Super Noob questions - Adobe AE and video

Hi guys

i havent even downloaded Blender yet so i am really new to this. Have looked at a pile of the tutorials and documentation and watched some videos - Blender is amazingly powerful. And the Voodo camera tracking is quite incredible. Always wondered how people did that! Anyhow, just some simple questions to know whether Blender will do what i was looking for:

  1. Blender seems like a competitor of Adobe After Effects. Is that right? Having not used either such a statement might be very foolish!

  2. I have seen that video can be pulled into Blender in the Sequence editor. Is it possible to map a video to the surface of an object and then move that object around in 3d space?

Thanks for reading this far.
Andrew

  1. no
  2. yes

Thanks. I finally worked out what i should search on - animated textures. Found some stuff in the manuals eventually.

Cheers
Andrew