M0.11: parity audit (docs/parity.md) and effort estimate in ROADMAP

≈64% weighted feature parity, 257/298 effects, ≈167 agent-hours remaining
(≈42–50 h wall clock with five parallel agents).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

ROADMAP.md

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 | M15 | The web app (WebAssembly, WebGPU) | Done, single-threaded |
 | M14 | Built for agents: MCP server, command-line tool, control channel | Done |
 
+## How far from full parity
+
+Measured feature by feature in [docs/parity.md](docs/parity.md) (2 October 2026):
+
+- **≈ 64% of After Effects' features, weighted by importance** (75% of the essentials, 38% of
+  professional daily-use features, 17% of the long tail); 257 of 298 effects.
+- **≈ 167 agent-hours of work remain**, about **42–50 hours of wall-clock time** with five Claude
+  Opus 5.5 agents working in parallel (≈ 31–35 hours for the essentials and daily-use features).
+- Hardest remaining pieces: on-canvas text editing, GPU rendering, tracking and roto, Advanced 3D.
+
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docs/parity.md

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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.
+
+## Summary
+
+| Measure | Value |
+|---|---|
+| **Feature parity, weighted by tier** (P0 ×3, P1 ×2, P2 ×1) | **≈ 64%** |
+| Feature parity, unweighted | ≈ 58% |
+| P0 (it isn't After Effects without it) | ≈ 75% |
+| P1 (professional daily use) | ≈ 38% |
+| P2 (long tail) | ≈ 17% |
+| Features done / partial / missing | 18 / 60 / 14 of 92 |
+| **Effects** | **257 of 298** After Effects 2026 effects by name (86%); ≈ 70% allowing for simplified implementations |
+| 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 |
+
+"Agent-hours" are hours of one autonomous coding agent (Claude Opus 5.5) working in its own git
+worktree with tests. The estimate is calibrated on this repository's own history: Classic 3D
+(cameras, lights, shadows, depth of field, views, tools) took one agent about 2.7 h; timeline
+depth (graph editor, keyframe dialogs, time remapping, pen and masks) about 2.3 h; 85 effects
+about 1.2 h; the After Effects menu bar about 1.3 h; layer styles about 0.6 h; the web build
+about 0.8 h. What is left is harder on average (tracking, roto, puppet, GPU, Advanced 3D), and
+sequential chains (tracker → mask tracking → Warp Stabilizer → 3D camera tracker; GPU
+compositor → GPU effects) limit how much can run in parallel.
+
+Work in progress at the time of the audit, not yet counted: motion tracking, preferences and the
+keyboard shortcut editor, auto-save and crash recovery, paint and puppet tools, Lottie import and
+export.
+
+## 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 |
+| Audio | 85% | 0.5 | audio to keyframes |
+| Import | 78% | 4.5 | PSD, SVG as shapes, Lottie |
+| Automation | 76% | 3.3 | a JavaScript scripting object model |
+| Shapes | 68% | 3.9 | pen tool for shape paths, vertex editing, taper and wave strokes |
+| Compositions | 67% | 7.4 | marker dialog, flowchart, Essential Graphics |
+| Animation | 65% | 10.4 | motion-path handles in the viewer, graph editor transform box, puppet, Wiggler/Smoother/Motion Sketch |
+| Text | 63% | 5.8 | on-canvas editing with a cursor, per-character styles, paragraph spacing and indents |
+| Web | 60% | 2.5 | threads, browser storage, audio |
+| 3D | 58% | 20.5 | Advanced 3D (models, PBR, image-based light), 3D camera tracker, multi-view layouts |
+| Effects | 56% | 14.6 | Effect Controls widgets (angle dial, point crosshair, eyedropper, curves), GPU effects, 41 missing effects |
+| Interface | 55% | 10.4 | drag-to-dock and floating panels, viewer rulers/snapping/channels/snapshots, preferences, native macOS menus |
+| Project | 53% | 8.1 | 8/16/32-bit pipeline and colour management, auto-save, proxies, folder moves |
+| Masks & roto | 44% | 13.0 | mask tracking, Roto Brush, free transform and RotoBezier |
+| Preview | 43% | 8.1 | GPU compositor, disk cache, region of interest, snapshots and exposure |
+| Tracking | 0% | 13.0 | point tracker, Warp Stabilizer, mask and face tracking |
+| Paint | 0% | 4.0 | Brush, Clone Stamp, Eraser |
+
+## Effects still missing
+
+Immersive Video (all 12), 3D Channel (all 8, including Cryptomatte), Color Stabilizer and the five
+OCIO transforms, CC Flo Motion, Liquify, Rolling Shutter Repair, Warp Stabilizer, Compressor,
+Distortion and Gate (audio), Camera-Shake Deblur, CC Radial Blur, CC Hair, Particle Playground,
+Keylight (our Screen Key stands in), Color Profile Converter and the 3D Camera Tracker. Boris FX
+Mocha and Cineware are third-party and not counted.
+
+## Highest-value gaps, in order
+
+1. On-canvas text editing and per-character styles.
+2. Effect Controls widgets: angle dial, point crosshair, eyedropper, curves and levels editors.
+3. Viewer basics: snapping, rulers, channel view, snapshots, exposure, a drawable region of interest.
+4. A GPU (wgpu) compositor, then GPU effects.
+5. Pen tool for shape paths, shape vertex editing, the Layer viewer, free transform and RotoBezier.
+6. Motion-path handles in the viewer; graph editor transform box and snapping.
+7. Point tracking and stabilization (in progress).
+8. Frame blending, collapse transformations, slip edit.
+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`, the `sourceText` style API, `footage()`.
+13. Lottie (in progress), WebM, SVG and PSD import.
+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.
+
+The engine underneath (keyframes, expressions, shape operators, text animators, Classic 3D, all
+38 blend modes, the render queue) is deep. Most of what is missing is interactive tooling in the
+viewer, settings that are stored but not yet rendered, about 69 menu entries that are still
+disabled, and the large systems: tracking, puppet, paint, roto, Advanced 3D and GPU rendering.