From the course: Advanced Storyboard Pro

Import animatic from edit suites - Storyboard Pro Tutorial

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Import animatic from edit suites

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- [Instructor] Once the editor has completed their edit, you may need to conform back into Storyboard Pro for additional storyboard work. Editorial will provide production with a quick time of the new edit and an XML file. I suggest you make a copy of your original Storyboard profile in case you need to go back to the original. First thing you want to do is open the Storyboard Pro project, hopefully one that you've made a copy of the original. You always want to keep your original. So I have that. I've got my version two here. So we go to File, Confirmation, Import Animatic Project, click on that. Click on the Open File icon, select the XML file that Editorial sent back to you, click Open. You want to make sure at least process audio tracks and process video tracks are selected. You can also keep the others selected if you want. Editorial will give you specifics on that. And then click on Import. The project will then automatically conform any reordered or deleted scenes and panel duration changes. Storyboard Pro will also make a list of any changes that are made that you can see listed right here. I'm going to go ahead and close that window. Editors I've worked with will suggest that you then check through the edited quick time and the Storyboard profile scene by scene to make sure that there are no missing panels, scenes or audio files or composite panels in particularly the ones that had layer motion in them. Some panels which were created with motion may not interpret back properly. Editors also suggest that we export frames from their animatic back into Storyboard Pro to fill in any missing scenes or panels. Of course, editable art and layer motion will then be lost for any exported frames which are imported in to fill a missing scene. You can get around that by opening up your older version and saving any scenes that you need onto a library. And then copying out of that library back into your newly conformed file. The process of conforming an animatic from editorial back into Storyboard Pro will work, but it's not perfect. You need to carefully check the revised Storyboard profile for errors and omissions before continuing. And generally, this is a job for the Storyboard coordinator if you're on a big project.

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