Toon Boom Storyboard Pro comes with an intuitive interface presenting either an elegant traditional panel window layout or an overview window layout that fits into your content creation process. Easy to learn and use, Storyboard Pro mimics the traditional storyboarding process, navigating with just a graphic tablet pen in a user-friendly environment.

Features

• Extensive import capabilities, including a wide variety of bitmap (JPEG, PNG, TGA, PSD, YUV, SGI, OMF), vector (AI, PDF, SWF, TVG, OPT), audio (WAV, AIF, MP3), text file and Toon Boom Harmony / Opus / Digital Pro formats
• Intuitive user interface with five working layouts for drawing, timing, overview, horizontal or vertical page layout with customizable toolbars and shortcuts
• Convenient layer-based panel display to easily rearrange join or detach panels as needed
• Creative drawing tools, supporting colours, gradients and textures with independent transparency and preserving your own style with ink brush, airbrush or crayon texture brush
• Advanced vector tools, including a digital cutter for slicing, cutting or cropping images, onion skinning capabilities, and a rotary light table and animation disk
• Dynamic motion layers and camera moves, for panning, scaling and rotation to create basic background panning or complex camera multi-plane effects
• Customizable caption fields to insert fully searchable text, such as dialogue, actions, slugging or comments and fully supporting Unicode
• Powerful timeline editing to easily time panel duration and edit the animatic with panel trimming, shifting and shuffling, transitions and unlimited sound tracks, including scrubbing and volume key framing
• Real-time playback, including full camera and panels’ motions with synchronized audio tracks and caption fields
• Green ePaper export for emailing storyboard using advanced PDF support and securing storyboards with password protection
• Efficient built-in Library, including more than 100 elements in addition to creating your own library and connecting to Toon Boom Harmony / Opus / Digital Pro asset libraries
• Improved teamwork thanks to recorded audio comments to keep track of changes, modifications, notes or production meeting minutes
• Seamless pipeline integration with superior export capabilities, including QuickTime, Flash, image sequence, EDL , AAF, multi-layer Photoshop PSD and Toon Boom Harmony / Opus / Digital Pro file formats

Flexible configuration
Toon Boom Storyboard Pro fits easily into your current production environment. Scan paper storyboards to accelerate the review process and update your team instantly. Produce a paperless storyboard and animatic using a Wacom tablet to preserve the paper feeling. Use a TabletPC for portable storyboarding during production meetings, final touch-up on stage or at home.

New Features Include

• True WYSIWYG multi layer drawing engine
• Use onion skinning for easy creation of key poses
• Draw behind mode to paint behind contour line
• Merge layers
• Flip drawings or layers
• Improved pipeline integration
• Support AAF to export to editing solution such as Avid editing system, Adobe Premiere
• Export to CSV to retrieve your SB into spreadsheet application such as Excel
• Import and Export layered PSD and maintain layers independent
• Enjoy enhanced PDF support with password protection, extended panel and new customization option added
• Support foreign languages
• Print time code over exported movie
• Extended animatic features
• Spread camera and layer motion over panels
• Control ease in and out independently per layers and camera
• Define camera and layer hold time at beginning or end of panels
• Link Audio track to panel to always keep your audio files in sync
• Windows Tablet PC and Vista Support
• Several performance improvements

System Requirements

• Macintosh
  • OS: Mac OS X v10.4
  • PowerPC G5 and Intel
  • 512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
  • 110 MB of available hard disk space for the software
  • ATI or nVidia video card with 128 MB of RAM
  • Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution
  • Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• PC
  • OS: Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and TabletPC
  • 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor (Recommended)
  • 512 MB of Ram (Minimum), 1 GB (Recommended)
  • 110 MB of available hard disk space for the software
  • nVidia video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
  • Monitor supporting 1280x1024 resolution
  • Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)