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# Parity with After Effects
How close EffectCraft is to After Effects 2026, feature by feature, and how much work is left.
Audited against the code at commit `5273f1b` (2 October 2026). Every feature in our catalog was
graded from the code itself: a disabled menu entry, or a setting that is stored but never
rendered, does not count as done.
## Current status (audit at commit `fa26ad9`, 2 October 2026, late)
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| **Feature parity, weighted by tier** (P0 ×3, P1 ×2, P2 ×1) | **≈ 93%** |
| Unweighted | ≈ 91% |
| P0 / P1 / P2 | ≈ 96% / 90% / 65% |
| Features done / partial / missing | 41 / 50 / 1 of 92 (missing: a plug-in API) |
| **Effects** | **298 of 298** After Effects 2026 effects exist (some still simplified) |
| Disabled menu entries left | 26 commands (31 menu items) |
| Remaining work | ≈ 50–55 agent-hours at the pace measured so far (≈ 150 by the original conservative audit scale) |
| **Wall-clock estimate** | **≈ 11–14 hours** with five agents in parallel; ≈ 6–8 hours for 100% of P0 + P1 |
By area: Layers 98%, Output 95%, Compositions 95%, Automation 96%, Paint 95%, Text 95%, Import 96%,
Animation 94%, Masks 94%, Preview 94%, Interface 93%, Shapes 93%, 3D 91%, Audio 90%, Project 90%,
Tracking 88%, Effects 85%, Web 65%.
What is left, in priority order: the web app's depth (threads, storage, audio, non-blocking
renders); stroke taper/wave and multi-segment dashes; variable mask feather points; camera iris/bokeh and focus-link commands; GPU
rendering of 3D runs and adjustment layers; Render Queue field render, crop/resize and templates;
approximated effects (Subspace Warp, Key Cleaner) and Liquify's viewer brush; Advanced 3D motion blur
and blend modes; a few viewer and colour-management menu items; OpenType features and variable
font axes; AI/EPS/PDF import; more codecs; 59 preferences not yet wired; ScriptUI;
Lumetri Scopes, Footage, Media Browser and Metadata panels; Content-Aware Fill; face tracking; and
the "better than After Effects" items (a plug-in API, branching history, GPU particles).
The sections below are the original audit (morning of 2 October, ≈ 64%) and its updates, kept for
history.
## Summary
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| P1 (professional daily use) | ≈ 38% |
| P2 (long tail) | ≈ 17% |
| Features done / partial / missing | 18 / 60 / 14 of 92 |
| **Effects** | **297 of 298** After Effects 2026 effects by name (99.7%, after M9.11 and Warp Stabilizer; was 257); only the 3D Camera Tracker is left |
| **Effects** | **298 of 298** After Effects 2026 effects by name (100%, after M9.11, Warp Stabilizer and the 3D Camera Tracker; was 257) |
| Remaining work | ≈ **167 agent-hours** (139 h of features + ≈ 20% for 1:1 polish against After Effects) |
| Wall-clock estimate | ≈ **42–50 hours** with five agents working in parallel and one integrating; ≈ 31–35 h for P0 + P1 only |
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| Remaining (audit-scale agent-hours) | ≈ 167 | ≈ 100 |
| Wall clock, five parallel agents | 42–50 h | **≈ 8–10 h at today's measured pace; ≈ 25 h by the audit's conservative figures** |
What is left is concentrated in large systems: the 3D camera tracker,
the Warp Stabilizer and mask-tracking UI on top of
the new tracking library, SVG/PSD import, WebM, a disk cache, and wasm threads. (The missing
effect categories, 3D Channel, Immersive Video and OCIO, landed in M9.11; the scripting object
model in M14.4; Roto Brush and Refine Edge in M6.7; native macOS menus, the Composition Flowchart,
Timeline column/search depth, the Home screen and every After Effects workspace in the UI-polish wave.)
What is left is concentrated in large systems: the Warp Stabilizer and mask-tracking UI on top of
the new tracking library, and wasm threads. (The missing effect categories, 3D Channel, Immersive
Video and OCIO, landed in M9.11; the scripting object model in M14.4; Roto Brush and Refine Edge in
M6.7; native macOS menus, the Composition Flowchart, Timeline column/search depth, the Home screen
and every After Effects workspace in the UI-polish wave; PSD/SVG import, WebM/WAV/AIFF output and
the disk cache in the formats wave; the 3D Camera Tracker in M12.6.)
## By area
| Area | Weighted parity | Remaining (agent-hours) | Biggest gaps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layers | 88% | 4.8 | frame blending, collapse transformations, slip edit |
| Output | 85% | 4.2 | multiple output modules, pre-render, WebM, audio-only |
| Output | 90% | 3.0 | multiple output modules, pre-render (WebM with VP9 alpha + Opus and WAV/AIFF audio-only landed: VP9 is intra-only, Opus CELT-only) |
| Audio | 85% | 0.5 | audio to keyframes |
| Import | 78% | 4.5 | PSD, SVG as shapes, Lottie |
| Import | 88% | 2.0 | AI/EPS/PDF vector footage, PSD smart objects and 3D layers (PSD as footage/composition/retain layer sizes, SVG footage and Create Shapes from Vector Layer landed) |
| Automation | ≈ 90% | 0.8 | scripting covers the documented core object model (AUT-2, M14.4: `app`, project items, comps, layers, properties and keyframes, text documents, markers, render queue, Script Console, `effectcraft-cli script`, MCP `run_script`); still missing: ScriptUI panels/dialogs, `.jsxbin`, sockets |
| Shapes | ≈ 80% | 1.5 | Lottie can't carry stroke taper/wave (stroke Taper and Wave, Dash 2/Gap 2/Dash 3/Gap 3 and radial-gradient Highlight Length/Angle landed in M13.5; pen tool for shape paths and vertex editing in M6.5) |
| Compositions | 72% | 6.0 | Essential Graphics panel (the marker dialog and Composition Flowchart landed) |
| Compositions | ≈ 80% | 3.5 | Mocha-style planar tracks for templates, Essential Graphics' rare controls (font menus, mirrored properties) (the marker dialog, Composition Flowchart, Essential Graphics with master properties, `.ectemplate` templates and Responsive Design — Time landed: CMP-6, CMP-7) |
| Animation | 67% | 10.0 | puppet, Wiggler/Smoother/Motion Sketch (motion-path handles and the graph editor transform box landed in M5.8; keyframe colour labels and Select Keyframe Label Group, Graph Editor snapping to markers / layer ends in M13.5) |
| Text | ≈ 91% | 0.8 | no OpenType feature panel, no extruded strokes, variable-axis animation changes outlines but not advances (vertical Roman / Tate-Chu-Yoko, forced LTR paragraphs, caret on animated and path text, Variable Font Axes and Lottie style runs landed in M13.5; extruded, bevelled text in M7.6; per-character styles, paragraph settings, on-canvas editing and the `sourceText` style API in M9.9–M9.10) |
| Web | 60% | 2.5 | threads, browser storage, audio |
| 3D | 74% | 11.3 | 3D camera tracker, multi-view layouts, Advanced 3D motion blur and blend modes (and iris bokeh in Advanced 3D's depth of field), cameras/lights from models; Classic 3D iris-shaped bokeh with highlights, progressive DOF on tilted layers and the focus-link commands landed in M13.5; Advanced 3D (glTF/OBJ models, primitives, extruded text and shapes, PBR, image-based light, shadow maps, GPU rasteriser) in M7.4–M7.6 |
| Effects | ≈ 75% | 5.0 | GPU versions of more effects and the 3D Camera Tracker (every other After Effects effect exists since M9.11 and M12.5) |
| Web | 85% | 1.0 | viewer frames and Roto Brush propagation still on the page's thread; GPU effects in the browser (browser storage, Web Audio, Web Worker renders/analyses, WebGPU viewer and offline install landed in M15.2) |
| 3D | 78% | 9.3 | multi-view layouts, Advanced 3D motion blur and blend modes (and iris shapes in Advanced 3D's depth of field), cameras/lights from models; Classic 3D iris-shaped bokeh with highlights, progressive depth of field on tilted layers and the focus-link commands landed in M13.5; Advanced 3D (glTF/OBJ models, primitives, extruded text and shapes, PBR, image-based light, shadow maps, GPU rasteriser) in M7.4–M7.6 |
| Effects | ≈ 75% | 5.0 | GPU versions of more effects (every After Effects effect exists since M9.11, M12.5 and M12.6) |
| Interface | 74% | 5.0 | a richer Learn area (Timeline outline and Project panel columns scroll horizontally, the Layer Style dialog, ROI resize handles, Pan Behind snapping and 3D Reference Axes landed in M13.5; native macOS menu bar, Timeline columns/search/reveal-add, Home screen with recent projects and all AE workspaces landed; viewer rulers/snapping/channels/snapshots landed in M0.13) |
| Project | 53% | 8.1 | 8/16/32-bit pipeline and colour management, auto-save, proxies, folder moves |
| Project | ≈ 60% | 6.5 | 8/16/32-bit pipeline and colour management, auto-save, folder moves (proxies and Interpret Footage fields / pixel aspect / alpha guess landed: PRJ-8, PRJ-3) |
| Masks & roto | 74% | 5.0 | Roto Brush's learned (3.0) segmentation model (variable-width mask feather points with the Mask Feather tool landed in M13.5; mask tracking and Mask Interpolation landed in M6.6; Roto Brush & Refine Edge with graph-cut segmentation, flow propagation, edge matting, decontamination and Freeze in M6.7) |
| Preview | 55% | 6.1 | GPU 3D and adjustment layers, disk cache (region of interest, snapshots, exposure and Fast Previews landed in M0.13) |
| Tracking | ≈ 70% | 4.0 | 3D camera tracker, face tracking and Subspace Warp's mesh warp (Rolling Shutter Repair landed in M9.11; point tracker, mask tracking and Warp Stabilizer landed in M6.x / M12.5) |
| Preview | 62% | 5.0 | GPU 3D and adjustment layers (persistent disk cache with the blue cache bar landed; region of interest, snapshots, exposure and Fast Previews landed in M0.13) |
| Tracking | ≈ 85% | 2.5 | face tracking, Subspace Warp's mesh warp, lens distortion in the camera solve (Rolling Shutter Repair landed in M9.11; point tracker, mask tracking, Warp Stabilizer and the 3D Camera Tracker landed in M6.x / M12.5 / M12.6) |
| Paint | 0% | 4.0 | Brush, Clone Stamp, Eraser |
## Effects still missing
The 3D Camera Tracker (built on the tracking library by other work). Boris FX
None: the 3D Camera Tracker landed in M12.6. Boris FX
Mocha and Cineware are third-party and not counted.
### Added in M9.11 (39 effects)
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9. A real 8/16/32-bit pipeline with linear blending and colour management.
10. ~~Drag-to-dock and floating panels, saved workspaces, native macOS menus.~~
11. Auto-save, crash recovery, recent projects (in progress).
12. Expression gaps: `sampleImage`, `footage()` (the `sourceText` style API landed in M9.9).
13. Lottie (in progress), WebM, SVG and PSD import.
12. ~~Expression gaps: `sampleImage`, `footage()`~~ (landed with data footage, the error bar and the Expression Language menu; the `sourceText` style API landed in M9.9).
13. ~~Lottie, WebM, SVG and PSD import~~ (landed; a disk cache too).
14. Puppet and paint tools (in progress).
15. Preferences and a shortcut editor that can rebind (in progress); real Wiggler, Smoother and Motion Sketch; the marker dialog.