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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro: Detailed Features

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Brush tool for freehand drawing, using solid colour, gradient or textured pen styles
Basic shape tools (Line, Rectangle, and Ellipse)
Text tool with essential wording feature and independent attributes for each character (Font, Size, Bold, Italic) with automatic or user-defined kerning for multiple lines of text, with independent alignment modes, indentation and spacing, Unicode with Input Method Editor support for typing foreign languages
Eraser tool for correction and removal
Use Draw behind mode to quickly paint behind lines without adding new layer
Cutter tools, ideal for rectangular image cropping and freehand for custom cut selections
Paint tool for filling areas with solid colours, gradients or textures
Close Gap tool for closing a shape so that it can be filled with a colour, without adding a visible line
Modify, transform or re-colour drawing object brush strokes and colour fills
Create brush textures to recreate the look of natural media tools, such as graphite, charcoal or pencil
Manage colour palettes using a colour picker that supports solid colours, gradients and textures, as well as an independent transparency value for each colour
Apply the Transform tools to drawing objects to prepare them for transformations in the animatic
Flip horizontally or vertically selected objects or layer content
Flatten strokes inside a layer to optimize and reduce overlapped objects
Merge layers to group them together
Switch on Light Table to see through layers and clean drawings
Quickly flip panels with onion skinning to draw keyframes as you go
Access extended set of Tools and Tools Properties for finer drawing
Set independent colours for Brush, Pencil and Paint tools for more convenient sketching
Select strokes based on the current colour selection for faster cleanup
Create a custom brush using a stroke or a series of strokes for stamping
Create and reuse brushes with specific settings for more efficiency

Add an unlimited number of panels per scene for complex scene descriptions
Duplicate, re-order, join or detach panels from a scene easily
Create and manage an unlimited number of layers in a panel, using the transparent layering architecture
Key frame layer's position, scaling and rotation between the first frame and last frame over time
Spread layer's motion over several panels to create quickly multi-panels background panning
Create smooth layer movement using drag-and-drop layer path elements
Define ease-in and ease-out acceleration for smooth layer motion
Enjoy easy layer manipulation using drag-and-drop to rearrange layer order, swap layers between panels and merge layers together
Customize layer display (Hide or Visible, Rename) and attributes (Lock, Export availability on PDF or animatic)
Display In, Out and Duration of selected elements
Overlay safety area and 4:3 safety while working on widescreen project
Save As and Auto-Save capabilities
Lock panel names for file protection
Work with both horizontal and vertical layer displays as per your preference
Create a new panel using all or only specific layers of your currently selected panel for more efficiency
Set different transparency levels per layer
Customize the naming of the panels, as well as overwrite them on a project by project basis
Easily track the changes made to panels for faster revision

Include captions for each panel with information such as notes, dialogue, slug lines and costume
Use the Global Captions field for overall comments, production notes, story boarder contact information
Create an unlimited number of panels and storyboard captions
Type notes directly into caption fields
Customize the caption categories
Save caption layouts as a template for future storyboards
Search tool to find caption text easily
Import TXT files directly into a caption field
Support of rich text in captions for nicer presentation
Add a sketch caption on a panel by panel basis

Use voice annotation to add comments quickly
Add an unlimited number of voice annotations to a panel
Record voice annotations directly without using an external application

Display thumbnail images for each panel
Manage panel and transition duration using drag-and-drop
Import an unlimited number of audio files
Link audio tracks to panels to keep sound files in sync during editing
Expand sound files for overlapping dialogue, sound and music
Set sound file duration directly in the timeline using drag-and-drop
Display sound file waveforms to synchronize shots
Edit each sound file volume envelopes
Turn individual soundtracks on or off
Shift and shuffle selections, panels or sound files all at once
Roll panels to change median editing point without affecting global timing
Split a panel at current frame to insert extra panels within a same scene
Show camera frame while scrubbing through a panel

Reuse assets from the built-in image template library including Characters, Locations, Props and Actions
Access an unlimited number of user libraries easily to work with custom and frequently used drawings and sounds
Set user libraries as global to Toon Boom Storyboard or localize it to the current Storyboard project
Import libraries from Toon Boom Harmony (7.8) or Animate Pro 2

Play back a panel with dynamic camera movements in real-time using the Camera tool at any time during storyboard development
Key frame camera position, zoom and roll between the first frame and last frame in a panel
Create smooth camera movement using drag-and-drop camera path elements
Define ease-in and ease-out acceleration for smooth camera motion
Copy camera keyframes to create complex camera motion over several panels
Add camera keyframes to expand camera movements across panels for more impressive motion

Play animatics in real-time without any rendering, including all camera movements and synchronized sound
Play back the current panel or the entire storyboard
Toggle playback to loop storyboard output
Turn sound playback on or off
Display camera mask during playback
Use thumbnails for real-time playback
Enjoy full scene antialiasing for smoother drawing
Generate an optimized version of the drawings for smoother/real-time playback

Place transitions between shots
Select different types of transitions (Cut, Dissolve, Wipe)
Define the length of the transition
View transitions in real-time during the playback in Camera view

Import TVG, OPT, PAL, SCAN, SGI, TGA, YUV, OMF, PSD, PNG, BMP and JPG image formats
Import a group of images to automatically create a storyboard
Import PSD and preserve independent layers in panel
Import SWF animation file format
Import PDF file format
Import MP3, WAV, AIF and AIFF audio formats
Import of Final Draft 8 (Final Draft 7 files still supported for backward compatibility)
Assemble a storyboard project from scanned images using the specified naming convention

Support SWF and MOV animation formats to export the current panel, selected panels or full storyboard project
Configure SWF and MOV formats (audio and video codec, compression)
Overlay time code on exported movie
Overlay panels and scene number as well as local scene time code on exported movie
Support PDF format with password protection and foreign language encoding support
Select a layout from a list of standard storyboard page layouts
Customize page layout properties, with header and footer
Place bitmap on both header and footer
Display 4:3 safety in PDF panels
Save new and updated page layouts
Select the information you want to print, including data on the panel, scene name, start and end times, duration, transition, text in caption fields and layers
Print extended panel to include the scope of the entire scene
Set snapshot markers to print timing positions inside a panel
Support EDL and AAF format, allowing the creation of standard CMX EDL files or Legacy AAF and the export of QuickTime movie files for each panel or scene synched with EDL to export storyboard timeline to major editing applications
Produce a sequence of still JPEG or TGA images at current storyboard frame rate or one per panels
Export PSD images with independent layers
Activate PSD background transparency
Export current visible frame to JPEG, TGA and PSD
Create CSV files containing all panel information and bring it into any spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel
Generate all panels into Toon Boom Animate 2 and Animate Pro 2 scenes
User definable filename pattern when exporting EDL, AAF, Bitmap or Image Sequence
Customize the PDF export on a panel by panel basis for better layout export
Review PDF Export with Analyze functionality for faster corrections
Export to Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro Conformation (Import / Export)

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro: Detailed Features

[-] Digital Drawing

[+]Scenes, Panels and Layers

[+] Captions

[+] Sound

[+] Timeline

[+] Image and Audio Libraries

[+] Camera

[+] Playback

[+] Transitions

[+] Import

[+] Export