Storyboard Pro 5.5 Release Notes

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5.1 Release Notes

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Scripting3

Bug Fixes

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5 Release Notes

5Drawing and Drawing Tools

5Exports

6Sound Editing

7Timeline

8Changes and Improvements

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5.1 Release Notes
Here is the list of changes and improvements in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5.1, build 14.10.13388:lScripting on page 3l

Bug Fixes on page 3

ScriptingFeatureExport AAF

Description
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 Fixesl

Fixed 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 thecurrent project would delete the target project's parent directory.

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

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 issue where layers in imported Photoshop Document (.psd) files would be ignored if their opacity
was below 10%.

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 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 alsoshared.

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

lFixed issue where movie files exported with the Export Movie dialog would have an extra frame if theproject's frame rate was set to 23.976 frames per second.

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Table of ContentslFixed issue where burn-in would sometimes not appear in exported Harmony scenes.

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 or .sbpz) by default.

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

lFixed issue where, when exporting a PDF with one panel per page, some panels got expanded even if
the Expand Panel option is disabled.

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

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Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5 Release Notes
The following describes new features, changes and improvements included in Toon Boom Storyboard Pro 5.5,
build 14.10.0.12243:
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Drawing and Drawing Tools on page 5lExports on page 6lSound Editing on page 7lTimeline on page 8l

Changes and Improvements on page 8

Drawing and Drawing Tools
FeatureDescription
Vanishing points and guides to assist when drawing. Guides can beadded and managed from the Guides view.

Drawing Guides

The perspective tool now works with textured vector drawings.
Perspective Tool

Improved the Perspective tool to project the perspective when modifying
drawings.

Generate Auto-Matte

Command to automatically generate mattes for selected layers.

Radial Zoom Blur

New type of blur available for bitmap layers.

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FeatureDescription

New type of blur available for bitmap layers.

Directional Blur

Brush Tool

The maximum brush size has been increased from 500 to 1600.

Exports
FeatureDescription
Export Project command now supports AAF format to allow theconformation of changes from Avid Media Composer to Storyboard Pro.

Conformation

New option in the Export Project dialog box called Expand Render Area
to Scene Camera. This renders panels using the area covered by thecamera on all the panels of a scene.

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FeatureAAF Export

Description
Stereo tracks are exported as a single stereo track rather than two monoaudio tracks when exporting to AAF.
Text from captions can be rendered as an overlay when exporting toCaptions

Bitmap, Movie, EDL, AAF and XML. This is done from the Captions tab ofthe export dialog box.
PNG is now available as an export format when exporting to bitmap.

Bitmap ExportNew option in Bitmap Export dialog box called Expand Render Area toScene Camera. This is used to render panels using the area covered bythe camera on all the panels of a scene.

Flip Scenes

New functionality to flip all the panels in a scene.
The option called Rectify Static Camera is now available when exporting

PDF

PDFs.
It is now possible to export and import PDF profiles.

Sound Editing
FeatureDescription
Audio clips under transitions now synch with the transition they are
under when changing the duration of the panel.
Improved the display of the waveform on low volume audio clips. TheSound Editing

waveform is displayed using a log function rather than a linear function.
New option to allow playing sound past the last panel.
Solo mode on audio tracks allows isolating tracks without muting othertracks.

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Timeline
FeatureDescription

FramesNew commands to add and remove frames on the selected panels.

MarkersAudio

Zoom

VolumeMarkers can now be added in the timeline. These markers can be added
during playback if a shortcut is set to the command.
It is now possible to copy and paste audio on multiple tracks.
The zoom level in the timeline adapts to the length of the project. You canzoom out to see the full timeline.
Volume keyframes are preserved when splitting an audio clip.

Changes and Improvements
FeaturePreferences

3D Graph View

Description
Preferences from previous version can be migrated when starting Storyboard Pro
5.5 for the first time.
The 3D Schematic view has been replaced by the 3D Graph view.

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FeatureDescription

Captions

A default font and font size can now be set for captions.

TV and Action

The TV and action safe guides can be displayed as masks. Click and hold the Safe

Safe Guides

Area button in the Stage view status bar to switch between display modes.

Project First
Frame/Project
Last Frame

Replaced the go to First Panel and Last Panel with go to the Project First Frame
and Project Last Frame.

QuickTime is no longer required to import and play back sound in Windows.
QuickTime noLonger Required

QuickTime is no longer required to create movies in Windows. Storyboard Pro can
now generate movies in WMV format.

RetinaRetina and high pixel density display support. On macOS, OpenGL views do not
use retina display.

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