.
Max's render elements enable you to pick apart the rendering details of your scene.
In this chapter, you learned the following things:
About the post-production process
How Photoshop can be used to composite images
How Premiere and After Effects can be used to composite animations
About the Combustion interface
How to use render elements
In the next chapter, we look into how to add post-production effects using the Video Post interface.