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Overview

Create professional-quality digital storyboards with StoryBoard Artist 4. Designed for media savvy creatives: filmmakers, television producers, advertising creatives, game developers, DVD and interactive TV designers and educators alike. New features bring even more control and flexibility to smooth the creative process through production and post.

Get Productive

StoryBoarding is the beginning of the journey. Whether you are making a feature film or a corporate presentation the goal of pre-visualization is to assist you to the finish line while saving you time and production costs, not get you stuck or confused. StoryBoard Artist is the most powerful previsualization tool while at the same time being easy to use. No long learning curves, no render times. StoryBoard Artist harnesses both productivity and style without bogging you down in an application that requires classes to learn.

Stay Creative

Whether you can draw or not StoryBoard Artist has the tools to allow you to not just tell people your ideas, but to show them. In a medium where pictures are worth more than a thousand words, why would you want someone else drawing your vision? High quality, pre-generated images in StoryBoard Artist allow you to effectively communicate both what you see and what you mean.

Present Yourself

StoryBoard Artist is part presentation, part page layout and all previsualization. With so many solutions for sharing your ideas you'll be able to work the way you want to (or perhaps the way someone with funding wants you to). From our easy to use customized page layout system, exporting to HTML, creating Quicktime movies, utilizing Avid's Metasync and more harnessing a great way to present your storyboards will be quick and easy.

Easy & Advanced

Advanced features allow for StoryBoard Artist to storyboard and prototype for many different types of media development: film, video, broadcast and even DVD development. Import your script from Final Draft or Movie Magic Screenwriter as well as any Word or text document. Utilize non-linear boards for user-interactive DVD prototyping. Export sequences to integrate with Final Cut Pro or Xpress Pro or any other editing system.

KEY FEATURES

  • StoryBoard Artist comes complete with integrated pre-drawn image libraries.

  • Includes rotating characters as well as expressions; both specific and generic locales and props.

  • Multiple angles and views make for literally thousands of built-in, easily accessible, ready to use graphics.

  • StoryBoard Artist imports most graphic formats so you can add and layer unlimited artwork from the web, digital camera pictures and scanned pictures.

  • New Pan & Zoom tool creates in-frame motion to zoom in, out, and pan any direction. Motion graphics made easy.

  • Indicate camera movement and actor positions with 3D Director Tools.

  • Easy to use Frame Window to layer and move the elements of your scene.

  • Draw & Pen tools allow for freehand drawing and/or marking in-frame.

  • Timeline creates animatic projects automatically as you develop your storyboards.

  • Easily set frame duration and frame transitions.

  • Import and edit multiple tracks of sound including mp3's.

  • Export project to Quicktime, MetaSync, frame file series and more. Extend your vision on the web, export your storyboards to HTML.

  • Create your own libraries for easy access to custom and frequently used images: logos, location photos, custom characters.

  • Cropping and layering allows precise image compositing

  • Choose an Aspect Ratio to fit your project [TV, Feature, European, HDTV, Widescreen, Custom and more]
THE WORKSPACE

StoryBoard Artist provides the convenience of a layout and design program with elements of content creation and digital editing software allowing creative people to enter the production workflow at an earlier stage. StoryBoard Artist 4 is newly rewritten with enhanced features, industry-wide standards of data compression and digital media formats, the integration of open standards and dual platform availability.

  • New & even more artwork included. Thousands of images, complete with angles & new character expressions
  • New import 24-bit image formats: jpeg, gif, bmp, metafiles, pict, tif, gif, png
  • More transparency and image handling features
  • New Pan & Zoom feature animates still images for more dynamic and engaging boards
  • Non-linear linking storyboarding for DVD and iTV prototyping
  • Create custom image libraries to organize your own artwork
  • Import Photoshop layers as objects or frames
  • More caption and data fields for creating scene breakdowns with text field search
  • More sound tracks with drag and drop input and editing
  • New Export features including QuickTime, MetaSync, EDL/Timing Sheet, Link Data
  • New database feature of searchable captions and much, much more!
THE TIMELINE

Expanded Timeline Features equip media makers to preview their projects well before production, giving you an edge with your vision, your clients and your budget.

  • Expanded audio tracks allow for overlapping sounds, dialog and music.
  • Edit audio right on the timeline with click and drag ease.
  • View waveforms to pinpoint crutial audio moments and sync up sequences.
  • Loads of new between frame transitions including Pan & Zoom and custom Dissolve times.
  • Clear, zoomable thumbnail pictures that allow you go directly to your frame to make additional edits.
  • Timescale allows for your project to be measured in minutes and seconds or feet and frames.
  • Set frame durations on the fly with click and drag
  • Export your animatic project to multiple formats including MetaSync, QuickTimeŽ, EDL/Timing Sheet, Link Data
PAN & ZOOM

The powerful Pan and Zoom tool makes in-frame animation a snap. Click and drag the Pan and Zoom frame in to zoom, or drag out to pull back. Move indicator left or right to pan. Set your duration on the Timeline to speed up or bring it in ever so slowly.

Pan and Zoom is another feature that makes StoryBoard Artist stand out. No render times, easy to control and view as well as export.

PRINTING

StoryBoard Artist's advanced page layout system is both powerful and easy to use. Extensive features allow for complete creative control without the high learning curves and computer taxing render times. Print your boards the way you want... literally! Not only a variety of formats, but complete customizable control of your page layout and presentation. Add/omit data text fields, headers, footers and more. You can even remove the Frame Window itself to create shot lists! StoryBoard Artist's printing option has something for everyone's project, including yours!

  • Over 15 data text fields to hold script. directors notes, special effects, camera notes and much more.
  • Rename any caption area for information specific to your project
  • Alter the size of frames and captions using click and drag
  • Customize and save personal or project specific page layouts
  • More Page Extras including Frame Name, Start time, End Time, Duration, Transitions and more
  • Numerous storyboard and production layout templates, plus make your own
  • Import from any scriptwriting program on the market as well as any standard text document
IMPORT & EXPORT

StoryBoard Artist's Import and Export capabilities makes working with other programs easy. Whether you take digital pictures of your location, write in Final Draft or Movie Magic, edit in Final Cut Pro, require MetaSync data on your Avid system or even import budget and breakdown data from AutoActuals - StoryBoard Artist can handle it all.

  • Export your animatics to QuickTime for use in any digital editing system
  • Publish your storyboards on the web with the same versatility as our page layout system
  • Produce a series of still frames, saved to your designated file format
  • Import separate layers directly from Photoshop files
  • Preserve linking/non-linear functionality when exporting
  • Import your script!
  • Import a folder full of images to instantly create a storyboard sequence
  • Easily integrate database fields from programs like Excel, Filemaker as well as budgeting and scheduling

Specifications

REQUIRES

  • Mac OS X 10.2 or higher for PowerPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher for Universal Binary Intel

    or

  • Windows XP or Vista

    and

  • 128 MB RAM
  • 2.1 GB of available hard disk space
  • 24 bit color display
  • USB Port

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    "StoryBoard Artist is changing the way storyboarding is done and there's nothing like it on the market that's as fast and easy to use... It's opened the doorway to getting storyboards closer to film. Anyone can use it with just 30 minutes worth of training, especially artists."

    -- Ken Harsha, storyboard artist - Shrek, The Simpsons
    Director of Concept Art for EA games - Goldeneye:Rogue Agent