Merge pull request #1114 from vangel76/docs-gaps-audit-2026-10-12

# Conflicts: # docs/ui-parity.md
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 **Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~30 points of "ready for real work" and ~350–620 h away

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (full re-measure against After Effects 2026 26.5; standard progress-docs layout) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (open-issue count, crash list and localization share re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)

 EffectCraft aims to do what After Effects does, with the same panels, menus and behaviour, written
 from scratch in Rust. This page is the one-page summary; the evidence is in
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Hours are one Opus 5.5 agent working sequentially, calibrated on this repository
 (set up, animate, text and shapes, composite, preview, save and deliver) work end to end on macOS
 and the work saves and reopens, and ready for real work (≈ 45%) is above the ≈ 40% bar. But: After Effects projects (`.aep`) can't be opened, which
 alone rules out beta; fidelity against After Effects is measured for one narrow case (scalar ease,
-168 samples); 134 issues are open, eight of them crash reports. Beta needs ≈ 75% ready and `.aep`
+168 samples); 216 issues are open on 12 October, six of them crash reports (#580, #501, #426, #341, #234, #879). Beta needs ≈ 75% ready and `.aep`
 opening reliably: the `.aep` owner decision and importer (80–160 h), the fidelity harness and
 P0/P1 corpus (60–100 h), the crash and bug backlog (40–80 h), performance (40–70 h),
 Linux/Windows reliability (30–50 h) and depth in animation, masks, effects and text (100–160 h).
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Linux/Windows reliability (30–50 h) and depth in animation, masks, effects and
 | UI/UX fidelity | 65% | 60–120 | [ui-parity.md](docs/ui-parity.md) |
 | File formats | 50% | 130–230 | [file-format-parity.md](docs/file-format-parity.md) |
 | Hardware | 40% | 60–120 | [hardware-parity.md](docs/hardware-parity.md) |
-| Localization | 12% | 60–110 + review | [localization-parity.md](docs/localization-parity.md) |
+| Localization | 18% | 60–110 + review | [localization-parity.md](docs/localization-parity.md) |
 | Performance | 35% | 50–100 | [gaps.md](docs/gaps.md#g5-performance-at-real-world-scale) |
 | Stability | 45% | 40–80 | [gaps.md](docs/gaps.md#g3-stability-and-a-green-main) |
 | Platforms | 65% | 30–60 | [gaps.md](docs/gaps.md#g2-real-user-reliability-on-every-platform) |
@@ -85,19 +85,19 @@ UI strings translated out of ≈ 3,900 (detail: [localization-parity.md](docs/lo
 | Language | Status | % |
 |---|---|---:|
 | English | full | 100% |
-| Simplified Chinese | partial (menus, part of the panels) | 28% |
+| Simplified Chinese | partial (menus, part of the panels) | 29% |
 | Spanish | menus only | 16% |
 | Hindi | none | 0% |
 | Arabic | none | 0% |
-| French | none | 0% |
-| Portuguese (Brazil) | menus only | 16% |
+| French | menus only | 16% |
+| Portuguese (Brazil) | partial (menus, part of the panels) | 26% |
 | Indonesian | none | 0% |
-| Japanese | partial (menus, part of the panels) | 26% |
-| German | none | 0% |
+| Japanese | partial (menus, part of the panels) | 27% |
+| German | menus only | 16% |
 | Korean | none | 0% |
 | Vietnamese | none | 0% |

-Also shipped: Traditional Chinese (partial, 28%) and Ukrainian (partial, 29%). No language has had
+Also shipped: Traditional Chinese (partial, 29%), Ukrainian (partial, 29%), Czech (partial, 29%) and Russian (menus only, 16%). No language has had
 native-speaker review.

 ## Upcoming
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Ranked; detail in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md) and [docs/gaps.md](docs/gap
 | 3 | Real-user reliability on Linux and Windows; the open mask, effect, text and 3D bugs (G2) | 100–190 |
 | 4 | `.aep` / `.aepx` import, after the owner's clean-room decision (G4) | 80–160 |
 | 5 | Performance: benchmarks at 1080p / 4K, real-time cached playback, hardware video (G5) | 50–100 |
-| 6 | Localization depth: effect names, all panels, French / German / Korean (G9) | 60–110 |
+| 6 | Localization depth: effect names, all panels, Korean / Italian (G9) | 60–110 |

 Come tell us what matters most to you on [Discord](https://discord.gg/artcraft).

@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ Come tell us what matters most to you on [Discord](https://discord.gg/artcraft).

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Open-issue count (134 to 216), crash list and localization share (12% to 18%) updated to match docs/gaps.md |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Hours to ≈ 95% for each audience |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Headline adds mainstream practitioner (≈ 47%) and essentials user (≈ 52%) |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage checked against the new core-workflow gate (all six pass; still alpha) |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Effects parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (first effects parity checklist: presence, GPU, fidelity and presets against After Effects 2026 26.5) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (parameter count and closed issue references re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3 and the generated effects.md) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026

 Effects are the deepest single area of After Effects. This page separates the four questions
 that a single "306 of 306" hides: does each effect exist, does it run fast, does it look like
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ After Effects', and does the preset library exist. The per-effect catalogue is t

 | Question | Value | Kind |
 |---|---|---|
-| Effects present | **306** registered, 3,014 parameters; all of After Effects' effects by name (298 at the M9.11 count) plus Obsolete and our own | Measured: registry, [effects.md](effects.md). After Effects 26.5's `Plug-ins/Effects` holds 306 `.plugin` bundles in 231 entries (one bundle can hold several effects, so this is a cross-check, not a match) |
+| Effects present | **306** registered, 3,017 parameters; all of After Effects' effects by name (298 at the M9.11 count) plus Obsolete and our own | Measured: registry, [effects.md](effects.md). After Effects 26.5's `Plug-ins/Effects` holds 306 `.plugin` bundles in 231 entries (one bundle can hold several effects, so this is a cross-check, not a match) |
 | Parameter names, order, popups, units, defaults | aligned in M9.12 | Agent-checked against After Effects' documentation, not against a live dump |
 | On the GPU | **280** (92%) | Measured: registry flags; GPU vs CPU agreement tested per effect |
 | 32-bit float, no clamping | 306 | Measured: registry flags |
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ corpus compares renders, each effect is assumed to differ somewhere, and users k

 | Category | Effects | On the GPU | Known differences or bugs |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
-| 3D Channel | 8 | 8 | Cryptomatte selection can't be set in the UI and the GPU path is slow (#473); multi-layer EXRs decoded twice (#474) |
+| 3D Channel | 8 | 8 | Cryptomatte selection can't be set in the UI and the GPU path is slow (#473; quoted names with commas fixed); multi-layer EXR decode shared (#474 open: f16 storage and cache sizing remain) |
 | Audio | 13 | 0 | CPU by design (applied in the mixdown) |
 | Blur & Sharpen | 16 | 15 | Gaussian Blur interaction and output to be measured first ([fidelity/ae-2026-acceptance.md](fidelity/ae-2026-acceptance.md)) |
 | Channel | 13 | 13 | — |
-| Color Correction | 40 | 40 | Apply Color LUT (#514); 32-bpc blending differences affect looks (#494); ACES 2.0 / OCIO 2.5 (26.5) |
-| Distort | 39 | 35 | Mesh Warp can't be dragged in the viewer (#303); CC Power Pin Unstretch (#534, community fix pending); Liquify has no viewer brush |
+| Color Correction | 40 | 40 | ACES 2.0 / OCIO 2.5 (26.5); Apply Color LUT (#514) and 32-bpc blending (#494) are closed |
+| Distort | 39 | 35 | Liquify has no viewer brush; #303 (Mesh Warp drag) and #534 (CC Power Pin Unstretch) are closed |
 | Expression Controls | 9 | 9 | — |
-| Generate | 26 | 25 | Fractal on the CPU (needs f64), Reset doesn't work (#526); Write-on drops marks when animated (#536, fix pending) |
+| Generate | 26 | 25 | Fractal on the CPU (needs f64); #526 (Reset) and #536 (Write-on marks) are closed |
 | Immersive Video | 12 | 12 | — |
-| Keying | 12 | 12 | Key Cleaner approximated; wire-removal Frame Offset (#533, fix pending) |
+| Keying | 12 | 12 | Key Cleaner approximated; #533 (wire-removal Frame Offset) is closed |
 | Matte | 6 | 4 | Mocha shape reads our documented JSON, not Mocha's format |
 | Noise & Grain | 13 | 12 | Curl Noise (#463); Match Grain on the CPU |
 | Obsolete | 9 | 9 | — |
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ corpus compares renders, each effect is assumed to differ somewhere, and users k
 | Simulation | 18 | 18 | Particle Playground lacks Particle Exploder, text particles, ephemeral mapper; CC Particle World camera fixed (#397) |
 | Stylize | 25 | 25 | Motion Tile output size (#369) |
 | Text | 2 | 2 | — |
-| Time | 8 | 8 | Pixel Motion Blur averages frames, ignores Vector Detail (#535, fix pending) |
+| Time | 8 | 8 | #535 (Pixel Motion Blur, Vector Detail) is closed |
 | Transition | 17 | 17 | — |
 | Utility | 9 | 7 | — |

@@ -64,4 +64,5 @@ the GPU is performance, not parity.

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Parameters 3,014 to 3,017 (effects.md); #303, #514, #526, #533–#536 marked closed instead of pending |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First effects parity checklist |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # File format parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (first per-format table, measured against the After Effects 2026 26.5 bundle and this repository's import/export registries) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (closed issue references re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026

 Every format After Effects reads or writes, with EffectCraft's support. After Effects' list comes
 from its installed bundle (26.5.0.89: `Info.plist` `CFBundleDocumentTypes`, `Plug-ins/Format`,
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ trips and renders, checked by tests, not against After Effects), **partial** (na

 | Format | After Effects | EffectCraft read | Write | Fidelity / notes | Tested by |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| Project `.aep` | R/W (native) | none | none | Main file format; needs an owner decision on clean-room scope (#190, #248: py-aep as an external converter). Blocks beta | — |
+| Project `.aep` | R/W (native) | none | none | Main file format; needs an owner decision on clean-room scope (#190; #248, closed as its duplicate: py-aep as an external converter; open PRs #251 and #860). Blocks beta | — |
 | XML project `.aepx` | R/W | none | none | Same decision as `.aep` | — |
 | Templates `.aet` / `.aetx` | R/W | none | none | Own `.ectemplate` (Home ▸ Templates, Save as Template) | `templates.rs` tests |
 | Motion Graphics template `.mogrt` | W (and R in Premiere) | none | none | Own `.ectemplate` Essential Graphics templates; FilmCraft rejects our `.fcgt` export (#611) | `essential.rs` tests |
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ trips and renders, checked by tests, not against After Effects), **partial** (na
 | BRAW, R3D, ARRIRAW | R (plug-ins / SDKs) | none | none | proprietary SDKs |
 | Variable-frame-rate phone video | R | unverified | — | needs a real-media corpus |
 | WAV, AIFF | R/W | yes | yes (16-bit PCM) | good |
-| MP3, AAC / M4A, FLAC, Ogg, Opus | R | yes | AAC and Opus inside video only | MP3 layer can go silent (#324) |
+| MP3, AAC / M4A, FLAC, Ogg, Opus | R | yes | AAC and Opus inside video only | MP3 silence (#324) is closed |

 ## 3D models

@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ trips and renders, checked by tests, not against After Effects), **partial** (na
 | Premiere Pro `.prproj` | R (import) | none | none | Out of clean-room scope pending a decision; we interchange through FCP7 XML, FCPXML, OTIO, EDL, AAF and OMF instead (beyond After Effects) |
 | Lottie JSON / dotLottie | via third-party plug-ins | yes | yes | beyond After Effects; a warnings list names what Lottie can't express |
 | JSON / CSV / TSV data | R | yes (`footage()`, data layers) | — | good |
-| LUTs (`.cube`, `.3dl`, `.csp`, `.spi1d/3d`, CDL) | R | yes (Apply Color LUT, OCIO effects) | — | Apply Color LUT bug (#514) |
+| LUTs (`.cube`, `.3dl`, `.csp`, `.spi1d/3d`, CDL) | R | yes (Apply Color LUT, OCIO effects) | — | Apply Color LUT bug (#514) is closed |
 | OpenColorIO configs | R (OCIO 2.5.1, ACES 2.0 in 26.5) | yes (OCIO v2 subset, Blender configs) | — | partial: no ACES 2.0 output transforms |
 | Fonts (TTF, OTF, TTC, variable) | R | yes | — | good |
 | Mocha shapes | R (Mocha AE) | own documented JSON | — | Mocha's format is not public |
@@ -115,4 +115,5 @@ relinking 6–12 h, `.mogrt`-compatible templates 15–30 h (partly parallel wit

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | #324 and #514 marked closed; open `.aep` PRs #251 and #860 noted |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First file format parity document, from the After Effects 26.5 bundle and this repository's import/export registries |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Where EffectCraft falls short

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (re-measured against After Effects 2026 26.5; ranked gap list with estimates; numbers reconciled with target-app-parity.md) · **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 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
@@ -32,18 +32,18 @@ because 179 issues were closed with regression tests between 5 and 10 October.
 | Dimension | % | Hours | Evidence |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | Breadth of features | ≈ 91% | (below) | All 306 effects, the After Effects menus (587 entries) and panels, Classic and Advanced 3D, tracking, expressions, scripting, render queue. Missing: entries 7, 13, 14, 16 and 21 below |
-| Behaves like After Effects | ≈ 50%, mostly unmeasured | 360–660 (features) | The first live G1 comparison checks eight scalar Rotation/ease cases (168 samples) against After Effects 26.3x87 via AEsync 2.0.4: all pass after fixing overlapping temporal influences, maximum error below 3e-11 degrees ([fidelity/README.md](fidelity/README.md)). Nothing else is compared. An outside contributor found four bugs in features marked done within a day (PRs #6–#10); users have found well over a hundred more since, and 134 issues are open |
+| Behaves like After Effects | ≈ 50%, mostly unmeasured | 360–660 (features) | The first live G1 comparison checks eight scalar Rotation/ease cases (168 samples) against After Effects 26.3x87 via AEsync 2.0.4: all pass after fixing overlapping temporal influences, maximum error below 3e-11 degrees ([fidelity/README.md](fidelity/README.md)). Nothing else is compared. An outside contributor found four bugs in features marked done within a day (PRs #6–#10); users have found well over a hundred more since, and 216 issues are open (12 October) |
 | Opening existing After Effects work | ≈ 0% | 80–160 | `.aep` / `.aepx` / `.mogrt` / `.ffx` can't be read; After Effects plug-ins can't run. Expressions and the scripting object model are strong, so scripts and expressions carry over |
 | UI/UX fidelity | ≈ 65% | 60–120 | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
 | File formats | ≈ 50% | 130–230 | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | Hardware | ≈ 40% | 60–120 | [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
-| Localization | ≈ 12% | 60–110 + review | [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
-| Stability | ≈ 45% | 40–80 | 23 never-crash PRs landed on 4 October and the "Never crash" rules bind every crate, but crash reports are open (#580 Chromatic Aberrations pan/tilt, #591 Windows ARM64 device loss, #501 crash on startup, #426 timeline drag while playing, #341 quit on Intel Mac, #306 divider drag, #234 macOS 27 exit, #511 drag over import dialog), and no CI workflow runs `cargo xtask ci` on pull requests |
-| Real-user experience | ≈ 60%, uneven by platform | (in G2) | 179 issues closed 5–10 October, nearly all with regression tests ([log below](#real-user-report-log-510-october)); 134 open, many from Linux and Windows. Most checking still happens on macOS |
-| Performance | unknown against After Effects, ≈ 35% | 50–100 | Internal numbers only (e.g. Advanced 3D 290 ms/frame at 1080p on the GPU on an M4 Pro). Users report stutter on cached frames (#595, #304), slow scrubbing (#329), late audio (#554). No 4K / hundreds-of-layers project tested |
+| Localization | ≈ 18% | 60–110 + review | [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
+| Stability | ≈ 45% | 40–80 | 23 never-crash PRs landed on 4 October and the "Never crash" rules bind every crate, but crash reports are open (#580 Chromatic Aberrations pan/tilt, #501 crash on startup, #426 timeline drag while playing, #341 quit on Intel Mac, #234 macOS 27 exit, #879 `--gpu` export aborts on a failed allocation; #591, #306 and #511 are closed), and no CI workflow runs `cargo xtask ci` on pull requests |
+| Real-user experience | ≈ 60%, uneven by platform | (in G2) | 179 issues closed 5–10 October (as counted on 10 October), nearly all with regression tests ([log below](#real-user-report-log-510-october)); 216 open and 328 closed on 12 October, many from Linux and Windows. Most checking still happens on macOS |
+| Performance | unknown against After Effects, ≈ 35% | 50–100 | Internal numbers only (e.g. Advanced 3D 290 ms/frame at 1080p on the GPU on an M4 Pro). Users report stutter on cached frames (#595, #304; the RAM preview now prefetches nearest the playhead, 271000b2), late audio (#504, #335); slow scrubbing (#329, closed by #784) and #554 are closed. No 4K / hundreds-of-layers project tested |
 | Media formats | ≈ 75% | (in file formats) | H.264, ProRes, HEVC, AV1, VP9, image sequences and audio exist. The HEVC / AV1 encoders have no B-frames, multi-reference or SAO / CDEF, so files are larger than from mature encoders. Camera formats (BRAW, R3D, ProRes RAW, variable-frame-rate phone video) are unverified |
 | AI-assisted tools | ≈ 35% | 40–80 | Roto Brush 2.0 / 3.0 with MobileSAM (M13.35) scores IoU 0.989 on the base frame of our synthetic moving-disc test and ≥ 0.980 over 20 propagated frames (classic: 0.973). Face tracking with MediaPipe Face Landmarker (M13.36) matches Google's own pipeline to 0.85 px on a test portrait. Neither is compared with After Effects; Object Matte (26.2) is missing |
-| Maturity | early | — | First commit 1 October 2026. ≈ 329,000 lines of almost entirely agent-written Rust, 2,704 tests, 313 GitHub issues. After Effects has around 30 years of edge cases behind it |
+| Maturity | early | — | First commit 1 October 2026. ≈ 361,000 lines of almost entirely agent-written Rust (`git ls-files '*.rs'`, 12 October), 2,704 tests (10 October), 544 GitHub issues (216 open). After Effects has around 30 years of edge cases behind it |

 ## Every known gap, ranked

@@ -57,30 +57,30 @@ are grouped by area; the issue tracker has the rest.

 | # | Gap | Evidence | Impact | Estimate | Work · doc |
 |---:|---|---|---|---:|---|
-| 1 | **`.aep` / `.aepx` projects can't be opened** | No reader; candidate route py-aep (#248, MIT, external converter) awaits an owner decision on clean-room scope; #190 | The biggest barrier to switching: existing work, templates and client projects stay in After Effects | 80–160 h | G4 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
+| 1 | **`.aep` / `.aepx` projects can't be opened** | No reader; candidate route py-aep (#248, closed as a duplicate of #190; MIT, external converter) awaits an owner decision on clean-room scope; #190; open PRs #251 (native decoder) and #860 (external py-aep converter) | The biggest barrier to switching: existing work, templates and client projects stay in After Effects | 80–160 h | G4 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | 2 | **Fidelity unmeasured** beyond scalar ease | [fidelity/](fidelity/README.md): 168 samples, one property type; `compare_frames` helper exists, no corpus | Every "done" feature may still differ; users find the differences | 60–100 h harness + P0/P1 corpus; more per feature | G1 · [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
-| 3 | **Open crash reports** | #580, #591, #501, #426, #341, #306, #234, #511 | A crash loses work; outranks features ([AGENTS.md](../AGENTS.md)) | 10–25 h | G3 · this file |
+| 3 | **Open crash reports** | Open: #580, #501, #426, #341, #234, #879. Now closed: #591, #306, #511 | A crash loses work; outranks features ([AGENTS.md](../AGENTS.md)) | 10–25 h | G3 · this file |
 | 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, #304, #329 slow scrubbing, #554 / #504 / #335 audio late or crackling, #586 puppet lag | Preview is where motion designers spend their day | 25–50 h | G5 · [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
-| 6 | **Linux and Windows interaction bugs** | #491 multi-layer edits, #488 rename arrows, #493, #492, #467 shortcuts, #268 drag and drop, #320 workspaces not persisting, #302 docking, #613 Direct3D 12 compositor, #596 GPU not detected | Many reports come from Linux; some Windows GPUs fail to start the compositor | 25–45 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
+| 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: 31 against 621** | After Effects ships 621 `.ffx` presets (Behaviors, Backgrounds, Shapes, Synthetics, Text, Transitions…); we ship 31 original presets (8 text-animator, 23 Transitions: wipes, clock and fan reveals, blinds, dissolves, card flips, CC wipes, fades; #757) and read only our `.ecpreset`. Missing: Behaviors, Backgrounds, 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** | #510, #513, #527 (first Intersect/Darken mask), #509 Roto Brush size, #303 Mesh Warp, #553 pen tools on motion paths | Masks are core compositing | 10–20 h | G2 · [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
-| 9 | **Effect behaviour bugs** | #580, #526 Fractal reset, #514 Apply Color LUT, #463 Curl Noise, #369 Motion Tile output size, #473 Cryptomatte selection, #474 multi-layer EXR decoded twice, #534–#536 community fixes pending | Each one breaks a look someone built | 10–20 h | G1/G2 · [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
-| 10 | **Colour pipeline differences** | #494 32-bpc blend modes clamp and apply opacity differently; #495 Working Gamma 2.4 (in, also for float footage: #750); #340 ProRes 4444 tagged bt709 but sRGB-encoded; ACES 2.0 / OCIO 2.5 configs (26.5) missing; #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** | #453 CJK text in comps, #316 paragraph alignment inverted, #483 squeezed at 4:3, #417 soft at Fit, #583 font search, #550 toolbar font options | 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); Z position (#489); camera aperture (#260); reflections (#261); extruded surface materials beyond Front / Bevel / Side / Back Color (#315); 3D issue reopened (#307) | Advanced 3D is After Effects' growth area since 2023 | 20–35 h | G2 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
+| 8 | **Mask and shape bugs** | Open: #1004 mask vertex multi-select, #999 auto-pan, #1042 / #1033 vertex nodes under the bounding box, #932 Convert to Bezier Path, #959 / #960 shape group toggles and operators. Now closed: #510, #513, #527, #509, #303, #553 | 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) |
+| 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) | Not present; MobileSAM is already in `effectcraft-segment` and could back it | The new one-click roto; Roto Brush covers part of it | 15–30 h | G7 · [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) |
-| 15 | **Hardware video decode and encode** | No VideoToolbox, NVENC, Quick Sync or VA-API; #498 asks for it; FilmCraft has VideoToolbox / NVENC / VA-API paths to borrow | 4K playback and export speed | 25–45 h | G5/G6 · [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
-| 16 | **Localization depth** | Menus in 6 languages; panels in 4; effect names and ~1,650 effect parameter names untranslated; French, German, Korean, Italian, Russian (After Effects ships them) absent; #599 Hangul boxes on macOS | After Effects is used heavily in Japan, China, Korea, Brazil, Europe | 60–110 h + native review | G9 · [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
-| 17 | **Media Browser lists files import refuses** | `media_browser.rs` lists AVI; `media::is_importable` has none of them (Targa and Radiance HDR import since #745; DPX and Cineon since #756, log shown as stored: no Cineon Settings conversion yet; MXF OP1a / OP-Atom since #767; FilmCraft has no AVI demuxer); #431 any image imports as a sequence; #324 MP3 goes silent | Confusing failures on common VFX formats | 15–30 h | G6 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
+| 15 | **Hardware video decode and encode** | No VideoToolbox, NVENC, Quick Sync or VA-API; #498 asks for it (answered: CUDA / NVENC need Nvidia's proprietary SDK through FFI, which the no-`unsafe` rule forbids); open PR #819 adds hardware decoding via `filmcraft-platform`; FilmCraft has VideoToolbox / NVENC / VA-API paths to borrow | 4K playback and export speed | 25–45 h | G5/G6 · [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
+| 16 | **Localization depth** | Menus in 10 languages (ja, zh-hans, zh-hant, uk, es, pt-br, ru, fr, de, cs: 624 rows each); panels in 6 (ja, zh-hans, zh-hant, uk, pt-br, cs); effect names and ~1,650 effect parameter names untranslated; Korean and Italian (After Effects ships them) absent; Hangul probe added (#599 closed) | After Effects is used heavily in Japan, China, Korea, Brazil, Europe | 60–110 h + native review | G9 · [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
+| 17 | **Media Browser lists files import refuses** | `media_browser.rs` lists AVI; `media::is_importable` has none of them (Targa and Radiance HDR import since #745; DPX and Cineon since #756, log shown as stored: no Cineon Settings conversion yet; MXF OP1a / OP-Atom since #767; FilmCraft has no AVI demuxer); #431 and #324 closed | Confusing failures on common VFX formats | 15–30 h | G6 · [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | 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) |
-| 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: 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 Scale exposes X and Y; #611 FilmCraft rejects exported `.fcgt` | 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, #355 bulk keyframes, #425 keyframe confusion, #428 more shortcuts | Power-user speed | 15–30 h | G2 · [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) |
 | 25 | **Accessibility** | AccessKit is enabled in eframe and tests read focus labels; the Project panel has After Effects' arrow-key navigation and named, stateful AccessKit nodes (#776), but the other panels have had no screen-reader pass or keyboard navigation audit, and there is no contrast check | Excludes users; After Effects supports screen readers poorly too | 15–30 h | G9 · [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |

 ## Where we're going: workstreams in priority order
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Issues #41–#47 (all from the Linux AppImage 0.1.1, 5 October): panning the vie
  XML overflowing the stack, now refused. Imported media and documents, expressions, scripts and
  control-channel / MCP requests are still to do.
 - Run the gate on every pull request in CI (gap 4): today no workflow runs the tests on PRs.
- Fix the open crash reports first (gap 3).
+- Fix the open crash reports first (gap 3). Further fuzzing and crash fixes are open in PR #855.
 - Done when: the gate is green on stable, runs on every pull request, and the fuzzers run
  regularly without new crashes.

@@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ Issues #41–#47 (all from the Linux AppImage 0.1.1, 5 October): panning the vie
  ([plugins.md](plugins.md#extension-points-compared-with-after-effects) compares them). ScriptUI
  panels in the user's ScriptUI Panels folder are listed in the Window menu, dock like any panel
  and open again at the next launch. Missing: the Startup and Shutdown script folders, keyboard
-  shortcuts for scripts, ExtendScript's `#include` / `#target` directives and `.jsxbin`.
+  shortcuts for scripts and `.jsxbin`; `#include` / `#target` directives landed (#759,
+  [scripting-parity.md](scripting-parity.md)).
 - Done so far: ease presets (#254) cover what ease-curve plug-ins are used for: easing curves kept
  by name and applied to pairs of keyframes. Modelled on a third-party panel, they are not core: a
  ScriptUI panel bundled as an optional extension (`extensions/scriptui-panels/Ease Presets.jsx`,
@@ -293,11 +294,12 @@ Issues #41–#47 (all from the Linux AppImage 0.1.1, 5 October): panning the vie

 ### G9. Reach

- Localisation of the interface ([localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md)): since 6–10
+- Localisation of the interface ([localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md)): since 6–12
  October the menus are translated into Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian,
-  Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, and the panel catalog covers the first four. Next: effect and
-  parameter names, the remaining panel strings, French, German and Korean, and native-speaker
-  review of all of them.
+  Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, French, German and Czech, and the panel catalog covers
+  Japanese, both Chinese, Ukrainian, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech. Next: effect and parameter
+  names, the remaining panel strings (Spanish, Russian, French, German), Korean and Italian, and
+  native-speaker review of all of them.
 - Accessibility (keyboard navigation, screen readers, contrast), user documentation and
  tutorials.

@@ -316,6 +318,7 @@ Issues #41–#47 (all from the Linux AppImage 0.1.1, 5 October): panning the vie

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 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 |
 | 2026-10-10 | 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 |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Hardware parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (first hardware parity document, from the code and open issues against After Effects 2026 26.5) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (closed issue references re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026

 Each piece of hardware After Effects uses, per platform, against EffectCraft. Ours comes from the
 code at `origin/main` 1446e27 (`crates/gpu`, `crates/render`, `crates/ui-egui`) and the issue
@@ -14,17 +14,17 @@ monitors are missing, and two GPU start-up failures are open.
 | Feature | After Effects 2026 | EffectCraft macOS | Windows | Linux | Web | Notes / evidence |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | GPU compositing and effects | Mercury GPU (Metal; CUDA / OpenCL / DirectX on Windows) | yes, Metal via wgpu | Vulkan yes; **Direct3D 12 fails** (FXC can't compile the `pointwise` kernel, #613) | Vulkan | WebGPU, in frame workers | 280 of 306 effects on the GPU, checked against the CPU renderer; Fractal and the analysis/tool effects stay on the CPU ([effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md)) |
-| CPU fallback and device-loss recovery | yes | yes | yes; Windows ARM64 Adreno panics after device loss (#591) | yes | yes (#225 fixed) | Out of video memory falls back to the CPU (#106) |
-| GPU detection and choice | GPU info, renderer choice | Backend Auto per comp | "GPU isn't being detected" (#596); Intel HD 5500 fix unverified (#198) | yes | yes | No settings page listing adapters yet |
+| CPU fallback and device-loss recovery | yes | yes | yes; Windows ARM64 Adreno panic after device loss (#591, closed) | yes | yes (#225 fixed) | Out of video memory falls back to the CPU (#106) |
+| GPU detection and choice | GPU info, renderer choice | Backend Auto per comp | "GPU isn't being detected" (#596, closed); Intel HD 5500 fix unverified (#198) | yes | yes | No settings page listing adapters yet |
 | Multi-core rendering | Multi-Frame Rendering | rayon pools; preview scheduler sized to the render pool | same | same | Web Workers, one engine per worker | No benchmark against Multi-Frame Rendering |
 | Hardware video decode | H.264 / HEVC / ProRes (Apple silicon) | none (software, FilmCraft) | none | none | none | FilmCraft has VideoToolbox, Media Foundation/DXVA and VA-API paths to borrow (gap 15) |
-| Hardware video encode | H.264 / HEVC via VideoToolbox, NVENC, Quick Sync (render queue and Media Encoder) | none | none | none | none | #498 asks for NVENC; our software encoders are slower and lack B-frames |
+| Hardware video encode | H.264 / HEVC via VideoToolbox, NVENC, Quick Sync (render queue and Media Encoder) | none | none | none | none | #498 asks for NVENC (answered: Nvidia's SDK needs FFI, which the no-`unsafe` rule forbids; open PR #819 adds hardware decoding); our software encoders are slower and lack B-frames |
 | Video output devices | Mercury Transmit to AJA, Blackmagic, second display | second preview window only (Video Preview) | same | same | — | No SDI/HDMI device output |
 | HDR display | HDR monitoring on EDR / HDR displays | tone-mapped SDR view; no EDR output | no HDR output | no | no | Colour engine handles HDR maths (Rec. 2100 PQ/HLG output files) |
 | Pen tablets (pressure, tilt) | yes, for Paint and Roto | Brushes panel has pressure options, but no tablet pressure is read | same | same | same | Paint strokes store pressure per vertex; input never fills it |
 | Multiple monitors | panels and windows across screens | panels move into their own native windows on any screen (Move Panel to New Window; desktop builds) | same | same (#486) | — | gap 20 |
 | Touch / trackpad gestures | pinch zoom in viewers | egui pointer and scroll; no pinch-to-zoom audited | — | — | — | — |
-| Audio hardware | Core Audio / ASIO / WASAPI, device choice, latency | cpal output; preview sound late on Linux (#554) and after a start offset (#504) | cpal | cpal (ALSA) | Web Audio | No input or device latency settings |
+| Audio hardware | Core Audio / ASIO / WASAPI, device choice, latency | cpal output; preview sound late after a start offset (#504 open; #554 closed) | cpal | cpal (ALSA) | Web Audio | No input or device latency settings |
 | Machine learning acceleration | Apple Neural Engine / GPU for Object Matte, Roto Brush 3 | CPU inference (pure Rust, rayon) | CPU | CPU | CPU | No GPU inference for MobileSAM or MediaPipe |
 | Memory management | RAM reserve, disk cache | RAM Reserved, Reduce Cache When Low on Memory, disk cache | same | same | OPFS disk cache | good |

@@ -39,4 +39,5 @@ the Adreno and Intel cases.

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | #591, #596 and #554 marked closed; #498 answer and open PR #819 |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First hardware parity document |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Localization parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (Ukrainian panel catalog recounted after it caught up with the Chinese ones) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (catalogs recounted at `upstream/main` 470ea7a3: menus in 10 languages, panels in 6, Hangul probe (#599)) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026

 How much of EffectCraft's interface is translated, language by language, compared with After
 Effects. [gaps.md](gaps.md) gap 16 and workstream G9 hold the work;
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ interface; Arabic and Hebrew text *in layers* is supported through its Middle Ea
 - **Menus:** `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs`, one catalog per language keyed by
  `(command, English label)`. A test (`every_translation_key_exists_in_the_actual_menu_tree`)
  fails if any fixed menu entry is untranslated or a row is stale, so every catalog covers all
-  **618** fixed entries. The generated Effect menu (effect names) is deliberately left in English.
+  fixed entries (624 catalog rows each at 470ea7a3, counted). The generated Effect menu (effect names) is deliberately left in English.
 - **Panels, dialogs, buttons, tooltips:** `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/ui.rs`, keyed by the English
-  source string, with English fallback. Catalogs exist for Japanese, Simplified and Traditional
-  Chinese, Ukrainian and Czech.
+  source string, with English fallback. Catalogs exist for Japanese (410 rows), Simplified and
+  Traditional Chinese (506 each), Ukrainian (505), Brazilian Portuguese (400) and Czech (501);
+  counted at 470ea7a3.
 - **Not translated anywhere yet:** effect names and their ≈ 1,650 parameter names
  (`crates/effects`), engine-generated text (property names, errors, undo labels), the Home
  screen's unwrapped literals (#574), Learn tutorials and documentation.
@@ -30,8 +31,7 @@ interface; Arabic and Hebrew text *in layers* is supported through its Middle Ea
  (`match_system_uses_the_system_language_where_there_is_a_catalog`).
 - **Fonts:** no bundled CJK font; the UI installs system fallbacks probed by script (Kana, Han,
  Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,
-  Thai: `crates/ui-egui/src/theme.rs`). There is no Hangul probe, so Korean renders as boxes on
-  macOS (#599). The web build has no system fonts.
+  Thai and Hangul: `crates/ui-egui/src/theme.rs`; the Hangul probe was added for #599, closed). The web build has no system fonts.
 - **Script support in the interface:** egui draws text without complex shaping or right-to-left
  layout, so an Arabic or Hindi interface would render unshaped and left to right. **In text
  layers** (`crates/text`) shaping (harfrust), bidi (UAX #9), vertical text and Tate-Chu-Yoko
@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ interface; Arabic and Hebrew text *in layers* is supported through its Middle Ea

 ## Measurement

-Measured 10 October 2026 at `origin/main` 1446e27 by counting catalog rows. The denominator,
-**≈ 3,900 user-visible strings**, is estimated: 618 fixed menu entries + ≈ 1,320 capitalised UI
+Measured 10 October 2026 at `origin/main` 1446e27 and recounted on 12 October at `upstream/main`
+470ea7a3 by counting catalog rows (`const` tables in `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs` and
+`i18n/ui.rs`; menu rows 624 per language, so the share is computed from 624 rather than 618). The
+denominator, **≈ 3,900 user-visible strings**, was estimated on 10 October and is kept: 618 fixed menu entries + ≈ 1,320 capitalised UI
 literals in `crates/ui-egui/src` outside tests and catalogs (a regex count, so an upper bound) +
 ≈ 1,650 distinct effect parameter names + 306 effect names. Engine messages are not counted, so
 the true percentages are slightly lower.
@@ -48,31 +50,31 @@ the true percentages are slightly lower.
 | Language | Code | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support | Native review | Status | To `full` |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | English | `en` | ≈ 3,900 (100%, source) | All; docs in English | — | yes | full | — |
-| Simplified Chinese | `zh-hans` | 1,081 (≈ 28%): menus 618/618, panels 463 | Panels and dialogs partly (≈ 35% of panel strings); no help, effects untranslated; Home screen literals unwrapped (#574) | System CJK fallback; Han follows the UI language; CJK text in comps renders wrongly (#453); IME in text layers | no | partial | 6–9 h + review |
-| Spanish | `es` | 618 (≈ 16%) | Menus only | Latin, fine | no | menus only | 7–10 h + review |
+| Simplified Chinese | `zh-hans` | 1,130 (≈ 29%): menus 624 rows, panels 506 | Panels and dialogs partly; no help, effects untranslated; Home screen literals unwrapped (#574, closed) | System CJK fallback; Han follows the UI language; CJK text in comps renders wrongly (#453); IME in text layers | no | partial | 6–9 h + review |
+| Spanish | `es` | 624 (≈ 16%) | Menus only (panel catalog in open PR #996) | Latin, fine | no | menus only | 7–10 h + review |
 | Hindi | `hi` | 0 | — | UI: Devanagari fallback font but no shaping; text layers shape Devanagari | no | none (After Effects: none) | 9–13 h + shaping in the UI |
 | Arabic | `ar` | 0 | — | UI: Arabic fallback font but no shaping and no RTL layout; text layers: bidi + shaping | no | none (After Effects: none) | 9–13 h + 15–25 h RTL UI |
-| French | `fr` | 0 | — | Latin, fine | no | none | 8–12 h + review |
-| Portuguese (Brazil) | `pt-br` | 618 (≈ 16%) | Menus only | Latin, fine | no | menus only | 7–10 h + review |
+| French | `fr` | 624 (≈ 16%) | Menus only | Latin, fine | no | menus only | 7–10 h + review |
+| Portuguese (Brazil) | `pt-br` | 1,024 (≈ 26%): menus 624 rows, panels 400 | Panels and dialogs partly | Latin, fine | no | partial | 6–9 h + review |
 | Indonesian | `id` | 0 | — | Latin, fine | no | none (After Effects: none) | 8–12 h + review |
-| Japanese | `ja` | 1,015 (≈ 26%): menus 618/618, panels 397 | Panels and dialogs partly (≈ 30% of panel strings) | Japanese system fallback; vertical text and Tate-Chu-Yoko in text layers; IME | no | partial | 6–9 h + review |
-| German | `de` | 0 | — | Latin, fine | no | none | 8–12 h + review |
-| Korean | `ko` | 0 | — | No Hangul fallback probe: boxes on macOS (#599) | no | none | 9–13 h + review |
+| Japanese | `ja` | 1,034 (≈ 27%): menus 624 rows, panels 410 | Panels and dialogs partly | Japanese system fallback; vertical text and Tate-Chu-Yoko in text layers; IME | no | partial | 6–9 h + review |
+| German | `de` | 624 (≈ 16%) | Menus only (open PR #666 adds interface translations) | Latin, fine | no | menus only | 7–10 h + review |
+| Korean | `ko` | 0 | — | Hangul fallback probe added (#599, closed); not checked on macOS here | no | none | 9–13 h + review |
 | Vietnamese | `vi` | 0 | — | Latin with stacked diacritics; untested | no | none (After Effects: none) | 8–12 h + review |

 Other languages EffectCraft ships (3):

 | Language | Code | UI strings translated | Status | To `full` |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| Traditional Chinese | `zh-hant` | 1,081 (≈ 28%): menus 618/618, panels 463 | partial | 6–9 h + review |
-| Ukrainian | `uk` | 1,113 (≈ 29%): menus 618/618, panels 495/496 | partial | 6–9 h + review |
-| Czech | `cs` | 1,114 catalog entries (≈ 29%): menus 618/618, panels 496/496 (current Chinese catalog); added after the measurement above | All existing catalog entries covered; unwrapped UI, effects and engine text still in English; AI-assisted, not yet native-speaker proofread | Remaining strings + independent native review |
+| Traditional Chinese | `zh-hant` | 1,130 (≈ 29%): menus 624 rows, panels 506 | partial | 6–9 h + review |
+| Ukrainian | `uk` | 1,129 (≈ 29%): menus 624 rows, panels 505 | partial | 6–9 h + review |
+| Czech | `cs` | 1,125 (≈ 29%): menus 624 rows, panels 501 | Existing catalog entries covered; unwrapped UI, effects and engine text still in English; AI-assisted, not yet native-speaker proofread | Remaining strings + independent native review |

-After Effects also ships Italian and Russian, which EffectCraft does not (8–12 h each).
+Russian (`ru`) has a menu catalog (624 rows, ≈ 16%); After Effects also ships Italian, which EffectCraft does not (8–12 h).

-**Overall: ≈ 12%**, the average coverage of After Effects' 10 non-English languages
-(Simplified and Traditional Chinese 28%, Japanese 26%, Spanish and Portuguese 16%, French,
-German, Korean, Italian and Russian 0%). This is the localization row in
+**Overall: ≈ 18%**, the average coverage of After Effects' 10 non-English languages
+(Simplified and Traditional Chinese 29%, Japanese 27%, Brazilian Portuguese 26%, Spanish, French,
+German and Russian 16%, Korean and Italian 0%; 175 / 10, was ≈ 12% on 10 October). This is the localization row in
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md#by-dimension).

 **Effort.** One-time work first: route effect names, parameter names and engine messages through
@@ -87,5 +89,6 @@ can give; none has had it.

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Recounted: Russian, French, German and Czech menus (#873, #987), Brazilian Portuguese and Czech panels (#830, #987), Hangul probe (#599); overall ≈ 12% to ≈ 18%; Korean and Italian still absent |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First localization parity document: catalog rows counted for all six languages, the twelve-language table, After Effects' 11 shipped languages from its bundle |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Ukrainian panel catalog brought level with the Chinese ones (495 of 496 rows, counted at this commit); its share rises to ≈ 29%. The other languages' panel counts are the 10 October measurement |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Expressions and scripting parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (first expressions and scripting checklist against After Effects 2026 26.5) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (`#include` / `#target` removed from the estimate (landed in #759)) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026

 Expressions and ExtendScript are how After Effects work is automated and how much of it is
 built: rigs, templates, studio pipelines. They are also what carries over from After Effects
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ our own scripts; no real-world script library has been run against both apps.

 ## Estimate

-**≈ 20–40 h**: `#include` / `#target` and Startup / Shutdown folders 4–8 h, script shortcuts 2–4 h,
+**≈ 20–40 h**: `#include` / `#target` (landed, #759) and Startup / Shutdown folders 4–8 h as first estimated (Startup / Shutdown remain), script shortcuts 2–4 h,
 a corpus of public scripts and expressions with the fixes it finds 10–20 h, an expression
 performance benchmark 4–8 h.

@@ -42,4 +42,5 @@ performance benchmark 4–8 h.

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Estimate no longer counts `#include` / `#target` (#759, `tests_include.rs`); the table row was already current |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First expressions and scripting checklist |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Parity with After Effects

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (full re-measure against After Effects 2026 26.5; merged `docs/parity.md` into this file; reconciled the stale per-area rows) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (issue, catalog and export-format references re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3; the 10 October re-measure is otherwise unchanged) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026 (26.5.0.89)

 The authoritative assessment of how close EffectCraft is to After Effects, and how much work is
 left. [gaps.md](gaps.md) lists every known shortfall one at a time; the
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ left. [gaps.md](gaps.md) lists every known shortfall one at a time; the
 |---|---|---|
 | **Feature breadth** (does each After Effects 26.5 feature exist?) | **≈ 91%** | Estimated, weighted by area (table below). The self-graded 92-item checklist says 89 done / 3 partial (≈ 99%), but it was written before After Effects 26.2 and 26.5 and does not count animation presets, project formats or hardware; see the appendix |
 | **Ready for real work** (can an After Effects professional do client work here?) | **≈ 45%** (range 40–50%) | Estimated: 60% feature depth (≈ 50%, table below), 15% opening and delivering work files (≈ 35%), 10% performance (≈ 35%), 10% stability (≈ 45%), 5% platforms (≈ 65%) |
-| **Stage** | **alpha** | All six core workflows pass the [alpha gate](roadmap.md#alpha-gate) on macOS and ready (≈ 45%) is above the ≈ 40% bar, but `.aep` projects can't be opened, fidelity is measured for one narrow case, and 134 issues are open ([ROADMAP](../ROADMAP.md#stage)) |
+| **Stage** | **alpha** | All six core workflows pass the [alpha gate](roadmap.md#alpha-gate) on macOS and ready (≈ 45%) is above the ≈ 40% bar, but `.aep` projects can't be opened, fidelity is measured for one narrow case, and 216 issues are open on 12 October ([ROADMAP](../ROADMAP.md#stage)) |
 | **Mainstream practitioner** (the typical motion designer's weekly work) | **≈ 47%** | Estimated: everyday depth 72% × interaction 0.90 × stability 0.90 × file exchange 0.80 ([below](#mainstream-practitioner)) |
 | **Essentials user** (core features only) | **≈ 52%** | Estimated: core depth 77% × launch/stability 0.88 × clarity 0.90 × opening files 0.85 ([below](#essentials-user)) |
 | Remaining to **beta** (≈ 75% ready, `.aep` opens) | **≈ 350–620 Opus 5.5 agent-hours** | Estimated |
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ corpus in both apps yet.
  effect colour labels, a rebuilt Effect Controls panel, ACES 2.0 through OpenColorIO 2.5.1).
 - **From this repository at `origin/main` 1446e27 (10 October 2026):** 587 menu entries in the
  After Effects-shaped menu tree (`crates/engine/src/menus.rs`), 411 registered engine commands,
-  306 registered effects (280 on the GPU, [effects.md](effects.md)), 12 export formats
-  (`OutputFormat::ALL`), the import extension lists (`crates/media/src/lib.rs`), 2,704 tests, ≈ 329,000
-  lines of Rust, 6 UI language catalogs, and the 134 open / 179 closed GitHub issues.
+  306 registered effects (280 on the GPU, [effects.md](effects.md)), 13 export formats
+  (`OutputFormat::ALL`, with uncompressed QuickTime since #778), the import extension lists (`crates/media/src/lib.rs`), 2,704 tests, ≈ 329,000
+  lines of Rust, 6 UI language catalogs, and the 134 open / 179 closed GitHub issues. On 12 October (`upstream/main` 470ea7a3) the counts were 216 open / 328 closed issues, 401 merged PRs, ≈ 361,000 lines of Rust and 10 menu catalogs (6 panel catalogs).
 - **Presence is not parity.** A feature counts toward *breadth* when it exists and works in the
  common case; it counts toward *ready* in proportion to how much of the area a professional
  could rely on, discounted for open bugs in it, for being unmeasured against After Effects, and
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ verification included. Calibrated against this repository's own history:
  languages, bugs, formats are independent). Serial chains: the G1 harness before per-feature
  fidelity scores; the `.aep` decision before `.aep` work. **Needs a human:** the `.aep`
  clean-room decision, running After Effects for oracle captures, native-speaker review of every
-  language, Windows/Linux GPU hardware for #591/#596/#613, and an optional decision on hosting
+  language, Windows/Linux GPU hardware for #613 (#591 and #596 are closed), and an optional decision on hosting
  After Effects SDK plug-ins.

 ## By feature area
@@ -114,17 +114,17 @@ compositing and effects dominate; audio is light). Hours are to full parity for

 | Area | Weight | Breadth | Ready | Hours | Biggest gaps (details in [gaps.md](gaps.md)) |
 |---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|
-| Project, footage and import | 8% | 92% | 55% | 25–45 | No relative paths or relinking when a project moves; Media Browser lists TGA/DPX/HDR/AVI/MXF it can't import; any image imports as a sequence (#431); MP3 layer goes silent (#324); multi-file drops (#552, #351) |
-| Compositions, layers and compositing | 13% | 98% | 60% | 30–55 | 32-bpc blend modes differ from After Effects (#494); mask modes (#527, #510, #513); separated Position edits (#539, #540); expand precomps in place (#601) |
-| Animation: keyframes, graph editor, motion paths, puppet | 15% | 97% | 55% | 35–60 | Only scalar ease is measured against After Effects (168 samples); Graph Editor jitter and clipped buttons (#456, #457); bulk keyframing (#355); pen tools on motion paths (#553); puppet lag and jump (#586, #318); Proportional Scrubbing (26.2) |
-| Expressions and scripting | 7% | 93% | 65% | 20–40 | `.jsxbin`, Startup/Shutdown folders, `#include`; external editor (#364); see [scripting-parity.md](scripting-parity.md) |
-| Shapes, masks and roto | 9% | 93% | 45% | 30–50 | Several open mask bugs (#510, #513, #527); Roto Brush size (#509); Mesh Warp can't be dragged (#303); paste SVG/AI as shape layers (26.3) |
-| Text and typography | 7% | 94% | 50% | 20–35 | CJK text in comps renders wrongly (#453); paragraph alignment inverted (#316); squeezed text at 4:3 (#483); font search (#583); soft text at Fit (#417); variable-font filter (26.3) |
-| Effects and animation presets | 14% | 85% | 40% | 70–130 | All 306 effects exist, but rendered output is unmeasured against After Effects; 8 built-in presets against After Effects' 621; open effect bugs (#580 crash, #514, #526, #463, #369, #473); effect colour labels (26.5); see [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
-| 3D (Classic and Advanced) | 6% | 82% | 35% | 35–65 | No FBX/USD/STL models, no Substance materials, mesh displacement unverified; no 3D transform gizmos (#392, #347); Z position (#489); reflections (#261); camera aperture (#260); bevel options (#315) |
+| Project, footage and import | 8% | 92% | 55% | 25–45 | No relative paths or relinking when a project moves; Media Browser lists AVI, which it can't import (TGA/HDR/DPX/MXF import since #745, #756, #767); #431, #324, #552 and #351 are closed |
+| Compositions, layers and compositing | 13% | 98% | 60% | 30–55 | 32-bpc blend modes differed from After Effects (#494, closed); expand precomps in place (#601); #527, #510, #513, #539 and #540 are closed |
+| Animation: keyframes, graph editor, motion paths, puppet | 15% | 97% | 55% | 35–60 | Only scalar ease is measured against After Effects (168 samples); puppet lag (#586); #456, #457, #355, #553 and #318 are closed; Proportional Scrubbing (26.2) |
+| Expressions and scripting | 7% | 93% | 65% | 20–40 | `.jsxbin`, Startup/Shutdown folders, script shortcuts (`#include` landed, #759); external editor (#364); see [scripting-parity.md](scripting-parity.md) |
+| Shapes, masks and roto | 9% | 93% | 45% | 30–50 | Open mask and shape issues (#1004, #999, #1042, #932); #510, #513, #527, #509 and #303 are closed; paste SVG/AI as shape layers (26.3; SVG markup pastes since #738) |
+| Text and typography | 7% | 94% | 50% | 20–35 | CJK text in comps renders wrongly (#453); paragraph alignment inverted (#316); soft text at Fit (#417, mostly fixed by #444); toolbar font options (#550); #483 and #583 are closed; variable-font filter landed (#741) |
+| Effects and animation presets | 14% | 85% | 40% | 70–130 | All 306 effects exist, but rendered output is unmeasured against After Effects; 31 built-in presets against After Effects' 621 ([effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md)); open effect bugs (#580 crash, #463, #369, #473, #474; #514 and #526 are closed); effect colour labels (26.5); see [effects-parity.md](effects-parity.md) |
+| 3D (Classic and Advanced) | 6% | 82% | 35% | 35–65 | No FBX/USD/STL models, no Substance materials, mesh displacement unverified; no 3D transform gizmos (#392, #347); reflections (#261); camera aperture (#260); #489 and #315 are closed |
 | Tracking and AI-assisted tools | 5% | 80% | 35% | 35–70 | No Object Matte (26.2); Roto Brush (MobileSAM) and face tracking (MediaPipe) unmeasured against After Effects; camera-tracker view (#505) |
-| Preview and cache | 7% | 92% | 40% | 25–50 | Playback stutters on cached frames (#595, #304); slow scrubbing (#329); late audio (#554, #504, #335); no benchmark against After Effects |
-| Render queue and export | 7% | 85% | 55% | 25–45 | No hardware encoding; ProRes 4444 colour tag (#340); rendering over an existing file (#325); default macOS output location (#446); uncompressed single-file output (#372); HEVC/AV1 without B-frames |
+| Preview and cache | 7% | 92% | 40% | 25–50 | Playback stutters on cached frames (#595, #304); late audio (#504, #335); #329 and #554 are closed; no benchmark against After Effects |
+| Render queue and export | 7% | 85% | 55% | 25–45 | No hardware encoding; ProRes 4444 colour tag (#340); rendering over an existing file (#325); #446 and #372 (8-bit uncompressed QuickTime, #778) are closed; HEVC/AV1 without B-frames |
 | Audio | 2% | 85% | 45% | 6–12 | Audio sync and crackle (#335); audio to keyframes depth |
 | **Weighted** | 100% | **≈ 91%** | **≈ 50%** | **≈ 360–660** | |

@@ -136,12 +136,12 @@ Feature depth (≈ 50%) feeds the overall *ready* number with the other dimensio
 |---|---:|---:|---|---|
 | Features, breadth | 91% | (in features) | Table above | this file |
 | Features, ready for real work | 50% | 360–660 | Table above | this file, [gaps.md](gaps.md) |
-| UI/UX fidelity | 65% | 60–120 | After Effects-shaped menus (587 entries), panels, workspaces, shortcuts; many interaction issues still open; no multi-monitor; Effect Controls not yet like 26.5's | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
+| UI/UX fidelity | 65% | 60–120 | After Effects-shaped menus (587 entries), panels, workspaces, shortcuts; many interaction issues still open; multi-monitor only as separate panel windows (#486 open); Effect Controls not yet like 26.5's | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
 | File formats | 50% | 130–230 | `.aep` / `.aepx` / `.mogrt` / `.ffx` can't be read; strong modern codecs (H.264, HEVC, AV1, VP9, ProRes) | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | Hardware | 40% | 60–120 | wgpu GPU on Metal/Vulkan/Direct3D 12/WebGPU with CPU fallback; no hardware decode/encode; Direct3D 12 compositor fails (#613); no video-out hardware | [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
-| Localization | 12% | 60–110 + review | Average coverage of After Effects' 10 non-English languages (measured catalog rows over ≈ 3,900 strings): menus 618/618 in 6 languages, panels in 4, effects in none; After Effects ships 11 languages fully | [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
+| Localization | 18% | 60–110 + review | Average coverage of After Effects' 10 non-English languages (measured catalog rows over ≈ 3,900 strings): menus in 10 languages, panels in 6, effects in none; After Effects ships 11 languages fully | [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
 | Performance | 35% | 50–100 | Internal numbers only; users report stutter and slow scrubbing | [gaps.md](gaps.md#g5-performance-at-real-world-scale) |
-| Stability | 45% | 40–80 | Open crash reports #580, #591, #501, #426, #341, #306, #234, #511; no CI runs the tests on pull requests | [gaps.md](gaps.md#g3-stability-and-a-green-main) |
+| Stability | 45% | 40–80 | Open crash reports #580, #501, #426, #341, #234, #879 (#591, #306 and #511 are closed); no CI runs the tests on pull requests | [gaps.md](gaps.md#g3-stability-and-a-green-main) |
 | Platforms | 65% | 30–60 | Releases for macOS, Windows x64/x86/ARM64, Linux, FreeBSD and the web (more than After Effects), but Linux and Windows users hit basic bugs | [gaps.md](gaps.md#g2-real-user-reliability-on-every-platform) |
 | Ecosystem and plug-ins | 20% | 40–80 | After Effects scripts and expressions mostly carry over; no After Effects SDK plug-ins, `.ffx` presets or `.mogrt`; our WebAssembly plug-in API has no third-party plug-ins yet | [plugins.md](plugins.md) |
 | AI features | 35% | 40–80 (overlaps Tracking) | Roto Brush (MobileSAM) and face tracking (MediaPipe) as optional downloads; no Object Matte; the After Effects bundle ships Whisper, BERT and Marian tokenizers and a shot-cut model we have no equivalent of | [gaps.md](gaps.md) |
@@ -188,23 +188,23 @@ generative/cloud AI (Object Matte, Firefly), Adobe services and team features, s

 | Area (everyday subset) | Weight | Depth | Evidence |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
-| Project and import: MOV/MP4, PNG/JPEG sequences, PSD/AI, WAV/MP3 | 10% | 75% | Import tests; #431 still imported as a sequence, #324 MP3 silence |
-| Comps, layers, blend modes, mattes, parenting, precomps | 16% | 80% | Compositor tests; #494 32-bpc blend modes, #539/#540 separated Position |
-| Keyframes, Graph Editor, easing, motion paths | 20% | 75% | 168 live samples match After Effects; #456/#457, #553, #569 |
+| Project and import: MOV/MP4, PNG/JPEG sequences, PSD/AI, WAV/MP3 | 10% | 75% | Import tests; #431 (image imported as a sequence) and #324 (MP3 silence) were counted here and are now closed |
+| Comps, layers, blend modes, mattes, parenting, precomps | 16% | 80% | Compositor tests; #494 32-bpc blend modes and #539/#540 separated Position were counted here and are now closed |
+| Keyframes, Graph Editor, easing, motion paths | 20% | 75% | 168 live samples match After Effects; #456/#457, #553 and #569 were counted here and are now closed |
 | Expressions: `wiggle`, `loopOut`, linking, sliders | 6% | 80% | `crates/expr` tests; no live expression oracle yet |
-| Shape layers and masks | 12% | 65% | #510, #513, #527 mask bugs; #303 Mesh Warp |
-| Text and text animators | 12% | 70% | #316 alignment inverted, #453 CJK, #583 font search |
-| Everyday effects: blurs, glow, fill/tint, curves/levels, keying, drop shadow, displacement | 10% | 70% | All present with GPU paths; unmeasured against After Effects; #514 Apply Color LUT |
-| Preview (RAM preview with audio) | 8% | 55% | #595, #304 stutter; #554, #504 late audio |
-| Render to H.264 / ProRes / PNG sequences | 6% | 75% | Encoder tests; #446 default macOS output folder, #340 ProRes 4444 tag |
+| Shape layers and masks | 12% | 65% | #510, #513, #527 mask bugs and #303 Mesh Warp were counted here and are now closed; open: #1004, #999, #1042 |
+| Text and text animators | 12% | 70% | #316 alignment inverted, #453 CJK (open); #583 font search (closed) |
+| Everyday effects: blurs, glow, fill/tint, curves/levels, keying, drop shadow, displacement | 10% | 70% | All present with GPU paths; unmeasured against After Effects; #514 Apply Color LUT (closed) |
+| Preview (RAM preview with audio) | 8% | 55% | #595, #304 stutter; #504 late audio (#554 closed) |
+| Render to H.264 / ProRes / PNG sequences | 6% | 75% | Encoder tests; #340 ProRes 4444 tag (open); #446 default macOS output folder (closed) |
 | **Average depth** | 100% | **72.2%** | |

 Discounts for what still stops real work:

 | Discount | Factor | Evidence |
 |---|---:|---|
-| Interaction fidelity | ×0.90 | UI parity ≈ 65% ([ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md)): Graph Editor jitter, snapping (#352), viewer zoom keys (#570), no multi-monitor (#486) |
-| Stability on real machines | ×0.90 | Eight open crash reports (#580, #591, #501, #426, #341, #306, #234, #511); Direct3D 12 compositor fails (#613); no CI on pull requests |
+| Interaction fidelity | ×0.90 | UI parity ≈ 65% ([ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md)): viewer zoom keys (#570), multi-monitor only as separate panel windows (#486 open); Graph Editor jitter (#456) and snapping (#352) are closed |
+| Stability on real machines | ×0.90 | Six open crash reports (#580, #501, #426, #341, #234, #879; #591, #306 and #511 are closed); Direct3D 12 compositor fails (#613); no CI on pull requests |
 | File exchange with After Effects users | ×0.80 | Can't open `.aep`, `.aepx`, `.mogrt` or `.ffx` sent by colleagues or bought as templates; PSD, AI, footage and rendered deliverables exchange fine |

 72.2% × 0.90 × 0.90 × 0.80 = **46.8%, ≈ 47%**. It sits only just above the full number because
@@ -221,19 +221,19 @@ first-time user) get their work done?* No advanced options, pro workflows or exc
 | Core feature | Weight | Depth | Evidence |
 |---|---:|---:|---|
 | Launch, new project, undo, save, reopen | 10% | 85% | Versioned project reopen tests, auto-save and crash recovery |
-| Import a video, picture or song | 10% | 75% | #431 a picture imported as a sequence, #324 MP3 silence |
+| Import a video, picture or song | 10% | 75% | #431 and #324 (closed) |
 | New comp; move, scale, rotate, fade and trim layers | 15% | 80% | `ui_viewer`, Timeline tests |
-| Add and style text | 10% | 70% | #316, #583 |
-| Draw shapes and simple masks | 10% | 70% | Shape tool tests; #513 mask drawing feedback |
+| Add and style text | 10% | 70% | #316 (open), #583 (closed) |
+| Draw shapes and simple masks | 10% | 70% | Shape tool tests; #513 mask drawing feedback (closed) |
 | Keyframes and Easy Ease | 15% | 85% | Ease measured against After Effects |
 | Apply a few common effects | 10% | 75% | Effects & Presets search, Effect Controls tests |
-| Preview with sound | 10% | 65% | #595 stutter, #554 late audio |
-| Export an MP4 | 10% | 80% | H.264 encoder tests; #446 |
+| Preview with sound | 10% | 65% | #595 stutter (open), #554 late audio (closed) |
+| Export an MP4 | 10% | 80% | H.264 encoder tests; #446 (closed) |
 | **Average depth** | 100% | **76.75%** | |

 | Discount | Factor | Evidence |
 |---|---:|---|
-| Launch and stability | ×0.88 | Start-up failures (#501, #234 macOS 27, #596 GPU not detected, #613 Direct3D 12); #426 timeline crash while playing |
+| Launch and stability | ×0.88 | Start-up failures (#501, #234 macOS 27, #613 Direct3D 12; #596 is closed); #426 timeline crash while playing |
 | Discoverability and UI clarity | ×0.90 | After Effects' dense layout reproduced faithfully; Home screen and interactive Learn tutorials help; renders fail silently on macOS until an output folder is chosen (#446); layout nitpicks (#581) |
 | Opening files people send | ×0.85 | Tutorial projects and templates arrive as `.aep` / `.mogrt`, which don't open |

@@ -1163,6 +1163,7 @@ top of this page and in items 16–18 above.

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3: open crash list, closed-issue references in the area tables, export formats 12 to 13, localization ≈ 12% to ≈ 18%, `#include`, built-in preset count, 12 October repository counts |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Readiness-by-audience table: hours to ≈ 95% for each of the three numbers; the full number stays an additive weighted sum (unchanged) |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Added mainstream practitioner (≈ 47%) and essentials user (≈ 52%) numbers with weights, discounts and GitHub user evidence; wrote down how the full ready number is built (unchanged at ≈ 45%) |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Stage checked against the core-workflow alpha gate: passes, still alpha |
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI parity

-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** major (first UI parity checklist against After Effects 2026 26.5) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-12 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (closed issue references re-audited against `upstream/main` 470ea7a3) · **Target:** Adobe After Effects 2026

 How closely EffectCraft's interaction matches After Effects: tools, handles, snapping, nudging,
 modifier keys, shortcuts, drag behaviour, numeric entry, panels, context menus and feel. Evidence
@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ feel and platform differences, and the 26.x interface changes are not in yet.
 | Area | Status | % | Evidence and gaps |
 |---|---|---:|---|
 | Menu bar | After Effects' menus, order, submenus and labels; native on macOS; keyboard-operable in-window bar | 95% | 587 entries in `crates/engine/src/menus.rs`; Adobe-service entries omitted by design; `ui_menus` tests (#279) |
-| Panels and workspaces | Every After Effects panel; all standard workspaces; drag-to-dock, tabs, floating panels, maximise | 75% | `ui_tabs`, `ui_panels`; dropping a panel on a stacked panel doesn't make a tab (#302); stacked-panel headers (#301); saved workspaces don't persist (#320); no panels on a second monitor (#486) |
-| Timeline | Switches, modes, parent & link, twirl-downs, reveal shortcuts (U, UU, P, S, R, T, A, E, M, F, Alt+Shift…), pick whips, graph editor, work area, markers | 75% | `ui_keyframes`, `ui_timeline_*`; Graph Editor jitter and hidden buttons (#456, #457); rotation can't go negative by dragging (#569); bulk keyframing (#355); expand precomps in place (#601); Proportional Scrubbing (26.2: Ctrl+Alt / Cmd+Opt scrub of hot text spreads the change over the selected layers by selection order, #770) matched for layers selected as a whole, not yet for individually selected properties |
-| Composition viewer | Selection, handles with direction-aware cursors, rulers, guides, grids, snapping, channels, exposure, region of interest, snapshots, 3D views, Spacebar hand | 70% | `ui_viewer`, `ui_viewers`; Cmd/Ctrl +/− doesn't zoom (#570); inaccurate snapping (#352); anchor point grab on Linux (#492); no 3D transform gizmos (#392, #347); percentage guides (26.5); Copy Frame to Clipboard (26.3) is in the Composition menu and the viewer's context menu |
-| Tools panel | All After Effects tools; long-press flyouts; Tool Creates Shape / Mask; Fill / Stroke options | 80% | #213, #227 fixed; pen and vertex tools on motion paths (#553) |
-| Nudging and modifiers | Arrow nudge (1 px, Shift 10 px), Alt/Option duplicates and slips, Shift constrains | 75% | #290 nudging fixed; Linux multi-layer edits (#491) |
+| Panels and workspaces | Every After Effects panel; all standard workspaces; drag-to-dock, tabs, floating panels, maximise | 75% | `ui_tabs`, `ui_panels`; panels move into their own native windows on any screen (#486 open: no dragging tabs between those windows); #302, #301 and #320 (docking, stacked-panel headers, workspace persistence) are closed |
+| Timeline | Switches, modes, parent & link, twirl-downs, reveal shortcuts (U, UU, P, S, R, T, A, E, M, F, Alt+Shift…), pick whips, graph editor, work area, markers | 75% | `ui_keyframes`, `ui_timeline_*`; expand precomps in place (#601); #456, #457, #569 and #355 (Graph Editor jitter and buttons, negative rotation, bulk keyframing) are closed; Proportional Scrubbing (26.2: Ctrl+Alt / Cmd+Opt scrub of hot text spreads the change over the selected layers by selection order, #770) matched for layers selected as a whole, not yet for individually selected properties |
+| Composition viewer | Selection, handles with direction-aware cursors, rulers, guides, grids, snapping, channels, exposure, region of interest, snapshots, 3D views, Spacebar hand | 70% | `ui_viewer`, `ui_viewers`; Cmd/Ctrl +/− doesn't zoom (#570); anchor point grab on Linux (#492); #352 (snapping) is closed; no 3D transform gizmos (#392, #347); percentage guides (26.5); Copy Frame to Clipboard (26.3) is in the Composition menu and the viewer's context menu |
+| Tools panel | All After Effects tools; long-press flyouts; Tool Creates Shape / Mask; Fill / Stroke options | 80% | #213, #227 fixed; #553 (pen and vertex tools on motion paths) is closed |
+| Nudging and modifiers | Arrow nudge (1 px, Shift 10 px), Alt/Option duplicates and slips, Shift constrains | 75% | #290 nudging fixed; #491 (Linux multi-layer edits) is closed |
 | Numeric entry | Scrubbable values, typed entry with Tab / Shift+Tab, angle revolutions, Escape cancels, non-finite rejected | 85% | `ui_angles`, `ui_inline_edit` (#93, #141, #361); rename arrows on Linux (#488) |
 | Effect Controls | After Effects' twirl-downs, angle dial, point crosshair, eyedropper, curves/levels editors, effect menu on right-click | 70% | `ui_effect_controls`, `ui_fx_editors`; 26.5 rebuilt this panel with icon controls and effect colour labels, not matched |
 | Context menus | Layer, property, Project, Timeline empty area, work area, labels with colours | 80% | `ui_blank_context_menus`, `ui_project_rows`; #227, #290, #407 fixed; a comp's Project row menu has Composition Settings… (#1058) |
-| Keyboard shortcuts | After Effects' defaults; Keyboard Shortcuts editor that rebinds and saves sets | 75% | Shortcut editor in Settings; adding shortcuts fails on Linux (#467); requests for more (#428, #336); no shortcuts for scripts |
-| Drag and drop | Project → Timeline / viewer / New Comp / Render Queue; effects onto layers; files from the OS | 65% | `ui_drag_drop`; OS drops fail on Wayland (winit) and some Linux setups (#268); multi-file drops (#552, #351); crash dragging over the import dialog (#511) |
-| Text editing on canvas | Point and paragraph text, per-character styles, Character / Paragraph panels, OpenType and variable axes | 70% | `ui_text_edit`, `ui_font_search`; paragraph alignment inverted (#316); font search by typing (#583); toolbar font options (#550); the font menus' variable-font filter (26.3) landed (#741) |
-| Preview feel | Spacebar / Numpad 0 previews, RAM preview, cache bars, adaptive resolution | 55% | `ui_ram_preview`, `ui_live_preview`; stutter (#595, #304), scrubbing lag (#329), Shift+Space default (#551) |
+| Keyboard shortcuts | After Effects' defaults; Keyboard Shortcuts editor that rebinds and saves sets | 75% | Shortcut editor in Settings; #467 (adding shortcuts on Linux), #428 and #336 are closed; no shortcuts for scripts |
+| Drag and drop | Project → Timeline / viewer / New Comp / Render Queue; effects onto layers; files from the OS | 65% | `ui_drag_drop`; OS drops fail on Wayland (winit) and some Linux setups (#268); #552, #351 (multi-file drops) and #511 (crash dragging over the import dialog) are closed |
+| Text editing on canvas | Point and paragraph text, per-character styles, Character / Paragraph panels, OpenType and variable axes | 70% | `ui_text_edit`, `ui_font_search`; paragraph alignment inverted (#316); toolbar font options (#550); font search by typing (#583) is closed; the font menus' variable-font filter (26.3) landed (#741) |
+| Preview feel | Spacebar / Numpad 0 previews, RAM preview, cache bars, adaptive resolution | 55% | `ui_ram_preview`, `ui_live_preview`; stutter (#595, #304), Shift+Space default (#551); scrubbing lag (#329, closed by #784) |
 | Home screen, Learn, templates | Home with recent projects, template gallery, interactive Learn tutorials | 70% | Layout nitpicks (#581); Home literals untranslated (#574) |
 | Quick Apply (26.2) | Search to apply effects, presets or commands | partial | A command palette exists; not After Effects' Quick Apply |
 | Accessibility | AccessKit enabled; focus labels tested; Project panel keyboard navigation and accessible names (#776) | 20% | No screen-reader pass or keyboard-navigation audit of the other panels; no contrast check |
@@ -44,4 +44,5 @@ Effects running; most of the rest parallelises.

 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-12 | minor | Closed issues (#302, #320, #491, #511, #553 and others) marked as closed instead of open; panels in their own windows (#486) |
 | 2026-10-10 | major | First UI parity checklist |