Editing Storyboard Pro Preferences (section)

== Storyboard Pro preferences ==

=== General ===

'''Forbid drawing on panel thumbnails''' Useful to uncheck this setting when drawing using '''Overview Workspace''', i.e. a grid of panel thumbnails, if you want to draw directly on those thumbnails.

=== Project Settings ===

'''Default Panel Length''' The default is 1 second. PM recommends changing this to `00:00:00:08`, i.e. 8 frames.

''' Save new projects in single file format (packed file)''' Check this option. Saves the project in a single file instead of literally thousands of files in multiple directories. When this option is on, '''File''' > '''Save''' saves the project to a cache. The project is saved to disk when quitting the program or closing the project. '''File''' > '''Save and Pack''' saves a packed project to disk.

=== Naming ===

'''Panel Auto-increment Rule''' The default is `1, 2, 3...` which is the most useful, especially in cases when there are more than 26 panels in a scene. Any convention using letters tends to break down in that situation.

=== Colours ===

Adjust the onion skin color values here.

=== Tools ===

'''Use Rotation Lever with transformation tools''' Check this option to display a lever to the right of transformation boxes which helps selecting that operation.

=== Import/Export ===

==== Burn-In ====

'''Draw Box Behind''' `checked` (And make sure to select a light color for the text and a dark color for '''Background Color'''

'''Height''': 3%

'''Print Value''' Controls the format of the scene and panel numbers as they are burned into exported videos.

=== Pitch Mode ===

'''Disable auto-save while in Pitch Mode Workspace''' Uncheck this option while pitching, otherwise any auto-saves that occur will interrupt the pitch.

=== Advanced ===

'''Auto-save (minutes)''' Make sure to set this! It is off by default.