Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0

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1 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes TOON BOOM ANIMATION INC Saint-Laurent, Suite 1020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 2R toonboom.com

2 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Legal Notices Toon Boom Animation Inc Saint-Laurent, Suite 1020 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 2R2 Tel: Fax: toonboom.com Disclaimer The content of this guide is covered by a specific limited warranty and exclusions and limit of liability under the applicable License Agreement as supplemented by the special terms and conditions for Adobe Flash File Format (SWF). For details, refer to the License Agreement and to those special terms and conditions. The content of this guide is the property of Toon Boom Animation Inc. and is copyrighted. Any reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Trademarks Toon Boom is a registered trademark and Storyboard Pro and the Toon Boom logo are trademarks of Toon Boom Animation Inc. All other trademarks of the property of their respective owners. Publication Date Copyright 2018 Toon Boom Animation Inc., a Corus Entertainment Inc. company. All rights reserved. 1

3 Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of Contents 2 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro s & Enhancements 4 Video Clips 4 Drawing 4 Staging 5 Export 5 Project Structure 6 Scripting 7 Enhancements 8 Bug Fixes 8 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6 11 s 11 Animatic 11 Drawing Tools 13 Library 15 3D Objects 15 Export to PDF 16 Export to Bitmap 17 Export to Harmony Scenes 17 Export Audio 18 Project Management 19 Conformation 19 Preferences 19 Scripting 20 Bug Fixes 21 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Scripting 24 2

4 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Bug Fixes 24 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Drawing and Drawing Tools 26 Exports 27 Sound Editing 28 Timeline 29 Changes and Improvements 29 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro s 31 Fixes 32 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro s 34 Fixes 34 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Toon Boom Storyboard Pro D 38 Layers 39 Drawing 40 Motion 40 Export 40 Miscellaneous 41 Changes and Improvements 42 3

5 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.1, build : s & Enhancements Video Clips on page 4 Drawing Staging on page 5 Export on page 5 Project Structure Scripting on page 7 Enhancements Bug Fixes s & Enhancements Video Clips Split clip The Split Clip at Current Frame command can now be used with both video clips and sound clips. Copy and paste keyframes It is now possible to copy and paste animation keyframes in video clips. Drawing Auto-Matte on source layer When generating a matte for your artwork using the Generate Auto-Matte dialog, you now have the option to generate the matte directly on the same layer as the artwork instead of in a new separate layer. Modifier keys for Stamp and Bitmap Brush The following modifier keys, which could be used when drawing with the Brush tool on a vector layer as well as with the Pencil tool, can now be used when drawing with the Stamp tool and with the Brush tool on a bitmap layer: 4

6 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes If you press and hold the Shift key before you start drawing, your stroke will be a straight line. If you press and hold the Shift key while you're drawing, the part of your stroke from that point on will be a straight line until you release the Shift key. tools If you press and hold the Shift and the Alt keys before drawing, your stroke will be a straight line in an angle that is a multiple of 15 degrees. If you press and hold the [[[Undefined variable SBP_Keyboard_ Shortcuts.Ctrl (Windows/Mac)]]] key while drawing, your stroke will be a closed shape. If you press and hold the Alt key, your tool will snap in a straight line to the nearest existing shape. Staging Enable Action Safe Area and Title Safe Area separately In the Stage and Camera views, the Safe Area option would display the Action Safe Area and the Title Safe Area inside the camera frame. This option has been split into two options: One to display the Action Safe Area and one to display the Title Safe Area. Export Disable optimization when exporting to Harmony The Optimize Still Images option was added to the Export to Harmony dialog. Since Storyboard Pro 6.0.0, when exporting Harmony scenes with a rendered animatic, spans with no layer animation or camera movement would be rendered as a single drawing with its exposure extended. This is now optional. By unchecking this option, you can render your animatic with one drawing per frame. Use variables in Scene Options When exporting Harmony scenes, if you use the options in the Scene Options tab to set the path and prefixes to use for rendering the scene's frames, you can now 5

7 when exporting to Harmony use variables to make the path and the prefix include the project name as well as the act, sequence and scene number. This allows you to make each exported scene have a different image render path and image prefix. Burn in Action Safe Area and Title Safe Area separately When exporting movies, Harmony scenes, PDF documents, EDL/XML/AAF sequences or conformation projects, the Safe Area option would burn in both the Action Safe Area and the Title Safe Area into the exported images and movies. This option has been split into two options: One to display the Action Safe Area and one to display the Title Safe Area Project Structure A new script is packaged, TB_RenamePanelProject, which contains two useful functions: TB_RenamePanelByScene will rename all panels in the selected scene. The panels in each selected scene will be numbered sequentially starting from 1 for the first panel in each scene. TB_RenamePanelProject will rename all panels in the project. The panels in the project will be numbered sequentially starting from 1 for the first panel in the project. The number sequence will continue across scenes, meaning each panel will have a unique number in the entire project. Rename Panel script Because scripts are stored in your preferences and preferences are stored by major version, this script will not be automatically copied to your preferences if you used Storyboard Pro before. You can copy it manually to your preferences. How to copy the new script manually on Windows 1. Open a Command Prompt: On Windows 7: Open the Start menu and select All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt. On Windows 8.1: Open the Start menu, then open the Apps drawer and, under Windows System, click on Command Prompt. 6

8 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes On Windows 10: Open the Start menu and, in the applications list, select Windows System > Command Prompt. 2. Type in the following command and press Enter: > COPY "C:\Program Files (x86)\toon Boom Animation\Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6\resources\scripts\sboard\TB_ RenamePanelProject.js" "%APPDATA%\Toon Boom Animation\Toon Boom Storyboard Pro\ scripts\" How to copy the new script manually on macos 1. Open a Terminal window: In the Dock, click on the Launchpad icon, then select Other and click on Terminal. 2. Type in the following command press Enter: $ cp "/Applications/Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6/tba/resources/scripts/sboard/TB_ RenamePanelProject.js" "$HOME/Library/Preferences/Toon Boom Animation/Toon Boom Storyboard Pro/ scripts/" Scripting Enhancements were made to the scripting documentation packaged with Storyboard Pro: The style and layout has been updated. Documentation A tree view navigation pane was added to the left of the documentation to make navigation easier. Most of the information that is not useful to users, such as private classes and members, hierarchy graphs and file references was removed. 7

9 The scripting documentation can be viewed by opening the view menu Script Editor view and selecting Help > Scripting Interface Documentation. in the Enhancements When updating the position of a rendered 3D model, the rotation sphere used to rotate the model will preserve its previous angle. This sphere appears when holding Ctrl + Shift (Windows) or Shift + (Mac OS X), then clicking and dragging the model. The logic for the Random Size parameter of the Brush and Stamp tools has been enhanced so that you no longer need to reduce the minimum size of the brush for the random size parameter to work. The following enhancements were made to the install wizard on Windows: The installation wizard for Windows is now able to upgrade from a previous version of Storyboard Pro without requiring the user to manually uninstall it first. Installation on Windows is now faster. The installer no longer registers the fonts packaged with Storyboard Pro into the Windows fonts database. Bug Fixes Fixed issue causing Storyboard Pro to initialize the machine s printer on launch. If the printer s drivers had issues, they would be triggered when launching Storyboard Pro. Fixed issue where panels with a vertical camera movement would appear cropped in an exported PDF with the Full Page and Expand Panel options enabled. Fixed issue where selecting an audio clip then selecting a video track would add the video clip at the current frame to the selection. Fixed issue causing selected clips to get deselected when moving a selection of video clips on multiple video tracks. Fixed issue causing the selected clip to be deselected where moving a video clip while the timeline cursor is over it. Fixed issue preventing from selecting video and audio clips simultaneously when selecting a video clip first. Fixed issue causing the dialog prompting to import preferences from previous version of Storyboard Pro to appear in English when launching the application in a different language. Fixed issue where, when exporting a movie as a sequence of image files, a directory would automatically be created in the target directory and image files would be exported in it. Exported image files are now saved directly in the target directory. 8

10 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Fixed the differences between the available image formats in the Scene Options tab of the Export to Harmony dialog and the image formats supported by Harmony: Added Digital Picture Exchange (.dpx), OpenEXR (.exr), Portable Document File (.pdf) and Deep Texture (.dtex) to the list. Removed Toon Boom Vector Graphics Optimized (.tvgo) from the list. Fixed issue where creating a brush preset with the same name as a previously deleted brush preset would reload the preview of the deleted brush preset. Fixed issue where the tool properties of the Brush tool would not update when selecting a vector or bitmap layer, then adding a layer of a different type. Fixed issue where, when using the Shift or Alt key to draw a straight line with a drawing tool and releasing it while drawing the stroke, a short zig-zag would be drawn near the straight line. Fixed issue where the brush size cursor, which can be enabled in the Tools tab of the Preferences, would appear when using the Stamp tool and would indicate the wrong brush size. Fixed issue causing video clips to be hidden when drawing with the Realistic Preview option enabled. Fixed issue where, when drawing with the Realistic Preview option enabled, new strokes would not display while they were being drawn. Fixed a rare crash when importing certain Alembic (.abc) 3D models. Fixed a potential crash when exporting Harmony scenes with burn-in options enabled. Fixed issue causing rendered 3D models to not appear in exported Storyboard Pro scenes when exporting with the Nest Panels in Symbols option is unchecked. Fixed issue causing application to be invisible on launch if it was exited in a maximized state the last time it was running on macos. Fixed issue that occurred when exporting a multi-layer Photoshop Document (.psd) file from a project with video tracks. The layers in the PSD file that corresponded to the video tracks would always be underneath all other layers. Fixed issue where, when updating the position of a rendered 3D model, undoing it then attempting to update its position again, the model would appear in the position that was undone in the Update Model Position dialog. Fixed issue where clicking on the artwork of a different layer with the Select tool while holding down the Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or (macos) key would not select that layer. Fixed issue causing groups to be converted to layers when creating a template made from a selection of multiple layers and groups. Fixed issue causing video clips to get clipped when pasting a sound clip in the same time span. 9

11 Fixed issue causing the project to be shortened by a single frame when adding a transition between scenes while the Preserve project length when adding transitions is enabled. Fixed issue causing colour pots to be temporarily missing from the Colour view when copying panels from an existing project and pasting them to a new project. Fixed issue causing layers in imported Photoshop Document (.psd) files to be ignored if their opacity is below 9%. Fixed issue where movie files exported with a frame rate of FPS would have an extra frame. Fixed issue where burn-in would sometimes not appear in exported Harmony scenes. Fixed issue causing the LayerManager.isEmpty method to return the opposite value. Fixed issue causing the LayerrManager.generateMatteLayer method to return true when using a radius of 0, which fails to generate a matte. 10

12 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6 Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.0, build : s on page 11 Animatic on page 11 Drawing Tools on page 13 Library on page 15 3D Objects on page 15 Export to PDF on page 16 Export to Bitmap on page 17 Export to Harmony Scenes on page 17 Export Audio on page 18 Project Management on page 19 Conformation on page 19 Preferences on page 19 Scripting on page 20 Bug Fixes on page 21 s Animatic Video tracks and video clips Storyboard Pro now features video tracks, in which you can add image or video clips to display them in your animatic. 11

13 Video tracks can be placed above or below the storyboard track, to make its clips display over or underneath the artwork in your animatic. Image and video clips can span over several panels or scenes and be cued and clipped at any time in the animatic. They can be transformed and animated, just like layers in a panel, but contrary to layers in a panel, they are not affected by camera movements. Audio and video track reordering It is now possible to reorder audio tracks as well as video tracks. Audio and video track renaming It is now possible to assign custom names to audio tracks as well as video tracks. You can search for a sound clip in your animatic by entering part or all of its file name and going through each matching result. Find sound clips Display timecode You can now display the timecode of the current frame in the top-left corner of the 12

14 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Stage and Camera view by clicking on the Timecode button in the status bar. Drawing Tools Stamp tool The new Stamp tool can be used to stamp one or several drawings into your artwork. You can stamp drawings one at a time or draw strokes with it. The behaviour of the stamp tool when drawing strokes can be customized in many ways. The Brush tool now has the same texture drawing capabilities when used on vector layers as when used on bitmap layers. Textured vector brushes Centerline Editor The Centerline Editor tool allows you to manipulate brush strokes, whether solid or textured, by their centreline, giving you better control over their shape than the Contour Editor. 13

15 The Contour Editor, Envelope and Perspective tools can deform the texture in textured vector brush strokes. Texture deformation The Polyline tool, which was available in Harmony, has been added to Storyboard Pro. With this tool, you can draw segmented lines or shapes by creating each point composing the line, allowing you to draw shapes with precision. The lines created with the Polyline tool can be straight or curvilinear. Polyline tool Onion Skin for Selected Layers Only You can now enable Onion Skin only for currently selected layers. When this option is enabled, only artwork in layers that have the same name as the selected layer in surrounding panels will appear in the Onion Skin. Merge Down There is now a command to quickly merge the selected layer with the layer just below it. You can access it in the Layer menu, a layer's contextual menu or by pressing [[[Undefined variable SBP_Keyboard_Shortcuts.Merge Down]]]. Perspective tool modes The Perspective tool can now be used in either Perspective or Lattice mode. The Perspective mode deforms the drawing by simulating a perspective effect, whereas the Lattice mode simply deforms the drawing to make it fit the shape of the control box. 14

16 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Directional Blur In the Directional Blur dialog, you can now set the angle of the blur by clicking and dragging on a dial. Library Multiple layers templates You can now create templates with a selection of multiple layers. Importing such templates into a panel will add all of its layers to the panel. Multiple panels templates You can now create templates with a selection of multiple storyboard panels. Importing such templates into a project will add all of its panels to the project. Insert panel template in Timeline view You can now insert a template made of one or several panels between two panels in the Timeline view. In the past, this was only feasible in the Thumbnails view. 3D Objects Render 3D model in 2D scene When attempting to add a 3D model to a 2D scene, you now have the option of rendering the 3D model into a 2D layer so it can be added to the scene without converting it to a 3D scene. 15

17 Export to PDF A Render Scene Layout Panel option was added to the Panel tab of the PDF Profile dialog. When enabled, each scene that has a camera movement will have special "layout" thumbnail added before the thumbnails for its panels. The layout thumbnail contains the camera movement for the entire scene as well as the artwork of the first panel in the scene. Render Scene Layout Panel Display Camera Mask The Display Camera Mask option was added to the Panel tab of the PDF Profile dialog. When enabled, a mask covers the part of the panel that is not covered by the camera frames or the camera's trajectory. This means that only the artwork that is covered by the camera will be visible in the thumbnails. The colour of the mask can be customized. 16

18 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Frame Snapshots A Frame Snapshot option was added to the Panel tab of the PDF Profile dialog. When enabled, panels containing snapshots will be rendered from the point of view of the camera at the time of the snapshot. The panel's thumbnail will only display the artwork inside the camera frame, and the camera movements will not be rendered over the thumbnail. Export to Bitmap Export All Snapshots When a panel has several snapshots, it is now possible to export all the snapshots for that panel in different image files. Previously, only the main snapshot of a panel was exported when exporting bitmap images, and it was only possible to export several snapshots for a single panel when exporting to PDF. Export to Harmony Scenes Write node parameters It is now possible to configure some of the rendering parameters of the Write node when exporting Harmony scenes, namely the location, prefix and image format of rendered frames. 17

19 Group layers Group layers in your project now get exported in Harmony scenes. Drawing layers are created inside their respective group, under a peg which preserves the group transformations and animations. Exposure of rendered frames When exporting Harmony scenes as rendered images, static images are no longer rendered over and over again at every frame. Instead, they are rendered once and exposed until the image changes, saving on export time and disk space. Overwrite All When exporting over existing Harmony scenes, you now have the option to overwrite all Storyboard Pro scenes with conflicting names simultaneously, instead of having to specify to overwrite each conflicting scene one at a time. Export both Merged and Individual Tracks When exporting Storyboard Pro scenes, you can choose to export each scene's audio in both separate audio tracks and one mixed down audio track. Both the individual audio tracks and the merged audio track will co-exist in the exported scenes. Export Audio Export both Merged and Individual Tracks When exporting audio, you can choose to export the audio tracks in your project separately and mixed down into one audio track at the same time. 18

20 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Project Management Only merge modified panels (Track changes) When merging and replacing projects that were extracted from your current project, you can now choose to only import panels that were tracked as changed in the projects being imported. Replace artwork only When merging and replacing projects that were extracted from your current project, you can choose to ignore the changes in the timing of panels and scenes as well in the position and animations of layers, and only import the changes done on the project's artwork. Conformation Optional image rendering When exporting your project for conformation, you can elect to skip exporting the images. This can be useful if you have already exported your project and need to export it again, but don't want to wait for the images to be rendered again. Optional video import When importing a sequence into your Storyboard Pro project, you can elect to not import the panels, and only import the audio tracks or the captions instead. With this option available, you can export a soundtrack composed in a video editing software into an XML or AAF sequence, then import it into your Storyboard Pro project without affecting your storyboard panels. Rectify Static Camera The Rectify Static Camera option has been added to the Conformation Export dialog. This option makes it so scenes in which the camera is at an angle and does not have any camera movements are rendered as if the camera was straight. Preferences Preserve project length when adding By default, when adding transitions, the length of the project shortens by the length of the transition. This is because a transition causes the next scene to start playing before the current scene finishes playing. With this option enabled, adding 19

21 transitions a transition between two scenes will automatically extend the length of both scenes by half the length of the transition, allowing the project to remain the same length. This preference was added to the General tab of the Preferences dialog. Ignore Modifications to Captions in Auto Tracking Mode By default, when Auto Tracking Mode is enabled, any change made to a panel will activate tracking for that panel. With this option enabled, making changes to a panel's captions will not activate tracking for that panel. This preference was added to the General tab of the Preferences dialog. Display time in feet and frames It is now possible to display time in the Timeline view, the Thumbnails view and exported PDF documents in feet and frames. In the context of an animation production, a foot corresponds to a vertical foot of animation exposure sheet, which covers to 16 frames. Hence, each foot corresponds to 16 frames in your project. This preference was added to the Global UI tab of the Preferences dialog. In the Time Display Units section, each time display setting is followed by a dropdown menu in which you can either select Timecode, Frames or Feet + Frames. Scripting Current frame The frame class, which allows you to check and change the current frame, was created. It contains the following methods: current, setcurrent and moveframes. Layer management The following methods were added to the LayerManager class: isshared, isempty and mergelayers. Additionally, the getlayerselection method was added to the SelectionManager class. Timeline markers The TimelineMarkers class was created. It contains several methods to manage timeline markers in your project. 20

22 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Tool presets The ToolPresetManager class was created. It allows you to list and select tool presets. Panel colour The setpanelcolor and getpanelcolor methods were added to the StoryboardManager class. Export AAF The exporttoaaf method was added to the ExportManager class, allowing you to script the export of your project as an AAF sequence for conformation. Bug Fixes Fixed issue where curved lines drawn quickly with pen tablet would appear segmented and dented with low-end video cards. Fixed issue where overwriting a Storyboard Packed File (.sbpz) when splitting or extracting the current project would delete the target project's parent directory. Fixed a crash caused by an error message occurring when the computer wakes from sleep mode. Fixed a randomly occurring crash when animating a layer. Fixed a memory leak that occurred when deleting panels while their thumbnails were about to be generated. Fixed crash when flipping a scene if the Stage or Camera view are not in the current workspace. Fixed a rare crash when dragging and dropping the last scene of a project to move it earlier in the project. Fixed a crash when opening an already open project using the command line with the argument - panelid and cancelling on the dialog alerting that the project is already open. Fixed issue where scale factor of 3D models would not be preserved in exported Harmony scenes. Fixed issue where attempting to generate an auto-matte on a shared drawing would discard the shared drawing. Fixed issue where exporting a dynamic brush preset containing multiple drawings and importing it under a different user account would only import the first drawing of the dynamic brush. NOTE: Dynamic brushes have been renamed Stamps in Storyboard Pro 6.0. Fixed issue where a shared drawing would be flipped all across the project when flipping a scene 21

23 containing the shared drawing. Now, a shared drawing that is in a scene that gets flipped will be unlinked from the original drawing and linked to a flipped version of the shared drawing, which is also shared. Fixed issue where pen tablet input would be offset when working with several monitors set to different scaling factors on Windows. Fixed an issue where flipping a scene would not work if the scene contained a shared drawing and an even number of panels. Fixed issue where converting a shared drawing from one art type to the other would not update the art type of the original shared drawing. Fixed issue where exporting a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file would fail without any error message if attempting to overwrite a file that is opened in a movie player. Fixed issue where projects split or extracted in Storyboard Packed File (.sbpz) format would have the project title extractproject_temp. Made the Split Project and Extract Project dialog create projects in the current project's format (.sboard or.sbpz) by default. Fixed issue where background layer of current panel would appear over onion skin. Fixed the icon that appears over panels in the Thumbnails view when the Lock Scene and Panel Names option is enabled. Fixed issue preventing from selecting layers in very short panels when making a selection of layers from multiple panels. Fixed issue where applying a blur effect on a selection of multiple layers across multiple panels would ignore layers in very short panels. Fixed issue where panels got expanded even if the Panels > Expand Panel PDF option is disabled when exporting a PDF with one panel per page. Fixed issue where camera framing would be wrong when exporting a project in 16 field for conformation. Fixed issue where the waveform would not be immediately visible for sound clips that were added to the project by copying and pasting them, or by importing a sequence for conformation. Made the General tab the default tab in the PDF Profile dialog. Fixed issue where timeline markers would appear selected when scrolling the Timeline view until the currently selected timeline marker was out of the visible range. Fixed issue where buttons in the Find Text in Captions dialog would appear too big and overlap each other on macos. Fixed the size of the following user interface elements in High DPI / Retina Display mode: 22

24 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes The Zoom drop-down in the Stage, Camera, Top and Side views The Browse button in the Split Storyboard dialog in High DPI / Retina Display mode. Fixed the following localization issues: Cropped text in the Japanese Welcome Screen. Untranslated options in the Blur dialog. Untranslated tool tips of the Play and Play Selected Panels buttons in the Pitch Mode workspace. Untranslated options in the Generate Auto-Matte dialog Untranslated list names in the script selection dialog. 23

25 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Here is the list of changes and improvements in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5.1, build : Scripting on page 24 Bug Fixes on page 24 Scripting Export AAF The exporttoaaf method was added to the ExportManager class, allowing you to script the export of your project as an AAF sequence for conformation. Bug Fixes Fixed issue where curved lines drawn quickly with pen tablet would appear segmented and dented with low-end video cards. Fixed issue where overwriting a Storyboard Packed File (.sbpz) when splitting or extracting the current project would delete the target project's parent directory. Fixed a potential crash when exporting Harmony scenes with burn-in options enabled. Fixed a crash caused by an error message occurring when the computer wakes from sleep mode. Fixed a randomly occurring crash when animating a layer. Fixed a memory leak that occurred when deleting panels while their thumbnails were about to be generated. Fixed issue where layers in imported Photoshop Document (.psd) files would be ignored if their opacity was below 10%. Fixed an issue where flipping a scene would not work if the scene contained a shared drawing and an even number of panels. Fixed issue where a shared drawing would be flipped all across the project when flipping a scene containing the shared drawing. Now, a shared drawing that is in a scene that gets flipped will be unlinked from the original drawing and linked to a flipped version of the shared drawing, which is also shared. Fixed issue where pen tablet input would be offset when working with several monitors set to different scaling factors on Windows. Fixed issue where movie files exported with the Export Movie dialog would have an extra frame if the project's frame rate was set to frames per second. 24

26 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Fixed issue where burn-in would sometimes not appear in exported Harmony scenes. Fixed issue where projects split or extracted in Storyboard Packed File (.sbpz) format would have the project title extractproject_temp. Made the Split Project and Extract Project dialog create projects in the current project's format (.sboard or.sbpz) by default. Fixed issue preventing from selecting layers in very short panels when making a selection of layers from multiple panels. Fixed issue where, when exporting a PDF with one panel per page, some panels got expanded even if the Expand Panel option is disabled. Fixed issue where camera framing would be wrong when exporting a project in 16 field for conformation. 25

27 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5 The following describes new features, changes and improvements included in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5, build : Drawing and Drawing Tools on page 26 Exports on page 27 Sound Editing on page 28 Timeline on page 29 Changes and Improvements on page 29 Drawing and Drawing Tools Vanishing points and guides to assist when drawing. Guides can be added and managed from the Guides view. Drawing Guides The perspective tool now works with textured vector drawings. Perspective Tool Improved the Perspective tool to project the perspective when modifying drawings. Generate Auto-Matte Command to automatically generate mattes for selected layers. Radial Zoom Blur New type of blur available for bitmap layers. 26

28 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes New type of blur available for bitmap layers. Directional Blur Brush Tool The maximum brush size has been increased from 500 to Exports Export Project command now supports AAF format to allow the conformation of changes from Avid Media Composer to Storyboard Pro. Conformation New option in the Export Project dialog box called Expand Render Area to Scene Camera. This renders panels using the area covered by the camera on all the panels of a scene. 27

29 AAF Export Stereo tracks are exported as a single stereo track rather than two mono audio tracks when exporting to AAF. Captions Text from captions can be rendered as an overlay when exporting to Bitmap, Movie, EDL, AAF and XML. This is done from the Captions tab of the export dialog box. PNG is now available as an export format when exporting to bitmap. Bitmap Export New option in Bitmap Export dialog box called Expand Render Area to Scene Camera. This is used to render panels using the area covered by the camera on all the panels of a scene. Flip Scenes New functionality to flip all the panels in a scene. PDF The option called Rectify Static Camera is now available when exporting PDFs. It is now possible to export and import PDF profiles. Sound Editing Audio clips under transitions now synch with the transition they are under when changing the duration of the panel. Sound Editing Improved the display of the waveform on low volume audio clips. The waveform is displayed using a log function rather than a linear function. New option to allow playing sound past the last panel. Solo mode on audio tracks allows isolating tracks without muting other tracks. 28

30 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Timeline Frames New commands to add and remove frames on the selected panels. Markers Markers can now be added in the timeline. These markers can be added during playback if a shortcut is set to the command. Audio It is now possible to copy and paste audio on multiple tracks. Zoom The zoom level in the timeline adapts to the length of the project. You can zoom out to see the full timeline. Volume Volume keyframes are preserved when splitting an audio clip. Changes and Improvements Preferences Preferences from previous version can be migrated when starting Storyboard Pro 5.5 for the first time. 3D Graph View The 3D Schematic view has been replaced by the 3D Graph view. 29

31 Captions A default font and font size can now be set for captions. TV and Action Safe Guides The TV and action safe guides can be displayed as masks. Click and hold the Safe Area button in the Stage view status bar to switch between display modes. Project First Frame/Project Last Frame Replaced the go to First Panel and Last Panel with go to the Project First Frame and Project Last Frame. QuickTime is no longer required to import and play back sound in Windows. QuickTime no Longer Required QuickTime is no longer required to create movies in Windows. Storyboard Pro can now generate movies in WMV format. Retina Retina and high pixel density display support. On macos, OpenGL views do not use retina display. 30

32 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Here are the new features, changes and improvements in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.1.1, build : s Project Management It is now possible to extract or split a project in SBPZ format. Removed the dialog box that allows the closing of a project without saving, when the saving to a SBPZ file is cancelled or fails. If saving to the SBPZ fails, use the Save As command to save to a different location or a different format. New icons for Packed Project (.sbpz) files. Prompt for recovery when opening a project by double-clicking it in a file browser, and there is a project in the cache left after a crash. Improve project recovery dialog box to have the option to recover, skip or delete the recovered project. Packed File (.sbpz) Packed projects (.sbpz) can now be used with merge and insert project management commands. Prompt to save when closing a recovered project, and no changes have been done in the current session. Added a hidden preference called PROJECT_CACHE_FOLDER_ROOT that is used to specify the location of the project cache used when opening a SBPZ file: PROJECT_CACHE_FOLDER_ROOT: If this preference is empty, StoryboardPro will use the default location to unpack SBPZ files when they are opened. Environment variables are supported, $VARNAME or ${VARNAME} on MacOS and %VARNAME% on Windows. For example: <if condition="windows"> <string id="project_cache_folder_root" 31

33 value="%temp%/storyboardpro Project Cache" shortdesc="root folder used for unpacking projects. " longdesc="" facilityoverride="true"/> </if> Storyboard Backup Files (.sboard) Display a list of available.sboard files when opening a.sbbkp, and none of the.sboard files match the name of the archive. 3D Schematic Added shortcut commands to select parent and child sub-objects, as well as siblings. These shortcut commands are in the 3D Schematic category and are named as follows: Select Child Subnode, Select Next Sibling Subnode, Select Parent Subnode, Select Previous Sibling Subnode. Fixes Fixed: Saving to SBPZ files that are larger than 4GB on Windows platform. Fixed: A possible crash on undo after dropping a template containing 3D models in a scene. Fixed: A crash with the select by colour, when multiple layers were selected and one of them was empty. Fixed: Language detection on Mac OS Sierra. It was not detecting Japanese and Chinese locale and was starting in English. Added support for NDF timecode in XML exports. Fixed: The colour of the lock/unlock scale ratio buttons in the Tool properties when using the light coloured interface. Fixed: Duplicating a panel will not use the right shared drawing when multiple shared drawings have the same name. Fixed: Crash when project merge dialog is opened and double-clicking a project in a file browser. Fixed: Changes to.sboard are saved in.sbpz when closing project and clicking "Don't Save". Fixed: Changes made prior to the Save As command and saved in the cache, are not saved in packed file when using the Save As command to save to a regular.sboard. Fixed: Packed project (.sbpz) can be corrupted or deleted if Storyboard Pro is closed during the save operation, after using the File > Save and Pack command. Fixed: No validation for project with the same name when creating a new project in.sbpz format. Fixed: A copy of the current.sboard is created when using Save As. 32

34 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Fixed: Wrong project is open from a.sbbkp file when multiple.sboard are in the backup. Storyboard Pro will open the.sboard that has the same name as.sbbkp file. Fixed: A special case where the Create Project button was grayed out after typing the project name and project title. Fixed: Canvas size of new bitmap layer that did not use default values after creating a template. Fixed: Unselecting vector strokes using SHIFT with the perspective tool, unselects the whole selection. Fixed: Templates created in Harmony have static transformation on sub-object; these cannot be imported in Storyboard Pro. 33

35 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.1 Here are the new features, changes and improvements in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.1, build : s Animating Layers The new layer track in the Timeline view lets you set layer keyframes and navigate between them. Moving Bounding Box Contents Without Selecting Objects To make it easier to move selected objects without having to position the cursor over a stroke, you can set the Select Tool Bounding Box is Movable option in the Preferences dialog box (Tools tab). This lets you place the cursor anywhere inside the bounding box and move its contents. This option applies to these tools: Select, Select by Colour, and Cutter. Export to Toon Boom When exporting to Toon Boom, you can now set the sample rate, bit depth, channels, and file name pattern of audio files. Saving Projects as a Single File You can reduce the number of files and protect the integrity of projects by saving (packing) the project in a single file. A packed project file is appended with the.sbpz extension. Storyboard Pro in Chinese and Japanese Storyboard Pro is now available in Chinese and Japanese. The Getting Started Guide is also available in these languages. PDF Export Japanese-specific PDF export profiles were renamed and modified. Fixes Fixed a crash which sometimes occurred when moving newly-added camera keyframes in the Timeline view. Fixed an issue where the split menu entry was not disabled when the playhead was not over a valid panel. Using the command could cause a crash. Fixed an issue where, in some specific cases, playing a project may crash the rendering thread. Fixed an issue where dragging a 3D model from a library folder, other than the 3D Models folder, to the project created new models instead of reusing them properly. 34

36 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes Fixed an issue where bitmap layer templates created in Storyboard Pro 4.2 would sometimes not convert properly when used in the latest version of Storyboard Pro. Fixed an issue where importing an image as a bitmap layer twice would result in a clone of the first image, not an import. Fixed the Convert to Vector Layer and Convert to Bitmap Layer buttons as they were not working properly. Fixed an issue where file names and expected file names were different when exporting a scene to Toon Boom with exactly 100 frames. Fixed the exporttofcpxml script function so it can be called from the command line. Fixed an issue where the compression type value was not retained in the video settings dialog box. Fixed an issue where overwriting multiple sounds in the Timeline would resize and delete the wrong sound. Fixed the colour of the timecode overlay that appears when moving a sound in the Timeline view. Using the Split Panel at Current Frame option no longer enables animation on all the layers. The Layers list no longer scrolls when there is a large number of layers in the list and the state of a layer is changed. The Track Changes dialog box now displays line returns properly. The loading and saving of pen styles is now more robust. The list of Eraser presets has been modified. The Export PDF and Export to Toon Boom windows were modified to fit a wider range of resolutions. Fixed translation issues in the PDF export. Fixed an issue where there were double drop-down menus when right-clicking on certain thumbnails. Fixed an issue where.osb files could not be imported in the Chinese version of Storyboard Pro. The help printed command line was updated to run with the -help option. 35

37 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Here is what was fixed in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.0.1, build : Fixed issue with Auto-save timer. Fixed issue where audio content may be lost through specific manipulations in the Timeline view. 36

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39 Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5 Here are the new features, changes, and improvements in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5: 3D on page 38 Layers on page 39 Drawing on page 40 Motion on page 40 Export on page 40 Miscellaneous on page 41 Changes and Improvements on page 42 NOTE: Storyboard Pro 5 is backward compatible with previous versions. This means projects created in previous versions can be opened in Storyboard Pro 5. However, the project file format has changed in Storyboard Pro 5; projects saved in this new version cannot be opened in previous versions. 3D Snap to 3D Surface A new option in the Layer Transform tool allows your model to maintain contact with the surface no matter what changes you make. This makes it much faster to block out shots, and also works with 2D artwork. Snap to Ground A new option in the Layer Transform tool lets you snap a layer to the surface directly below it. The angle of the layer is retained and the lowest point of the layer will connect to the surface. Create Layer on Surface Working in the Camera view, the new Create Layer on Surface tool lets you create a new vector or bitmap layer on the surface of the 3D object over which you are hovering. The new layer will be positioned at the point in Z depth on which you clicked. Navigation Three-button mouse navigation lets you quickly navigate the Stage view by holding down the Shift+Ctrl keys and using the left, centre, and right mouse buttons. 38

40 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes 3D Navigation and 3D Flying Navigation are new tools for navigating through a 3D scene in the Stage view using your mouse buttons, mouse wheel, and arrow keys. These tools are available from the Tools toolbar. 3D Import Formats Storyboard Pro can now import 3D formats as 3D elements in your project. The new formats are two popular data exchange formats: Collada (.dae) and Alembic (.abc). Maintain Size Tool The new Maintain Size tool lets you retain the size of the visual scale of elements as you move them in the Z-axis in the Side or Top views. As you move drawing layers on the Z-axis, they are scaled to preserve their size in the camera. This tool is available from the Tools toolbar. 3D Object Scaling Setting the scale factor of 3D objects before import makes your workflow more efficient. You can set the Scale Factor in two places depending on how many 3D objects you plan to import and the 3D application used to create them. Animate Sub-objects After adding 3D objects to a scene, you may want to animate a part of the object, called a sub-object. FBX Conversion Option When importing 3D objects, there is a new option to convert 3D files directly to the file format and save them so the next time you reload the scene, it is quicker as Storyboard Pro does not have to reconvert them. This improves workflow in situations where multiple 3D files (with their own relative paths) were loaded by storing them in a single file. Washed Display for 3D Objects When working with 3D objects, you can display the layers with washed out colours. This helps you work with multiple 3D objects more easily. Layers Layers List in Stage View/Layers View The list of layers in the Stage view and the Layers view has been redesigned. 39

41 Grouping Layers You can now group layers to organize your work and keep your list of layers uncluttered. You can group selected layers or create an empty group layer and add layers to it. Animating Layers You can now animate a 2D layer using multiple keyframes, not just the beginning and ending frames. After selecting a layer, activate the new Animate button and use the Layer Transform tool to move elements, and then set keyframes. Drawing Sharing Drawings When there is a drawing that occurs across multiple panels, you can share (link) the drawing. This way, any changes you make to one of the drawing affects all other instances, making it faster and more efficient when managing and producing your storyboard. Customizable Tips New customizable bitmap drawing tool tips allow you to change the roundness, hardness, and angle of the tips, as well as add randomness. Paint Tool The Paint tool can now be used with raster (bitmap) layers. Motion Function Editor View This new view lets you edit function curves and parameters. It contains a visual graph for adding, removing, and editing keyframes, as well as adjusting the velocity. The Function Editor view allows you to display multiple functions in the background as a reference. Export Export to QuickTime The default codec when exporting to QuickTime is H.264, which is 40

42 Storyboard Pro 6.0 Release Notes natively supported by macos. New options and functionalities have been added to streamline the export from Storyboard Pro to Flix: Export to Flix Notify Flix through the Export Project dialog box so its asset database is updated. Note that Flix must be installed on your computer. Ability to open a project directly from Flix and select the panel in the project. Scripts to export to Flix with the touch of a button. Improved XML conformation including: New options to export captions as metadata in the XML with the option to export with rich text formatting. Conformation New option when conforming back an XML to conform captions called Process Captions. This option is available in the Import Project window. You can now specify the name of the exported XML when exporting to XML using Conformation > Export Project. Japanese PDF Profile A new profile for exporting to PDF, called Alternate Japanese Format, is available. Miscellaneous Qt Application Scripting With Qt Application scripting, you can manage assets more efficiently. You can create scripts to automate manual tasks or create new tools for quick access NDF Timecode Support for NDF timecode in the timeline enables the seamless transfer of animatics from Storyboard Pro to the editing suite. You can now work using this frame rate and directly export animatics and timelines with panels, sound, transitions, and timing to editing suites via EDL, AAF, and XML. This frame rate is available here: 41

43 Project Properties dialgo box (Project Resolution tab) Welcome screen (Camera Size, HDTV_1080p23.976) Zoom Timeline The new Zoom tool lets you increase or reduce the width of the frames in the Timeline view. The Zoom tool is located at the bottom-left of the Timeline view. Changes and Improvements Dark Style Interface Storyboard Pro is now set to a dark theme by default. You have the option of switching to a light theme through the Preferences dialog box (Global UI tab). The 3D Nodes view has been renamed 3D Schematic. Terminology The term nodes has been changed to sub-objects. New Tab: A new tab is available called Colour. It contains the colour preferences that were transferred from the Global UI tab. General Tab: Preferences Dialog Box (new) Default Layer Alignment: Sets the default alignment used when creating a layer. The 3D Experimental option has been removed. Advanced Tab: The default Number of Samples is now set to 4 for Full Scene Antialiasing. This option is enabled by default. The First and Last Frame Transform tools have been replaced by the Layer Transform tool. Layers When aligning layers with the camera, the behaviour has changed when setting the layer to no alignment, face the camera or pin to the camera. 42