StoryBoard Quick is a storyboarding software application for creating and editing digital storyboards for non-graphic artists and for creating rapid comp boards. No drawing necessary. Used primarily in the film and TV industry by film directors, producers, writers, commercial production companies and educators to produce a visual layout of media projects for communicating with crews, producers and/or clients before commencing the main production process.
StoryBoard Quick v1.0 was the first vertical market storyboarding application created for filmmakers on the Mac OS. It combined features of page layout, text entry, layered-image manipulation and integrated artwork.[1] It was introduced at ShowBiz Expo in 1993 in Los Angeles, and released at Macworld Conference & Expo in 1994 in San Francisco.[2] A Microsoft Windows version followed in 1995. StoryBoard Quick is published and supported by PowerProduction Software. Co-founded by Paul Clatworthy and Sally Ann Walsh, the company is privately owned and located in Los Gatos, California.
StoryBoard Quick is used to plan spatial relationships between characters and props within their locations in shots and scenes using built-in 2D storyboard (multi-angle rotatable characters, colorizable props, location backgrounds) graphics (and/or combining with imported digital art or photos). StoryBoard Quick also facilitates the planning process when starting from a screenplay with features enabling the importing of scripts (from screenplay applications like Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter, Storyist, Montage and others) using import wizards. StoryBoard Quick offers numerous pre-formatted professional storyboarding templates for printing or distributing boards, along with exports formats for continuing the digital workflow into editing software or Internet distribution (HTML or SWF).
StoryBoard Quick is a great tool for rapidly creating a storyboard. Even if you are artistically-challenged, you can still get up to speed and create compelling storyboards for your project in less than 30 minutes.
I've had StoryBoard Quick for a while now and love it. I print all the day's panels for every camera and post them above the craft services table. Then everyone knows exactly what is expected and we can do 40 setups in one day! The producers love it!
We were shooting a unique sequence, different from our usual three camera set up. I needed to show them how I envisioned 'the car running over Oprah sequence.' So I opened my laptop, fired up StoryBoard Quick and in a few seconds we were all on the same page for the series of shots.
Turn your words into pictures with StoryBoard Quick. The best, fastest way to communicate your shot and scene ideas. No complicated 3D. No cartoony stick figures. No time-consuming drawing. Simply click your way to creating the best shots for your videos.
StoryBoard Quick was created for directors who couldn't draw. Users find that StoryBoard Quick cuts the visualization time in half or more. Quick is our entry-level product used by directors, writers and auteurs who want to quickly prototype their project. For more depth see the advanced StoryBoard Artist software which adds sound, timeline, transitions and animatics for your feature projects. And it's still quick to use.
Creativity is in Your Blood
Fast and easy shot creation with libraries of artwork included: characters, props, locations. Design, refine and share your ideas visually. Drop in your script and start visualizing. After all, you're going to shoot the project, not make it perfect in the computer. Be creative, try ideas fast and pick the best ones to shoot.
Think Out of the Box: Visualize
Pitch producers like a pro. Use characters that take up volume and space to show your DP how you want your shots and scenes to look. Present your ideas in style. Say goodbye to stick figures. No need to rely on online connection or webservers to access your work. It's your work. Keep it private until it's time to show the world.
Your business is probably already using video marketing, but are you planning your videos for optimal success using storyboarding software? Or are you drawing shots by hands or writing a script and winging the rest?
Storyboarding is the process of sketching out the progression of a marketing video, animation, or film. Each scene or shot is assigned a panel, and each panel includes a visual sketch or a photo of the concept. You can include dialogue, notes, audio, and more in each panel.
Storyboarder works collaboratively with Photoshop, which means you can edit your board in Photoshop for more precision, and it will automatically update in Storyboarder. This software lets you export to Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, PDF, or Animated GIF.
Each feature aims to make your process as quick and efficient as possible. You can add and delete scenes without copying and pasting text, incorporate images from anywhere on the web to visualize scenes faster, and collaborate with coworkers from within the software. Plot is a solid option if your team often works under tight deadlines and needs software to create storyboards quickly.
It works on any mobile device, and the export functions make it possible to download the final product as a PowerPoint presentation. FrameForge is a good option for teams that aim to create more full-fledged and lengthy videos for entertainment purposes.
Studiobinder lets you customize every aspect of your visualization, and offers tools to filter columns, adjust the order of your scenes, upload images, change aspect ratios, color code shots, add notes, and more. Studiobinder also makes collaboration easy, with project management features to assign tasks and add comments.
PowerProduction offers a variety of tools for storyboarding, varying from simple to more robust and all-inclusive. StoryBoard Quick, for instance, offers a library of artwork for characters, props, and locations, and allows you to design and share your ideas easily. StoryBoard Artist, on the other hand, offers a full-featured timeline, frame transitions, and 3D characters, and is more appropriate for animated video presentations.
With PanelForge, you can create both 2D drawings and 3D layouts. It also allows you to create an animatic, and you can export and import files from Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. PanelForge is ideal for experienced storyboarders and marketers who know their way around complex visualization tools.
In my experience, most of the training created by any company is a glorified storyboard with next and previous buttons. So to that end, it's a brilliant storyboard tool, and even better when combined with Articulate Review. Together these two tools eliminate bottlenecks and death by committee style reviews. We've leveraged that notion to focus on quick development in Rise and then we use Review as a platform for quick SME interaction and approval. That workflow alone is worth the money in time savings and clarity. It's also a tool for transparency, as everyone can see and react to everyone else comments, in context.
In my world, a storyboard is a tool to visualize the narrative/storytelling we'll use to deliver the 3 E's. Entertain. Educate. Elevate. If you take time to make a great storyboard this way with a real focus on the learner experience and the narrative you're using to educate them your "storyboard" is excellent training as is.
These time savings by way of constraints gives you more time to focus on some higher level media like linear animation videos to support that content and provide the learners with some modality options in each module. We sometimes toss in some live action character animation for the videos to give it a friendly face and to keep it entertaining as we cover dull content. However, we wouldn't have time for that if we were developing in the traditional tools (Storyline and Captivate) because they have too many options for the average ID. Often the "blank canvas" approach of having control over everything slows the process down and muddies the presentation with a "fill the screen" mentality. Formatting becomes inconsistent in larger groups, and design choices are easy to ignore. So, leveraging the constraints of Rise with regards to format, colors, layout general style guide stuff, allows us to focus on the story, content and some well placed advanced media that enhances the "storyboard".
In short, I agree, I especially like the limitations on the platform to focus efforts and facilitate decision making. If you are taking the training to the next level (for us it's a documentary style video with motion graphics), it's an excellent storyboard tool with a learning curve suitable for Corporate America, and in most cases, it's quality training if left at the storyboard level.
I can tell you love your job! As do I. Your reply is extremely helpful and you hit the nail on the head toward the end as I have run into dead ends by starting with a blank page (recently). So, storyboarding is something that I've become fond of and I am happy to hear that you recommend Rise and Review. I do have a couple of additional questions I hope you (or anyone else reading) could chime in.
Question 1: Have you ever had an idea for how to develop a training but didn't have the proper tools? I am up against that challenge right now and I am not sure where to start. Products like Storyline and Rise are excellent, but what I'm finding is that my company could benefit more from content creation resources like a digital camera, actors, and a script; a designer knowledgeable about typeface and after effects so that the aesthetic of the video can contribute to the narrative. I would love to learn to do all of these things, but again...I am not sure where to start.
Q2: For all things Articulate, I share the Rise storyboards with Articulate Review. This allows them to view the storyboard and reply in context, with their names attached to it. I specifically avoid web meetings to review storyboards because it becomes to easy to skim over things. I want them the think it over, write it down and then for everyone else reviewing to be able to see what they thought. It removes a lot of "and stuff" "just do your magic" and other cop-outs.
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