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# Where EffectCraft falls short
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (issue, PR and catalog references re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3; ranked gap list from the 10 October re-measure otherwise unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (issue, PR and catalog references gap 21: percentage guides and effect colour labels in; earlier change: re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3; ranked gap list from the 10 October re-measure otherwise unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)
An honest assessment of how far EffectCraft is from being a real replacement for After Effects,
and the work that closes the gap. This document is meant for contributors and agents choosing
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| 18 | **Relative paths and relinking** | Projects store absolute footage paths; no relink when a project moves | Moving or sharing a project breaks it | 6–12 h | G4 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
| 19 | **Plug-in ecosystem** | No After Effects SDK hosting (#600, #327 OpenFX, #334, #376 plug-in manager); our WebAssembly API has no third-party plug-ins | Many pro projects depend on Trapcode, Element, Saber… | 40–80 h for API growth; SDK hosting needs an owner decision | G8 · [scripting-parity.md](scripting-parity.md) |
| 20 | **Multi-monitor and video output** | #486: any panel can move into a native window of its own (panel menu ▸ Move Panel to New Window, `window.panelWindow`) and so onto another screen, restored with the workspace; still missing: dragging tabs between those windows, app shortcuts while one has the focus, named workspaces remembering them, Mercury Transmit to video hardware (we have a second preview window only) | Two-screen setups are standard for professionals | 10–20 h | G2 · [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
| 21 | **Small 26.x features** | Proportional Scrubbing (26.2), pasting Illustrator's own clipboard data as shapes (26.3; SVG markup on the clipboard pastes as a shape layer, #738), variable-font filter (26.3), percentage guides and effect colour labels (26.5), the rebuilt Effect Controls (26.5) | Users of the current version expect them | 15–25 h | — · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
| 21 | **Small 26.x features** | Proportional Scrubbing (26.2), pasting Illustrator's own clipboard data as shapes (26.3; SVG markup on the clipboard pastes as a shape layer, #738), variable-font filter (26.3), the rebuilt Effect Controls (26.5). Percentage guides (View ▸ Add Percentage Guide, Convert Guides to Percentage / Pixels) and effect colour labels (Effect Controls header bar and right-click Label menu, `effect.setLabel`) are in (#1095), built from the release notes' one-line descriptions and never compared with After Effects: the Timeline shows no effect label, and the labels' exact UI there is unknown | Users of the current version expect them | 10–20 h left | — · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
| 22 | **Encoder efficiency** | HEVC / AV1 have no B-frames, multi-reference or SAO / CDEF; Opus no FEC / DTX; single-file intermediates are 8-bit uncompressed QuickTime only (#372 closed by #778: no 16-bpc, AVI or lossless-compressed codec); #325 render over existing file | Larger files than After Effects + Media Encoder | 20–40 h | G6 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
| 23 | **Essential Graphics interchange** | Templates are `.ectemplate`, not `.mogrt`; #338 and #611 closed | Premiere editors can't use our templates | 15–30 h | — · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
| 24 | **Timeline depth requests** | #601 expand precomps in place, #602 reorderable render stack, #604 guide-only effects, #425 keyframe confusion (#355 and #428 closed) | Power-user speed | 15–30 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
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| 2026-10-12 | minor | Audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3: open-issue count and crash list, closed issues removed from rows 1, 3, 5, 6, 8–12, 15–17, 22–24, G8 and G9 (#759 `#include`), localization catalogs recounted (≈ 12% to ≈ 18%); rows 7, 14 and 21 left to open PRs #1102, #792 and #1098 |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Alpha gate checked: no alpha blockers |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Gap 21: percentage guides and effect colour labels added (#1095) |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Re-measured against After Effects 2026 26.5: two numbers (breadth ≈ 91%, ready ≈ 45%), dimension table with hours, a ranked list of 25 gaps with evidence, impact, estimate and parity doc; the real-user evidence moved into a report log under G2; links follow the rename of `parity.md` to `target-app-parity.md` |
| 2026-10-08 | minor | User issues of 6–8 October and their regression evidence |
| 2026-10-05 | major | First honest assessment: breadth ≈ 99% vs real use ≈ 30–50%; workstreams G1–G9 |