Storyboard Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Hidden Functionalities

Storyboard Pro has many features at the touch of your fingertips that can make working faster and easier. Check out the tips and tricks below to learn about keyboard shortcuts and functions that you never knew existed!

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Storyboarding Without a Pencil

Storytelling skills don’t always go hand in hand with drawing skills. For those who need a quick solution to storyboard design, Toon Boom Storyboard makes it possible to import pictures and use templates to illustrate your project.

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Exporting Storyboard Projects to Non Linear Editing Systems

It is possible to export your storyboard project and preserve the timing, motions and sounds edited with Toon Boom Storyboard Pro, and export this directly to Apple Final Cut Pro using EDL format or to Adobe Premiere, Avid Xpress or Sony Vegas using AAF format.

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Optimizing Your Storyboard Project

From the beginning, Toon Boom Animation’s Storyboard Pro was designed to resolve the problems associated with using unspecialized tools by providing an intuitive, non-intrusive technology. This technology is compatible with any type of production tool and is designed to meet the needs of Movie producers, Cartoonists, Games developers, Broadcasters and CGI developers.

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Exporting Storyboard Pro Files into Animate or Animate Pro

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro provides an export bridge to Toon Boom Animate and Toon Boom Animate Pro. The export process creates your scenes for you and inserts the necessary data in it, but what happens to your camera motion, scene length and drawings?

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Export to Animate

Using Storyboard Pro, you can export your animatic as an Animate 2 or Animate Pro 2 scene. You can select to export your whole storyboard project or only a selection of scenes. Once your export is ready, you can open it in Toon Boom Animate 2 or Toon Boom Animate Pro 2 software.

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Event Planning with Storyboard and Storyboard Pro

Toon Boom Animation's storyboarding software has provided the backbone to many animation productions and advertising campaigns. However, the uses for the software do not stop there. Storyboard Pro can also be used as a tool for planning large events, such as concerts and weddings. Learn how in the article detailed below!

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How to Make a Smooth Transition From Traditional to Paperless

For some artists, the transition from traditional to digital can often look daunting. Using a digital storyboard has many advantages; a paperless environment, ease of correction using the undo feature, ease of drawing reuse by copying and pasting.

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Featured User Story

Efficient Storytelling From An Expert

With nineteen years in the industry, Sherm Cohen is a cartoonist, writer, and storyboard artist. He’s also Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Certified. His track record and impressive career speak of his talent and love for the art of animation.

Sherm Cohen