Maxon Red GiantStream crashed, here's part one: youtube.com/live/SOxbDwgavQM It's Christmas time and Hashi and Seth are ready to play with holiday movies! Will they add raptors to them? Will they recreate the visual effects? Will they get distracted making increasingly epic drops? Watch and find out! Less of a tutorial and more of a, "Let's figure it out together", VFX and Chill is a friendly, fun time!
VFX and Chill | The VFX and Chill Christmas Carol Part TwoMaxon Red Giant2023-12-16 | Stream crashed, here's part one: youtube.com/live/SOxbDwgavQM It's Christmas time and Hashi and Seth are ready to play with holiday movies! Will they add raptors to them? Will they recreate the visual effects? Will they get distracted making increasingly epic drops? Watch and find out! Less of a tutorial and more of a, "Let's figure it out together", VFX and Chill is a friendly, fun time!
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSCool Graphical Strings Shape TutorialMaxon Red Giant2024-02-28 | Get this cool, motion graphics effect easily with Trapcode Form! In this tutorial, Michael shows you how to easily drive this graphical look with a custom shape, but you could use footage, your logo animation, or anything else!
00:00 - Introduction 00:46 - Starting with Trapcode Form in Adobe After Effects 02:28 - Creating a basic shape 04:08 - Driving Form with our shape 06:58 - Creating the look with VFX Optical Glow 08:36 - Animating to sound with Trapcode Sound Keys 11:13 - Enhancing the look with Magic Bullet Looks 12:53 - Animating to sound with reactors in Trapcode Form
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantDPP: Masking and Additional Elements | Week 4Maxon Red Giant2024-02-27 | Demystifying Post-Production: Masking and Additional Elements | Week 4
To conclude this series about compositing with AOVs, Master Trainer Lionel Vicidomini will show everything you need to know about masking. You will learn how to combine Puzzle Mattes, Cryptomatte, and advanced AOVs to unleash amazing creativity. You'll also learn how to deal with transparency and matte shadows, how to change your background, and how to add titles to your scene so that they respect the ACES workflow.Indiana Jones with an Apple Vision ProMaxon Red Giant2024-02-25 | Join Indiana Jones as he embraces the latest technology to hunt for treasure. What could go wrong?
Made in After Effects with Trapcode Mir, Cinema 4D, Keen Tools GeoTracker, and Vranos Lockdown... plus some good old-fashioned compositing on VFX and Chill. Watch the live episode that led to the creation of this ridiculous video: youtube.com/watch?v=0rGFFRqbT1E
#applevisionpro #indianajones #vfxVFX and Chill | The Nominees for Best Visual Effects Are...Maxon Red Giant2024-02-24 | In this episode, Hashi and Michael talk about some of this year's nominees for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, show off some procedural After Effects setups, and more!
Less of a tutorial and more of a "let's learn together", the gang use After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Red Giant tools to take apart Hollywood visual effects and put them back together.
0:00:00 - Intro music and banter 0:09:51 - Looking at some of the trailers from the big game 0:44:30 - Seth doing the floor flip from IF and Hashi doing a Twister 1:13:25 - Seth doing the Wicked title card and Hashi doing the Deadpool and Wolverine title card 1:36:00 - Seth crawls through a window and Hashi creates a person in a bubble
#VFXandChill #vfx #superbowl MB01HKWECP7P7OSSweetening your LUT with Guided Color Correction #shorts #maxoncolor #redgiantMaxon Red Giant2024-02-16 | You can transform your log video to be displayed properly using a Look Up Table (LUT) provided by the camera manufacturers. Using Colorista’s Guided Color Correction, you can add some adjustments to improve the result from the same LUT. Even better, you’ll be guided throughout the process.
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantAdding your collection of LUTs into Colorista #shorts #maxoncolor #redgiantMaxon Red Giant2024-02-14 | Did you know that you can add your collection of Look Up Tables (LUTs) to Colorista? The Colorista LUT browser previews your collection of LUTs using the clips you are working with, allowing you to see the effects of your LUTs immediately.
0:00 - Intro 0:37 - Using DaVinci Resolve and ACES with Magic Bullet Looks 2:59 - Using Adobe Premiere Pro and ACES with Magic Bullet Looks 4:34 - Some tips for color matching in Premiere Pro with Colorista 5:51 - Using Adobe After Effects and ACES with Magic Bullet Looks
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiant #colorgrading #MaxOnColorVFX and Chill | How to get an Apple Vision ProMaxon Red Giant2024-02-10 | ...into your footage. How to get an Apple Vision Pro into your footage! In this episode, Seth and Hashi use the very silly task of adding the Apple Vision Pro into classic films to help teach you visual effects techniques to composite things into shots (and onto faces)! Less of a tutorial and more learning together, they'll use After Effects and Cinema 4D to make silly things with serious techniques.
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSUse Texturize Motion to create glitch #shorts #maxoncolor #redgiantMaxon Red Giant2024-02-09 | Add animated textures to your clip with Universe Texturize Motion. Using just the Jitter and Displacement controls, you can also create a unique glitch effect.
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantVFX and Chill | Put your ZBrush Creations into your MoviesMaxon Red Giant2024-02-03 | It's Groundhog Day, again. After a whirlwind character Sculpting Session last week, the Chill gang is back to teach you how to paint, rig, animate and composite your creations into video. Will they fit it all into one episode? Are we all caught in a time loop? Find out this week as the Chill gang is back to teach you how to paint, rig, animate and composite your creations into video. Will they fit it all into one episode? Are we all caught in a time loop?
#VFXandChill #vfx #ZBrush MB01HKWECP7P7OSGlitch with Holomatrix. #shorts #maxoncolor #redgiantMaxon Red Giant2024-02-02 | Holomatrix allows you to create an awesome hologram effect, but did you know that it is also a powerful glitch wizard?
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantVFX and Chill | ZBrush Timed ChallengeMaxon Red Giant2024-01-27 | Seth and Hashi are put to ZTest, as Michael challenges them to sculpt things in ZBrush with a timer running. Also, Seth and Hashi are not good at ZBrush. Under the pressure of a timer, they sculpt Stripe from Gremlins, the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Elliott from Pete's Dragon, Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors, and Po from Kung Fu Panda.
0:00:00 - Waiting music and intro graphic 0:01:29 - Welcome and Introduction 0:06:48 - Opening ZBrush and getting familiar with it 0:20:37 - Prompt 1: Introduction 0:22:52 - Prompt 1: The Killer Rabbit from Monty Python in 20 minutes 0:42:57 - Prompt 1: Results 0:46:16 - Prompt 2: Introduction 0:49:11 - Prompt 2: Po from Kung Fu Panda in 10 minutes 0:59:20 - Prompt 2: Results 1:03:47 - Prompt 3: Introduction 1:04:49 - Prompt 3: Stripe from Gremlins in 10 minutes 1:14:56 - Prompt 3: Results 1:17:03 - Prompt 4: Introduction 1:19:04 - Prompt 4: Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors in 10 minutes 1:29:27 - Prompt 4: Results 1:31:51 - Prompt 5: Introduction 1:32:43 - Prompt 5: Elliott from Pete's Dragon (1977) in 20 minutes 1:52:50 - Prompt 5: Results
#VFXandChill #ZBrush MB01HKWECP7P7OSGetting the most beautiful motion graphics lens flare EVERMaxon Red Giant2024-01-23 | Two tips in one! In this quick tip video, Michael shows you how to get beautiful lens artifacts just like a real lens with the all-new Obscuration feature in VFX Real Lens Flares in Premiere Pro or After Effects! PLUS he shows how to work with it on text layers in After Effects without getting ugly (and annoying) warning popups.
#VFXandChill #vfx #starwars MB01HKWECP7P7OSWhats New in Red Giant January 2024Maxon Red Giant2024-01-17 | New in Red Giant 2024.1 are tools for fast, beautiful bokeh in Universe; streamlined color management in Magic Bullet Looks; ground-breaking obscuration in VFX Real Lens Flares; tracker only mode in VFX Spot Clone Tracker; optimized multi-frame rendering across multiple threads and new sprites in Trapcode Particular; and more!
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantVFX and Chill | Fixing Star WarsMaxon Red Giant2024-01-12 | Hashi and Seth help George Lucas realize his true vision by fixing, adjusting, augmenting, and otherwise improving cinema in general! Star Wars was already special and even had a special edition - well now it is being made extra-special! It's a new year, a new you, and a new Chill! JUST KIDDING. It's the same show you know and love - just a bit rounder after all of that holiday candy. It's not an After Effects or Cinema 4D tutorial, but an exploration where we all learn something - and, in this case, that something might be the legal definition of Fair Use.
#VFXandChill #vfx #starwars MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | Oscar BaitMaxon Red Giant2024-01-10 | 'Tis the season! Award Season, that is, and the VFX and Chill crew are discussing the 5 Nominees for the 2024 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Does the VFX industry get the credit it deserves for helping bring these ambitious films to life? No. What's up with that? We invite you to join in the discussion of the amazing efforts of the VFX industry this year!
#VFXandChill #vfx #oscars MB01HKWECP7P7OS
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantFast Friday - Pop Dots TutorialMaxon Red Giant2024-01-05 | Here's a quick and easy way to get a sort of halftone or pop dots look right inside your NLE using just one effect in Red Giant Universe! That means the technique in this tutorial should work in Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, and Magix Vegas Pro!
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: twitter.com/MaxonRedGiant instagram.com/MaxonRedGiant facebook.com/MaxonRedGiantA fast and unexpected Kaleidoscope effect right in your NLEMaxon Red Giant2023-12-26 | For Tip Tuesday the day after Christmas, Michael has time for a quick tutorial on how to get a kaleidoscope effect right inside Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, or VEGAS Pro!
#vfxandchillVFX and Chill | The VFX and Chill Christmas Carol Part OneMaxon Red Giant2023-12-16 | Stream crashed, here's part two: youtube.com/watch?v=fP6SgwDD_pM It's Christmas time and Hashi and Seth are ready to play with holiday movies! Will they add raptors to them? Will they recreate the visual effects? Will they get distracted making increasingly epic drops? Watch and find out! Less of a tutorial and more of a, "Let's figure it out together", VFX and Chill is a friendly, fun time!
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | FuriosaMaxon Red Giant2023-12-09 | The gang loved Mad Max: Fury Road and they're prepared to love Furiosa even more! They're diving in to effects inspired by Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in After Effects and Cinema 4D - it's like a tutorial, but if you're following along as they figure out the techniques! Lots of discussion of soft body dynamic simulations in this one! Learn how to art direct parameters of your simulation with painted weight maps, create faster sims on complex geometry, and more!
#VFXandChill #vfx #Furiosa MB01HKWECP7P7OSHow to Loop a Trapcode Particular Fluid SimulationMaxon Red Giant2023-12-05 | In this quick tip, Michael Szalapski answers your question about how to loop a fluid simulation in Trapcode Particular in Adobe After Effects. It's a kind of silly trick, but if it's silly and it works, it's not silly!
For a more in-depth particle looping tutorial, check out this classic tutorial: youtu.be/mGyhioXprBM
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareStylize your color grade with HuenityMaxon Red Giant2023-12-05 | A little trick to a stylized color grade is to unify and then tweak your hues. Huenity - one of the tools in Magic Bullet Looks - is a fast and easy way to do it! In this quick tip, Michael shows you how to stylize a shot really fast! This tutorial works in any host of Magic Bullet Looks including Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, etc.
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareVFX and Chill | Ghostbusters 2: 2: The Sequel Final v2Maxon Red Giant2023-12-02 | If you missed it, here's part one: youtube.com/live/wKiYLnlxG0I Do you love Ghostbusters? Not as much as Hashi and Seth! This episode, the VFX and Chill crew returns to pick up where they left off with a continued exploration of the VFX of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! Less of a tutorial and more of a collaborative exploration, learn how to digitally freeze your environment with Cinema 4D and After Effects!
Here's the scene reconstruction tutorial they referenced a lot: youtu.be/RveCOuErY8Q
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | Ghostbusters 2: 2: The Sequel Final v1Maxon Red Giant2023-12-02 | Stream crashed here's part two: youtube.com/watch?v=5gVaWry9iDM Do you love Ghostbusters? Not as much as Hashi and Seth! This episode, the VFX and Chill crew returns to pick up where they left off with a continued exploration of the VFX of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! Less of a tutorial and more of a collaborative exploration, learn how to digitally freeze your environment with Cinema 4D and After Effects!
Here's the scene reconstruction tutorial they referenced a lot: youtu.be/RveCOuErY8Q
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSTrapcode Tutorial - Instantly add detail to your Shine light beamsMaxon Red Giant2023-11-28 | In this quick tutorial for Tip Tuesday, Michael Szalapski shows you how to quickly add detail and shimmer in the beams generated by Trapcode Shine in Adobe After Effects or Premiere Pro, great for getting away from the standard default look (even though it's a classic for a reason!)
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareQuickly add detail or color with Universe FinisherMaxon Red Giant2023-11-28 | In this quick tutorial for Tip Tuesday, Michael Szalapski shows you how to quickly add a kick of that special something to your shots (or renders). If you don't have time for a color grade or if you just need to add a little extra POP, grab Finisher from Red Giant Universe!
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareEasy skin desaturationMaxon Red Giant2023-11-21 | In Colorista, the orange dot on the color wheel is set up to align with human skin tones (all of them). This works in both the standalone Colorista effect and the tool inside Magic Bullet Looks! This means you can easily adjust skin tones to desaturate them (or tint them or over-saturate them).
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareACES-ify your non-ACES footage for better coloringMaxon Red Giant2023-11-21 | You can use the new(-ish) OCIO mode in Magic Bullet Looks even if your footage is regular old Rec. 709 digital video! It'll make your color grading have beautiful filmic falloff instead of falling apart into a digital mess.
In this Tip Tuesday tutorial, Michael shows how you can really push your color grade in your NLE! Remember: Magic Bullet Looks works in DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, VEGAS Pro, and even Cinema 4D and Unreal!
There's something strange (and...cold) in the neighborhood! In this episode, Hashi and Seth are being inspired by the visual effects of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! It's less of a tutorial and more of a "let's all figure this out together".
They'll use After Effects, Cinema 4D, and maybe other things to create ghostly world VFX, cold effects, or whatever else they decide to do! You can't tell them what to do you're not a god. Are you?
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PART 2)Maxon Red Giant2023-11-17 | Here's part 1: youtube.com/live/4zB5LNyBTBE There's something strange (and...cold) in the neighborhood! In this episode, Hashi and Seth are being inspired by the visual effects of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire! It's less of a tutorial and more of a "let's all figure this out together". Hashi shows making a cool, dynamic rig in Cinema 4D, Michael shares some tricks for growing frost in After Effects, and Seth shares his tips for compositing realistic snow.
#VFXandChill #vfx #ghostbusters MB01HKWECP7P7OSMake your COLORIST happyMaxon Red Giant2023-11-14 | Do you have sRGB or Rec. 709 cg assets or stock footage to composite into your LOG, Wide Gamut, cinematic video and then need to output to your colorist? NO PROBLEM! In this quick tutorial, Michae shows how Supercomp lets you set the gamut per layer and then output as you need it for your color grading.
This solves a sticky step in the After Effects compositing to color grading workflow. With Supercomp from Red Giant's VFX Suite, you can comp in After Effects and send it to your colorist working in DaVinci Resolve keeping all of that wide gamut loveliness. Now visual effects is happy and color is happy. EVERYONE is happy (except the producers; they're always grumpy).
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareEasily control and match grain (per layer) with Supercomp!Maxon Red Giant2023-11-14 | You asked for more Supercomp tutorials! In this quick tutorial for Tip Tuesday, Michael shows you how to control your grain in Supercomp. Build grain into your CG elements for better visual effects compositing when matching to footage - a handy VFX tip!
Get all our tools here: maxon.net/red-giant Get the latest news and updates: maxon.net/email-updates Follow us for more awesome content: Twitter: twitter.com/RedGiantNews Instagram: instagram.com/redgiantnews Facebook: facebook.com/RedGiantSoftwareVFX and Chill | feat. Doug Appleton from PerceptionMaxon Red Giant2023-11-10 | Hashi and Seth are joined by Doug Appleton, Chief Creative Officer at@experienceperception ! They'll be talking about Perception's work on the end titles for Spider-Man 2 (the game) and will have some fun in After Effects and Cinema 4D making Spidey-sense or whatever else they web-sling into!
#VFXandChill #motiongraphics #titledesign MB01HKWECP7P7OS#AskTheTrainer Special: Making of A Haunting in Candyland with Kris Theorin | November 9th, 2023Maxon Red Giant2023-11-10 | Join us for a special edition of Ask The Trainer, as Kris Theorin, Animation Director of Something's Awry, shares key insights into how he animated and composited their latest 3D short, “A Haunting in Candyland.” Kris will share how he used multiple Maxon tools in his animation and compositing workflows, including Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush, Cineware, and Red Giant’s Colorista, Magic Bullet Looks, and Optical Glow.
#VFXandChill #vfx #stopmotion MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | ZBrush for Beginners Part OneMaxon Red Giant2023-11-04 | Stream crashed. Part two here: youtube.com/live/wQhh3CXzDRQ Hashi and Seth explore ZBrush for the very first time - all LIVE! What? Is? THIS!? Sorry, we just watched the Nightmare before Christmas and that song is still in our heads.
#VFXandChill #vfx #zbrush MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | Stop Motion HorrorsMaxon Red Giant2023-10-27 | It's spooky out there! Let Hashi and Seth take you back to a simpler time when animation was made with clay and a photo camera. That's right, it's stop motion effects with a modern twist! (But it still might be spooky.) The gang is exploring ways of creating stop-motion animation inspired by The Nightmare Before Christmas, ParaNorman, and Coraline in After Effects and Cinema 4D! This LIVE (or maybe undead) tutorial (well, less "tutorial" and more "let's find out together") may or may not be happening in the town of Halloween.
#VFXandChill #vfx #stopmotion MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | with special guest Territory StudioMaxon Red Giant2023-10-20 | Hashi, Seth, and Michael are joined by members of @TerritoryStudio to talk movies, visual effects, HUDs, FUI, drones, and more!
#VFXandChill #VFX MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | Friday the 13th and ChillMaxon Red Giant2023-10-14 | Since Hashi is all alone in a spooky abandoned house, he's sharing free scripts with all of you! In this episode, Hashi also shows techniques for making smoky ghosts, bloody text, popping balloons, faces in smoke, and more using simulations in Cinema 4D. VFX and Chill is less of a tutorial and more "let's figure this out together!".
Scripts: bit.ly/FrameDetect is for working with animation that isn't on 1s bit.ly/3DStamp2 is an update to his popular 3D Plane Stamp script And, if you want to see Michael's Trapcode Particular tip, here it is: instagram.com/p/CtuvJv6LrDV
0:00:00 - Waiting screen 0:02:32 - Intro followed by technical difficulties 0:12:35 - Introducing the Frame Detect script for compositing animation with different frame rates 0:32:08 - 3D Plane Stamp version 2! 0:52:00 - Hashi shows off his raptor jet pack animation 0:54:04 - Making procedural dynamic balloon text in Cinema 4D 1:10:46 - Michael's dynamic procedural slime text in Cinema 4D 1:14:14 - Hashi makes procedural dynamic dripping blood text in Cinema 4D 1:26:20 - Making a smoky character in Cinema 4D 1:34:03 - Making a smoky face in Cinema (like in The Mummy or Voldemort's face in clouds)
#VFXandChill #vfx #themummy MB01HKWECP7P7OSVFX and Chill | Season 4 BEGINSMaxon Red Giant2023-10-07 | Hashi and Seth recreate VFX from Movies and TV - all LIVE! Not so much a tutorial as a "Let's figure this out together" our brave crew dives into After Effects, Cinema 4D, and other tools to make blockbuster stuff right in your backyard (or living room or office or computer room or bedroom or...)
#VFXandChill #vfxandchill MB01HKWECP7P7OSWork faster with Real Lens FlaresMaxon Red Giant2023-10-03 | A tip for working faster with Real Lens Flares. Since it's an actual ray-traced simulation of light, Real Lens Flares might be a little slower than you'd like. This tutorial shows if you switch your RLF layer to be in Draft Mode in After Effects, the flare will switch into a faster-rendering mode, but After Effects will automatically render it in full quality at render time!