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M13.5: parity notes for the long-tail polish 

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -89,16 +89,16 @@ Timeline column/search depth, the Home screen and every After Effects workspace
| Audio | 85% | 0.5 | audio to keyframes |
| Import | 78% | 4.5 | PSD, SVG as shapes, Lottie |
| Automation | ≈ 90% | 0.8 | scripting covers the documented core object model (AUT-2, M14.4: `app`, project items, comps, layers, properties and keyframes, text documents, markers, render queue, Script Console, `effectcraft-cli script`, MCP `run_script`); still missing: ScriptUI panels/dialogs, `.jsxbin`, sockets |
| Shapes | 68% | 3.9 | taper and wave strokes (pen tool for shape paths and vertex editing landed in M6.5) |
| Shapes | ≈ 80% | 1.5 | Lottie can't carry stroke taper/wave (stroke Taper and Wave, Dash 2/Gap 2/Dash 3/Gap 3 and radial-gradient Highlight Length/Angle landed in M13.5; pen tool for shape paths and vertex editing in M6.5) |
| Compositions | 72% | 6.0 | Essential Graphics panel (the marker dialog and Composition Flowchart landed) |
| Animation | 65% | 10.4 | puppet, Wiggler/Smoother/Motion Sketch (motion-path handles and the graph editor transform box landed in M5.8) |
| Text | ≈ 86% | 1.3 | vertical type is basic (upright characters, no tate-chu-yoko), no OpenType feature panel, no extruded strokes (extruded, bevelled text landed in M7.6); per-character styles, paragraph settings, on-canvas editing and the `sourceText` style API landed (M9.9–M9.10) |
| Animation | 67% | 10.0 | puppet, Wiggler/Smoother/Motion Sketch (motion-path handles and the graph editor transform box landed in M5.8; keyframe colour labels and Select Keyframe Label Group, Graph Editor snapping to markers / layer ends in M13.5) |
| Text | ≈ 91% | 0.8 | no OpenType feature panel, no extruded strokes, variable-axis animation changes outlines but not advances (vertical Roman / Tate-Chu-Yoko, forced LTR paragraphs, caret on animated and path text, Variable Font Axes and Lottie style runs landed in M13.5; extruded, bevelled text in M7.6; per-character styles, paragraph settings, on-canvas editing and the `sourceText` style API in M9.9–M9.10) |
| Web | 60% | 2.5 | threads, browser storage, audio |
| 3D | 72% | 12.0 | 3D camera tracker, multi-view layouts, Advanced 3D motion blur and blend modes, cameras/lights from models; Advanced 3D (glTF/OBJ models, primitives, extruded text and shapes, PBR, image-based light, shadow maps, GPU rasteriser) landed in M7.4–M7.6 |
| 3D | 74% | 11.3 | 3D camera tracker, multi-view layouts, Advanced 3D motion blur and blend modes (and iris bokeh in Advanced 3D's depth of field), cameras/lights from models; Classic 3D iris-shaped bokeh with highlights, progressive DOF on tilted layers and the focus-link commands landed in M13.5; Advanced 3D (glTF/OBJ models, primitives, extruded text and shapes, PBR, image-based light, shadow maps, GPU rasteriser) in M7.4–M7.6 |
| Effects | ≈ 75% | 5.0 | GPU versions of more effects and the 3D Camera Tracker (every other After Effects effect exists since M9.11 and M12.5) |
| Interface | 70% | 6.0 | Timeline horizontal scrolling of many columns, a richer Learn area (native macOS menu bar, Timeline columns/search/reveal-add, Home screen with recent projects and all AE workspaces landed; viewer rulers/snapping/channels/snapshots landed in M0.13) |
| Interface | 74% | 5.0 | a richer Learn area (Timeline outline and Project panel columns scroll horizontally, the Layer Style dialog, ROI resize handles, Pan Behind snapping and 3D Reference Axes landed in M13.5; native macOS menu bar, Timeline columns/search/reveal-add, Home screen with recent projects and all AE workspaces landed; viewer rulers/snapping/channels/snapshots landed in M0.13) |
| Project | 53% | 8.1 | 8/16/32-bit pipeline and colour management, auto-save, proxies, folder moves |
| Masks & roto | 68% | 6.0 | variable-width mask feather points, Roto Brush's learned (3.0) segmentation model (mask tracking and Mask Interpolation landed in M6.6; Roto Brush & Refine Edge with graph-cut segmentation, flow propagation, edge matting, decontamination and Freeze in M6.7) |
| Masks & roto | 74% | 5.0 | Roto Brush's learned (3.0) segmentation model (variable-width mask feather points with the Mask Feather tool landed in M13.5; mask tracking and Mask Interpolation landed in M6.6; Roto Brush & Refine Edge with graph-cut segmentation, flow propagation, edge matting, decontamination and Freeze in M6.7) |
| Preview | 55% | 6.1 | GPU 3D and adjustment layers, disk cache (region of interest, snapshots, exposure and Fast Previews landed in M0.13) |
| Tracking | ≈ 70% | 4.0 | 3D camera tracker, face tracking and Subspace Warp's mesh warp (Rolling Shutter Repair landed in M9.11; point tracker, mask tracking and Warp Stabilizer landed in M6.x / M12.5) |
| Paint | 0% | 4.0 | Brush, Clone Stamp, Eraser |
@ -123,6 +123,21 @@ Mocha and Cineware are third-party and not counted.
| Utility | Color Profile Converter | Our colour spaces and ACES; rendering intents (perceptual gamut compression, relative / absolute colorimetric, saturation). |
| Obsolete | mocha shape | Mocha's export format is not public: reads a documented JSON shape format instead. |
## Update: M13.5 long-tail polish
Stroke Taper / Wave / multi-segment dashes and the radial gradient highlight (SHP-2);
variable-width mask feather points (MSK-1; mask motion blur verified by tests); the Adaptive
Sample Limit driving per-layer motion-blur samples (LYR-10); Classic 3D depth of field with
the camera's iris shape, rotation, roundness, aspect ratio, diffraction fringe and highlights,
progressive blur on tilted layers, and Link Focus Distance to Point of Interest / to Layer and
Set Focus Distance to Layer (3D-1); Timeline outline and Project panel column scrolling;
keyframe colour labels and Select Keyframe Label Group (ANM-1); vertical Roman text,
Tate-Chu-Yoko, forced LTR paragraphs, the editing caret on animated / path text and Lottie
style runs; the Layer Style dialog (LYR-9); Graph Editor snapping to markers and layer ends
(ANM-4; the reference graph existed); viewer ROI resize handles, Pan Behind snapping and 3D
Reference Axes; Animate Text ▸ Variable Font Axes. Remaining in these rows: Lottie can't carry
taper/wave, Advanced 3D's DOF has no iris shapes, and variable axes don't change advances.
## Highest-value gaps, in order
1. ~~On-canvas text editing and per-character styles~~ (landed: M9.9–M9.10).