From the course: Toon Boom Storyboard Pro Essential Training

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Storyboard Pro versions

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- [Instructor] Storyboard Pro has made a number of great updates from version five through version seven. Some artists may not have updated their software so this video briefly outlines the main differences in the versions to help you decide if you should upgrade. You'll find that this course contains information featured on all these updates. Each new update has stayed with the software, so I'll use version seven here as I step through them. One note, most of our profiles will not open in early versions of the software, although artists in version six have been able to open many version seven files. So, it's important to keep up to date if you share files with other artists. So let's start with the biggest changes that they added in version five. One of my favorites is the ability to group layers. So we have individual layers here but I can group them under any title. Here I've got my foreground and I've got my ink layers. That allows me to move layers using the layer transform button over here, which I can now also add key frames onto my timeline. So those are some really great changes so now, if I put any key frames onto the group, it affects both of these layers at the same time. Another big change of version five. A lot of new, really fantastic brushes. And another big change of version five is the workspace has been updated. There have also been some really big enhancements, now when we move into version six. One of the big ones is this new tool here, which is our stamp tool. This has taken the place of what we used to call the dynamic brush, so this makes it much easier. In addition we have a new tool called the centerline editor. This allows us, as we go in really closely here, click on a line to change any part of the line that we want. We also now have a video track so I can add images or videos above or below my drawings, which is one of my favorite new things. We're also now able to import images either as shots or layers, that's very handy. And I can import, I'm going to use my library here, 3D objects into a scene and I can keep them as a 3D model, or render it out as 2D. One of the tools I use all the time are perspective guides. This shows the version seven perspective guides. About half of these are available in version six. These are absolutely fantastic, the best perspective guides and tools in the industry. And, as we had in version five, they've added even more new brushes. Version seven has brought us many more perspective tools, everything that you see here. It also now allows us to import audio, video, or images directly from file explorer into the program without having to use a library or the import buttons. Also, when I bring in a movie file, any type of video, the audio now comes in with it, which until now did not happen, you had to bring it in separately. We now have animatic editing tools, which allows us to slide panels away from each other and have gaps, which we never had before. And when we go to export movies, they've now given us more options of what type of movies we can export, including one of my favorites, the MPEG-4 codec. So as you go through this course, you'll find details of all these tools. And if you have the latest version of Storyboard Pro, you'll have access to all of them.

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