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The 3D Camera Tracker analysis joins the offloaded jobs. The disk cache stays off in the browser (std::env::temp_dir panics on wasm32 once a config store exists). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Roadmap
EffectCraft aims to do what After Effects does, with the same panels, menus and behaviour, written from scratch in Rust. This is where it stands. The milestones overlap; several are worked on at once.
| Milestone | State | |
|---|---|---|
| M0 | Skeleton: crates, compositor, the After Effects style shell, control channel, cargo xtask |
Done (web build: docs/web.md) |
| M1 | Keyframes: temporal and spatial interpolation, Easy Ease, roving, velocity | Done |
| M2 | Compositing: 38 blend modes, track mattes, parenting, adjustment layers | Done |
| M3 | Project operations: settings dialogs, layer commands, .ecproj, undo, After Effects menu bar |
Mostly done |
| M4 | Preview: precomps, motion blur, cached playback | Mostly done |
| M5 | Timeline depth: graph editor, keyframe clipboard and dialogs, time remapping, pick-whips, expression editor | Done |
| M6 | Shapes, masks and footage: shape operators, masks and the pen tool, video and image import | Done |
| M7 | 3D: 3D layers, cameras, lights, shadows, depth of field, 3D views and camera tools | In review |
| M8 | Expressions with the After Effects object model | Done |
| M9 | Text and effects: text animators, layer styles, 259 effects incl. time and audio effects | Done (range, wiggly and expression selectors, per-character 3D, text on a path) |
| M10 | Export: render queue, H.264, ProRes, image sequences, GIF, audio | Done |
| M11 | Animation tools: audio playback, meters and waveforms, Lottie import and export (done); presets, Motion Sketch, Wiggler | In progress |
| M12 | Performance: layer cache and parallel compositing (done), GPU compositing, disk cache, motion tracking | In progress |
| M13+ | Puppet, paint, roto, motion tracking, a plugin API | Planned |
| M15 | The web app (WebAssembly, WebGPU) | Done: browser storage, Web Audio, renders and analyses in Web Workers, offline install (docs/web.md) |
| M14 | Built for agents: MCP server, command-line tool, control channel; Settings, keyboard shortcut editor, auto-save and crash recovery (docs/preferences.md) | Done |
How far from full parity
Measured feature by feature in docs/parity.md (late 2 October 2026):
- ≈ 93% of After Effects' features, weighted by importance (96% of the essentials, 90% of professional daily-use features, 65% of the long tail); all 298 After Effects effects.
- ≈ 50–55 agent-hours of work remain: about 11–14 hours of wall-clock time with five Claude Opus 5.5 agents in parallel, ≈ 6–8 hours for the essentials and daily-use features.
- Hardest remaining pieces: the web app's depth, GPU 3D, Content-Aware Fill, a plug-in API.
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