
Again, it's never an "either/or" simple answer.

Sure, sometimes the major benefit is control.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, depending on what you're doing. Of course, like anything in the real world, it's never an "either/or" proposition. But if you do it once, and make that image a backplate, you can cut your rendering time drastically. Rendering a very complex background (3D outdoor vegetation, for example) can take forever.

In fact rendering several passes can often take longer but the control in post productionĭid you not like the numbers I used in my example? Of course there are ways in which compositing can drastically improve overall production times. Compositing is not really to save overall render time
