Toon Boom Storyboard Pro

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro is essential to the beginning of any audiovisual project. It helps you take an idea or message and bring it to life in a structured and professional manner. Storyboard Pro was developed in conjunction with seasoned storyboard artists and significantly speeds up the production and revision process. Toon Boom Storyboard Pro delivers powerful features that make it the tool of choice to create an entirely digital storyboard.
User Profiles:

• Storyboard Artists
• Directors and Producers
• Game Designers
• Communication Specialists

Key Benefits:

• Faster turnaround
• Reduced costs
• Professional animated storyboards
• Efficient visualization of your ideas

Features:

What's New in Storyboard Pro 2

Content Creation Tools

• Extended set of Tools and Tool Properties
• Fast creation and reuse of brushes with specific settings
• Easy creation of custom brushes using a stroke or a series of strokes
• Practical setting of separate colours for Brush, Pencil and Paint tools
• Convenient selection of strokes based on the selected stroke colour
• Extended rich text support for captions
• Convenient addition of sketch captions on a panel-by-panel basis

Input/Output Capabilities

• Final Draft 8 support
• Practical customization of the PDF export on a panel-by-panel basis
• Improved PDF Export with Analyze functionality
• Extended export to Final Cut Pro through XML

          not supported with Final Cut Pro X

• Final Cut Pro Conformation (Import / Export)

          not supported with Final Cut Pro X

• Easy assembling of scanned images based on new naming convention

Storyboarding Capabilities

• Quick creation of new panels using all or only specific layers of currently selected panels
• Practical tracking of changes made to panels
• Naming convention improvements
• Safe locking of panel names

Animatic Capabilities

• Impressive camera movements across panels
• Optimized playback
• Real-time transitions
• Convenient Thumbnails playback option

User Interface Improvements

• Full scene antialiasing support (smoother drawing)
• Enhanced support of both horizontal and vertical layer displays
• Layer Transparency
• Practical customizable workspaces
• Save As and Auto-Save capabilities

Key Features:

Built-in Animatics

• Independent motion per layer
• Impressive Camera motion across panels
• Unlimited soundtracks
• Smooth playback
• Real-time transitions

Smart Sketching

• Superior drawing tools with multiple brush options
• Comfortable drawing position with the rotating canvas and onion skin
• Rich text capability
• Convenient template library

No need to draw

• Easy import of digital images of scouted locations, props and actors
• Practical drag and drop of templates from the Library
• Over 75 Library templates

Fluid Story Flow

• Fast reordering of the panels
• Add review fields
• Record audio comments
• Faster Revision process

Impressive Camera Motion

• Convenient start and end camera position setting
• Stunning camera movements, including zoom and roll, within and across panels
• Useful display of safety area (4:3 and widescreen)

Full integration

• Support of Final Draft 8
• Import of leading bitmap, vector and audio formats
• Export as still images, layered panels to Photoshop, and Movies
• Export to Avid, Premiere and Final Cut Pro via AAF, EDL and XML

          not supported with Final Cut Pro X

• Empowered PDF Export

Ease of use

• Practical traditional and overview layouts
• Convenient Drag and Drop Interface
• Customizable workspaces
• Fast ramp-up

System Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32 and 64 bits), Vista or XP, Tablet PC
• 2GHz Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor
• 1GB of RAM (Minimum), 2 GB (Recommended)
• 500 MB of available hard disk space for the software
• NVIDIA® or ATI® Video card fully supporting OpenGL with 128 MB of RAM
• Monitor supporting 1280 x1024 resolution
• Wacom tablets for drawing (Optional)
• Internet connection required for activation
• Free Apple QuickTime® Player