Storyboard Pro Preferences
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 values of the onion skin colors 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.
Keyboard shortcuts
Storyboard Pro top-level menu > Keyboard shortcuts...
Hardly any of the SBP shortcuts for tools match up with Photoshop.
Default layer layout
Not in preferences, but to create a default layer layout for new panels: Layer > Set Layer Layout As Default. E.g. if you wanted a specific set up in terms of a set number of layers with specific names.