Re: 3D compositing, Shake, Combustion or After Effects?

Thanks.
I actually tried Combustion keyers before but I have to say I like Shake better for keying. Primatte and Keylight are very powerful and complex keyers and you can pull any key you want with them. By the way, a one click key is something I would never use. You have to go under the hood and apply multiple keys. :)

I have heard a lot of good things about Combustion's paint and roto and very often actually. I just never felt like buying it and learning it just because of the roto and paint when Shake's are very powerful and great as well, even if supposedly not as good as Combustion's. Now this is the first time I'm hearing about Combustion being great for 3D compositing. In the low end you always hear After Effects being suggested. Shake's 3D is really limited and it doesn't even have lights. I didn't know C* had lights and shadows. Can C* do camera projection? AE has sort of a work around for it.Does C* have intersecting planes?
None of the links you gave show C* doing 3D. I believe it probably handles it similarly to AE since they are both layer based. I know C* has a schematic view but this is not the same as node based. How does it handle panoramas? How matchmove and 3D tracking info?