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    Deep Glow v1.4.

    6 Manual

    Deep Glow v1.4.6 Manual


    What’s new in this version:
    ● Support for Multi-frame rendering (MFR) for AE 2022 and newer
    ● Fixed incorrect behaviour with compositing options
    ● Reduced memory footprint
    ● Universal binary for apple silicon (M1+)

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    Installation directories:

    Windows
    Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects <version>\Support
    Files\Plug-ins

    Mac
    Applications/Adobe After Effects <version>/Plug-ins

    If you have any technical difficulties or licensing issues please submit a ticket on
    aescripts.com

    Expanded UI shown:

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    Radius:
    Range of the glow from 0 - 2,000. Note that if Auto Iterations is disabled, large radius
    values (1,000+) require higher iterations to ensure good results.

    Exposure:
    Multiplies the luminance of the glow’s source. This happens after pixels are thresholded out,
    so increasing exposure will not increase the amount of pixels chosen for the glow.

    Input: Threshold
    Threshold for pixel luminance to contribute to the glow. 100% is a pixel that’s 1.0 in 32bpc
    (255 at 8bpc & 32,768 at 16bpc). This can go beyond 100% to source only HDR pixels.

    Input: Threshold Smooth


    Determines the falloff for pixel contribution. 0% means pixels are either ‘on or off’ where
    100% adds a smooth ramp between pixels that contribute to the glow and those that don’t.
    Higher values reduce glow ‘flicker’.

    Input: Mask: Layer


    Select a layer that will be used as a matte for the glow source. This is handy if you only want
    glow emitting from certain parts of the input. It’s recommended that the layer you choose is a
    solid, and set to continuous rasterization. In newer versions of AE, you also have the option
    to sample effects and masks on this layer which can be very useful.

    Input: Mask: Mode


    Choose between alpha or luminance for the mask.

    Input: Mask: Invert


    Choose to invert the alpha or luminance (based on your above choice) of the mask.

    Style: Blend Mode


    Screen: Clamps values at 1.0
    Add: Doesn’t clamp values at 1.0 (if working at 32bpc)

    Screen is recommended unless you require HDR values and/or are working in a linear
    colorspace.

    Style: Aspect Ratio


    A value of 1.0 weights both axes equally. A value of 2 is horizontal only and 0 is vertical only.

    Style: Aspect Ratio: Enable Angle


    Enabling this allows you to select an angle for your aspect ratio, rather than only horizontal or
    vertical.

    Style: Aspect Ratio: Angle


    The angle that your aspect ratio faces. If your aspect ratio is 1.0, this angle has no effect.
    Style: Gamma correction

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    It’s recommended to keep auto gamma correction on which will check your scene’s gamma
    and adjust accordingly. If this is disabled, you can manually enable/disable gamma correction
    to emulate linear working space.

    Style: Chromatic Aberration


    Separates the individual color channels of the glows source. Choose View: Glow Input to see
    the effect this has on the input. Note this produces a different effect to applying chromatic
    aberration after Deep Glow.

    Style: Tint
    Adds a coloured tint to the glow. Choose one of three modes:
    1. Standard: multiply the chosen colour over the glow result.
    2. Overlay: much more vibrant, identical to the after effects overlay blending mode.
    3. Soft light: as above but softer, less saturated.

    Quality: Downsample
    The amount to downsample each iteration of the glow. Lower values produce more grainy
    results but render faster. A value of 80% (the default) is barely distinguishable from 100%
    (full quality) but renders noticeably quicker. Increase from 80% if you notice temporal noise in
    your animations.

    Quality: Steps
    The number of steps used in the glow. This is a multiplier of the number of steps which the
    plugin automatically chooses based on your radius. Lower values produce more grainy or
    ‘digital’ results but render faster.

    Quality: Iterations
    The number of glow iterations. Recommended to keep this set to auto, unless you’re dealing
    with very fine detail.

    If Auto Iterations is disabled, choose higher values for larger radii and lower values for lower
    radii.

    Quality: Dither
    Large radii and desaturated images are prone to banding artifacts. Dither helps smooth out
    this banding by introducing variance in the image. Enable this and increase the amount to
    reduce banding.

    Dither: Monochromatic
    Enable this to use a monochrome dither. By default this is turned off which will result in a
    coloured dither.

    View:

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    Choose to view the glow’s input, or final render. Viewing the input is useful when modifying:
    threshold, threshold smooth, exposure, chromatic aberration, and quality: downsample.

    Source Opacity:
    The opacity of the input placed atop the render using the user-defined blend mode. Choose
    0% to view the glow only (no input).

    Unmult:
    Generate an alpha channel. Otherwise the glow will be rendered on a black background.

    Changelog:
    v.1.4.6
    - Support for Multi-frame rendering (MFR) for AE 2022 and newer
    - Fixed incorrect behaviour with compositing options
    - Reduced memory footprint
    - Universal binary for apple silicon (M1+)
    - Updated licensing framework to 4.0.2

    v1.4.4
    - Support for Multi-frame rendering for AE 2021 only
    - Fixed dithering to only occur in opaque pixels

    v1.4.3
    - Updated licensing framework

    v1.4.2
    - Updated licensing to support time-limited trials

    v1.4.1
    - Fix OSX Catalina issue
    - Updated documentation
    - UI warning if not registered

    v1.4
    - Added input masking
    - Added aspect ratio angle
    - Fixed HDR values bug
    - Catalina compatibility
    v1.3.1
    - Updated licensing framework

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    v1.3
    - Complete overhaul to make the plugin easier to use, especially in regards
    to quality controls
    - Auto iterations feature means less/no manual tweaking
    - Better step efficiency means steps rarely if ever need to be tweaked,
    even with non-square aspect ratios
    - Better checks for low res iterations, reducing aliased results
    - Smooth blending is now default and always enabled
    - Dither results are now less varied between linear and sRGB modes
    - Bug fixes

    v1.2.3
    - Safer buffer expansion
    - Spread is deprecated, use radius to change the size of the glow
    - Better handling of downsampled buffers
    - Improved efficiency of blur algorithm
    - Moved tint modes and unmulting from CPU to GPU
    - Unmult is now on by default
    - Fixed bug with dithering and increased max dithering amount

    v1.2
    - Auto gamma correction
    - Adjustable tint amount
    - More efficient blur algorithm
    - More efficient extent hints
    - Fix compatibility with 3D layers

    v1.1.1
    - Fix 16bpc bug

    v1.1
    - Added "Smooth Blending" feature to emulate Real Glow results
    - Added Tint feature
    - Added controls to customise Dithering

    v1.0.1
    - Fixed trial version crash.
    - Fixed memory leak.

    v1.0
    -Initial Release

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