Merge enhance/filmcraft-avi-backend into enhance/avi-import

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#	crates/export/tests/it/movie_bytes.rs

docs/gaps.md

@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ are grouped by area; the issue tracker has the rest.
 | 4 | **No CI gate on pull requests** | `.github/workflows` has release, packaging-lint, FreeBSD and Windows ARM64 jobs only; `cargo xtask ci` runs locally | Regressions reach main unseen; 49 community PRs landed in one batch (#598) | 4–8 h | G3 · this file |
 | 5 | **Playback and scrubbing feel** | #595 stutter on cached frames (partly addressed: nearest-first RAM preview prefetch, cache bars at 1/3 resolution), #304, #504 / #335 audio late or crackling, #586 puppet lag (maintainers asked for details); #329 slow scrubbing (#784) and #554 closed | Preview is where motion designers spend their day | 25–50 h | G5 · [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
 | 6 | **Linux and Windows interaction bugs** | Open: #488 rename arrows (hardening landed, reporter asked for details), #492 anchor drag, #268 file drops on Wayland (winit), #613 Direct3D 12 compositor. Now closed: #491, #493, #467, #320, #302, #596 | Many reports come from Linux; some Windows GPUs fail to start the compositor | 25–45 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
-| 7 | **Animation presets: 54 against 621** | After Effects ships 621 `.ffx` presets (Behaviors, Backgrounds, Shapes, Synthetics, Text, Transitions…); we ship 54 original presets (8 text-animator; 23 Transitions: wipes, clock and fan reveals, blinds, dissolves, card flips, CC wipes, fades, #757; 23 Backgrounds: drifting gradients, fog, cloud and smoke, plasma and magma, cells, hexagons, scrolling grids and checks, pulse rings, bokeh, light sweep, #1096, driven by expressions so they keep moving, not seamless loops) and read only our `.ecpreset`. Missing: Behaviors, Shapes, Synthetics, Image and more Text | Presets are how many designers start; tutorials assume them | 15–35 h (original presets; `.ffx` reading is out of clean-room scope) | G8 · [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
+| 7 | **Animation presets: 76 against 621** | After Effects ships 621 `.ffx` presets (Behaviors, Backgrounds, Shapes, Synthetics, Text, Transitions…); we ship 76 original presets (8 text-animator; 23 Transitions: wipes, clock and fan reveals, blinds, dissolves, card flips, CC wipes, fades, #757; 23 Backgrounds: drifting gradients, fog, cloud and smoke, plasma and magma, cells, hexagons, scrolling grids and checks, pulse rings, bokeh, light sweep, #1096, driven by expressions so they keep moving, not seamless loops; 22 Behaviors: wiggle, shake, float, orbit, bounce, drift, pendulum, spin, pulse, heartbeat, blink, strobe, flicker on transform and opacity, #1510) and read only our `.ecpreset`. Missing: Shapes, Synthetics, Image and more Text | Presets are how many designers start; tutorials assume them | 15–35 h (original presets; `.ffx` reading is out of clean-room scope) | G8 · [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
 | 8 | **Mask and shape bugs** | Open: #1004 mask vertex multi-select, #999 auto-pan, #1042 / #1033 vertex nodes under the bounding box, #959 / #960 shape group toggles and operators. Now closed: #510, #513, #527, #509, #303, #553, #932 (Convert To Bezier Path on a shape layer's parametric path) | Masks are core compositing | 10–20 h | G2 · [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
 | 9 | **Effect behaviour bugs** | #580, #463 Curl Noise, #369 Motion Tile output size, #943 Turbulent Displace Evolution, #473 Cryptomatte selection (quoted names with commas fixed, 3b7f1ace; UI and GPU time open), #474 multi-layer EXR (decode shared, faffad3a; f16 storage and cache sizing open). Closed: #526, #514, #533–#536 | Each one breaks a look someone built | 10–20 h | G1/G2 · [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
 | 10 | **Colour pipeline differences** | #340 ProRes 4444 tagged bt709 but sRGB-encoded (open); ACES 2.0 / OCIO 2.5 configs (26.5) missing; now closed: #494 32-bpc blend modes, #495 and #750 Working Gamma 2.4, #546 / #547 viewer colour | Wrong colour in delivery is a client-visible failure | 15–30 h | G1 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
-| 11 | **Text rendering and layout** | Open: #453 CJK text in comps, #316 paragraph alignment inverted (maintainers' tests show Left/Right correct; asked for a project), #417 soft at Fit (mostly fixed by #444), #550 toolbar font options. Closed: #483, #583 | Text is in almost every motion graphic | 10–20 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
+| 11 | **Text rendering and layout** | #453 CJK text in comps: the Han fallback now reaches the installed Chinese faces; open: #316 paragraph alignment inverted (maintainers' tests show Left/Right correct; asked for a project), #417 soft at Fit (mostly fixed by #444), #550 toolbar font options. Closed: #483, #583 | Text is in almost every motion graphic | 10–20 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
 | 12 | **3D interaction and depth** | No 3D transform gizmos (#392, #347); camera aperture (#260); reflections (#261); extruded surface materials beyond Front / Bevel / Side / Back Color (fb5a5e9a; #315 closed); #307 reopened (the viewer's renderer button now shows and switches the renderer, #645); Z position (#489) closed | Advanced 3D is After Effects' growth area since 2023 | 20–35 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
 | 13 | **3D model formats and materials** | After Effects 26 imports FBX, USD/USDZ, STL besides glTF and OBJ (`usd_plugins`), and Substance 3D materials with mesh displacement (26.0–26.2); we read glTF, OBJ, STL (binary and ASCII, with facet colours) and FBX 7.x (binary and ASCII: meshes, hierarchy, Lambert/Phong materials and textures; no FBX animation or skinning yet) | Product shots and 3D scenes come as FBX/USDZ | 25–45 h | — · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | 14 | **Object Matte** (26.2, disk cache in 26.5) | First slice (#783): the Object Matte effect (Effect ▸ Matte) and `objectMatte.apply` turn a point (and optional box) on a reference frame into a matte and follow the object up to 600 frames each way, or segment every frame on its own; Roto Brush's engine, cache and model (MobileSAM from Settings ▸ Roto Brush, classical graph cut without it). Since then: the Object Matte tool in the viewer (click / drag a box, hover crosshair), the box as the model's box prompt, background tracking with progress and cancel, Freeze, and segmentations kept in the disk cache (26.5). Missing: a comparison with After Effects ([plan](fidelity/object-matte.md)) | The new one-click roto | 10–20 h | G7 · [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ The most important missing piece: it turns every other estimate here into a meas
   a Radial Stroke swatch on a selected shape layer and get the Gradient Editor on its Gradient Fill
   / Gradient Stroke Colors (OK saves); without such a gradient the swatch still opens the options,
   and the words, Solid swatches and Alt-click are unchanged.
+- Regression evidence for [#1306](https://github.com/storytold/effectcraft/issues/1306) (from
+  #1072): the `ui_expression_values` tests, checked headlessly on Windows, read the colour the
+  values are painted in. Expression-driven vectors, angles and scalars are red in the Timeline,
+  Effect Controls and Properties panel, in dark and light themes, hovered too; disabled, removed
+  and empty expressions show the ordinary colour.
 - Regression evidence for the reports of 6 October, checked headlessly on Windows: real pointer
   drags in `ui_drag_drop` (Project items into the Timeline between layers and at a time, and onto
   the viewer; an effect onto a layer in the viewer: #85, #88, #89), `ui_render_queue` (a template