And, depending on what you need to do for many compositing/Animation-things Blender can be very powerful too. You can use it's compositor without rendering 3D a

And, depending on what you need to do for many compositing/Animation-things Blender can be very powerful too. You can use it's compositor without rendering 3D and with the greasepencil animation tools you can basically draw onto your images. I mentioned it, because over the years my number one alternative to AfterEffects became Blender.