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.

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.

See also

• Storyboard Pro Preferences
• Storyboarding For Animation Class Notes