Advanced Scanning Techniques

In most cases, you only need to scan your drawings into empty cells in your exposure sheet. Harmony is flexible enough to allow you to add drawings in other ways. These other methods include:

Scanning paper drawings without matching cells in the exposure sheet
Loading previously scanned images into matching cells in the exposure sheet

Scanning Drawings without Matching Frames

If you want to preview one or more drawings that don’t have a corresponding list of cells in the Control Center’s database yet, you don’t have to go through the whole procedure of creating an environment, defining the jobs, scenes, and elements, and then creating an exposure sheet. These would be a list of cells that were not entered in the exposure sheet and do not appear in the Database Element Selector dialog box.

To scan these new drawings, you must specify the path and file names for the drawings to be saved.

The Harmony Scan module does not vectorize these types of digital drawings and you cannot view them in the Control Centre. If you do decide to use these drawings, you must follow the standard procedure for scanning drawings for a regular scene (with the Control Center and Harmony Stage modules).

How to manually build a list of drawings to scan

1. Select File > Build Manual List.

The Manual List dialog box opens.

2. In the Path field, type in an existing directory path where you want to store the scanned drawings.

3. Type in a name in the Prefix field that appears at the beginning of the scanned files that correspond to the drawing names you subsequently add to the manual list.

For example, if you enter the name of the character joe in the Prefix field, then add the drawing names 01 and 02, the Drawing List would display 01 and 02, but once you scan the drawings, the files would appear as follows:

joe-01
joe-02
The prefix and a dash automatically appear in front of the drawing names you add when the Harmony creates the files of the scanned drawings.
4. Type the name of the drawing you want to scan in the Drawings field and click Add.

The name of your drawing appears in the Drawings panel. Repeat for every drawing you add.

For a quick way to create a series of drawings, type the first and last number with a colon (:) between them.

For example, if you want to create a series of drawings numbered from one to six, type the following in the Drawings field and click Add:

1:6

5. Select the drawings you want to add to the Drawing List. By default, all the entries appear selected, but you can select the drawing(s) you want to scan.

6. Click OK.

The selected drawings appear in the Drawing List of the Harmony Control panel.

To modify the manual entries in the Drawing List, you must reopen the Manual List dialog box and go through the process of building the manual entries again.