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Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Table of Contents

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.4

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.3

5Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.2

6Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.1

7Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.0

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.4
Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.4, build 14.20.4.14806 (2019-06-19):lEnhancementslFixed Issues

EnhancementslWhen importing a sequence for conformation, if a file is missing, a dialog prompt will indicate the nameof the file and its expected location, and will prompt you to choose between skipping the file, skipping all
missing files or to browsing for the file.

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The way Storyboard Pro initializes the DirectSound interface on Windows has been modernized, which
may increase the stability and reliability of audio playback as well as prevent playback issues.

Fixed Issues
The following issues have been fixed:lWhen opening a project on Windows, Storyboard Pro sometimes fails to initialize the audio device,
preventing audio playback.

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Crash when importing movie files into a project on certain macOS workstations.

lFreeze when importing an XML sequence for conformation if the XML sequence uses PSD images.

lAttempting to save a project inside its own directory using the Save As command causes an error
message which keeps reappearing indefinitely.

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Storyboard Pro fails to import an XML sequence for conformation if the XML file was created with the
XtoCC utility.

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Storyboard Pro fails to connect to the license server when its port and address are specified in the
TOONBOOM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable in the port@hostname format.

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On macOS, the mouse cursor changes to the default arrow pointer when a system notification pops up.

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The Thumbnail view does not automatically scroll left or right when clicking and dragging on a layer
near the left or right edge of the view.

lProject frame rate always changes to 24 when importing a sequence for conformation with only theProcess Audio option enabled.

lDrawing slowly using a pen tablet on a bitmap layer on macOS results in shaky lines.

lWhen drawing a very long brush stroke, then immediately drawing another stroke, the second stroke
starts off with a straight line segment.

lThe

Perspective tool performs excessive smoothing on short vector lines in the selected artwork.

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lWhen exporting a PDF, if the Sub Page Number parameter of the PDF profile contains a letter insteadof a number, the letter will not be incremented. Instead, a number will be added after the letter.

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Adding theMerge Layer button to the Layer toolbar does not work unless several layers are

selected, and the button disappears when a single layer is selected.
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On macOS, when launching Storyboard Pro for the first time, the Toon Boom Customer Experience
Improvement Program prompt may get stuck behind the Welcome screen, making the Welcome screen
inaccessible.

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When exporting a project for conformation in XML format and replacing an existing file, a back-up of theexisting file is created.

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Storyboard Pro 6.0.3 Release Notes

Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.3
Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.3, build 14.20.3.14252 (2018-12-14):lEnhancements on page 5lFixed Issues on page 5
IMPORTANTAn important fix was made to the licensing mechanic of Storyboard Pro in this release. If yourstudio uses a license server, you must upgrade to Storyboard Pro 6.0.3 on the license server before
upgrading your workstations. If your license server uses Harmony 15.0.1 or later, you do not need
to upgrade it.

Enhancementsl

The Generate Auto-Matte command was added at the bottom of the contextual menu that appears
when right-clicking on a layer.

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It is now possible to assign a keyboard shortcut to the Convert to Drawing command of the Layer menu.

Fixed Issues
The following issues have been fixed:l

Crash when connecting a Thunderbolt device on macOS.

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Storyboard Pro displays welcome screen when opening a project directly in Finder in macOS 10.14(Mojave).

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Top menu is not responsive when opening a project directly in Finder in macOS 10.14 (Mojave).

lWhen splitting a panel containing snapshots, its snapshots are moved to the first of the two panels.

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After dragging and dropping a selection of multiple layers in a panel, only one of the layers is selected.

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The toggle state of the Action Safe Area and Title Safe Area are both saved to the same preference.

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The pixel density of bitmap drawings and textured vector drawings is not exported when exporting
Harmony scenes.

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Copying and pasting a layer into a new panel renames the layer even if its original name is not taken by
any other layer in the target panel.

lSplitting a scene does not immediately update the name and number of its panels.

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.2
Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.2, build 14.20.2.13969:
lFeatures on page 6ll

Scripting on page 6

Bug Fixes on page 6

Features
ScriptingFeatureDescription

Automatte on
sourcelayer

The LayerManager.generateMatteLayer() method can now generate the matte directly on thesource layer instead of in a new layer. To do this, pass an object with the onNewLayer property set tofalse to its options parameter.

Selected layer objects returned by the SelectionManager:getLayerSelection() method now
have a layerIndex property. This property specifies the actual index of the selected layer in theLayerindex inlayer
selection

panel's layer list.

NOTE
The index property is still present. It specifies the order in which the layer was added to theselection.

Bug FixeslFixed issue causing artwork drawn with a Wacom Stylus/Cintiq tablet to be offset on Windows since theWacom driver update 6.3.30-6.

lFixed issue causing some projects to no longer synchronize audio clips with panels and scenes when
editing the duration of panels.

lFixed issue where using the LayerManager.generateMatteLayer() method with a colour that has
an alpha value would ignore the alpha value and generate an opaque matte.

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.1
Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.1, build 14.20.1.13760:lFeatures & EnhancementslVideo Clips on page 7lDrawingl

Staging on page 8lExport on page 8lProject StructurelScripting on page 10lEnhancementsl

Bug Fixes

Features & Enhancements
Video Clips
FeatureDescription

Split clip

The Split Clip at Current Frame command can now be used with both video clips and soundclips.

Copy and paste
keyframes

It is now possible to copy and paste animation keyframes in video clips.

DrawingFeatureDescription

Auto-Matte on
source layer

When generating a matte for your artwork using the Generate Auto-Matte dialog, you now
have the option to generate the matte directly on the same layer as the artwork instead of ina new separate layer.

Modifier keys for
Stamp andBitmap Brush tools

The following modifier keys, which could be used when drawing with the Brush tool and
Pencil tool on a vector layer, can now be used when drawing with the Stamp tool, as wellas when drawing with the Brush tool on a bitmap layer:

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FeatureDescription

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If you press and hold the Shift key before you start drawing, your stroke will be astraight line.
If you press and hold the Shift key while you're drawing, the part of your stroke fromthat point on will be a straight line until you release the Shift key.
If you press and hold the Shift and the Alt keys before drawing, your stroke will be astraight line in an angle that is a multiple of 15 degrees.
If you press and hold the Ctrl (Windows) or ⌘ (macOS) key while drawing, yourstroke will be a closed shape.
If you press and hold the Alt key, your tool will snap in a straight line to the nearest
existing shape.

StagingFeatureDescription

Enable Action Safe
Area and Title Safe
Area separately

In the Stage and Camera views, the Safe Area option would display the Action Safe Area
and the Title Safe Area inside the camera frame. This option has been split into two
options: One to display the Action Safe Area and one to display the Title Safe Area.

ExportFeatureDisableoptimization whenexportingto Harmony

Description

The Optimize Still Images option was added to the Export to Harmony dialog.
Since Storyboard Pro 6.0.0, when exporting Harmony scenes with a rendered animatic,
spans with no layer animation or camera movement would be rendered as a single drawing
with its exposure extended. This is now optional. By unchecking this option, you canrender your animatic with one drawing per frame.

Use variables in
Scene Options
when exporting
to Harmony

When exporting Harmony scenes, if you use the options in the Scene Options tab to set thepath and prefixes to use for rendering the scene's frames, you can now use variables tomake the path and the prefix include the project name as well as the act, sequence andscene number. This allows you to make each exported scene have a different image render
path and image prefix.

Burn in Action Safe
Area and Title Safe

When exporting movies, Harmony scenes, PDF documents, EDL/XML/AAF sequences orconformation projects, the Safe Area option would burn in both the Action Safe Area and8

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FeatureDescription

Area separately

the Title Safe Area into the exported images and movies. This option has been split into two
options: One to display the Action Safe Area and one to display the Title Safe Area

Project Structure
FeatureDescription

A new script is packaged, TB_RenamePanelProject, which contains two usefulfunctions:ll

TB_RenamePanelByScene will rename all panels in the selected scene. The panels
in each selected scene will be numbered sequentially starting from 1 for the firstpanel in each scene.
TB_RenamePanelProject will rename all panels in the project. The panels in the
project will be numbered sequentially starting from 1 for the first panel in the
project. The number sequence will continue across scenes, meaning each panel will
have a unique number in the entire project.

Because scripts are stored in your preferences and preferences are stored by major version,
this script will not be automatically copied to your preferences if you used Storyboard Pro
6.0.0 before. You can copy it manually to your preferences.

How to copy the new script manually on Windows
Rename Panel
script

1. Open a Command Prompt:lll

On Windows 7: Open the Start menu and select All Programs> Accessories > Command Prompt.
On Windows 8.1: Open the Start menu, then open the Apps drawer
and, under Windows System, click on Command Prompt.
On Windows 10: Open the Start menu and, in the applications list,
select Windows System > Command Prompt.

2. Type in the following command and press Enter:> COPY "C:\Program Files(x86)\Toon Boom Animation\Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
6\resources\scripts\sboard\TB_RenamePanelProject.js""%APPDATA%\Toon Boom Animation\Toon Boom Storyboard
Pro\14200-scripts\"

How to copy the new script manually on macOS

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FeatureDescription

1. Open a Terminal window:l

In the Dock, click on the Launchpad icon, then select Other and click on
Terminal.

2. Type in the following command press Enter:$ cp "/Applications/Toon Boom Storyboard Pro
6/tba/resources/scripts/sboard/TB_RenamePanelProject.js""$HOME/Library/Preferences/Toon Boom Animation/Toon Boom
Storyboard Pro/14200-scripts/"

ScriptingFeatureDescription

Enhancements were made to the scripting documentation packaged with Storyboard Pro:l

The style and layout has been updated.

lA tree view navigation pane was added to the left of the documentation to makenavigation easier.

Documentationl

Most of the information that is not useful to users, such as private classes andmembers, hierarchy graphs and file references was removed.

The scripting documentation can be viewed by opening the view menu

in the Script Editor

view and selecting Help > Scripting Interface Documentation.

EnhancementslWhen updating the position of a rendered 3D model, the rotation sphere used to rotate the model will
preserve its previous angle. This sphere appears when holding Ctrl + Shift (Windows) or Shift + ⌘ (MacOS X), then clicking and dragging the model.

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The logic for the Random Size parameter of the Brush and Stamp tools has been enhanced so that you
no longer need to reduce the minimum size of the brush for the random size parameter to work.

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The following enhancements were made to the install wizard on Windows:l

The installation wizard for Windows is now able to upgrade from a previous version of
Storyboard Pro without requiring the user to manually uninstall it first.

lInstallation on Windows is now faster. The installer no longer registers the fonts packaged with
Storyboard Pro into the Windows fonts database.

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Bug FixeslFixed issue causing Storyboard Pro to initialize the machine’s printer on launch. If the printer’s drivers
had issues, they would be triggered when launching Storyboard Pro.

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Fixed issue where panels with a vertical camera movement would appear cropped in an exported PDF
with the Full Page and Expand Panel options enabled.

lFixed issue where selecting an audio clip then selecting a video track would add the video clip at thecurrent frame to the selection.

lFixed issue causing selected clips to get deselected when moving a selection of video clips on multiple
video tracks.

lFixed issue causing the selected clip to be deselected where moving a video clip while the timeline cursor
is over it.

lFixed issue preventing from selecting video and audio clips simultaneously when selecting a video clip
first.

lFixed issue causing the dialog prompting to import preferences from previous version of Storyboard Pro
to appear in English when launching the application in a different language.

lFixed issue where, when exporting a movie as a sequence of image files, a directory would automaticallybe created in the target directory and image files would be exported in it. Exported image files are now
saved directly in the target directory.

lFixed the differences between the available image formats in the Scene Options tab of the Export toHarmony dialog and the image formats supported by Harmony:lAdded Digital Picture Exchange (.dpx), OpenEXR (.exr), Portable Document File (.pdf) andDeep Texture (.dtex) to the list.

llRemoved Toon Boom Vector Graphics Optimized (.tvgo) from the list.

Fixed issue where creating a brush preset with the same name as a previously deleted brush preset
would reload the preview of the deleted brush preset.

lFixed issue where the tool properties of the Brush tool would not update when selecting a vector or
bitmap layer, then adding a layer of a different type.

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Fixed issue where, when using the Shift or Alt key to draw a straight line with a drawing tool andreleasing it while drawing the stroke, a short zig-zag would be drawn near the straight line.

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Fixed issue where the brush size cursor, which can be enabled in the Tools tab of the Preferences, would
appear when using the Stamp tool and would indicate the wrong brush size.

lFixed issue causing video clips to be hidden when drawing with the Realistic Preview option enabled.

lFixed issue where, when drawing with the Realistic Preview option enabled, new strokes would notdisplay while they were being drawn.

lFixed a rare crash when importing certain Alembic (.abc) 3D models.

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lFixed a potential crash when exporting Harmony scenes with burn-in options enabled.

lFixed issue causing rendered 3D models to not appear in exported Storyboard Pro scenes whenexporting with the Nest Panels in Symbols option is unchecked.

lFixed issue causing application to be invisible on launch if it was exited in a maximized state the last time
it was running on macOS.

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Fixed issue that occurred when exporting a multi-layer Photoshop Document (.psd) file from a projectwith video tracks. The layers in the PSD file that corresponded to the video tracks would always be
underneath all other layers.

lFixed issue where, when updating the position of a rendered 3D model, undoing it then attempting to
update its position again, the model would appear in the position that was undone in the Update
Model Position dialog.

lFixed issue where clicking on the artwork of a different layer with the Select tool while holding down the
Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ (macOS) key would not select that layer.

lFixed issue causing groups to be converted to layers when creating a template made from a selection ofmultiple layers and groups.

lFixed issue causing video clips to get clipped when pasting a sound clip in the same time span.

lFixed issue causing the project to be shortened by a single frame when adding a transition between
scenes while the Preserve project length when adding transitions is enabled.

lFixed issue causing colour pots to be temporarily missing from the Colour view when copying panelsfrom an existing project and pasting them to a new project.

lFixed issue causing layers in imported Photoshop Document (.psd) files to be ignored if their opacity is
below 9%.

lFixed issue where movie files exported with a frame rate of 23.976 FPS would have an extra frame.

lFixed issue where burn-in would sometimes not appear in exported Harmony scenes.

lFixed issue causing the LayerManager.isEmpty method to return the opposite value.

lFixed issue causing the LayerrManager.generateMatteLayer method to return true when using
a radius of 0, which fails to generate a matte.

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 6.0.0
Here is the list of changes in Storyboard Pro 6.0.0, build 14.20.0.13334:
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Features on page 13lAnimatic on page 13lDrawing Tools on page 15lLibrary on page 17l

3D Objects on page 17lExport to PDF on page 18lExport to Bitmap on page 19lExport to Harmony Scenes on page 19lExport Audio on page 20lProject Management on page 20

lConformation on page 21lPreferences on page 21lScripting on page 22

Bug Fixes on page 22

Features
Animatic
FeatureDescription

Video tracks andvideo clips

Storyboard Pro now features video tracks, in which you can add image or video clips todisplay them in your animatic.

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FeatureDescription

Video tracks can be placed above or below the storyboard track, to make its clips display
over or underneath the artwork in your animatic. Image and video clips can span over
several panels or scenes and be cued and clipped at any time in the animatic. They can betransformed and animated, just like layers in a panel, but contrary to layers in a panel, they
are not affected by camera movements.
Audio and video
track reordering

It is now possible to reorder audio tracks as well as video tracks.

Audio and video
track renaming

It is now possible to assign custom names to audio tracks as well as video tracks.

You can search for a sound clip in your animatic by entering part or all of its file name andgoing through each matching result.
Find sound clips

Display timecode

You can now display the timecode of the current frame in the top-left corner of the Stageand Camera view by clicking on the Timecode

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FeatureDescription

Drawing Tools
FeatureDescription

The new Stamp

tool can be used to stamp one or several drawings into your artwork.

You can stamp drawings one at a time or draw strokes with it. The behaviour of the stamp
tool when drawing strokes can be customized in many ways.

Stamp tool

NOTE
The Stamp tool replaces the Dynamic Brush option of the Brush tool in Storyboard
Pro 5.5 and earlier.

The Brush tool now has the same texture drawing capabilities when used on vector layers
as when used on bitmap layers.
Textured vector
brushes

Centerline Editor

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FeatureDescription

textured, by their centreline, giving you better control over their shape than the Contour
Editor.

The Contour Editor, Envelope and Perspective tools can deform the texture in textured
vector brush strokes.
Texturedeformation

The Polyline tool, which was available in Harmony, has been added to Storyboard Pro. With
this tool, you can draw segmented lines or shapes by creating each point composing theline, allowing you to draw shapes with precision. The lines created with the Polyline tool
can be straight or curvilinear.
Polyline toolOnion Skin for
Selected Layers
Only

You can now enable Onion Skin only for currently selected layers. When this option isenabled, only artwork in layers that have the same name as the selected layer in surrounding
panels will appear in the Onion Skin.

Merge Down

There is now a command to quickly merge the selected layer with the layer just below it.
You can access it in the Layer menu, a layer's contextual menu or by pressing Ctrl + E(Windows) or ⌘ + E (macOS).

Perspective toolmodes

The Perspective tool can now be used in either Perspectiveor Latticemode. The

Perspective mode deforms the drawing by simulating a perspective effect, whereas theLattice mode simply deforms the drawing to make it fit the shape of the control box.

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FeatureDescription

Directional BlurIn the Directional Blur dialog, you can now set the angle of the blur by clicking anddragging on a dial.

Library
FeatureDescription

Multiple layers
templates

You can now create templates with a selection of multiple layers. Importing such templates
into a panel will add all of its layers to the panel.

Multiple panels
templates

You can now create templates with a selection of multiple storyboard panels. Importing
such templates into a project will add all of its panels to the project.

Insert panel
template inTimeline view

You can now insert a template made of one or several panels between two panels in theTimeline view. In the past, this was only feasible in the Thumbnails view.

3D Objects
FeatureDescription

Render 3D modelin 2D scene

When attempting to add a 3D model to a 2D scene, you now have the option of rendering
the 3D model into a 2D layer so it can be added to the scene without converting it to a 3D
scene.

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FeatureDescription

Export to PDF
FeatureDescription

A Render Scene Layout Panel option was added to the Panel tab of the PDF Profile dialog.
When enabled, each scene that has a camera movement will have special "layout"
thumbnail added before the thumbnails for its panels. The layout thumbnail contains thecamera movement for the entire scene as well as the artwork of the first panel in the scene.

Render Scene
Layout Panel

Display Camera
Mask

The Display Camera Mask option was added to the Panel tab of the PDF Profile dialog.
When enabled, a mask covers the part of the panel that is not covered by the camera framesor the camera's trajectory. This means that only the artwork that is covered by the camera
will be visible in the thumbnails. The colour of the mask can be customized.

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FeatureDescription

Frame Snapshots

A Frame Snapshot option was added to the Panel tab of the PDF Profile dialog. Whenenabled, panels containing snapshots will be rendered from the point of view of the camera
at the time of the snapshot. The panel's thumbnail will only display the artwork inside thecamera frame, and the camera movements will not be rendered over the thumbnail.

Export to Bitmap
FeatureExport All
Snapshots

Description

When a panel has several snapshots, it is now possible to export all the snapshots for thatpanel in different image files.
Previously, only the main snapshot of a panel was exported when exporting bitmap images,
and it was only possible to export several snapshots for a single panel when exporting to
PDF.

Export to Harmony Scenes
FeatureDescription

It is now possible to configure some of the rendering parameters of the Write node whenexporting Harmony scenes, namely the location, prefix and image format of renderedframes.

Write node
parameters

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FeatureDescription

Group layers

Group layers in your project now get exported in Harmony scenes. Drawing layers are
created inside their respective group, under a peg which preserves the grouptransformations and animations.

Exposure of
rendered frames

When exporting Harmony scenes as rendered images, static images are no longer renderedover and over again at every frame. Instead, they are rendered once and exposed until theimage changes, saving on export time and disk space.
When exporting over existing Harmony scenes, you now have the option to overwrite all
Storyboard Pro scenes with conflicting names simultaneously, instead of having to specify
to overwrite each conflicting scene one at a time.

Overwrite All

Export both
Merged andIndividual Tracks

When exporting Storyboard Pro scenes, you can choose to export each scene's audio in
both separate audio tracks and one mixed down audio track. Both the individual audio
tracks and the merged audio track will co-exist in the exported scenes.

Export Audio
FeatureDescription

Export both
Merged andIndividual Tracks

When exporting audio, you can choose to export the audio tracks in your project separately
and mixed down into one audio track at the same time.

Project Management
FeatureDescription

Only merge
modified panels(Track changes)

When merging and replacing projects that were extracted from your current project, you
can now choose to only import panels that were tracked as changed in the projects being
imported.

Replace artwork

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FeatureDescription

only

can choose to ignore the changes in the timing of panels and scenes as well in the position
and animations of layers, and only import the changes done on the project's artwork.

Conformation
FeatureDescription

Optional image
rendering

When exporting your project for conformation, you can elect to skip exporting the images.
This can be useful if you have already exported your project and need to export it again, but
don't want to wait for the images to be rendered again.

Optional video
importRectify Static
CameraWhen importing a sequence into your Storyboard Pro project, you can elect to not import
the panels, and only import the audio tracks or the captions instead.
With this option available, you can export a soundtrack composed in a video editing
software into an XML or AAF sequence, then import it into your Storyboard Pro project
without affecting your storyboard panels.
The Rectify Static Camera option has been added to the Conformation Export dialog. This
option makes it so scenes in which the camera is at an angle and does not have any camera
movements are rendered as if the camera was straight.

Preferences
FeatureDescription

Preserve project
length when
adding transitions

By default, when adding transitions, the length of the project shortens by the length of thetransition. This is because a transition causes the next scene to start playing before thecurrent scene finishes playing. With this option enabled, adding a transition between two
scenes will automatically extend the length of both scenes by half the length of thetransition, allowing the project to remain the same length.
This preference was added to the General tab of the Preferences dialog.

IgnoreModifications to
Captionsin Auto Tracking
Mode

By default, when Auto Tracking Mode is enabled, any change made to a panel will activate
tracking for that panel. With this option enabled, making changes to a panel's captions will
not activate tracking for that panel.
This preference was added to the General tab of the Preferences dialog.

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FeatureDisplay time in feetand frames

Description

It is now possible to display time in the Timeline view, the Thumbnails view and exported
PDF documents in feet and frames. In the context of an animation production, a footcorresponds to a vertical foot of animation exposure sheet, which covers to 16 frames.
Hence, each foot corresponds to 16 frames in your project.
This preference was added to the Global UI tab of the Preferences dialog. In the Time
Display Units section, each time display setting is followed by a drop-down menu in which
you can either select Timecode, Frames or Feet + Frames.

ScriptingFeatureDescription

Current frame

The frame class, which allows you to check and change the current frame, was created. It
contains the following methods: current, setCurrent and moveFrames.

Layer management

The following methods were added to the LayerManager class: isShared, isEmpty andmergeLayers.
Additionally, the getLayerSelection method was added to the SelectionManager
class.

Timeline markers

The TimelineMarkers class was created. It contains several methods to manage timelinemarkers in your project.

Tool presets

The ToolPresetManager class was created. It allows you to list and select tool presets.

Panel colour

The setPanelColor and getPanelColor methods were added to the
StoryboardManager class.

Export AAF

The exportToAAF method was added to the ExportManager class, allowing you to script
the export of your project as an AAF sequence for conformation.

Bug FixeslFixed issue where curved lines drawn quickly with pen tablet would appear segmented and dented with
low-end video cards.

lFixed issue where overwriting a Storyboard Packed File (.sbpz) when splitting or extracting the current

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project would delete the target project's parent directory.
lFixed a crash caused by an error message occurring when the computer wakes from sleep mode.

lFixed a randomly occurring crash when animating a layer.

lFixed a memory leak that occurred when deleting panels while their thumbnails were about to begenerated.

lFixed crash when flipping a scene if the Stage or Camera view are not in the current workspace.

lFixed a rare crash when dragging and dropping the last scene of a project to move it earlier in the
project.

lFixed a crash when opening an already open project using the command line with the argument panelid and cancelling on the dialog alerting that the project is already open.

lFixed issue where scale factor of 3D models would not be preserved in exported Harmony scenes.

lFixed issue where attempting to generate an auto-matte on a shared drawing would discard the shareddrawing.

lFixed issue where exporting a dynamic brush preset containing multiple drawings and importing it
under a different user account would only import the first drawing of the dynamic brush.
NOTE
Dynamic brushes have been renamed Stamps in Storyboard Pro 6.0.

lFixed issue where a shared drawing would be flipped all across the project when flipping a scene
containing the shared drawing. Now, a shared drawing that is in a scene that gets flipped will be
unlinked from the original drawing and linked to a flipped version of the shared drawing, which is also
shared.

lFixed issue where pen tablet input would be offset when working with several monitors set to different
scaling factors on Windows.

lFixed an issue where flipping a scene would not work if the scene contained a shared drawing and an
even number of panels.

lFixed issue where converting a shared drawing from one art type to the other would not update the art
type of the original shared drawing.

lFixed issue where exporting a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file would fail without any error message if
attempting to overwrite a file that is opened in a movie player.

lFixed issue where projects split or extracted in Storyboard Packed File (.sbpz) format would have theproject title extractproject_temp.

lMade the Split Project and Extract Project dialog create projects in the current project's format (.sboard

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or .sbpz) by default.
lFixed issue where background layer of current panel would appear over onion skin.

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Fixed the icon that appears over panels in the Thumbnails view when the Lock Scene and Panel Names
option is enabled.

lFixed issue preventing from selecting layers in very short panels when making a selection of layers frommultiple panels.

lFixed issue where applying a blur effect on a selection of multiple layers across multiple panels would
ignore layers in very short panels.

lFixed issue where panels got expanded even if the Panels > Expand Panel PDF option is disabled whenexporting a PDF with one panel per page.

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Fixed issue where camera framing would be wrong when exporting a project in 16 field forconformation.

lFixed issue where the waveform would not be immediately visible for sound clips that were added to theproject by copying and pasting them, or by importing a sequence for conformation.

lMade the General tab the default tab in the PDF Profile dialog.

lFixed issue where timeline markers would appear selected when scrolling the Timeline view until thecurrently selected timeline marker was out of the visible range.

lFixed issue where buttons in the Find Text in Captions dialog would appear too big and overlap eachother on macOS.

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Fixed the size of the following user interface elements in High DPI / Retina Display mode:l

The Zoom drop-down in the Stage, Camera, Top and Side viewsl

The Browse button in the Split Storyboard dialog in High DPI / Retina Display mode.

Fixed the following localization issues:lCropped text in the Japanese Welcome Screen.

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Untranslated options in the Blur dialog.

lUntranslated tool tips of the Play and Play Selected Panels buttons in the Pitch Mode workspace.

lUntranslated options in the Generate Auto-Matte dialogl

Untranslated list names in the script selection dialog.

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