After Effects Deep Glow Info

With standard glows, everything glows equally. Deep Glow allows you to use to tell the effect: "Only glow the pixels that are brighter than 80% white." This keeps your shadows clean and dark while only illuminating the highlights.

working on your machine:

: It includes chromatic aberration (pixel and glow-based), HDR thresholding, and downsampling controls for stylized results. How to Apply and Customize the Effect after effects deep glow

Note: This creates 3x the render time of the Deep Glow plugin. With standard glows, everything glows equally

While it has anamorphic stretch, it doesn't produce complex, directional ghosting or light streaks (e.g., a car headlight streak). For that, you still need Optical Flares or a dedicated streak plugin. With standard glows