StoryBoard Artist

A design tool for quickly creating professional storyboards and presenting them as programmable multimedia with sound and dissolves.

"StoryBoard Artist is changing the way storyboarding is done... I like the ability to adjust timing and swap frames in and out... I know a lot of storyboard artists that would have loved to have had it years ago." --Ken Harsha, storyboard artist, Dream Works SKG

What It's For
Here is a quantum leap beyond traditional storyboarding. Sure it lets you plan out linear film and video, but it also turns your images into a multimedia presentation for:

• Showing animatics of commercials and films, with synchronized sound
• Prototyping interactive projects, and creating diagrams of interactive structures
• Planning interactive presentations and training
• Creating web site prototypes

StoryBoard Artist Features

StoryBoard Artist offers all the features of StoryBoard Quick plus more!

Use NEW  built-in artwork (characters, props and locations) or import graphics from other sources: digital photos, scans, paint or drawing programs.

Drawing tools also available.

Use preset or custom aspect ratios.

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

Each object can occupy its own layer for easy rearranging and composition.

Imports PICT & QuickTimes,

NEW  formats: JPEG, GIF, QTVR.

Key color feature enables single color transparencies.

NEW: Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins technology is enabled for using plug-ins to manipulate in-frame images.

Each frame can have two captions: add script, dialog, shot info, camera notes, project breakdown info, etc.

NEW: Import Text or FCF (File converter format) for preserving scriptwriting text categories.

Shuffle frames to rearrange project while in Frame Overview.

Camera controls can zoom, pan, tilt the entire frame image.

Show your ideas in motion: Timeline feature allow you to set variable frame durations with transitions.

Add sound into two sound tracks.

NEW: Enhanced Non-Linear boarding: create links between frames and view or print link overview.

NEW:  Export your boards to HTML to show your boards to associates using the internet.
StoryBoard Artist can export your project, links and all, to HTML pages.

• StoryBoard Artist writes the HTML and does all the necessary web conversions for you:
• Converts all the frame images to your choice of web-ready formats (Choose between GIF's or JPEG's);
• Changes linked objects into Image Map links; and Displays captions as text beneath the frame.

Print your project in unlimited StoryBoard formats:
with/without captions, borders, headers, footers, duration notation, frame numbers.

You can then move far beyond conventional storyboarding:

• Using the built-in flow chart tool to design interactive links between storyboard frames
• Adding sound by importing AIFF, SND or WAV files
• Using "Thumbnail view" with shuffle to reorder frames and captions
• Programming automated playback with optional dissolves and independent timing for each frame, up to ten frames per second

Who Needs It
Anyone needing a high-end design tool for either linear or interactive projects. Also ideal for presenting ideas with sound, animation, interactive linking and production values that help everyone better imagine the finished production.

Need More Information?
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System Requirements

• Macintosh: 68030 cpu or above, System 7.4 or above, CD-ROM drive, 8 MB RAM, 40 MB on hard drive; Power Macintosh recommended.
• Windows 95/NT: 486 or above, 16 MB RAM, 40MB on hard drive, CD-ROM drive.