Illustrator EPS imported as an empty layer. Three gaps in the PostScript
interpreter, each against the PostScript Language Reference:
- An operator stored under another name (`/mo /moveto load def`, as
Illustrator's prolog does for every path and paint operator) pushed the
operator's name instead of running it, so nothing was drawn.
- Device queries that return values (currentpagedevice, currentscreen,
currentflat, currenthalftone, status, dictstack, ...) pushed nothing,
shifting the stack under the procset's guards. They now push a plain
device's defaults; setscreen pops its three operands.
- `currentfile 0 (eod) /SubFileDecode filter` now skips to the end-of-data
string, so an embedded XMP packet isn't run as PostScript.
The regression test uses synthetic PostScript only.
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The crop kept 3 px of halo, which makes the blur exact inside a box, but the
lag-1 correlation also reads the right neighbour's high-pass residual — one
column outside the box, still polluted by the crop edge when another box
covers it (adjacent boxes are the norm with a step of size/2). The size
estimate drifted by ~5e-5 in the parity test; a 4 px halo removes it.
The parity test now holds std to 1e-6 and size to 1e-7 (was 5 % for size),
and the boxed statistics still cost 1.8 / 3.1 ms at 1080p / 4K.
The sample-box search rescanned every candidate box and the grain statistics
blurred the whole image three times per layer, although Match Grain only reads
the 80 sample boxes (~6.5k pixels). On a 4K frame that analysis was ~90 % of
the effect.
- measure the statistics from small crops around each box (3 px halo, the
Gaussian's support), deduplicating overlapping boxes so the sums match the
previous masked version;
- search the candidate box rows in parallel (the sort is a total order, so the
chosen boxes are unchanged);
- compute the "own" boxes and stats only when Compensate for Existing Noise is
on, and clone the frame for Preview composition only in Preview mode;
- run Plane::transpose/map_rows on the calling thread for small planes: the
rayon dispatch dominated per-box crops (240 blurs of ~15x15).
Release, Ryzen Threadripper 1920X, noisy source / flat target, defaults, best
of 4 (1080p / 4K):
- grain statistics: 151/463 ms -> 1.2/2.8 ms
- sample boxes (source): 43/179 ms -> 16/71 ms
- end to end: 266/1416 ms -> 99/465 ms (Compensate 50 %: 392/1830 -> 104/482)
Tests: the boxed statistics match the masked ones (overlapping and corner
boxes, alpha holes), plus the existing Match Grain/Remove Grain suites.
xtask bench passed the whole layers scenario on one command line, longer
than Windows' 32 767-character limit (os error 206), so no scenario past
demo ran. effectcraft-cli run takes --args-file F (one argument per line)
and bench writes its commands there.
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- first_ascent: a "d" shorter than 0.3 x the font ascent (a symbol or icon font) no
longer puts box text's first baseline almost at the box top; the font ascent is used,
as before the "d" rule (CodeRabbit on #1875). Test:
a_short_d_falls_back_to_the_font_ascent.
- CharXf::track_before / track_after are pixels, not 1/1000 em (CodeRabbit).
- The Lottie export of style-run tracking is back to what it was: the pixel conversion
was not checked against a player, so it is left for a separate, verified change.
- The Subtract clamp in Mode::combine is intended for every animator property: the
selectors combine into one selection per character for the whole animator, as in
After Effects; the read-back observed it through Tracking (now said in the code).
- Per-character 3D rotation notes that #1876 adds Mat4::rotation_xyz for the same order.
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kernels.wgsl repeats Glow's bright-pass gain 8.0 and knee 0.0611 as literals; they now
name effects::GLOW_GAIN / GLOW_KNEE (exported) and the test
glow_constants_match_the_cpu (no GPU needed) fails if they drift. docs/effects-parity.md:
the summary row no longer says no effect is compared with After Effects while the
Blur & Sharpen row reports Radial Blur's comparison (CodeRabbit on #1873), and the
Radial Blur changelog row says CPU only (it has no GPU path).
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WGSL cannot read Rust constants, so the Rec. 601 luma (Tint, Tritone, Luma Key /
Extract), Black & White's tint weights and Exposure's 2.2 power stay literals in the
kernels; they now name their Rust source (effects::LUMA_601, BW_TINT_LUMA,
EXPOSURE_LINEAR_GAMMA, newly exported) and the test shader_constants_match_the_cpu
(no GPU needed) fails if a literal drifts. gpu_tint_defaults_match_after_effects_greys
says "skipped: no GPU adapter" when it skips (EFFECTCRAFT_REQUIRE_GPU=1 still makes it
fail). docs/effects-parity.md: Brightness & Contrast is close to, not the same as,
After Effects (up to 6.2/255), and the summary row lists what is measured.
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Above MAX_GRID_PX the padded feather grid fell back to the unpadded buffer, so a
feathered Add mask just outside a very large layer (e.g. 8192 x 8192, feather 40)
covered nothing and the whole layer vanished (CodeRabbit on #1874). The grid is now
coarsened by 2, 4, ... until it fits; radii and padding scale with it, so the feather
of an edge outside the layer still fades into it. The doc comment on the Linear falloff
no longer says it is unchanged: wide linear ramps now go through the coarse grid.
Regression tests: a_grid_too_big_is_coarsened_and_keeps_its_padding,
a_coarsened_grid_still_feathers_a_mask_outside_the_buffer.
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After Effects' Curves effect interpolates its points with a natural cubic
spline (zero curvature at the ends), clamped to 0..1: AE 2026 renders of an
RGB curve (0,0) (125,199) (255,255) and a Red curve (0,0) (128,44)
(255,255) (cases 962 / 963, ROUND4) give exactly the natural spline's values
on every grey step (0, 30, 59, 115, 164, 202, 227, 242, 250, 255 and 0, 0, 1,
6, 19, 44, 83, 135, 194, 255). EffectCraft used a monotone (Fritsch-Carlson)
spline: 34 / 67 / 125 / 171 ... on the RGB curve, up to 10/255 off (ROUND4
measured up to 6 levels on real projects); now within 1/255, CPU and GPU (the
same Hermite tables carry the spline's knot slopes). Lumetri's curves and
Glow's Arbitrary Map keep the monotone spline (not measured).
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With per-character 3D on, After Effects turns each character by Rx * Ry * Rz
(Z first), as it turns a 3D layer's X / Y / Z Rotation (case 931, AE 2026:
"H" at 400 px with animator X / Y / Z Rotation 40 / 30 / 20). EffectCraft
composed Rz * Ry * Rx, so the glyph faced another way: 23 of 5184 grid
points off (max 255), now 3 at the anti-aliased edge (mean 0.015/255). The
same order fix-orientation uses for layers; texts with one rotation axis
are unchanged.
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A text animator's Tracking Amount is in pixels in After Effects 2026, not in
1/1000 em like the Character panel's tracking: Amount 30 on every character
adds 30 px between neighbours (half before, half after each) at 80 px and at
40 px. And a Subtract range selector over characters the first selector
leaves out keeps them at 0 instead of selecting them negatively. With both,
the EXPORTER's t8 layer D (Tracking 30 on characters 2-4 by index, Subtract
over the last 20 %) puts every glyph where AE does (it ended 88 px short,
1553 vs 1641; now 1641).
The "Tracking In" text preset animates 40 -> 0 px (was 400 -> 0 thousandths
of an em, about the same at 100 px text); Lottie export writes a style run's
tracking (1/1000 em) as pixels for its tracking animator, which Lottie
players add in pixels.
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After Effects 2026 lays out right-to-left point text whose paragraph carries a
justified code (justify last left / centre / right, justify all) flush at
its start, the right, like right-aligned text (EXPORTER read-back t7: point
rows with codes 3-6 at -152..-8 from the anchor). EffectCraft placed it by
the last-line side (left / centre / left). Left-to-right point text and box
text are unchanged; AE's slightly wider right-to-left box wrapping (1-2 px
narrower word gaps) stays open.
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With Justify All After Effects stretches the paragraph's last line too, and
its every-line composer breaks the paragraph so that line is not a lone
word: a 400 px box that the other justifications break into 6 / 6 / 1 words
breaks 4 / 4 / 4 (AE 2026, EXPORTER read-back t6). EffectCraft's composer
left the last line's slack out of its cost, so "twelve" stood alone on a
stretched line; it now counts that slack for Justify All and every word
starts within 1 px of AE's (what remains in that box is the known box-text
baseline offset). Other justifications and the single-line composer are
unchanged.
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After Effects puts the first baseline of paragraph (box) text the height of the
font's lowercase "d" (in whole thousandths of an em) below the box top, at the
text's nominal size; superscript keeps the line there and only raises its glyphs.
EffectCraft used the font ascent of the drawn size plus the superscript rise.
Measured in AE 2026 (case 818, box at y -200): Times New Roman 100 px -130.50
(EffectCraft -110.9), 50 px -165.25, superscript -163.80 (EffectCraft drew it
15.8 px lower), Arial 100 px -128.40, superscript -161.70; now within 0.15 px.
517 (four wrapped lines, Times New Roman superscript): the line bands now land
on AE's rows exactly (336-388, 434-486, 532-584, 643-682; were 16 px lower).
A face without a "d" outline, and vertical type (not measured), keep the font
ascent. The paragraph-box test now
expects the caret (full ascent) to start a little above the box.
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After Effects draws a Rectangle Path clockwise from its top-right corner, or
with round corners from the end of the top-right arc on the right edge;
Trim Paths measures from there (AE 2026, case 930: 400 x 300 rectangles,
Trim 0-25 % and 70 / 30). EffectCraft built the path with kurbo, starting at
the top-left corner, so trimmed rectangles drew another segment: case 930
was 86 of 5184 grid points off (max 255), now 5 at stroke edges. Start > End
was already drawn swapped, as in AE. Convert to Bezier now gives AE's vertex
order (top-right first); the engine test follows. Lottie rectangles share
the path and now start where lottie players start them.
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After Effects gives Repeater copy i the opacity Start + (End - Start) * i / Copies,
so the last copy stops one step short of End Opacity. EffectCraft reached End
Opacity at the last copy (i / (Copies - 1)). Measured in AE 2026 (case 709: 3
copies, End Opacity 40): copies at 100 / 80 / 60 % (EffectCraft 100 / 70 / 40);
the overlap of the two copies 92 % (EffectCraft 82 %). Now within 2/255 at the
sampled pixels.
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The Smooth feather is three separable box passes of 2 round(0.37 F) + 1
pixels (a quadratic B-spline reaching ~1.11 F either side), fitted to
After Effects 2026 renders of feather 100, 300 and 1000 (rows, columns,
corner diagonal, case 398): max error under 1/255, where a Gaussian of
any width misses by 3/255 or more (it was sigma = F / 2). The coarse
grid for wide feathers picks the step whose three windows add up
closest to the full-resolution ones. Linear is unchanged (unmeasured).
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The mask coverage was rasterised into the layer-sized buffer and then
blurred, so coverage outside the layer counted as 0: a feathered mask
past the layer edge faded at that edge, and one just outside the layer
gave nothing (the comment said the buffer grew; nothing grew it).
A feathered mask is now rasterised on a grid padded by the blur's whole
support (3 sigma + 3 for the Gaussian, the box radius for a linear
falloff), blurred there and cropped back to the buffer. Wide feathers
(sigma > 32 px) use a grid coarser per axis so the blur spans ~16 grid
pixels, which keeps the allocation near the buffer's size (feather 1000
on 1920x1080: a 160x134 grid instead of ~20 Mpx); the grid is capped,
feathers are clamped and non-finite ones ignored. Unfeathered masks and
masks inside the layer give the same coverage as before. The GPU uses
these CPU masks (adjustment footprint, masked sources): no GPU change.
Tests: case 398 of the .aep corpus rebuilt in the project model (red
solid, adjustment layer with a default Gradient Ramp, a 1920x200 mask
below the layer, feather 1000) within 3 levels of the Gaussian and
within 14 of After Effects' render; a mask right of a solid, a mask
larger than the layer (edges stay opaque), linear falloff, half
resolution, and huge or broken feathers.
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After Effects draws the Transform effect as position + K * R * S * (p - anchor)
with the skew K = rot(-axis) * shearY(tan skew) * rot(axis) applied after the
rotation, and keeps what lands outside the layer's bounds. EffectCraft skewed
before rotating (shearX about the axis) and clipped to the layer.
Measured in AE 2026 on a grey 960x540 solid (cases 723, 819, 820): 723 (anchor,
position, scale 120/80, skew 10 axis 20, rotation 30, opacity 70) differed in
11.25 % of the frame and now in 0.065 % (edges, max 16/255), CPU and GPU alike;
819 / 820 (skew 15 axis 60, rotation -25, scale 130/70, anchor) match to the
edge. The buffer grows on each side by that side's overshoot (also for the
motion-blur samples), capped at 16 384 px a side and 16 Mpx in all so a layer
moved far away costs a bounded allocation (regression test); adjustment layers
keep their size.
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After Effects 2026 draws Fractal Noise's Block noise at Scale 100 and
Complexity 1 in cells of 66.67 px (the value changes every 66.67 px along a
row), not 100 px; Soft Linear noise has the matching correlation length.
EffectCraft's lattice is now Scale x 2/3 px (NOISE_CELL), CPU and GPU. Case
904 E03 (Soft Linear, Complexity 4, Scale 100): the noise's autocorrelation
at 32 px was 0.68 (AE 0.41), now 0.54; pixel values cannot match (other
seeds). Still open: AE's noise spreads about 20 % wider around its mean (std
48 vs 40/255 in E03). Existing projects and the Backgrounds presets with
Fractal Noise get finer noise (two thirds of the former cell size).
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After Effects feathers both edges of the wiped wedge (the start ray too) with
a Gaussian whose width is constant in pixels: Completion 40, Start Angle 30,
Counterclockwise, Feather 20 (AE 2026, case 904 E12) fits sigma = 0.4 x
Feather = 8.0 px at every radius (mean alpha error 0.0002 over the frame).
EffectCraft ramped only the moving edge, linearly over Feather degrees, so
the edge was 14 px wide near the centre and 140 px wide at 400 px out, and
the start edge was hard: 378 of 5184 grid points off (max 111/255, 6.6 % of
pixels > 8), now 1 (max 3), 0.009 % of pixels > 8 (near the centre). CPU and
GPU (the kernel now measures distances to the two rays). 0 % and 100 % are
unchanged, so the three Transitions presets keep their end frames; their
Feather (6 / 10) now means pixels.
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After Effects measures the blinds' phase from the layer's centre and softens
both edges of the transparent band with a Gaussian of sigma = Feather / 2; the
band runs from the origin's phase to Completion x Width. EffectCraft measured
from the buffer corner and ramped only one edge linearly over Feather (a hard
edge on the other side). Fitted to AE 2026 renders of Completion 40,
Direction 30, Width 50, Feather 5 on a 960 x 540 and a 480 x 270 layer (the
origin is the centre + 0.6 px): case 715 was 499 of 5184 grid points off
(max 91/255, 7.1 % of pixels > 8), now 28 (0.056 %), all within ~6 px of the
layer edge where AE differs (up to 48/255, not modelled); away from it within
6/255 (test: one AE row of the 480 x 270 render). CPU and GPU (new erf-based
kernel, same term count). Completion 0 / 100 are unchanged, so the
Transitions presets keep their start and end frames.
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After Effects' Radial Blur keeps a layer's edges: Zoom 20 on a flat grey 960x540
solid over red (case 713) stays flat and opaque to its edge, and a zoomed
full-frame ramp (case 829) keeps the frame opaque (2/255 at x = 2, 253/255 at
x = 1917 on row 540). EffectCraft sampled transparency outside the layer, so its
edges faded and the red below showed through (713: 3.9 % of the frame off, max
64/255). Now 713 is identical to AE (max 0/255), CPU and GPU. CC Radial Blur
(already matching AE) is unchanged.
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With Glow Colors = Original Colors, After Effects thresholds each channel of
the straight colour separately and the glow is 8 x (value - threshold +
0.061) per channel (times Intensity), nothing below: fitted to AE 2026
renders of grey 0.65 / 0.8 / 0.9 / 1, orange (1, 0.5, 0) and (0.2, 0.6, 1)
solids at Threshold 40 / 60 / 80 % and Radius 10 / 30 (36 channel values,
exact to the 8-bit capture; an orange solid glows red only). EffectCraft
scaled the colour by a luminance threshold (k = (L - thr) / (1 - thr)), about
3.7 x too dim on white. Cases 806 / 810 / 811 (32 bpc): outside the layer
now within 3/255 of AE (806 white at Intensity 1: 119 = AE, was 32); grid
0 points off for 806-810. The glow's alpha (the blurred layer alpha) and the
Arbitrary Map / A & B colours and alpha-based glows are unchanged.
Stacked on fix-glow-halo (same lines). Not changed: Composite Original's
semantics are swapped against AE's names (EffectCraft's "On Top" adds the
glow over the original, which AE calls "Behind"; AE's "On Top" keeps the
original over the glow), so imported AE Glows at the default Behind show
no glow inside the layer (811 interior 204 vs AE 255).
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With Glow Based On Color Channels, After Effects gives the glow the layer's whole
alpha (blurred), not the thresholded part, and Intensity scales only its colour:
a layer below the threshold darkens what lies under its edge. Fitted to AE 2026
renders of a grey solid over red (cases 524, 807-809): the halo is the same at
Intensity 1 and 3 and with Composite Original Behind or On Top, and its edge is
an erfc step of sigma = 0.384 x Glow Radius at radius 10 and 30 (was radius / 2).
524 (Glow defaults on a 50 % grey solid): EffectCraft had no halo (max 116/255
off at the edge); now red 248/234/208/165/140 at 7.5/5.5/3.5/1.5/0.5 px outside
vs AE 249/235/206/164/140, max 2/255 over the frame, CPU and GPU. The blur
width applies to every glow; alpha-based glows keep their coverage rule
(thresholded alpha, scaled by Intensity). Not matched yet: the brightness of glows above the
threshold (AE about 3.7 x brighter for a white solid, cases 806, 810, 811).
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Menus 628 rows (every menu catalog), panels 886 (695 shared with the Chinese
catalogs plus 191 Georgian-only), effect names 307 + 21 categories; gaps.md
and localization-parity.md now agree.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
Without a Fill Mask, After Effects turns the layer into the fill colour and
applies Opacity to its alpha; nothing of the original shows through. AE 2026
renders Fill (0, 0.5, 1) at Opacity 50 % on a Gradient Ramp over a red solid
as premultiplied (0, 0.251, 0.502) at alpha 0.502 at every pixel; EffectCraft
mixed the fill with the ramp (mean difference 95.5/255), now within 1/255,
CPU and GPU. Invert fills the transparent part the same way. With a Fill
Mask the mix with the original is unchanged (not measured). Lottie's fill
effect (colour, alpha x opacity) now plays the same in EffectCraft.
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After Effects weighs each of the four points by its inverse squared
distance softened by Blend squared, 1 / (d^2 + Blend^2) in pixels: fitted to
AE 2026 renders of the default gradient at Blend 10, 100 and 300 and case
904 E16 at Blend 50 (power 2.00 at every Blend, softening 0 / 2367 / 9817 /
90127 = about Blend^2; mean error 0.27/255, max 0.9). EffectCraft used
1 / (d^2 / (100 Blend))^1.5, in which Blend cancels out: E16 was 34/255 off
on 99 % of the grid, now 0 grid points off, max 1/255, CPU and GPU.
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After Effects 2026 keys Luma Key and Extract (Channel Luminance) on Rec. 601
weights of the working-space values: Key Out Darker / Extract Black Point at
65, 166 and 24 on pure red, green and blue keep red (601: 76, 709: 54) and
blue (29 / 18) and key out green (150 / 182) - Rec. 709, which EffectCraft
used, decides all three the other way. Case 904 E18 (Extract 30 / 220 /
softness 10 on grey and colour steps): 513 of 5184 grid points off (pure blue
kept at 231 in AE, keyed out in EC), now 0, max 0. CPU and GPU.
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The panel catalog's \"Type\" is the kind (Camera Settings, the Project column), so
the Type page drew as \"kind\" in Chinese; its title now comes from the
app.settings menu row (文字), as the Settings submenu draws it.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YMTAbGNRxnMEzRvYnQGphF
After Effects' Luma Key removes everything darker (or brighter) than Threshold
and ignores Tolerance for those two key types; Tolerance only sets the band of
Key Out Similar / Dissimilar. EffectCraft ramped the matte over Tolerance, so
case 719 (a 50 % grey, Key Out Darker, Threshold 140, Tolerance 20) kept about
80 % of the layer where AE keys it out completely.
Measured in AE 2026 on a vertical grey ramp (cases 812-814): Darker keys up to
level 139.9 and keeps 140.1 (EffectCraft now the same row); Similar keys levels
120.3-160.0; with Edge Thin 1 / Edge Feather 2.5 the matte rises over rows
591-596 (EffectCraft within 0.2 of AE's alpha there). CPU and GPU.
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In After Effects 2026 the non-legacy curve of Brightness -40 is the inverse
of Brightness +40 (within 2.6/255 on a full black-to-white ramp) and Contrast
-50 the inverse of Contrast +50. EffectCraft fitted the negative brightness
with its own power (2^(1.32 |b|) on v), 20/255 off AE at -40; the negatives
now use the reciprocal exponents of the positive curves: Brightness -40 max
6.2/255 (was 19.8), Contrast -50 4.1 (was 7.0); positives unchanged (40:
5.5, 80: 7.8, Contrast 50: 2.7, 90: 5.0; B20 C30: 6.6, which confirms
brightness before contrast). The #681 oracle samples still pass. CPU and GPU.
The positive curves' remaining 5-8/255 needs a better curve family (a
two-point spline fits each capture within 1.6/255), left open.
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After Effects 2026 in a 32 bpc project, Levels (Individual Controls) with RGB
(0.1, 0.9, gamma 1.5, 0.05, 0.95), Red Gamma 0.8, Green Input White 0.8 and
Blue Output Black 0.2 on grey steps 0..255 (case 904 E07): every step matches
"each channel's controls, then the RGB controls" with nothing clipped
(values below Input Black end below Output Black, above Input White above
Output White). EffectCraft ran RGB first and clipped "Off for 32 bpc Color"
(it could not see the bit depth): up to 27/255 off on 95 % of the grid; now
0 grid points off, max 1/255, CPU and GPU.
EffectEnv gains float_depth (the renderer sets it for 32 bpc projects), so
"Off for 32 bpc Color" clips in 8 / 16 bpc projects as before. Unclipped
values below 0 take the gamma mirrored through 0. Plain Levels keeps its
order (its channel controls were not measured); its clipping follows the same
rule. EffectCraft's own projects default to 8 bpc and are unchanged.
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All twelve sliders (Master, Red, Green, Blue) take After Effects'
ranges: Exposure valid -100..100, slider -4..4, 2 decimals (was -20..20,
slider -5..5); Offset -2..2, slider -0.5..0.5, 4 decimals (unchanged);
Gamma Correction valid and slider 0.1..10, 2 decimals (was 0.01..9.99,
slider 0.1..3).
Every value inside the old Exposure and Offset ranges stays valid. Saved
values are not clamped on load, so a gamma below 0.1 from an older
project or a Photoshop import (0.01..9.99) is kept and still renders
(the renderer's 0.01 floor is unchanged); only new edits clamp to 0.1.
Test of the ranges and of an old gamma surviving the load refresh.
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With Bypass Linear Light Conversion off, Exposure decoded and re-encoded
with the piecewise sRGB curve. After Effects 2026 renders (sRGB working
space, 32 bpc) of Offset 0.0005 / 0.002 / 0.02 / 0.1 on black measure
8 / 15 / 43 / 90, which a pure 2.2 power predicts (8.06 / 15.13 / 43.08 /
89.54) and the sRGB curve does not (1.65 / 6.59 / 38.68 / 89.04).
The effect now uses its own 2.2 power curve on the CPU and in the GPU
kernel; the shared colour functions and other effects are unchanged. As
before, the conversion applies whatever the working space, also a
linearised one. Negative values go through both curves mirrored (input
was clamped at 0 before), so defaults are an identity for 32-bpc values
and a negative Offset darkens past black without NaN.
New test against the AE values; existing Exposure tests still hold.
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After Effects tints Black & White's gray like a Color blend: the tint colour's
hue and saturation at the gray's luminosity (weights 0.3 / 0.59 / 0.11, channels
outside 0..1 pulled back toward the gray). EffectCraft used the gray as HSL
lightness. Measured in AE 2026, Tint Color [1, 0.5, 0]: a red solid at Reds 10
(case 717) AE (43, 21, 0), EffectCraft was (51, 26, 0), now (43, 21, 0); a
yellow solid at the default sliders (gray 0.6, case 825) AE (255, 129, 2), now
(255, 129, 3); white stays white. The six sliders already matched AE on eight
colours (cases 816, 817). CPU and GPU.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
After Effects' Tritone weighs the working-space values with Rec. 601 (0.299,
0.587, 0.114), as its Tint does; EffectCraft used Rec. 709. Case 718 (red solid,
Highlights [1,1,0.8], Midtones [0.6,0.2,0.2], Shadows [0,0,0.3], Blend 25):
AE (132, 23, 46), EffectCraft was (113, 16, 49), now (132, 23, 46). On a grey
ramp (case 815) the shadows / midtones / highlights mapping already matched and
still does within 1/255. CPU and GPU (fx_color op 4).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
